Anyway the mentioned picture is great. I like how Trek fans express their creativity. I mean the funny part of the creativity where even Mr. Spock plays card games on his PC http://gimps.de/wettbewerb/displayimage.php?pos=-193-Mr.-Spock-spielt-Karten

Yours Sincerely.

Maybe they could age regress every image and have Shatner play Kirk.

Granted, TMP didn’t have a lot of loud boom booms and sparkly lights, but I give it full points for at least trying to be something different. (Referring to the director’s cut, btw)

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com

The only ST movie I’ll watch over and over is Wrath of Khan. But I’ll see every one that comes out, sucky or not, since I am a geek that way.

Gary Sinise as McCoy? Genius. The Daemon Damon is scaring me.

Why remake films or in this case a TV show that don’t simply does not need it. (You know besides the fact they will make millions on the tripe).

It is impossible to improve on the original Star Trek. Not because it is perfect, but because it is iconic. Not that they will come even remotely close to making a good movie anyway.

Why not do something else.

I might not be so negative if Hollywood’s track record was not so horrendous. Hollywood remakes are not just usually worse, they are usually monumentally worse. Think Planet of the Apes, Flight of the Phoenix, etc. (Of course there are exceptions to prove the rule.)

BTW, Phil – Welcome to Boulder. Beautiful day today, is it not?

Alan

J. D.

And Gary Sinise is spot-on for McCoy.

I dunno about you, but if I were a human Starfleet officer going through a simsense reproduction of some seminal era in human spaceflight that didn’t grok with what I knew to be history, my reaction would be more along the lines of “what bollocks!” Think the amusement park on the Moon in Futurama.

Anyway. Pre-TOS is out. Post-Voyager (and, more particularly, post-Nemesis) is out because there’s no real conflict yet, and after Nemesis I’ve given up on Trek movies actually taking advantage of the strengths of the franchise and playing on the intelligence of the nerds who will go see them (like, oh, VI and to a slightly lesser extent II), rather than just try to outdo the vapid flash of Star Wars. With no bad guys throughout the entire galaxy to do battle with now that Starfleet can one-shot Borg Cubes, that leaves something extragalactic. It didn’t work for Star Wars EU, and I don’t think it’ll work for Trek.

Unfortunately, the climate isn’t right for the TWOK-era movies either, as the Cold War is over and the Klingon/Federation cold war won’t resonate quite as well. (Admittedly, Insurrection did sort of predate the War For Oil controversy, which is somewhat unfortunate as well). So, after much thought, a back-to-basics TOS-reimagined movie, well done, could be just what the franchise needs to kick it back into gear…

…a decade or two from now. The new BSG is outstanding, but it’s twenty years removed from its fluffy feldgercarb origin.

I’ll go see it, no doubt. Right now all I’m hoping it will be better than the Star Wars prequel series.

“I think this is going to be one of the best Trek films ever.”

This is rather like saying I think it will hurt less the 10th time I chop off a toe with a lawn mower. Star Trek movie = prime suckage. The only question any sane person asks is: “Just how drunk WAS I when I bought these tickets?”

Hopefully the astronomy will be good.”

Religious fanatics hope their imagination… er… God will smite their enemies. I’m still waiting.

For all most Americans know, Walter Koenig is “kinda Russian”… And Wil Wheaton as a red shirt would be poetic justice, excellent suggestion.

If you want some new Trek, pop over to http://www.starshipintrepid.net and download the pilot episode of Star Trek: Intrepid. As seen on CNN! It’s really rather good!

Disclaimer: I directed it.

John

Don’t mess with Wil. He’s hawesome.

I’d buy that for a dollar!

J/P=?

So I suggest:

Jennifer Connelly as a Romulan commander.

You know that I am right. You can feel in your bones the perfection of this casting. I win the thread.

Also, I want Salma Hayek as a green alien dancer.

That’s cool. Not only did they get an actual Russian born actor but a darn good one at that. He was Hank Azaria’s kid in Huff, the victim in Alpha Dog, the near kidnapped Russian kid in Along Came a Spider and Anthony Hopkins’ co-star in Hearts in Atlantis.

I think this is going to be one of the best Trek films ever. Hopefully the astronomy will be good.