Trade Berman For Straczynski?
<div class="IPBDescription">...am I dreaming?</div> Rejoice Star Trek fans! The rein of Berman the terrible might be over!
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 16, @06:33AM
from the trekkie-or-trekker dept.
EvilMagnus writes "I just came across this thread over on usenet where J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5 and Jeremiah, talks about the cancellation of Enterprise. It seems he and a collaborator have already written a series bible and treatment for a new version of Star Trek - but it's not been pitched to Paramount out of 'political considerations' (Berman refusing to give up his dead horse?). JMS calls for everyone who thinks a JMS-run Star Trek series would be a good idea to write Paramount and let them know."... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
--slashdot
Unfortunatly:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->...Update: 02/16 19:47 GMT by T: Read the rest of the thread to see JMS's followup; he's decided to at least postpone this endeavor.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Seriously, if Straczynski were to write Star Trek I would have some sort of geekgasm, multiple geekgasms most probably. It would be almost too awesome for words.
EDIT: Found the followup:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Actually...belay everything I just said.
In the 24 hours between the time I composed the prior note, and sent
it, and it made its way through the moderation software, two things
happened:
1) I heard from a trusted source that Paramount is giving the Trek TV
world a rest for maybe one to two years, depending on circumstances, no
matter who would come along to run it. So it's not right to have folks
putting in time doing something that ultimately would be pointless, I
don't think that's a proper use of anybody's time.
2) At the same time as the above, an offer came in to run a new TV
series for fall of '06, and since there's no way anything Trek can
happen in the interim, I've said yes (now we have to negotiate the
deal, but that should be fairly straightforward).
So on two counts, the whole thing is kind of moot.
We can reconvene a year or two down the road to see where this takes
us, but in the interim...my apologies for waking everybody up in the
middle of the night.
As you were.
Thanks and with great chagrinedness --
jms<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 16, @06:33AM
from the trekkie-or-trekker dept.
EvilMagnus writes "I just came across this thread over on usenet where J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5 and Jeremiah, talks about the cancellation of Enterprise. It seems he and a collaborator have already written a series bible and treatment for a new version of Star Trek - but it's not been pitched to Paramount out of 'political considerations' (Berman refusing to give up his dead horse?). JMS calls for everyone who thinks a JMS-run Star Trek series would be a good idea to write Paramount and let them know."... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
--slashdot
Unfortunatly:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->...Update: 02/16 19:47 GMT by T: Read the rest of the thread to see JMS's followup; he's decided to at least postpone this endeavor.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Seriously, if Straczynski were to write Star Trek I would have some sort of geekgasm, multiple geekgasms most probably. It would be almost too awesome for words.
EDIT: Found the followup:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Actually...belay everything I just said.
In the 24 hours between the time I composed the prior note, and sent
it, and it made its way through the moderation software, two things
happened:
1) I heard from a trusted source that Paramount is giving the Trek TV
world a rest for maybe one to two years, depending on circumstances, no
matter who would come along to run it. So it's not right to have folks
putting in time doing something that ultimately would be pointless, I
don't think that's a proper use of anybody's time.
2) At the same time as the above, an offer came in to run a new TV
series for fall of '06, and since there's no way anything Trek can
happen in the interim, I've said yes (now we have to negotiate the
deal, but that should be fairly straightforward).
So on two counts, the whole thing is kind of moot.
We can reconvene a year or two down the road to see where this takes
us, but in the interim...my apologies for waking everybody up in the
middle of the night.
As you were.
Thanks and with great chagrinedness --
jms<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Comments
Peter Jackson? Thrawn Trilogy?
/me's head floats off his body in happiness.
Peter Jackson? Thrawn Trilogy?
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Well, we can dream... *sigh*
Luke's fight with his clone would be awesome.
KFS, as someone who has both read said trilogy and grew up on TIE Fighter, do you have any understanding of what that post has done to me and my expectation levels of movies in the near future? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
::drools::
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Thrawn trilogy...
Foams at the mouth.
::drools:: <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thrawn trilogy...
Foams at the mouth. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
thrawn, wth is that? Now a starwars jedi knight movie would kick ****
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Thrawn trilogy...
Foams at the mouth. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
thrawn, wth is that? Now a starwars jedi knight movie would kick **** <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
My God man! Have you read the books? Plenty of jedi related material there.
And then.... LUKE SKYWALKER WOULD COME AND FIGHT THE WINNER! AND CHEWBACCA AND DATA (OR B4 EVEN OR WHATEVER) WOULD FIGHT AND HAN SOLO AND RIKER WOULD HAVE A BOXING MATCH AND TROI AND LEIA WOULD FIGHT BUT TROI WOULD JUST STAND THERE MAKING STUPID COMMENTS LIKE "I SENSE ANGER" JUST AS LEIA IS ABOUT TO KICK HER IN THE FACE. And C3PO could fight the borg or something.
We could call it "Star Trek: Several Nemesises".
Out next summer. Look forward.
....what debate? Which captian is better? That wasn't even brought up here.... besides, the did both fight on the same side once, Kirk died and Picard didn't. Score 1 for Picard... But Kirk was the beter womanizer, so +1 Kirk. But Picard has a maneuver named after him, +1. But Kirk screamed "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!" really loud +1..... <mumbles to himself as he wonders off>
There's no quick way to explain it really. A power hungry Imperial Warlord (Grand Admiral Thrawn) takes control of half the sector and cannibalizes his resources to produce a superfleet while finding a very unlikely ally to do a job that only the emperor could do before him while mass producing his own army through a rediscovered means and holding his ally (who is slowly beginning to lose his mind) under his power through the use of a race of animals with a very unlikely genetic development.
I guess?
Someone do a better job than this without using spoilers.
There's no quick way to explain it really. A power hungry Imperial Warlord (Grand Admiral Thrawn) takes control of half the sector and cannibalizes his resources to produce a superfleet while finding a very unlikely ally to do a job that only the emperor could do before him while mass producing his own army through a rediscovered means and holding his ally (who is slowly beginning to lose his mind) under his power through the use of a race of animals with a very unlikely genetic development.
I guess?
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You forgot he's a flippin' tactical <i>genius</i>. As in, his capital ship could fly into hostile space, and instead of bothering to pace around the control deck yelling orders, he could kick back in the in-flight <i>art museum</i> and come back with a plan to Kill Them All In Five Minutes Or Your Money Back.
Its set 5 years after RotJ. The empire has continued to get its arse kicked and holds a quarter of the systems it used to. The Rebellion has conquered the core systems, including the capital Coruscant, and gone all official and formed The New Republic with Mon Mothma as Presisdent. Leia is now married to Han and pregnant with twins, Landos off on a new business venture after Cloud City , Luke has been travelling around the galaxy in search of anything jedi related which escaped the Emperor's purge.
Into this Grand Admiral Thrawn (the only non-human G. Admiral and a uber tactical genius) arrives from the Outer Regions where he had been conquering the outlying systems for the Empire. As the last surviving Grand Admiral he assumes control of the Empire and instigates plans to return the Empire's former glory, part of which is getting a pet Dark Jedi...
...and thats pretty much as much as you can give away without spoilers. The 3 books are caled 'Heir to the Empire', 'Dark Force Rising' and 'The Last Command'.
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It was the first 'Expanded Universe' book (i.e. not ANH, TESB or RotJ) to be released and is still pretty much regarded as the best. It would <i><b>pwn</i></b> beyond anything you could imagine and if Mr. Lucas does anything else but this for episodes 7, 8 and 9 (if they were to happen), I, for one, would call him a fool.