General Star Trek thread

Yeah, it's classified. It's not that much of a stretch.

I put on one episode of DS9 earlier while for background noise, I think I'm six or seven episodes in now.

I'm thinking exactly the same thing.

I did not enjoy Enterprise at the time but I am happy to have another look now and will probably match my viewing to the Greatest Generation episodes as they happen

I feel Enterprise, a little like Voyager, benefits greatly from an increased cadance of watching....ie, one episode a week doesn't really play to the strengths of the show. It feels slow, lumbering, and boring at times. Switching up to a few eps a week, for me anyway, allows the show a bit of momentum and it's far more enjoyable that way.

Holly Hunter has been cast as the lead in the upcoming Starfleet Academy series

Wow a prequel.

I have been thinking for ages now it's time someone tried to do a Star Trek prequel.

A prequel to **** what, like? A prequel to the TNG era? TOS? The JJ Films? Strange New Worlds? Enterprise?

Can't wait to meet Spock's cousin or some crap though.

Another prequel and it'll just be the present! That's the last place I want to be!!

SNW went a fantastically long way towards convincing me that the greatest TV show of all time still has life left but the dilution of it since the now, rightly, more appreciated VOY days has been terrible.

I genuinely couldn't care less at this stage. With JJ at the helm, I think his track record in terms of Trek is well established....it's highly likely to be a flashy, shiny, shallow film that could be called Space Adventure 5 and nobody would ever realise it's a Star Trek film. It'll be a watch and forget movie, just like all of the other ones he's done.

I'd love to be wrong, but past performance doesn't inspire me. This could have been a real opportunity to grow the franchise and finally give things some momentum.

Imagine SNW on TV was building towards a big finale with a banger of a final season, and it was going to end as a big screen adventure with a well respected cast and writers at the helm....one that had actual weight to it....or any other myriad of possibilities that'd make a great film....nope, JJ to the rescue.

Really? If you mean "Broken Bow" as in the first couple of episodes I thought that was a great way to start Enterprise and a great two parter. I remember thinking at the time (Wow that was great. Can't wait to see what comes next). Enterprise had hit the ground running but yes after that its like they ran out of steam and it just slowed to walking speed for a while with the odd bit of jogging along the way and then by season 3 Enterprise was in a stride and by season 4 was running again. Such a pity season 5 never happened it would have been flying by then.

Forgot it second time round watching but now that you mention it, the original run of Enterprise was during Dubya's presidency and I remember not being able to unsee it at the time.

Anyone here watch that "Atlas" film on Netfliks? It's not bad anyway the only thing it has similar with Star Trek is the Warp jump and in warp view.

Its one of my favourites now (except the uniforms)

I think I have come to really appreciate it for being slow after the last 15 years of "Too Trek Too Furious". Other than the uniforms it was the best Trek has been in terms of overall style and art direction and the plot manages to be interesting and "world ending" without being some over the top villain with a doomsday device.