Star Trek Reboot
Start Trek is dead. Long Live Star Trek!
OK, so let me start by saying this was proposed back in 2004, and Paramount passed on it. There were many reasons, including the fact that they were suspending all Trek TV production anyway.
So this is just a cool little tidbit, nothing more. It will almost certainly never see the light of day. But I think it's super-cool, so I'm sharing. Imagine a Star Trek series that's being run by J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5). Now, how cool would that be? Clickie to find out!
http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/files/ST2004Reboot.pdf
Now I'll grant you, I'm a big B5 fan. I'm curious, for those of you who aren't... what do you think of this Trek proposal? Are my rose-colored glasses on a little too tight?
posted by jeff.w.mcclung @ 9:17 AM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Make it so.
That's COOL that you found the actual treatment written by JMS! I had read about JMS' submission to Paramount, which (IMHO) was unwisely turned down. (see his words on the subject: http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17286 and http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?ID=1-17287)
Perhaps they might think his proposal over when they try to invigorate the Star Trek Franchise again?
Of course, I am also a biased JMS fan, but I think that it would be a phenomenal Star Trek that hasn't been seen in years if they let him helm it. I agree with metacow...Make it so!
Is anyone else vaguely unsettled by the overall plot thread? I remember a similar idea in an episode of DS9 which it was revealed that all humanoid species were created from "seeds" of genetic material planted by an ancient race.
Speaking of creating the population of the universe, I found this part amusing: "...deep within the DNA of humans... and other intelligent bi-pedal races is a mathematical code...of such complexity that it could not possibly have occurred by chance. Someone or something put it there… an ‘artist’s signature’ perhaps."
Perhaps.
At any rate, I'd often wondered what we could do with the original Star Trek with today's technology, up-to-date story lines, and some... um... different actors. If it's going to be done, I think JMS would be the right one to do it. Besides, he said something about tribbles with teeth.
Tribbles. With teeth. Big, pointy teeth.
TIM: There he is!
ARTHUR: Where?
TIM: There!
ARTHUR: What, behind the tribble?
TIM: It is the tribble!
ARTHUR: You silly sod!
TIM: What?
ARTHUR: You got us all worked up!
TIM: Well, that's no ordinary tribble.
ARTHUR: Ohh.
TIM: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on.
ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
TIM: Look, that tribble's got a vicious streak a mile wide; it's a killer!
GALAHAD: Get stuffed!
TIM: He'll do you up a treat mate!
GALAHAD: Oh, yeah?
ROBIN: You mangy scots git!
TIM: I'm warning you!
ROBIN: What's he do, nibble your bum?
TIM: He's got huge, sharp-- eh-- he can leap about-- look at the bones!
ARTHUR: Go on, Bors. Chop his head off!
BORS: Right! Silly little bleeder. One tribble stew comin' right up!
TIM: Look! [squeak]
BORS: Aaaugh! [dramatic chord] [clunk]
ARTHUR: Jesus Christ!
TIM: I warned you!
ROBIN: I've done it again!
TIM: I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little tribble, isn't it? Well, it's always the same. I always tell them--
ARTHUR: Oh, shut up!
TIM: Do they listen to me?
ARTHUR: Right!
TIM: Oh, no...
KNIGHTS: Charge! [squeak squeak squeak]
KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh!, Aaaugh!, etc.
ARTHUR: Run away! Run away!
ROFL + LMAO
And the award for the most appropriate use of Monty Python lore goes to...
QUEENY!!!
Take a bow.
*bows*
*curtsies*
*waves*
*blows kisses*
Thank you!
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