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Controversy inevitable but ...
By sb2004

Personally I think the only way to successfully do a "New Kirk/New Spock" film is to reboot from scatch. BSG did it and was very successful. James Bond is about to do it with Casino Royale.

In the case of Trek, the fact is 40 years of canon has made it all but unworkable when it comes to creating entertainment for a mass audience. Look at Enterprise -- even the most critically acclaimed episodes (and yes there were a few) were lambasted because they didn't adhere to every last scrap of canon. Look at how many people wrote off Nemesis based simply upon the fact that in some obscure episode of TNG Picard was shown with hair when he was a cadet, but in the film it was decided that it would be easier for general audiences to get the picture if they made him bald.

Of course Enterprise as a whole was rejected by a lot of people simply because it was a prequel, never mind whether the show was good or bad. Imagine the response to a film that casts someone new as Kirk and Spock and features 21st Century SFX and for all we know a redesigned TOS-era Enterprise (we haven't even gotten to the ship design -- I'll be shocked if it resembles the TV version).

I'm not a fan of the TOS-era film idea. I'd rather see a continuation of Enterprise or, at the very least, a film to continue the TNG story beyond Nemesis so people can get the bad taste out of their mouths from that film. But if they're going to go back to the beginning, then a reboot is the only way this can be done. And as I stated in another thread, it will result in a lot of people abandoning Trek but to be honest how is that at all new compared to the introduction of every new Trek since TNG came on the air?

Al

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