New Trek - What should it be?

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Originally Posted by Mac417

Yes, Trek needs a shot in the arm creatively. But deciding what time period to set it in or whether or not to do a recasting of Classic Trek should be secondary to writing good, compelling, entertaining stories.

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You can give all the shots you want but unless you remove a malignant tumor that is Rick Berman, I doubt the franchise is going to get any better. Granted, the fourth season of Enterprise is great for the most part but that's because both Rick Berman and Brannon Braga took a backseat to Manny Coto and the Reeves-Stevens.

But of course, their classic B&B storytelling style had to show up in the form of the series finale episode.

Talk all you want. Just don't distract me from wanting to remove Berman. :cool:

What about Braga??? He's as much (if not MORE) the blame as Berrman is for Trek's downfall. Coto's not totally off-the-hook either (he did START last year as Braga's 'understudy', and he didn't really improve anything...need I point at the rating...again).

I think that Trek needs better 'thinkers' and writers (the Judith-Stevens are good, though I like Peter David better), but is slightly off topic.

You also forgot a catagory JALU13: 4) a combination of two or all three subjects.

Oh, and for my money: Trek is about exploration; both external and internal. It also looks at the tough issues of the day (war, prisoners of conscious , poverty, and so on), and plays it against a fictional backdrop (the future), to show ideas of 'how to deal with'...though sometimes even Trek doesn't give 'hard and fast' answers:
both 'Best of Both Worlds' and 'Chain of Command' were about simular themes (prisoners of no crime, of being stripped of one's humanity, being forced to comply with orders...), and neither gives solutions other than 'don't get caught' (well, with the Borg that's not really bad advice). Hell, one of the best Voyager episodes (IMHO) was 'Critical Care', which covered a alien worlds failing health care plan/system...boy, talk about paralleling the 'fiction' with the 'reality'.

I've heard people say "I turn Trek off when it becomes 'political'...", but really...is Trek not a little bit 'soapbox' as well as the 'rest'...just some thoughts.

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Originally Posted by Modem

What about Braga??? He's as much (if not MORE) the blame as Berrman is for Trek's downfall. Coto's not totally off-the-hook either (he did START last year as Braga's 'understudy', and he didn't really improve anything...need I point at the rating...again).

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You want to bring Braga down, too? Fine. But he's only No. 2. I'd rather take out the source. As for Coto's season 3, as you said, he was an understudy, not this season's showrunner, you can't blame a Private for the Captain's and Lieutenant's incompetence.

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Originally Posted by REG

You can give all the shots you want but unless you remove a malignant tumor that is Rick Berman, I doubt the franchise is going to get any better. Granted, the fourth season of Enterprise is great for the most part but that's because both Rick Berman and Brannon Braga took a backseat to Manny Coto and the Reeves-Stevens.

But of course, their classic B&B storytelling style had to show up in the form of the series finale episode.

Talk all you want. Just don't distract me from wanting to remove Berman. :cool:

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Far be it from me to disagree as to the removal of the Trek franchise's answer to Rob Liefeld. :)