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Babylon 5 Creator Pitches Trek
pdawerks writes "According to Sci-Fi Wire, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski told fans on a B5 Usenet group that he and Dark Skies creator Bryce Zabel have put together an idea for a new Star Trek series, which he said would revive the ailing franchise. 'I got together [with Zabel] and wrote a treatment earlier this year that specified how to save [Star Trek] and develop a series that would restore the series in a big way,' Straczynski wrote. 'I actually think it could be a hell of a show. Whether that ever goes anywhere with Paramount, who knows?'"
As the series centers around Wesley's travels around the galaxy as a higher being.
-- Not Wil Wheaton
If the writers are reading this I have an idea for the pilot.
Captain Archer of enterprise saves the life of a crew mate and SUDDENLY disappears in a flash of blue. He awakes to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that are not his own...
I know what you guys are thinking...
"OH.... BOY"
And destroy all copies of Enterprise and Voyager, at least.
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that this is going to ride the wave and give us:
Str Trek:CSI
I really need to sell my TV.
This show will follow a group of friends in a well-to-do Starship, their trials and tribulations, and the problems they encounter in growing up. It will show the world that being young, beautiful, rich ensigns on a Starship is not all fun all the time.
Let's get ready to rumble......
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Fascinating.
Does that mean he'll solve that pesky "The universe resets at the end of every episode" bug?
And will be get the "Non-trivial character development" patch?
Cool.
My lord, this would be cool. A Trek Series with a plot.
We haven't seen that in ages.
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It's a totally fresh concept. They're merging Star Trek and Babylon 5. It's Star Trek only with a space station instead of a... oh, nevermind...
Which chick will be cast as the crewmember with large breasts? Maybe Lindsay Lohan is looking for Star Trek work.
If he keeps letting himself go like he has the last few years we could bring back William Shatner for that role.
Ok, I admit it! I'd like to be like Picard!
When the Enterprise is facing yet another crisis and someone suggests rerouting the coffee machine output through a highly focused baryeon ray and then reverse polarizing it through the deflector dish, instead of the usual "Yes that might just work" whats really needed is for more of the other crew members to adopt completely bemused expessions and ask "What the Fuck are you babbling about????", "Is this another one of your loon ideas that involves writing a subroutine in less than 3 seconds with your left hand?", or "through the what dish?, will that affect Sky Sports reception?". Why does no one ever says "what?" on Star Trek, no matter how preposterous the proposed solution, enquiring minds want to know.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Hey, why don't we all come up with a bunch of story ideas for the new series, and post them here so that JMZ can read them!
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umm.... you are one of the hardcore crazy fans who say anything with out Jim Kirk is crap.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
(Opening comm channel to the UPN Flagship Berman...)
"Captain Berman, First Officer Braga. Only one man - J. M. Straczynski - has done battle with broadcast studio executives while being able to produce five years of good science fiction television. He is behind me. You are front of me. If your employer values the deep-space franchise, be somewhere else!"
Do a well-done mini-series on Star Fleet academy
Great. Star Trek: 90210
but I've found the best show on TV (to my knowledge) that challenges beliefs on a weekly basis is Joan of Arcadia.
Does that Hilary Duff in it? NO?!? What about Christy Carlson Romano? No?
Not worth watching, then.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
having had to work with Bryce Zabel I can assure you all that he is satan. i was in his home office one day and saw a script on his floor called "ROBOT MOM."
He's a hack and I don't want him anywhere near anything that requires talent.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Star Trek: Oz.
"Derp de derp."
1) "Aww! It's a cute little space alien!!"
2) "Oh no! It's a Rift!!"
3) "Oops! We Traveled Through Time!!"
Does this mean they've stopped doing Holodeck stories? Thank God!
Good device in TNG, horribly unimaginative by the time they were doing Voyager.
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Yeah, I'd like to hear more about their daily lives. Borg 0027964 goes fishing with the younger Borg 0033648 and, in the process, they both learn a little - not just about fishing, but about each other... and assimilating other species.
