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By: Groulx (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:13:21 on Dec 03, 2005

Be honest with yourselves... Data, as posted before, is a huge issue to deal with.

Spiner makes a brutally old looking android now. That was the problem with casting a human as an android in the first place.

He gains an extra chin in every movie.

There are only 2 choices:

Leave Spiner out of the next movie or say they've created an "aging algorithim" or something, which would just make everyone go "oh, please".

Data looked bizarre in Nemesis when you look back at the history of his look throughout TNG.

He didn't have the respect for himself to go for a few rounds in the sauna before filming... lose that water weight in the face.

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By: Chewie (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:06:58 on Dec 02, 2005 | (1)

Well, let's face it, TPTB don't want to make a new trek with an unrecognizable cast of characters. That's probably why the script by BAND OF BROTHER's screenwriter hasn't been picked up. They want to use bankable, familiar stars. I know NEM didn't do well, but DVD sales and pay-per-view have probably been good, and they don't want their cash cow to just disappear. I'm guessing they want to use TNG cast until they're just too old to do anymore.

I bet they'll use TREK 11 to spinoff a Riker series. Someone here said it earlier, and it's a great idea. It's familiar, it's in the 24th Century so continuity wouldn't be a *huge* problem, and everyone likes Riker.

I'm betting there will be a new TNG movie in 2008.

Q anyone? Borg? Romulans?

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By: NX-47 (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:45:59 on Dec 02, 2005

Here we have two seemingly conflicting scenarios:

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Despite plans at Paramount for a TREK prequel movie featuring an all-new cast....

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But there are weighty people in Hollywood who are very interested in one more run around the holodeck. There are serious plans.

It's still too soon to make any real conclusions here, but it does sound promising that TPTB are not letting their cash cow lay fallow for too long. It does seem, based on Stewarts' comments, that the suits do, in fact, highly value Star Trek, and will bring it back. Not that I ever doubted that it wouldn't be back.

I'm sure that Paramount is probably in the 'Testing the Waters" stage of development... this early in the game, they're most likely exploring the viability of moving forward with an established, known quantity (a TNG film) versus an entirely new direction in a pseudo-prequel film ("BEGINNING" would happen between First Contact and ENT, presumably).

Perhaps they're watching the fan boards (like TrekWeb) to see how folks feel about both ideas. It would make sense to me... if done properly, it wouuld constitute free market research and focus group testing.

I'm eagerly awaiting more development on this... watching things unfold over the next months/years will be real fun! :-)

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