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William Shatner Pitches 'Starfleet Academy' Show
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?"
Come on, get a life.
That's all I wanted to say. Go Shatner!
No your not the only one to thinkof minority report as a horror flick. i saw all those personalized ads indentifingyou by retinal scanners, and I got chills down my spine.
I can't stand ads today, I would have to kill people to live in a place that way. That or move to the mountians, and jus order everything online.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Why would you waste jms on Star Trek? Trek is hobbled by years upon years of crufty retcon and ideas that sounded good at the time, but pile up to make an insane backlog of crap.
So; essentially you're saying that Star Trek is to sci-fi what the Intel x86 series is to CPU architecture? Sounds fair.
Ideas that sounded good at the time, but pile up to make an insane backlog of crap? Yep.
Especially the stuff Intel added (IIRC) around the 286 stage because they had loads of die space to play with, but weren't used much and subsequently deprecated; but they still had to be supported in every subsequent x86 processor.
I've long thought that the designers at Intel and AMD must have a nightmare job trying to improve the performance of their chips while *still* having to support decisions made 20 years ago that restrict their ability to improve (eg) pipelining.
(Although I don't understand why they can't say "Okay; we'll support the obselete stuff in the new chips, but we won't bother ensuring its performance is up to modern standards if doing so would create a problem with the rest of the chip." Of course, there's probably some obscure legacy code in Windows XP that still uses the old instructions and would run *horribly* on chips designed along those lines.... veering offtopic, sorry.)
I guess ST's popularity and public resistance to new sci-fi is like the popularity of the x86 because *that* works with what's gone before. For "available software" read "geek obsession and interest investment".
Of course, there are far fewer practical reasons for geeks to be resistant to new sci-fi, as opposed to computer buyers wanting to be able to run their existing software on a new machine.
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SHIT!
CSI Miami is a re-run tonight.
Time to hit the sci-fi Friday night stuff I Tivo'd.
I'm pretty sure Shatner's life is more interesting than a /. troll's.
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