BEEP! Wrong!
I'm just guessing here, but do you *look* like the comic book guy from the Simpsons too?
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
Star Trek: Red Shirt Guys
Each episode focuses on a different red-shirted security guard aboard an Enterprise-class Federation starship, showing his mundane on- and off-duty shipboard life.
Then, at the end of the episode, he beams down to some newly discovered planet with several of the ship's most important officers, and is almost immediately killed in some horrible fashion.
And ... your ... point ... is ... what?
It's really very simple.
They want to paint the current administration, the US in general, and the basic principles of independance, freedom, liberty, and respect for humanity, that the US was founded on, with as black a brush as possible, so that they can get their traitorous party into power and surrender our sovereignty to the likes of France and Libya.
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....into the garbage!!
_Rimshot@!
What is this story doing in the science section? I hate to be the one to break it to you guys, but Star Trek isn't real.
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
Am I the only one that thought the headline said "pitches a tent" on first look?
Yeah. Good thing a famous American archaeologist managed to foil their attempts to grab the Ark of the Covenant. Otherwise we'd all be speaking German now.
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"Space... the final frontier. When the nearest outpost of civilization could be weeks away, starship captains must act as judge, and jury. But when a captain stands accused, the greatest ally he can have is the Starfleet Legal Corps, and the crew of the USS Justice."
Star Trek: Law & Order. Coming this fall.
Um, no.
Episode 1: we are Borg
Episode 2: we are Borg, resistance is futile, your race will be assimilated.
Episode 3: we are Borg, resistance is futile, your race will be assimilated.
Episode 4: we are Borg, resistance is futile, your race will be assimilated.
Episode 5: we are Borg, resistance is futile, your race will be assimilated.
Wow, what a story!
Ok, its like Seinfeld, but in a space ship. It's a show about nothing...but in space.
On the other hand, Voyager, IMO, is the biggest peice of crap to ever become part of the trek genre.
Whoa, let's not say things we can't take back.
That'd be a great show... "Overcoming speciesism: How I learned to love the Gorn"
OR
"Men and the green women who love them"
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
Only on slashdot does a Trekker call the captain of DS9 "Cisco" instead of "Sisko". :)
While he's at it, think Straczynski could take on Star Wars Ep III too?
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Sissy Klingons, Communist Ferengi, Isolationist Borg, Happy-go-lucky Romulans, and space toilets, thank you very much.
I like the Star Trek universe, but the whole Starfleet thing has been totally done to death. What _I_ want to see is a story about a non-Starfleet ship. For instance, one living on the fringes of Federation society (perhaps doing a little smuggling on the edges of Federation space).
:-) I'd watch it, for at least a few episodes...
You want character defects? How 'bout the captain being a female Klingon (in disgrace from the Empire?) who gets drunk all the time & tries to bed any decently strong-looking humanoid male (and all of the males who know her try to avoid her like the plague when she's in the mood, since they usually end up in the infirmary when it's all done).
You can have the engineer being Scottish, but make him only a mediocre engineer (who is already freqently drunk), and make sure that the ship isn't in very good shape, but he keeps it barely running with makeshift repairs & the future-equivalent of duct tape. The ship is pretty small & cramped, so you don't have hundreds of meters of corridors to run through.
The medic is an ex-war veteran who really only knows battlefield medicine (what the hell do you need anesthetic for?), and you don't have the nice replicators so you have to have a real cook (but who can't cook very well, and who has a tendency to spit in the food of the people who piss him off).
You have a rough-and-tumble crew of miscellaneous deadbeats & losers who take every opportunity to stab each other in the back (thereby providing a good reason to keep turning over actors until you find some that people like).
Every now & then, you can have them interact with a Starfleet ship, perhaps some of the known characters (perhaps they get "pulled over" by the Enterprise to be searched for contraband), whereupon there is plenty of mutual disgust to go around.
Heck, a situation like that could be the basis for a Star Trek "sitcom"
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