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Berman Confirms Star Trek Prequel Film Project
Steve Krutzler writes "TrekWeb can break the news STAR TREK producer Rick Berman has confirmed that work on a new STAR TREK feature film project has begun. Speaking in the new Dreamwatch magazine, Berman describes it cryptically as a "prequel" and says he's working with two other producers on the project."
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~SpermanHerman
You know, I've always had a fantasy that someday, people will yell my name as Shatner yelled "Khhaaaaannnnnnn!!!!" however, I've yet to piss someone off enough to inspire such beautiful overacting. :)
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...they announced plans to dig up Gene Roddenberry's corpse and kick it around in the street. Sources close to the production crew said they were in the market for dead horses and clubs.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
The entire crew of the Enterprise is still at school and Spock Jr is being bullied by ignorant full-blooded humans when Jamie Kirk leaps to the rescue and saves Spock Jr who says "you humans are so emotional. on my planet i would have left myself to be beaten to a bloody pulp". Jamie Kirk then kicks Spock jr in the groin, rips off his shirt and makes out with one of the local girls.
Ceci n'est pas une signature
Don't you know the tastes of the many outweigh the tastes of the few, or the none?
Why, oh why, do they continue to insist on beating this dead horse into the dust?
Because each time they whack the horse's corpse, it coughs up another wad of hundred-dollar bills.
Long live TNG on DVD.
I agree. I need to invest. TNG was the best series by far.
sudo eat my shorts
... just skip the bloody humans! I'd like to see the early days of Vulcan, or even better, the origin of the Borg...
...it started with this news commenting service that people spent a lot of time communicating on, but eventually, the only sentiments issued from it were a uniform set of thoughts. ;-)
Second of all, I'd like to see a movie/series about the beginings of the borg. That would be a *GREAT*.
OK, here's my pitch:
Captain Data and Seven Out Of Ten are on their way to some long-deserved shore leave on an apparently paradise-like planet. A special anomaly suddenly appears and they travel into an alternative dimension - an evil one - where everyone has beards. Just as they are about to solve everything by using cronaton particles and a polaron beam, they get stuck on the holodeck in wild west outfits. They are captured by the evil sheriff - Q - who threatens them with a long telling off. It turns out that Q is possessed by the ghost of a long-dead (but English-speaking) civilisation. Just as time is about to run out - and they will be viciously shouted at - the Borg (ie: the good guys in this dimension) turn up and rescue them. Data and Seven return home by making a communicator out of sulphur, charcoal and potassium nitrate. The final words are "beam me up, spocky".
I have some drawings of Seven in a sexy wild west outfit if you think they would help.
Maybe it's set Pre-First Contact, in the far future of 2006. Scientists establish contact with a planet on the opposite side of the galaxy. The original borg think this is the perfect chance to assimilate the first known alien species. They succeed in transmitting their software before the communication link is destroyed. At the end of the movie the heroes can have a conversation like this.
Captain: "Number one, you don't suppose we should write all this down, do you?"
First mate: "Why would we want to do that?"
Captain: "Well, what if some time in the future people might want to know these borg things still exist."
First mate: "Who would want to know that?"
Captain: "Well. Maybe if our first space exploration vessel runs into two of them, they might want to know what they're dealing with. Or if the fleet flagship was flung across the galaxy by an omnipotent being and brought face to face with these things. Or if the captain of that ship is perfectly fine for years, even helping out the borg a few times, and then for no apparent reason develops a Moby Dick-like obsession with them. Or perhaps another space ship could be flung across the galaxy by another near-omnipotent being and the captain of that ship could end up in a contest with the borg queen to determine who has the bigger ego."
First mate: "You're drunk, aren't you?"
Captain: "Like a skunk."
First mate: "Besides, wouldn't that first exploration vessel record their contact with the borg? Then that fleet flagship would know what they were facing. That would be the smart thing to do."
Captain: "Somebody else's problem. I like it. Have a drink."
Or maybe not. At least that would finally explain why the borg had an unhealthy obsession with Earth.
I doubt it'll be TNG, considering how the last two went, and they killed off one of the more beloved characters from that series.
:)
Haven't you learned anything from watching Star Trek.
Wrath of Kahn: While fighting in / near a nebula, Spock makes the ultimate sacrifice, bathing himself in radiation from the ship's reactor, ultimately dying to save the crew. However, not before "backing up" his personality in Bones' thick skull.
Nemesis: While fighting in / near a nebula, Data makes the ultimate sacrifice, being destroyed in a radiation blast eminating from the enemy warship's reactor, ultimately dying to save the crew. However, not before he uploaded his entire neural pathways, memories, and experiences into the dummy-data.
Star Trek is an admin's wet dream. Backing up can even bring back the dead
The Vorlons return from beyond the rim and drag Babylon 5 into a seperate reality. When the 1701-E stumbles upon it, they request aid from Admiral Janeway who sends Voyageur (with her on board) and she also commands the crew of DS9 to arrive with the Defiant in case we need Worf to make rude noises. O'Brien happens to be on the 1701-E, as Picard missed his old transporter-chief and decided to liberate him from Starfleet Academy.
So, we have all these crews here, but we're missing two. Sisko, while speaking with the wormhole aliens, asks them to drag the NX-01 and the NCC-1701 from the past to the planet where Babylon 5 is orbiting. All hell breaks loose. Sisko materializes on the bridge of the Defiant and begins to command the fleet (while Picard quietly plots his death, feeling upstaged). Babylon 5 launches it's fighers, and the harrowing corpse of Sheridan begins to emanate a strange energy signature. All of a sudden, three Spacing Guild ships appear above the station, and the fighters of Muad'dib begin to use their illegaly-taught Bene Gesserit teachings to subdue Starfleet. Babylon 5 lays waste to all Starfleet ships with the White Star, and subsequently becomes entranced themselves by the wily ways of the Fedaykin.
Afterwards, another Guild Highliner arrives carrying a delegation of the Bene Gesserit who tames the Vorlons with lessons they've learned from The Scattering.
The movie ends with Captain Kirk in an escape pod singing "Row Row Row your Boat"
"It's here, but no one wants it." - The Sugar Speaker