Re: Paramount Agrees To Two More Trek Movies

Jaxtraw wrote:
> Steven L. wrote:
>> Jaxtraw wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still working on the premise that nobody relaunching the
>>> franchise would be daft enough to try and fit this major relaunch in
>>> between TOS and the risible ENT. There's simply no room for maneuver
>>> in storytelling terms.
>> There's enough room for at least some stories about Captain Pike's
>> career.  We never saw Pike in action commanding the Enterprise to do
>> very much--just beam down to Talos IV.  It might be fun to see some of
>> the experiences Pike had, that were causing him to want to quit the
>> captaincy.
> 
> It might be fun indeed, but that's the kind of thing I might enjoy as
some
> kind of extra project, a mini-series or something. It's not the basis of
a
> whole new era of Trek. 

Who ever claimed it was???

All we know is that Paramount wants to get just 3 movies out of it:  XI, 
XII, and XIII.  And there's enough material for that, from the time 
Spock first signs up with Pike, through Pike's disillusionment with 
being a captain and being relieved by Kirk.  And finally, the time of 
Pike's horrible accident and coping with his disability.


> For instance the recent BSG TV-movie Razor had a sequence where there
was
> this thing abut Starbuck maybe having to sacrifice herself. Except it
didn't
> work because we've already seen her future and she's still alive after
the
> events of the movie. Any kind of threat tension to Pike or the
Enterprise
> would be ruined by the knowledge of what happened in the future.

The tension may, but the mystery won't.

When you watched "The Menagerie," you didn't think "We already know Pike 
ended up a cripple now, so why are we bothering to see his past?"  The 
plot with Spock forced us to view Pike's past as a solution to a 
present-day mystery.  And past and present all came together elegantly 
at the very end.

The fun of a nonlinear plot is figuring out how to fill in all the holes 
and connect all the dots.  The fact that we know the ending in advance 
doesn't matter.  It's figuring out the beginning that's the fun.  I'm 
sure there will be themes and threads, like in "The Menagerie," that tie 
it all together.


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Steven L.
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