ykantickleme wrote:Star Trek is still one of the best space sagas ever created. I would hate it if it just disappeared. Yes, these are the words of a die hard fan!!!
Nice to see another fan on the board.
ykantickleme wrote:Hello! I've been following the series since the beginning and I thought, at first, it had promise.
From what I saw I thought they played it too much like TNG as far as operations went. I would have preferred to see them invest more time in logistics and repairs. Without replicators and an established network of starbases they'd really need to track their food, water and parts consumption. Voyager made this mistake too, and that was another series with a lot of promise.
ykantickleme wrote:Granted, maybe it is time to give it a rest, but I still think they should wrap things up with one more season.
Now that the TNG movies have ended I predict we will see at least one feature film for ENT.
ykantickleme wrote:Perhaps the "Xindi Invasion" and the "Temporal Cold War" were too futuristic for the viewers to follow, but they have recently been making up for it in this current season.
I think sometimes any sci-fi show relies too much on "another war" plotline. The appeal of Star Trek has always been to take various human issues and put a sci-fi twist on them. That's what made The Original Series so powerful and timeless. DS9 was able to get away with the Dominion War because they had such an established fanbase, characters and situation.
ENT should have concentrated on their original premise: the first Starship Enterprise exploring new worlds and seeking out new life. There's tons of stories that you could mine from that idea: cultural differences, xenophobia, differing styles of governance and standards (the whole "fish out of water" storyline). I think that by starting more war plotlines they copped out on original storytelling.
ykantickleme wrote:Perhaps something fresh will come up. I hope Mr. Rick Berman and crew don't give up!
I really believe that Berman and company are part of the problem. That's not to say they are bad folks, it's just that they have been involved in Trek for so long that it's become routine. If Trek is to be revitalized then the current crew needs to go and a new crop of people need to come on board.
Star Trek has such a huge fanbase, and so many fanfic writers that I believe the proper approach would yield several seasons worth of material for a new show. And it doesn't matter what the setting of that show is as long as you tell a good story. With any sci-fi, give me great characters and present a great story. That's what will keep me coming back.
If nothing else we have hundreds of episodes from multiple series (including The Animated Series!) to draw upon. There are fanfics, some of them VERY good, new novels published every month and web based series made by fans.
Star Trek will not go away, it's too deeply entrenched in the national consciousness. It will be back in some form or other.
As James T. Kirk would say, the possibilities are endless.
DP
