Subj : Re: Rumor thread To : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise From : Kweeg Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 11:05:21 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise "The Merry Piper" wrote in message news:bsn1j1pir8uia5l073rfi2cl9hbj62ctgc@4ax.com... > On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:18:25 +1200, Anybody > wrote: > > >In article <2jk1j1hg09fp9s6s4lub7vienn5pkov0fl@4ax.com>, The Merry > >Piper wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:58:44 +1200, Anybody > >> wrote: > >> > >> >In article , > >> >Wandering Wastrel wrote: > >> > > >> >> In article <1BNXe.15521$mH.24@fed1read07>, aevansjr3@cox.net says... > >> >> > I dunno I read in sci-fi mag as well thier was a small hint it may come > >> >> > back. I wish sci-fi channel would buy it and add it to thiier excellent > >> >> > friday line up! > >> >> > >> >> If they would reimagine it the way they did BSG -- start over, get a new > >> >> cast, leave out the Suliban/Future Guy time-traveling crap (and the > >> >> idiotic Xindi arc) -- I'd watch. But if they just took up where they left > >> >> off -- season four improvements notwithstanding -- why bother? > >> > > >> >Good God, NO! That was the entire basic problem with Enterprise, it WAS > >> >the "re-imagining" of Star Trek. Beavis & Butthead were originally > >> >trying to make a Star Trek that would also appeal to those who wouldn't > >> >normall watch a "Trek" show - that's why it wasn't originally called > >> >"Star Trek: Enterprise". > >> > >> TNG was re-imagining of "Star Trek" and it did just fine. > > > >Nope. TNG was a "continuation" / "sequel" and was basically the same as > >TOS. It just had a different crew and a newer ship, but the style, etc. > >was the same and not buggered up beyond recognition. :-) > > I understand your chain of reasoning and, believe me, I mean no > disrespect but I see TNG as a re-imagining. The same concept, but > spun in a new direction. It is my understanding this is why Gene set > the show 80 years in the future, so he could change the look and feel > of the Trek-Universe. > > Sequel, yes. But still re-imagined. Concur. -- Qa'pla Kweeg Ten of Canadian Clubs in the Eeeevil Trek Cabal http://members.shaw.ca/iksbloodoath "Half a gallon a'scotch!" Scotty .