 August 14, 2012 - 4:36pm | Well, my kids love Star Trek. They keep asking to see the recent movie with Chris Pines as Kirk. Its only fitting as I've been such a Star Trek fan for so long. But to be fair I think 75% of it is the baby being born on screen during a space battle (they're girls and that scene really appeals to them); the other 25% is probably the Romulans dropping the bug into Pike's mouth. One frustration is the 6 yr old's non stop questions though. Wonder if I should drop a dime on some DVD collections? The great irony is that despite how good that movie was, I have a feeling that Star Trek is played out as a franchise. Give it 15- 20 years and do a sexier, grittier star trek on HBO like the recent BSG series and then you'll get new life from it. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 August 14, 2012 - 6:08pm | Jedion, netflix has the whole ST franchise available, if you have netflix. That is how I am watching the OS right now. |
 August 14, 2012 - 8:25pm | Netflix even have the animated series from the '70s. |
 August 14, 2012 - 8:57pm | Even better than net flix: http://watchseries.eu/search/star%20trek |
August 14, 2012 - 9:23pm | My cousins 12 year old daughter loves the OS. She lives in Oklahoma, but we email back and forth and discuss ST. Her favorite character so far is Spock. I am having fun sharing that with her. |
 August 15, 2012 - 1:07am |
Give it 15- 20 years and do a sexier, grittier star trek on HBO like the recent BSG series and then you'll get new life from it. "Star Trek: The Next 'Nuther New Generation" Remember, STNG came out roughly two decades after the orignal was done. Shatner had avoided the entire Star Trek scene/conventions/everything and finally embraced it after realizing that folks half his age and younger knew who he was. I'm no fan of ST by any means, but I can't deny how iconic it truly is. The original BG on the other hand needed a lot of help, it lost traction faster than it gained any and was more of an attempt to cash in on the sci-fi popularity that was stirred up by Star Wars than anything. |
August 15, 2012 - 2:57am | Star Trek may be iconic, but you'll not see a new series of it on TV anytime soon and if you did it would be short lived- the money is not going to be there for it. The movies with the TNG crew are about done the movies with the TNG crew are about done and nobody is saying, When are you going to do a DS9 movie? so I consider it played out, thats not to say that those of us that enjoyed it wont have hours and hours of fun rewatching the various TV series, I have an itch to see "All Good Things" from the series ender of TNG again. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
August 15, 2012 - 10:35am | I thought Enterprise was pretty cool. It was edgy, there was the temporal cold war and all these crazy factions from the future polluting the timeline culminating in the Xindi attack on Earth and a season long campaign to stop them from destroying Earth. I thought that was well done. They lost me when they stopped the weapon but didn't resolve the crisis until another crisis was solved several episodes into the last season. I felt that was bad story telling. You have to resolve the tension. |
August 15, 2012 - 11:38am | As an outsider, if I were to look to reviving the ST brand I would want a series that predates Kirk. Perhaps something from the perspective of the other side at that, the rise of the Klingon Empire or Romulans --- something to that effect. Make the bad guys the good guys so to speak, rising up against the evils of this new Federation. |
 August 15, 2012 - 12:08pm | I enjoyed ST because it gave me a solid moral path to follow. Speaking of apples, tress and falling - the son unit recently built his own Heroica game after playing the Lego version online (we first played it last year at GenCon), he's also created a fantasy setting for my BareBones RPG and created a ship combat system for Star Frontiers (he calls it "Star Wars", I think because we play SF and d6 SW and it's easier to call it SW). LOL He doesn't like the images in the Alpha Dawn book showing the innards of the races. Oh... were were talking TV. He likes The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, D&D cartoon and BattleTech cartoon just like his old robot.  |
