They're not gonna change my mind

[austin_dern]

I don't know ... the only thing the cancellation of Enterprise brings to me is a bit of regret that this is going to make life duller around rec.arts.startrek.tech, where the conversation is great but slows down when there's not new Trek material to go over. The liveliest ``rerun season'' conversation lately started from someone who heard the Next Generation Technical Manual says there are dolphins aboard Enterprise-D, and found that the most outrageously offensive idea ever. It's fun pointing out yeah, space dolphins might be stuck inside watery cages but the space humans are stuck inside airy cages, but that's not fun forever.

Partly I suppose that's because my Trek fanboyism reached a peak in the late 80s and early 90s, and since about the fifth season of Next Generation I haven't felt bad missing any of it. Also Enterprise felt like a prequel to the original series in about the same way Baby Looney Tunes feels like a prequel to A Wild Hare. (In today's show Baby Sylvester is mad because the arrival of Baby Pepe means Baby Lola and all don't think he's the cutest anymore and stop walking him in the carriage and all. Baby Sylvester discovers skunks, adorable as the babies are, grow up to stink, and he's ready to use this to destroy Baby Pepe -- but calls it off when Baby Pepe's first word besides mumbling ooh-la-la is ``Sylvester.'' Is that honestly worse than Captain Archer's Ferengi Folly Revue?)

Still, from reports they were finally getting organized. And I'll miss the Usenet talk. They should've let me design the show.

Trivia: The standard communicator weighed 200 grams and had a range of 12,000 kilometers. Source: Star Fleet Technical Manual, Franz Joseph. The Modern Trek folks probably screwed that up too.

Currently Reading: Giants Unleashed, Edited by Groff Conklin.

Comments

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see them do a prequel to Star Trek, shot using original style sets, special effects, props, writing, etc.

Use the original Enterprise, but with Captain April or Pike.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Well, there were a few clips of their TV series in Galaxy Quest.. ^_^

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It's a fine Trek movie (though the show is actually a better parody of Next Generation, apart from the Captain) ... In some ways it's a shame they didn't make a sequel, but a sequel wouldn't have the emotional core anyway.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

It was one of those uncommon movies where everything seemed to work - the script was light-hearted, for the most part, without being exhaustingly broad (cf Spaceballs), and managed to rib the Trek franchise and fandom without being mean. The casting, too, was quite ideal, particularly Alan Rickman - everyone "got" the spirit of the film, which is a bit of a concern I have with the forthcoming adaptation of H2G2.

Hm. Wonder what the writer(s) of GQ have done since? Oh. :-P According to David Howard's IMDb entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397232/), nothing, as far as movies go - Galaxy Quest's the only title listed.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It is a marvelous film, with only a few missteps and otherwise a nearly perfect accomplishment of what they were trying to do by making it. I'm surprised David Howard hasn't done something more, although doing one thing perfectly well is admirable. (The other screenplay writer, Robert Gordon, (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330565/) has done screenplays for Men In Black II and for Lemony Snicket, neither of which I've seen, but might now that I'm aware of it.)

It's a shame there wasn't more Galaxy Quest, although I guess they couldn't add much without harming what was right about it.

[rcoony.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend you the fan series Star Trek: New Voyages (http://www.newvoyages.com/), however, while interesting, in their only two episodes so far, they've somehow already managed to do something with Borg and time travel.

One of them does use Captain Pike though, and it's almost worth it to see their version of Kirk with the most horrifying hairdo imaginable.

One I definitely would recommend though is Starship Exeter. (http://www.starshipexeter.com/) ()

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I heard one of these fan-made productions was able to get the guy who played Mister Leslie to act. They made him an Admiral.

Starship Exeter I noticed from one of the set pictures decided Exeter was built in Singapore ... I can't describe the silly thrill that was.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to see a prequel to the original Star Trek, but I don't think the bunch that have been in charge could do it. The rumors I've heard about Year Four suggest if they'd been running the show from the first nearly everyone would be happy with it, though.