04-21-2006, 11:56 PM
Ralph's right. Star Trek is just plain tired. It needs a long(er) rest.
Abrams is a talented guy, and I really like Lost, but he's got a lot of weaknesses as a plot writer. Alias became a complete mishmash pretty quickly, and Lost has that "what weird s#it that we don't have to explain can we cram in this week?" stench to it (not unlike Twin Peaks). The horrible Superman scripts that he wrote don't exactly fill me optimism, either.
If I were Paramount, I'd have called Ron Moore and told him to name his price.
"Master and Commander" is a great example for what a renovated Star Trek should be: tough men on the frontier, at the edge of their own technology and skills. I doubt that's what we'll get, though.
Abrams is a talented guy, and I really like Lost, but he's got a lot of weaknesses as a plot writer. Alias became a complete mishmash pretty quickly, and Lost has that "what weird s#it that we don't have to explain can we cram in this week?" stench to it (not unlike Twin Peaks). The horrible Superman scripts that he wrote don't exactly fill me optimism, either.
If I were Paramount, I'd have called Ron Moore and told him to name his price.
"Master and Commander" is a great example for what a renovated Star Trek should be: tough men on the frontier, at the edge of their own technology and skills. I doubt that's what we'll get, though.