I think they should scrap the whole idea of a “next series”, and just give The Doctor a stand-up comedy hour. Hell, he was the only decent character in Voyager.
Oh. My. God. After Voyager, which I gave up on after the first season or two, I thought that my Star Trek days were over. But Scott Bakula? I am SO there!
Even without Scott Bakula–who is, admittedly, an added bonus
–I would certainly give it a chance. They’re supposed to start shooting it on May 14.
I agree… I’m so all over anything Scott Bakula is in… droooool
Sure, they may create loose ends, but I’ll bet in the process they’ll have an opportunity to explain why the Characters in the other series have so many wierd customs (imagine showing the first attempted use of a transporter… think of the 80’s version of “The Fly”, when Jeff-Goldblum’s character’s monkey gets turned into spam filler.
Also, it’ll be great to have a good-ol-boy in the engineering. Just wait till ya got chrome headers and an Edelbrock carb on the warp core, and straight pipes coming out the back of the nacelles. And of course, a “Calvin pissing on a little guy with a horseshoe-like-forehead” sticker on the back. Course, he’ll have to get the replicators to make Skoal, and the bridge will have a 4-on-the-floor shifter for the helmsman.
“Take us out”
Bghvroooooommmm!!! Jlub Jlub jlub jlub jlub… (Helmsman shifts into first)
BWAAAAAAAAAAH (shift) BeeuAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
And don’t knock duct tape… it’s like the force… it’s got a light side, an dark side, and it holds the universe together.
While Opal and a few others are drooling over Bakula, I’d like to put in a request to the costume director that they bring back the mini-skirts that Uhuru and others wore. Too groovy, man.
Oh, and all exterior scenes must include an obligatory Styrofoam rock.
And extras must die on every away mission.
And for extra fun, imagine watching a group of rowdy engineering hicks toting a keg on an antigrav pad.
And puking in the replicators.
Line-dancing in 10-forward at 1900 hours!
It’s great to live in the south.
According to a couple sites, in this show, set around the 2150s, the transporter will already be established, they will use an early version of phasers called "phase pistols, but the “Tractor beam” has not been invented, so they will use some type of “grappling device.” Of course, I have images of someone standing out on the saucer section swinging a hook on a rope over toward the ship they want to hook onto. Already, rumor has it that the finale (a typical seven-year run probably) will center on the founding of the Federation.
Sir
Please, please, please don’t mention “campfire” in connection with Star Trek. I’m still on medication from that “singing 'round a campfire” scene from Star Trek V.
[sub]Actually, I think it’s the whole movie, not just the campfire scene[/sub]
DRY,
Ever wonder what the words were to “Moon over Rigel 7”?
Pass the marshmellon, please.
Sorry, had to do that while you were down.
Sir Rhosis
“Captain, life is not a dream.”
“Beans and bourbon, an explosive combination.”
Now, that is some sparkling dialogue, eh?
S’OK–except for a couple of really horrific scenes, I’ve forgotten how excruciating that movie was, except that it was generally bad.
Very, very bad.
THANKYOU! DS9 was my FAVORITE!
i am so glad i am not alone. i will never understand the worlds deep rooted hatred for DS9 and Voyager.
(though i really despised Voyager at first for hogging the spotlight and sucking for the 1st season)
Sounds horrible to me, I loved TNG and Voyager and didn’t dislike DS9 especially.
The plot limitations are just going to cripple this new show from day one, everyone knows the Federation gets formed in the end and everyone knows that some of their favorite aliens had not yet been discovered. They’ll probably milk the time travelling scenario even more to death than they already have.
sigh
I just hope the word around the geek fire is the Straight Dope on this one…
— G. Raven
It isn’t that DS9 and Voyager are bad, exactly - truth to tell, they were among the better shows while they were on. But that doesn’t take much.
The problem was that they could easily have been so much more, with not much more imagination applied. With the entire future and an entire galaxy to explore, most episodes seemed to be the same. For DS9, there was some kind of conflict with the Cardassians left over from some war, with a little weirdness from the Wormhole Aliens once in a while. On Voyager, most shows were about encountering some alien species, all looking like humans with blobs of latex on their foreheads, who wanted to kill them and steal their stuff. There was some comic relief from some nonhuman crew member, and some artificial/robotic life form trying understand human emotions. And all shows were conveniently wrapped up in an hour, with the situation left almost as before, until 150 or so episodes were shot and ready for package syndication, as had been Majel Barrett’s plan all along.
Well, that just isn’t “Must See TV”, sorry. At very few times was there any feeling that I had to tune in to find out what “strange new world” etc. was going to be on - it was predictably the same show with the aliens’ latex blobs arranged differently. STTNG was different and imaginative enough of the time, and had enough acting skill in the cast, that it really did need to be watched - but not the washed-out sequels. Is there really any reason to believe the next made-for-syndication derivative series will be better?
My “hatred” for DS9 and Voyager can be summed up in two points. Bad writing and bad acting. Though there was the occasional (two or three per season) episodes that stood out in the writing category, for both shows, most of the leads were average television-caliber actors–Avery Brooks’ stilted, forced delivery, Nana Visitor’s total lack of any quality approaching thespian ability, Kate Mulgrew’s uninteresting Janeway, and I want even start on the secondarys. Not that all were bad–Colm Meany must surely have had the easiest time to shine, he was the only truly fine actor in his ensemble. Likewise with Picardo and Phillips from Voyager. In the cases were the acting was adequate, the scripts and characters let them down. Tim Russ did the best he could with what he had. McNeil and Wang may be okay, but what an embarrassment to have to play Harry Kim, as written.
And then there was Jennifer Lein and Kes, Jesus Christ kill me fucking now.
I looked through the list of actors for “Enterprise.” Bakula is the only name I recognize. We’ll have to wait and see.
IMHO.
Sir Rhosis
That’s my major complaint as well. Any time they mention/show the time period between now and the first series, things are different. It gets annoying. I couldn’t handle First Contact for this reason. It was just all WRONG.
BLASPHEMY!!! Kes was perfection!!!
though that may be my crush talking ::
::
I would had a crush to if they had let her wear her natural hair (really long from early photos I saw) instead of forcing that ridiculous wig on her.
She may be a fine actress outside of Voyager, but again, it was the limitations of the writers, that awful-wise beyond her three years or whatever-character that was forced on her.
Sir
Amen to that. I think it would be interesting to see a story on the first contact with the Klingons, but other than that, they will just add loads of contradictions into the “history” already (supposedly) known. Although, perhaps it would be funny to hear the country boy talk about how much bigger and better the warp cores were back home in Texas… 
(a la “Rocket Ship X/M” on MST 3k)
I tend to think similarly about Voyager as I do about DS9 – weak first season and kind of dead characters. Writing got better later on.
Speaking of overdoing scenarios (like time travel)…
[sidetrack DS9 rant]
Enough with the alternate universe crap! It was fun to bring it back and play with it once, but enough is enough… Probably the goofiest DS9 episode of the final season was the alternate universe “wrap-up” episode: Quark and Rom save the day. Geeez. And good wins over there, too? I thought that place was supposed to be evil…
[/end rant]
Monstre <— liked the Weyoun character, especially his interaction with Dukat
Weyoun is the man! 
BTW, rumor has it that the pilot for the new series has to do with first contact with the Klingons…