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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"
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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.
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.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
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...
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
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
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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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?
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.
"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.
Only on slashdot does a Trekker call the captain of DS9 "Cisco" instead of "Sisko". :)