HRH The KING

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  15. Posted

    The thought of having a retro-Trek to get new fans actually worked.

     

    They couldn't have got that many new fans otherwise the ratings wouldn't be so low. Many actual Trek fans have been staying away from this show. They are definately not satisfied. I know, that everyone has there own favourite show, but I believe that this is more than that. This is more worrying.

     

    It's the troll-like continuity freaks who are chasing off the new fans, screaming about how they're breaking the precious continuity.

     

    Agreed. Fan-boys are definately too extreme. I just find the new show dull. Some of the extreme fans complain about the Klingon make up not being right, or the consoles and the ship not being right. Hey!!! This isn't the 1960's. Special effects and make up effects have moved on. If the NX-01 looked too basic, it would look like a cheesy plastic model on strings. I will never criticise the show for simply being practical in that sense.

     

    It's not limited since we know virtually nothing about the 22nd century beyond the Romulan War and founding of the UFP. It's not about "filling in the blanks", but explorring an era we know nothing about.

     

    I believe it is limited because I hate those kind of prequel concepts, where "we find out how things turned out a certain way". A book or a series of books would have been more interesting. ST: First Contact gave me (personally) enough of an idea of where the 'Genesis of the Federation' occured. You may like this period of Trek history, personally I don't and again, I come back to the viewing figures and the level of division between fans. The viewing figures are poor. I believe this show is dull and woeful compared to the others. Even Voyager was better than this. I hope it can improve. This Xindi Arc is boring, if we're going to get to the Romulan War and the beginnings of the Fed. then they should get on with it and stop dragging around with this boring arc and this awful 'Temporal Cold War' tedium. The Dominion Arc in DS9 had me hooked. This arc has me almost comatose.

     

    What is T&A?

     

    :P This refers to t*ts and @$$. A reference to the constant scenes of crew members, particulaly T'Pol, oiling each other down and showing skin which is very cynically and crassly shoved into the show by Paramount in a desperate attempt to attract the 'sexed-up MTV watching morons'. It also refers to the fact that T'Pol's costumes will most likely get tighter and more revealing with each passing season. Her breasts are sold as the show's main attraction. Not everyone sees this happening on the show, but to me it is obvious.

     

    I don't understand why the fans at TrekBBS think we need a 10-20 year break.

     

    20 years???? Good God. No, five years will be sufficient. I just want an audience anticipation to build. The audience is all Trekked out. They've had years of overkill. Let it sleep for a while. Build a new show. A new concept, get the characters and actors right, then come back.

     

    For Series Six, I have a few ideas of my own. Basically the show would be set after the TNG era. Not too far ahead, let's say 2425. A new Starship Enterprise, first ship of its new class (NCC X-1701)??? A new captain, new first officer, doctor, tactical chief, science officer, OPS, and CONN officers. We could explore a new time period of Trek. The galaxy would have changed. New alliances, changing political climates etc. For the last few months, I've been writing a few ideas and thoughts down about this new show concept. Still very basic but coming along well.

     

    Another route that I've been thinking about, is this 'Star Trek: The Federation Chronicles' idea. A series of extended TV movies that would explore a different story every episode. For example: Riker on the USS Titan, then Geordi on the USS Challenger, April on the Enterprise, a 'Starfleet Special Forces' tale, then a Section 31 story, an Academy story, 'Origin of the Borg' etc. This would give us a tremendous amount of versitility and flexibility on which areas and time periods of Trek that haven't been covered. we could move from the post-TNG period that I like one week, to the era of Trek that you prefer. Paramount could do maybe a dozen of these chronicles a year, using money that would be wasted on more doomed Trek movies. I believe it is a good idea.

     

    I don't know if you can see what I'm trying to tell you, I may not have explained it in the best or clearest way possible, but I am confident that I'm thinking along the right lines.

     

    That's what I think anyway. Just a few of my opinions. I thought it might be worth something to share them with everyone here.

     

    :laugh: :) :waaaa:

  17. Posted · Edited by William Stryker

    The fans, instead of just enjoying the story, are furrious that Trek is not what they want it to be, just like some spoiled kid.

     

    That's not how I see things. I don't feel like a spoiled kid. That's like me saying that "people who like ENT and Nemesis are simply going on blind loyalty to anything that has the name Star Trek applied to it despite what I believe is an oversaturisation and a decline in quality"

     

    It's a very large generalisation.

     

    This is how I 'generally' feel about Trek:

     

    TOS movies

     

    The Motion Picture: I liked it. very slow, but good.

    The Warth of Khan: Excellent.

    The Search For Spock: I thought this was good. Not brilliant, but still solid.

    The Voyage Home: A little dated, but still very funny and enjoyable.

    The Final Frontier: Terrible FX, but the story is essentially thoughtful.

     

    The Undiscovered Country: Dark, Moody, Gritty, topical at the time, Meyer directing it. My favourite of TOS movies.

     

    TNG Movies:

     

    Generations: Average.

    First Contact: Brilliant. The best TNG movie.

    Insurrection: I found the story tedious. But by no means a disaster.

    Nemesis: Hated it. One movie to many. Soundtrack was awful. Very disappointing.

     

    The Series:

     

    TOS: Still excellent, after all these years. Issues. great storytelling. Wonderful characters.

     

    TNG: Magnificent. My second favourite series. Equal in stature to TOS.

     

    DS9: Started slowly, but steadily improved. After the third season it got better and better. Minor problems aside (like Ezri Dax), this is still my favourite Trek series.

     

    VOY: A good idea in theory. Many of the stories were quite good (Equinox, Species 8472, Prometheus, Dauntless, Q, Borg, Viidians) But my opinion of this show was brought down by a group of boring characters. I did like Paris, the Doctor, Seven and even Janeway to a certain extent, but the others...I hated).

     

    ENT: This is where my problems start. I believe that the original concept was flawed. they thought by having a retro-Trek, people would follow. They thought wrong. Setting a show before TOS was a mistake. It limited the series so the whole point of the show is to fill in the blank spaces in Trek Lore. A book would have been preferable. "Birth of The Federation"??? Too much emphasis on T&A (I won't bore everyone again with this, I've already complained about it.) I said a while ago that I won't watch this show, but I've changed my mind. I will watch it and hope that things improve, but this better happen very quickly.

     

    Paramount should let the show run its seven seasons. I don't want it to be cancelled. I would accept improvements.

     

    Then after a few years of a break. Trek could move to where it needs to be IMO, and there are many ways it can progress. But this time, they could do it right, and make Trek what it should be.

  24. Posted · Edited by William Stryker

    Federation President

     

     

    The President???

     

    Oh my God!!!

     

     

    Well, since you're the boss on this site, I'd just like to say that I agree with you Mr. President, on everything you just posted. Even if I ever disagreed with something you said, I'd STILL agree with you.

     

     

    :) "It never hurts to suck up to the boss" ;)

     

     

    Best Regards Mr. President

     

    *salutes*

     

     

    Lt. Commander William X. Stryker

     

     

    :) ;);)