{"id":1024,"date":"2001-03-03T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-04T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2001-03-03T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-04T04:38:00","slug":"on-star-trek-series-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"On Star Trek, Series V"},"content":{"rendered":"

TrekToday has some interesting details on the next Star Trek<\/i> series, in particular who the characters will be<\/a>. Is it for real?<\/p>\n

I’ve talked with some friends of mine about the TrekToday article. All agree that it’s bogus for a couple of reasons. The names are a little in-jokey. A real casting bulletin wouldn’t go into detail about the role of each character; instead, it would list the physical attributes they were looking for (without actually naming the character). Someone suggested it looked more like a page out of a possible series bible, but I’m not even sure of that.<\/p>\n

However, given the sheer number of rumors that the series is going to be pre-TOS<\/b>, I wonder how close to the mark the “casting sheet” was.<\/p>\n

Could they make a prequel series look as though it took place before TOS<\/b>? I’m not sure. How do you make something look more advanced than now, but less advanced than TOS<\/b> (which, frankly, looks less advanced than now in some respects)? It would be difficult.<\/p>\n

Honestly, here’s what I’d do, if I were the one in charge. Set it either in Kirk’s time, or maybe even Pike’s time (though I don’t know that I’d go the whole route and do a series about Pike). Set it on a sector starbase near the Klingon border, so it would be like DS9<\/b>. But also have a starship attached to the station and we’d follow that starship’s adventures maybe a third of the episodes (and for several episodes at a stretch, even). Setting it during Pike’s era means we could have the Enterprise<\/i> drop by (and it would mean recasting Pike, Number One, Spock, etc.) and maybe even have a young Kirk breeze through the place. I haven’t figured out how this would be much different than DS9<\/b> or Babylon 5<\/i>, though.<\/p>\n

We’ll see how it all plays out. We should know something definite shortly, by April or May at the latest, if the series really will debut in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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