Television The Star Trek Thread V6.0

[JDragon]

 

[Francis Rossi]

 

[sverre054]

Nicholas Meyer has announced he has pitched a brand new movie or TV series to the heads of star trek and CBS, with more news coming hopefully soon.

"My partner Steven-Charles Jaffe and I wrote a whole treatment and plan for a Star Trek feature film. We didn’t write a whole script. We wrote a very detailed treatment and a whole pitch doc with illustrations. It’s very comprehensive thing. And we first we took it to Alex Kurtzman, then we took it to J.J. [Abrams], and then we took it to Emma Watts at Paramount."

Filling a hole in Star Trek history
Meyer didn’t want to get into details but confirmed this was a new idea and not a repackaged version of his earlier Ceti Alpha TV mini-series. However, he explained how the new idea could end up spawning something on TV:

It was a detailed proposal for what could have been a film, or it could have been a series, or it could have been a film leading to a series or a series leading to a film… It could be a series of films. Yeah, absolutely.

Pressed for more details, Meyer confirmed this wasn’t directly tied to the past TOS movies, TNG movies or Kelvin movies and would involve “new characters” that would have to be cast with new actors. He did offer this one detail regarding how the Meyer/Jaffe pitch fit in with the Trek universe:

This was an independent piece of the Star Trek universe based on holes in the chronology, which would allow for the insertion of original material.

According to Meyer, this pitch was in the last year. As of now, he has not heard back from Paramount but has not given up hope in the idea.

For now, it appears that Emma Watts is moving forward with the new idea from Kalinda Vazquez. However, that doesn’t mean Paramount will only explore a single Star Trek movie idea; it has been reported that getting the franchise back on its feet is a priority for Watts. It was just three years ago that her boss, Paramount CEO Jim Gianopulos, was touting that the studio had two Star Trek films in development at the same time, something that is becoming more common with film franchises.

 

[JDragon]

According to Meyer, this pitch was in the last year. As of now, he has not heard back from Paramount but has not given up hope in the idea.

They won't do it. It probably would have been a good idea. But there's also Quentintrek.

 

[sverre054]

https://deadline.com/2021/03/star-t...story-channel-nacelle-company-1234711394/amp/

History Channel is making an 8 part documentary on Star Trek, to coincide with its 55th anniversary.

 

[sverre054]

Strange new Worlds cast announcement.

 

[sverre054]

RIP to a great actor. This man was very close to being cast as Jean-Luc Picard. He was Gene Roddenberry's top choice for the role. Rick Berman and the other producers fought for Patrick Stewart, who Gene didn't want because he was bald.

 

[Gene Tunney]

Yahphet would have made an intriguing Picard. Loved his work in Live and Let Die, The Running Man, Alien, and Brubaker.

I read somewhere that Stephen Macht was also a Roddenberry top choice.

 

[JbModest]

RIP to a great actor. This man was very close to being cast as Jean-Luc Picard. He was Gene Roddenberry's top choice for the role. Rick Berman and the other producers fought for Patrick Stewart, who Gene didn't want because he was bald.

Captain Kananga would've been sweet.

 

[sverre054]

Voyager documentary just crossed the $750,000 mark, making it the most ever raised for a documentary on indigogo. They have confirmed that they will be working with CBS to scan the original screen negatives to make to make the show footage HD. Still 2 weeks to donate.

 

[sverre054]

I watched the cult classic Trekkies documentary last night, and this part stuck out. Man was an actor for over 60 years, served in ww2, took part in D day where he killed multiple Germans soliders and was wounded, then retrained to become an attack pilot. Helping a fan in need was his greatest accomplishment in life....

