Re: Abrams Talks About Trek XI Movie

"GeneK" <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Kweeg" <kweeg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
>> Indeed. All these people that moan on about "Roddenberry wouldn't have 
>> done that." Well Roddenberry did have the vision, but as far as a
writer 
>> or producer goes he was mediocre at best. GR didn't give a damn about 
>> continuity (or canon) in his own ST universe, if it would make money
(or 
>> he thought it was a good idea) he'd do it. One just has to look at TMP 
>> and the first season of TNG to see that.
>
> Which comes back to my point.  I don't want to see a
> new Star Trek hew close to what Roddenberry proposed
> to NBC in the 60's,

I do. "Wagon Train to the stars," (with some Hornblower thrown in) with
ray 
guns instead of six shooters (etc etc).... an adventure show where the
good 
guys on the frontier have to do what they do while sometimes not obeying
the 
"city law" they still do what's right. The whole inspiring, this is what 
"decent" people can do stuff.


> what NBC thought they were getting
> when they green-lighted the series in the 60's *or* what
> Roddenberry delivered in the 80's and beyond when he
> finally had the freedom to do pretty much what he wanted.
> TOS as we know it was none of these things.

By then Roddenberry was actually believing the stuff he said about
himself, 
and others let him as they thought it was he that was the genius, not the 
entire creative *team* that gave us such a classic series like TOS (Bob 
Justman, Gene Coon, DC Fontana, Matt Jeffries, Wah Ming Chang to name a
few)


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Kweeg
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