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There will be a Star Trek 11 « Thread Started on Nov 25, 2002, 8:26pm »
This from TrekToday and Cinescape.com:
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While talking about the 10th film in the Star Trek franchise this weekend with CINESCAPE, dubbed Star Trek: Nemesis, executive producer and Star Trek head honcho Rick Berman let loose that he is certain that an eleventh film in the ever popular series will be made, regardless of how Nemesis performs at the box office when it hits theaters on December 13th.
"I can tell you now that we'll be making another film," Berman says. "There has never been a Star Trek movie that wasn't profitable for Paramount. One of the things about Star Trek is there's no risk in making them because the studio know that if you spend this much money on producing the film, you are going to make that much money, or you might make that much money. But there is pretty much a window of the profitability of these films... unlike non-Star Trek films which could be total wrecks and not make a dime, or could take off and make $200 million, there is a risk involved. There is very little risk involved in Star Trek films, so I think we're a long way from seeing the end."
Paramount's ad campaign for Nemesis seems to imply that this might just the last of the Next Generation films, and while Berman is not ready to write off Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E yet, he is wiiling to discuss an idea that has been thrown about over the years in Trek circles: the notion of combing characters from various Trek incarnations to create a sort of smorgasbord cast for the next movie.
"As to whether the next film will include these [TNG] character or a combination of these characters with other characters from other series, [or] new characters-that's all yet to be discussed. And that won't happen [the] Saturday morning [After Nemesis opens] hopefully," he laughs. "They usually give me a couple months to breathe"
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Re: There will be a Star Trek 11 « Reply #1 on Nov 26, 2002, 4:55am »
Personally I never doubted that there would be a new trek movie after nemesis, but it doesn't matter anyway, its an odd number and so will probably just be 'average'
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Re: There will be a Star Trek 11 « Reply #2 on Nov 26, 2002, 10:54am »
I too read that article, and I only ask, what the heck is going through Rick Berman's head. I mean first he says that it is unlikely we will see the return of Captain Sisko, but than he said that any thing is possible in trek. I think that is why ENT and the last few seasons of voyager are bad, because berman has this philosophy and really is not able to write consistantly good stories like moore, piller, or Ira Behr.
As for Star Trek 11, I hope its either a DS9 movie, or a movie with a brand new cast. Star Trek has always been a franchise that seemed ahead of its time. It was always fresh, and enjoyable, and with the current state that its in, its not that way any more. I think a movie with a new cast might bring back that freshness and revive the franchise.
For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered… That is the exploration that awaits you… not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the uknown possibilities of existance"-Q in All Good Things (TNG Finale)
Re: There will be a Star Trek 11 « Reply #4 on Mar 9, 2003, 3:07pm »
Well, isn't this interesting. Reading an old thread predictiog an 11the Trek movie and that Trek movies have never lost money.
NEMESIS may have been the first to not only lose money but to be an embarrassment. Berman is taking Trek further and further away from what I've learned it to be. Trek had become an old friend I could count on to stimulate my imagination, to watch interesting stories keeping me on the edge of my seat with acticipation of the next exciting moment of the story.
Trek has become laughable. The worst moment of NEMESIS was the bad guy pulling away from the Enterprise in space as if the good ship were somehow anchored in nothingness.
The "Enterprise" series is the same. What stupidity will be next? Ignorance means someone doesn't know yet has the capability to learn, stupid means they don't know and never will. The current course of Trek tells me it is being controlled by stupidity, digging an ever deeper hole.
To save Trek? We're about to see the third finger as Trek sinks to oblivion.
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Re: There will be a Star Trek 11 « Reply #5 on Mar 9, 2003, 9:09pm »
Hey trekbuff, glad to see you here.
I agree with your post. Trek has become an embarassment, and as a trek fan since the early days of TNG, it is sad. Granted, ENT has had some good episodes lately, but it still is not up to par with the trek I know and love (TNG and DS9) and I don't think it will ever be. IMO, Nemesis was ok, but embarassing, and ENT's second season has been mediocure at best. I am close to actually saying screw the next film, and screw the next series and end trek all together. If these writers keep pulling out mediocure/poor television, it will make people not care about the franchise and that is the reason Nemesis did so bad. People care more for Lord of the Rings, and are losing interest in this franchise. who knows, maybe it is time to drop the curtain on those (In the great words of Q from the final TNG episode) "unknown possibilities of existance"
For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered… That is the exploration that awaits you… not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the uknown possibilities of existance"-Q in All Good Things (TNG Finale)
Re: There will be a Star Trek 11 « Reply #6 on Mar 27, 2003, 7:06pm »
A Deep Space 9 movie would work for me, but I was under the impression that Avery Brooks had no interest in trek anymore. I could be wrong, but thats what I was told.
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I mean first he says that it is unlikely we will see the return of Captain Sisko, but than he said that any thing is possible in trek. I think that is why ENT and the last few seasons of voyager are bad, because berman has this philosophy and really is not able to write consistantly good stories like moore, piller, or Ira Behr.