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I do writing too, I’m part of a writing group that works together to write short sections of a much larger continuing story. Check out http://www.bluedwarf.co.uk

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hehe that would be funny to see!

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Don’t ever stop ANY madness. I like the madness.

When do we get to see more RD Madness?

I love the idea of Kirk nipping out for a fag and a curry!

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Joss Whedon would be great becauase he’d focus on the characters, which have always been a bit watery in Trek, and JMS would be good cos he’s really use the existing alien races and focus on the politics.

I think a new series should definately be like a mini-series, and focus an entire season on a proper ongoing story – not individual episodes. I think Enterprise got much much better when it had the ongoing story rather than rubbish single episodes.

I still stick by my idea that Peter David’s new Frontier should be turned into a miniseries. It’s full of action and whacky characters. The budget would have to be pretty high cos a lot of actiony things happen, maybe a 3D animated series would be okay?

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I think Baz’s idea would make a brilliant and fresh Star Trek series, I’ve had a similar idea actually. I think it would work because Star Trek has set up such an established universe that we know and love now. Following just a few characters as they traverse it would be much better than an entire crew of people who are underused.

I think firefly worked cos you only had a few characters to follow, and you can get to know them better. The series 1 of any Trek series is bad because they have to do so many character-building episodes for their large cast.

Larger casts can work too of course, BSG has a fair few. But is good because they all have very different roles, not just ANOTHER bridge officer.

Has anyone ever read or heard of the Star Trek New Frontier books by Peter David? They are brilliantly action packed, and he describes his characters with witty colourful brilliance. It’s another ship, and another crew in the Next Gen / DS9 universe, but it works because they’re all so diverse and… bonkers. Theres quite a few in the series and it’s a good read from book 1.

I had a few ideas for new Star Trek spinoffs

Starfleet Academy: Saved by the bell – Some smart-ass teenagers and their days at the academy

Starfleet Top Gun: About some hotshot Starfleet pilots

Section 31 Files: Agents Dulmer and Lucsley (from that DS9 episode) investigate strange things across the Federation

USS Tribulation: The adventures of the Federation’s only crew of Tribbles

Any good? :-P

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What’s the chances that they’ll release the rights and allow other authors to write red Dwarf audio books, like the millions of star trek and starwars ones we have.
I know having too many might be a bad thing, as it waters down the brand, but at least we’d get more!

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I love to see the trailers, as long as they’re similar to the film I’m seeing of course. Like, I’d hate to see pride + prejudice before Cloverfield etc. Actually I saw some good trailers before Cloverfield, Star Trek was ace, Jumper looks good (a ripoff of Xmen i’m sure, but who cares) and I’m sure there was another sci-fi-type filem, but can’t think what it was now.

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those don’t look like real animals!

Please please don’t let it be CGI, it’ll spoil the whole thing

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hehe I liked it. Not much, admittedly. But it had some good bits.

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but that’s no good! BBC won’t get paid for them or be able to track how popular they are – which means they see no value in making any more.

If they were downloadable, and even just a few pence each, they’d make money off them and then realise “hmm… these are making money, lets make some more!”

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is this really the end for trek, or will they remake the entire kirk series with these new actors? Kinda like a restart, just like battlestar galactica just did. Where the series is *similar* but not necessarily the same.

I’m not sure what i’d think about this, as I like continuity – but this screws it all up. But if it starts a new continuity…. it might actually be okay!

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I saw the trailer last week online, and thought uit was awesome – but it wasn’t until I saw it on the big screen last friday that I almost had an orgasm at the cinema.

That ncc-1701 site is weird…. and i’m not sure what its trying to show us. According to some forum (of which i can’t find the link right now) the fourth camera will show if you tune the other three in correctly, then refresh the page – but it doesn’t work for me.

When you do get the other camera you can see mainly static, with a halfsecond glimpse of a corridor, assumingly it’s inside the Enterprise. Its like the things JJ did with Lost, teasing us with tidbits, and making us work for the information.

But for the challenge and effort of trying to see jsut a clip of the corridor, I can’t say that it’s worth it… unless theres something I’m missing?

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I would love to see a new tales of the riverbank, but the summary sounds totally made up, and clicking on the name of the guy who added the entry shows he’s not made any other entries. I think it’s bogus.

I hope not though!

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