(Because we all know they read my blog with baited breath on a regular basis.)<\/p>\n
I’m not a big-name author. I’m not a scriptwriter. But I\u00a0have<\/em> written and published enough that I think I can say I have a pretty good grasp of story. So I’m going to point something out that you’ve probably already thought about.<\/p>\n No matter how good the writers, no matter how good the scripts, you\u00a0cannot<\/em> do justice to a five-year mission with movies that come out every three-to-five years.<\/p>\n The third Star Trek movie of the new continuity is coming up. We know that the cast signed a three-picture deal, and we know that at least some of them have already said they’re ready to move on.<\/p>\n So… You’ve had blockbuster movies, films that did better than any prior Star Trek films. And you’re going to have to recast anyway.<\/p>\n Cast actors willing to sign on for a series and bring Star Trek back to television.<\/em><\/p>\n You have an audience; the success of the movies proves that. You have a clean slate, to create brand new stories\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>revisit old ones, as you choose. You can write episodes to satisfy the action-lovers, and episodes to satisfy the more cerebral fans.<\/p>\n A five-year mission. A five-year series. Or heck, do a couple years, then a movie, a couple more years, then a movie… Have your cake and eat it, too.<\/p>\n The fans are ready, the franchise is ready. And it’s the only way to truly do Star Trek–five years of exploring the galaxy–any justice.<\/p>\n Let’s start hearing "These are the voyages…" on a weekly basis again.<\/p>\n Time for the Enterprise to come home. We’re waiting for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Because we all know they read my blog with baited breath on a regular basis.) I’m not a big-name author. I’m not a scriptwriter. But I\u00a0have written and published enough that I think I can say I have a pretty good grasp of story. So I’m going to point something out that you’ve probably already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}