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    I have all the movies :angry:

     

    Star Trek: The Motion Picture

    Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn

    Star Trek: The Search for Spock

    Star Trek: The Voyage Home

    Star Trek: The Final Frontier

    Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country

    Star Trek: Generations

    Star Trek: First Contact

    Star Trek: Insurrection

    Star Trek: Nemesis

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    The G4 network announced the world premiere of "Star Trek 2.0" - a 40th anniversary celebration of the franchise featuring airings of original series episodes with new interactive components.

     

    In a press release reprinted at Yahoo!, the network promised Saturday marathons of uncut episodes and Monday-Friday regular broadcast at 11 p.m. Beginning on Monday, April 10th, G4 will invite viewers to participate in on-screen features such as live chat online, accumulating Trek Stats and a virtual stock market for characters.

     

    An onscreen "frame" will present Trek facts including background information about the characters and actors. In addition, Trek Stats will tally classic Star Trek moments, such as Spock saying "logical", red shirts dying, Scotty warning Kirk about his engines and the like, with the totals increasing onscreen over the course of the season.

     

    At the same time, viewers can log into a real-time chat room at G4 to respond to questions and make comments. Posts on subjects such as "Best Earth female to be trapped with" and "Top 10 psychic punishments" will scroll across the bottom of the television screen. In addition, the Spock Market - a stock market simulation - will allow viewers registered at G4's web site to use "credits" to buy and sell stock in characters and items on the series, from Captain Kirk and Uhura to phasers and the UFP. A real-time stock ticker will run on the television screen showing gains and losses based on things that happen to characters and items during the episodes.

     

    Star Trek 2.0

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    "Les Moonves hates all things Sci-Fi," a former Paramount assistant claimed, explaining that he did not think the new head of CBS was at all interested in reviving Star Trek.

     

    Since the Viacom-CBS split last year, CBS has controlled the television franchise, and Rick Berman's assistant Doug Mirabello said that there is not likely to be a new Star Trek series or film for quite some time. In an interview at Sci Fi Pulse, Mirabello suggested that the franchise needs an entirely new creative team.

     

    The comments were quoted in Dreamwatch after appearing at the Something Awful forums, where Mirabello claimed that the script written by Erik Jendresen for a potential eleventh Star Trek movie had been rejected and that despite Patrick Stewart's recent comments that he had had discussions about a possible future Next Generation film, "It’s more likely that some executive had a casual conversation with him and brought up some hypotheticals which he ran with when some reporter asked him about Star Trek."

     

    Mirabello admitted that it was possible "Paramount is planning something huge and keeping us out of the loop" but he did not believe that Stewart would do another Star Trek movie "unless they paid him Professor X money" - a reference to Stewart's paycheck for the X-Men series.

     

    The Berman assistant said that Star Trek had been successful in the 1980s but "never really evolved with the times." He mentioned an incident where a director went to the producers to "tell them he was ashamed to direct the episode where our crew turned into lizard people" (presumably Voyager's "Threshold"). The Enterprise finale "was one of those where you’d go down to the stage and see people shaking their heads while reading the script."

     

    With UPN and the WB merging, and with Moonves allegedly having expressed disinterest in science fiction - though executives at CBS gave Brannon Braga's Threshold the green light this season - Mirabello was not optimistic about a future for Star Trek, which he said might be for the best, to give the franchise "some time off, and a cool new approach."