 

[Gene Tunney]

It makes one wonder why the characters of Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov where not allowed to flourish in comparison to Kirk and Spock. Why didn't Captain Sulu have his own movie or tv show? Was Uhura not interesting enough to be the focal point of one the six movies? Instead, we saw six films focusing exclusively on Kirk and Spock. If the original films lack dimension, perhaps it is due to these essential characters being fundamentally repressed.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

It makes one wonder why the characters of Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov where not allowed to flourish in comparison to Kirk and Spock. Why didn't Captain Sulu have his own movie or tv show? Was Uhura not interesting enough to be the focal point of one the six movies? Instead, we saw six films focusing exclusively on Kirk and Spock. If the original films lack dimension, perhaps it is due to these essential characters being fundamentally repressed.

I heard it was more or less just because the attitude during the production of the original show was that it was primarily the Kirk, Spock and McCoy show. Everyone else were just “backup characters” in the truest sense. In TNG they’d try to give every character an episode that was primarily about them (ie this is a Troi episode, this is a Worf episode and so on) but with TOS there were no “Chekhov episodes” or “Sulu episodes” and that it mostly comes down to a different production philosophy in making the show. I think there were like two “Scotty episodes” like the one where he’s framed for murder by Jack the Ripper, and I want to say one other but nothings coming to mind at the moment.

Hell, even if you compare the opening credits of TOS vs TNG you’ll notice TOS only lists William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Deforest Kelley, while with TNG it listed Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFayden and Will Wheaton.

 

[Gene Tunney]

I heard it was more or less just because the attitude during the production of the original show was that it was primarily the Kirk, Spock and McCoy show. Everyone else were just “backup characters” in the truest sense. In TNG they’d try to give every character an episode that was primarily about them (ie this is a Troi episode, this is a Worf episode and so on) but with TOS there were no “Chekhov episodes” or “Sulu episodes” and that it mostly comes down to a different production philosophy in making the show. I think there were like two “Scotty episodes” like the one where he’s framed for murder by Jack the Ripper, and I want to say one other but nothings coming to mind at the moment.

Hell, even if you compare the opening credits of TOS vs TNG you’ll notice TOS only lists William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Deforest Kelley, while with TNG it listed Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFayden and Will Wheaton.

TNG was much more inclusive of a show. Picard is unquestionably the centerpiece, but not overbearingly so. Even Wesley, Guinan, O'Brien, and Barclay had key episodes.

That is funny you mention the credits. I read in a book that Gene Roddenberry had a stipulation in his contract that when his name was listed in the credits for the movies, the music volume could be no less than when Shatner's name was shown. There was no shortage of macho head games going on over there at Star Trek HQ.

 

[Francis Rossi]

It's a shame it took until the films and sequel shows to give some of the other characters their time to shine, but I guess that was TV in the sixties for you.

 

[sverre054]

Happy 90th Birthday to Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner

 

[sverre054]

It's a shame it took until the films and sequel shows to give some of the other characters their time to shine, but I guess that was TV in the sixties for you.

TV back then was all about the star. The TV affiliateshad a fit that there was a black women on the bridge back then, so side characters rarely got a chance to shine. Some stations wouldn't air trek because, they thought Spock looked demonic...

 

[Francis Rossi]

TV back then was all about the star. The TV affiliateshad a fit that there was a black women on the bridge back then, so side characters rarely got a chance to shine. Some stations wouldn't air trek because, they thought Spock looked demonic...

Shit, they had a black woman, an Asian man and a "Russian". All bases covered there.

 

[sverre054]

The Voyager documentary has a name, "To the journey". Today it passed the 1,000,000 dollar mark, becoming the seconded highest amount of money ever crowd funded for a documentary. It needs about another 100k to pass Zappa, for the number on spot. Still about a week left to donate if intrested.

 

[JDragon]

The Voyager documentary has a name, "To the journey". Today it passed the 1,000,000 dollar mark, becoming the seconded highest amount of money ever crowd funded for a documentary. It needs about another 100k to pass Zappa, for the number on spot. Still about a week left to donate if intrested.

Link please?

I seem to remember they did not offer PayPal, which pissed me off.