Re: *SPOILER* Re: Paramount Agrees To Two More Trek Movies

"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Anybody wrote:
> 
>> If they actually had any real creativity in Hollyweird these
>> days they could make NEW shows instead of just ruining all the
>> old franchises with idiotic "remakes" / "reboots".  :-(
> 
> I'll say this:  Star Trek has proven to be a very tough act to
> follow. 
> 
> None of the subsequent attempts at space shows, like Space: 1999
> and Babylon 5, ever achieved quite the lasting popularity that
> Trek did.  By now, FORTY YEARS worth of Trek stories have
> fleshed out the Star Trek universe tremendously--not only more
> than any other science-fiction TV show, but perhaps more than
> any other science fiction ever. 

If you completely and totally ignore Star Wars, perhaps. Which 
would be awfully stupid, given it is as iconic as Trek, perhaps 
more so.
> 
> Any other writers hoping to create a new space show from
> scratch, have a huge job to create a concept with a comparably
> vast but significantly different scope than Trek.
> 
> In science fiction, how many other believable "universes" have
> there been, 

You claim Star Trek was "believable"? OK, you're either a troll, or 
a retard.

> which encompass so many diverse stories, novels,
> etc.?  Larry Niven's "Known Space," Asimov's "Foundation,"
> Herbert's "Dune," are probably the most famous.  (Tolkien's
> "Lord of the Rings," if you want to include fantasy too.)   

For them what can actually read, and do, there are hundreds of 
other books with universes *far* more believable than Trek or Star 
Wars, both of which were science fantasy, not science fiction.

> But
> such sub-genres aren't that common even in written SF.  

Troll. Or illiterate retard. Trek can't keep from conflicting with 
itself from episode to episode, much less series to series.

> It takes
> a huge amount of research to flesh out a believable but exotic
> SF universe, as opposed to just writing one story or one novel. 
> That Roddenberry not only did it, but did it within the funding
> and schedule constraints of an American TV series, is quite 
> remarkable.  And very rare. 
> 
Retarded troll who can't or won't read.

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