JMS/Bryce Zabel Trek Treatment

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• Messiah Failed Experiment

  June 2006

  And it would have been so good! Bah! Silly Paramount.
• RubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?

  June 2006

  Yep, it indeed sounds very interesting and with a huge potential. Unfortunately Paramount didn't want to "offend the powers that be"...
• David of Mac Elite Ranger Ca

  June 2006

  So, take the original Star Trek, give it a BSG-style update, and a long-term plot eerily similar to TNG's "The Chase" and that other sci-fi show with the fixation on not-so-dead ancient alien races who's name escapes me, and then... what?
  
  It doesn't move me, I have to say.
• RubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?

  June 2006

  Actually, I don't think that we can say "This would have been a great triumph" or "This never would have worked" from the material we have. This is written to excite Studio Exec's, without revealing to much of a possible plot or even style of the show.
  And if you think that it's just "search for mysterious alien" for five years, i'm pretty sure that by the end of the second or third year jms would have pulled a .. jms on us (B5's plot turned around quite a few times, first "last best hope for peace", then the shadow war, the EA-civil war, and then back to "last best hope for peace").
  
  The treatement does have huge potenial, if executed right, and i think that's where you're coming from. You can't imagine how this could be made into a compelling TV show.
  
  For me, I think about what i first thought when i saw "TG", the original cut, with german dubbing, and i thought "bah... that's boring" (Only came back to B5 because a friend insisted on me watching some second season episodes he taped..)
• croxis I am the walrus

  June 2006

  There is some additional information I heard from a reliable source from a con I go to every year (his accuracy for fortelling the future of movies and tv is about in the 75-90% range, depending on the year). What he said was very interesting and I hope it is true.
  
  According to this guy, jms and zabel wrote the treatment and a series bible and then gave it to paramount. Paramount is very interested in continuing the Star Trek franchise. The problem is due to the wording of a certain big shot *cough Rick Birdbrain cough*, he would receave a good sum of money for anything that is Trek related even if he isn't working on the project. Understadably Paramount doesn't want to spend money it doesn't have to.
  
  My source continued by saying that this certain higher's up contract will expire at what would have been the end of Enterprise's 7 year run. Once it expires paramount very much intends not to renew it. At this time Paramount wishes to bring jms and/or Zabel on board to lead the next trek series.
  
  
  Take with a grain of salt.
• RubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?

  June 2006

  But would they still be available?
  And, with the new Movie Project, would the TV show have to adapt to certain aspects of it?
  I think that in particular could ... put jms off a bit...
• Entil'Zha I see famous people

  June 2006

  I dont know, i just dont know, in thoery it could work, i mean many characters have been taken over by new actors and been accepted, but those characters, the actors are so much a part of them that i dont think it would work.
  
  Sure, James Bond has been played by many different actors and survived, as has Superman, but none of those characters were created by the actors, Bond was in Books, Superman Comics. so we knew the general character before ever seeing an actor play him/her, the actor had a blueprint of how the character was supposed to act, Kirk. Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Chekov, Sulu, the actors created those characters as much as the writer's or Gene Roddenberry ever did,
  
  Could you see anyone but Harrison Ford doing Han Solo or Indiana Jones (young Indy doesnt count) and as i like Ewan McGreggor, but he was NOT Obi-wan. sometimes the character and the actor are just inseperable.
  
  I just dont know....
• RubberEagle What's a rubber eagle used for, anyway?

  June 2006

  hm.. yes, but it's quite similar (although the Star Trek characters are of course much more iconic) with the Situation of the new BSG.
  Katiee Sackhoff said in an interview That it's good that Starbuck is a woman now, because every man would have been compared to Dirk Benedict...
  
  It sure is tough, and it would be hard to find actors that can inherit the characters, but that'll also happen with the new J.J.Abrams Movie...
  
  It would probably come down to casting, and the militant trekkers would be flaming all over the internet for the first season or so either way...
• Entil'Zha I see famous people

  June 2006

  [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by RubberEagle [/i]
  [B]hm.. yes, but it's quite similar (although the Star Trek characters are of course much more iconic) with the Situation of the new BSG.
  Katiee Sackhoff said in an interview That it's good that Starbuck is a woman now, because every man would have been compared to Dirk Benedict...
  
  It sure is tough, and it would be hard to find actors that can inherit the characters, but that'll also happen with the new J.J.Abrams Movie...
  
  It would probably come down to casting, and the militant trekkers would be flaming all over the internet for the first season or so either way... [/B][/QUOTE]
  
  I don't know, as much as I love the BSG characters, i dont really have as much of a problem with the new actors, my wife on the other hand, cannot get over Starbuck and Boomer being women.
• Sanfam I like clocks.

  June 2006

  The noisy ones might be whining and complaining, but if it's a good show, the viewers will still be tuned in. Enterprise had loads of fans, and look at what their endless praising got them ;)
• David of Mac Elite Ranger Ca

  June 2006

  A season more than the original (and still best) Star Trek? :p
  
  Lucky, too, that the extra one was also the best of the four.