William Shatner Pitches 'Starfleet Academy' Show

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday March 28, 2005 @06:19AM from the when-james-met-leonard dept.

Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that William Shatner recently pitched an 'Academy' show to Paramount. The series would feature teen versions of the Classic Star Trek characters Kirk, Spock and McCoy, and be set at Starfleet Academy. The studio turned Shatner down, but he's not letting go of the idea: Pocket Books has asked him to write a two-novel series based on the 'Starfleet Academy' concept. Also, Shatner apparently went over the head of Trek head honcho Rick Berman to pitch his idea straight to the head of Paramount - maybe after Enterprise ends and Berman leaves the franchise, the studio will be more inclined to listen to Shatner?"

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Re:Tekwars by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-28 06:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Why can't they just leave it alone? How much more flogging will the 'Star Trek' dead horse have to put up with? Also, I thought slashdot was supposed to be 'news for nerds'. What does this have to do with overclocking my pentium or downloading the latest .rpms for my gentoo box?

Can't we get back to the original purpose of slashdot which was to discuss 'news for nerds'. After all, if I want to know about star trek, there are other places I can go.