It’s been all over and frankly, I just don’t believe it. Not that powers that be aren’t that stupid, it just doesn’t make any sense. Only we few geeks even know about the whole Mirror Universe concept and I doubt that Paramount will attempt anything with that narrow an audience. Here’s the original story from Ain’t it Cool News.
Update: Paramount has quashed the rumor, but has confirmed the existance of a Star Trek script that is being looked at by the studio.
Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2, Superman Returns) has mentioned an interest in picking up the torch (from where it currently lies, sputtering a silent death) and making the next Trek movie. It’s obvious the man knows how to direct Patrick Stewart!
No joke people. One-half of the wonder twins is quitting the Trek game, at least for the “foreseeable future.”
I’m actually choking back tears of joy.
Some choice quotes from the article:
“There will be a lot of fans cheering about that.” – Umm, so you knew you sucked and yet did nothing to improve anything?
“Star Trek was very good to me.” – And yet you refused to return the favor? Bastard.
“…there just comes a point where I’m not sure what else I would have to give.” – Which translates into: “I’ve got nothing left to rip off.”
An Anonymous Coward sent us this
URL with an article about William Shatner’s
proposal for a new Trek TV series. It seems like it
has more to do with books he’s writing than a TV
series at this point, but he’s put the offer out
there.
If you find the recently released Ultimate Star Trek Collection to be a little out of your price range (or your geek completist range) but you still want some series Trek in your collection, consider Season One of the Original. It suffers from a low budget and stylized acting, but it set the groundwork for most tv SF that followed, and it remains the most inspired season of any Star Trek.
For those wishing to do my Christmas shopping early can get this 212 Disc Monstrosity. Sure it’s $2,499.00 USD, but hey, this is EVERYTHING Star Trek (minus the Animated Series, but we don’t really miss that, do we?).
Michael Piller, a huge influence on modern Star Trek as well as the co-creator of Dead Zone has died today from cancer.
Piller joined the TNG team in its third season, and is responsible for some standout episodes (“Best of Both Worlds”, “Ensign Ro”, and “Unification”). He co-created both DS9 and Voyager and wrote a number of episodes for both including both pilots and the controversial Voyager episode “Death Wish.”
In an age of lackluster Star Trek, this is a loss that is heavily felt in our community.
rickyjames writes, The ashes of actor James Doohan (“Scott” on Star Trek:TOS, as if you didn’t already know) are scheduled to be blasted into Earth orbit later this year as a permanent memorial. Now you can write a personal tribute to Scotty and go along for the ride. Hail and farewell, Scotty!
Today marks Star Trek’s 39th birthday. And with its present non-existent and its future looking frankly abysmal, let’s concentrate on the good times we once had, shall we.
shayward writes, Some information found in a Great Link report here shows that Berman and Braga haven’t learned.
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