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Post by starbase63 on Mar 12, 2003 6:11:12 GMT -5
From TrekWeb News: William Shatner (James T. Kirk) today said Star Trek has become "old hat" and needs new blood if the franchise is to endure. "It needs something new," Shatner told Terry Morrow of the Scripps Howard News Service (via Naples News). "The people responsible for it have lost its way, and they need to find it again. They need a whole new group of talents to give everyone a fresh approach. By doing too many things, they have lost its way because of greed." Shatner said he doesn't watch the latest television series, Enterprise, and didn't see Star Trek Nemesis at the cinema, either. "Curious, isn't it?" he said, "but I have never had a desire to see it, and you'd think I would ... Paramount must be worried over the lack of interest at the box office and the numbers for the series." The solution, according to the actor, is simple. "They should hearken back to where it was before with good stories," Shatner said. Even Kirk himself agrees, Trek needs better stories...
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Post by tailkinker on Mar 14, 2003 22:12:01 GMT -5
Its indeed disturbing to here one of the "legends" of trek say it needs new blood and fresh perspective. For the Trek franchise to have survived this long, is awesome, but I agree with Mr. Shatner. The story lines are rehashed and the episodes that have been good, are few and far between as my mom would have said. Perhaps the folks at Paramount will heed his advice and bring in the fresh blood the franchise seems to need.
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Post by captkozmo on Mar 15, 2003 22:35:59 GMT -5
I read somewhere that they have decided to do a Trek XI. They just don't know what crew they are going to use. I personally think they should use a new ship, and a crew we have never seen before. That way there can be no crying about messed up story lines, and breaches of canon and all that jazz. Just a Star Trek movie we can all watch and enjoy with nothing to nit pick koz~`'-
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