Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars?

Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that the next Star Trek movie will deal with the war between Earth and the Romulans that led to the founding of the Federation. According to Rick Berman, the film will be 'set before the time of Kirk, but will not be connected with Enterprise.' So how will they make this fit with the Classic Trek episode Balance of Terror, in which we learned that no human ever saw the face of a Romulan during the Romulan Wars?"

Comments

Re:Many options for resolving the conflict

[raehl]

Ignore old Trek on the assumption that only the geekiest fans would remember that episode and the rest wouldn't care.

I think the real assumption is that a geeky fan who pays for a ticket isn't any better than a geeky fan who pays for a ticket and gets pissed off about plot inconsistencies.

Re:Berman, future, past, and stealing ideas.

[AKAImBatman]

You're not the only one to complain. I have a few wishes that had better be met if this movie is going to be any good:

1. There better be a reset button hidden in that Temporal Cold War. We need to wipe out that idiot Enterprise episode where the Romulans were able to cloak. Not to mention the "invention" of phase cannons and photon torpedos.

2. NUKES! BIG FRIGGIN' NUKES! There's only one way to fight a space war before phasers and photons, and that's with Gigawatt lasers/masers and BIG ASS NUKES!

3. No hull plating. That stuff is the stupidest invention yet. They can use M2P2 shields for protection against radiation and nuclear explosions. Fine. But "charged" hull plating that "wears away" is just stupid. Ablative armor is the way REAL wars are fought.

Think they'll listen?

NAH. It will all be "photons", "phasers", "Oops, I fell on [bimbo of the series] boobs", and "Oh, yeah. There's like this... war... thing, going on. Guess we better save the day. Let's act REAL angry and tell them they're wrong. That always works."

Re:Oh hell no

[najay]

They killed Data the same way they killed Spock. Death is, more or less, an abstract concept when dealing with major characters in the Star Trek universes.

Kill Berman. Then put the franchise in stasis.

[MsGeek]

These are the same guys who are PROUD of the fact that they never watched the original series.

Now I know why I absolutely loathe Rick Berman and what he has done to Star Trek. TOS is the root from which the entire Star Trek Universe sprang. Cheesy or not, it is the model for everything that came before it.

Someone yank the ST franchise from Berman's grubbies and put it on hiatus for a while. Voyager and Enterprise suck runny eggs. It's time to put it to bed. Maybe give it to Stracynski (sp?) after a few fallow years.

Re:Kill all the crew...

[Tassach]

we'll have to accept that Star Trek is finally dead

Some of us already have, and have moved on. As far as I'm concerned, Star Trek died when DS9 went off the air. They kept the body on life support for Voyager, but it was brain dead. Enterprise is a brain-eating zombie made from the dead carcass of Star Trek. The only reason Rodenberry isn't spinning in his grave is that his ashes are in orbit.

Re:'Secret history'?

[noewun]

It's not so tight. It doesn't explain the lack of any NX-01's hanging on the walls of various incarnations of the Enterprise.

There's a very, very, very good explanation for this: Enterprise wasn't written when those scenes were filmed.

It's that simple.

I know there is an enormous amount of disagreement here, but, to me, a lot of it misses a very simple point: you can't undertake a successful creative endeavor by starting with contraints, and the desire of many Trek fans that new series stick to a timeline which was made up on the fly by Roddenberry et al. in the original series is an enormous impediment. Personally, I felt that TNG, DS9 and friends were dreadfully boring series which seemed to excel only at technobabble and pseudoscience. The characters were one-dimensional audioanimatrons, the plots predictable and tired. Watching TNG was sometimes like watching a lecture in "how to be an evolved species", and DS9 was like some freshman creative writing project gone all wrong.

Yawn.

Enterprise is the first show since the original series I can really sink my teeth into: imperfect characters, unknown space and some good old fashioned alien ass kicking. I don't care about fidelilty to some idea of fictional continiuity. I care about a series I can enjoy watching.