riley_dude

Enough with the prequels. Bad idea to do this. JJ might breath new life into it but not as a prequel. This idea was rejected years ago. Why consider it now?

Rogue588

A-freakin'-men.

Red Dog

I think the potential for bad is pretty high here. Can't see anyone but Shatner and Nimoy in those roles. It reeks as a way to kickstart a new series. However, it would be interesting to see how much hot 20-year-old ass Kirk pulls down at the Academy.

I've said it before. Paramount needs to take a 10-year break from Trek.

rennervision

I just realized I've lived long enough to see every great franchise Hollywood has ever created go down the tubes. And usually when the sequels/prequels start getting bad, it's pretty obvious - so how these ideas get approved is the real mystery to me.

Bandoman

Absolutely. There's so much potential in the Trek universe, but they really need a good long haitus to come up with some fresh ideas, with a completely new crew/setting.

BigDan

Considering that Paramount had to buy a whole other studio just to fill their slate, I don't know that they're exactly busting out all over with ideas over there.

Barry Woodward

Good news, if it's a Battlestar Galactica-like reboot. A straight up prequel would tie the hands of the creative team to an unreasonable extent. I don't want to see younger actors impersonating William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. I don't want to see intentionally retro special effects and set design. The original series will always be available. Let's see a new take on the characters and universe.

Numanoid

Maybe they should do a prequel set in the "Mirror, Mirror" universe. Little Spock with his barely-there goatee beatin' down any wiseguy that crosses his path, and young Kirk running up and down the street ranting and raving and bursting blood vessels left and right. It could work!

riley_dude

Do you really think Mass quanties of fans that Love the original are going to want to see Kirk and Spock played by different people?
I don't think so.

Fok

Hope they don't do a prequel and try and improve on TNG crew or something. A hybrid movie of Voyager, DS9 and TNG crew would be fucking awesome! who wouldn't want to see that?

DJariya

Now the question is who the hell do you cast as Kirk and Spock?

Numanoid

B5Erik

I've been saying that since Nemesis came out. There were plenty of good actors/characters to put together a hybrid cast for a spectacular movie - and with the familiar faces & characters in new situations it would have been more interesting.

I didn't want the "Starfleet Academy: The Young James Kirk Chronicles" movie when Harve Bennett pitched it back in 1990, and I don't want it now. William Shatner IS Captain James T. Kirk, and vice versa. No young Gen X'er is going to be able to capture the essence of the character.

This could be a disaster.

On the other hand, if written REALLY well, and if the producers luck out on some BRILLIANT casting then it might not suck. It would take a miracle of near biblical proportions for it to actually be really good.

I don't think Star Trek is high on God's miracle list....

jaeufraser

I'm excited by the talent, but wary of the idea they're using.

Still, I'll be happy to see more Star Trek...it'll be interesting either or.

Supermallet

I think this is all-around bad. I have no love for Abrams, I haven't liked one project he's been attached to (yes, that includes Lost). And the basis for this movie is a total disaster. At least Lucas himself was involved in the Star Wars prequels, so there was an air of legitimacy about them. This just feels like some fanboy project gone horribly wrong.

Jon2

"Dude! Where's my starship?"

Kenshiro

Live long and prosp....you just got PUNK'D!

I like the talent involved, the story concept is awful though.

I second the idea of a film featuring TNG, DS9, Voyager combination cast.

DRG

Chad Michael Murray - Kirk
Ashton Kutcher - Spock
Gregory Smith - McCoy
Adam Brody - Chekov
Beyonce - Uhura
??? - Scottie

THX7966

We should all be thankful Berman and Braga aren't even mentioned. Have they been thrown off the Paramount lot yet?

Filmmaker

Uh, just FYI, most Gen X'ers are around as old now as Shatner was when he filmed the original ST series; they'd be going with a Gen Y candidate, which is even more offensive to my sensibilities, since I consider Generation Y to be the single most worthless and without any meaningful contribution to society generation the world has ever seen (individual Gen Y'ers, I implore you to not take offense--it is an opinion I hold for the majority of your numbers; as with all things, there are individual exceptions).

B5Erik

As I said, this has disaster written all over it.

This is the first time I've NOT wanted to see a new Star Trek movie. They should have taken a longer break, or come up with a better concept than rehashing a lame idea that Harve Bennett came up with 16 years ago....

(Bennett's idea may have been worthy of a TV mini-series, but definitely not a theatrical movie - then or now.)

mverleg1

As I learned long ago watching Alias and LOST. Trust JJ. I think that if anybody has the ability to properly revive the franchise, JJ can do it. I'm not thrilled with the story idea myself, for pretty much the same reasons you all mentioned, but I'll wait and see. I think they should completely reboot the franchise and most another 150-200 years past the TNG/DS9/Voyager timeline and start over. Do an 8 episode "TV show" and then a movie. The reason for the show would be to allow you to setup the characters a little more than a 2 hour movie can, but you could still make the movie to stand alone without the show, just use the show to make the movie better and build some buzz. Besides, if you're doing a movie, you've gotta have set pieces and costumes and such, so why not spread the budget out a little more for 8 hours of TV too.

tanman

Horrible idea. If they make a movie this soon after taking such a shortened hiatus then it shouldn't be about anything besides the Next Gen crew. They deserve a much better send off. They deserve their own ST:VI instead of just a rehased ST:II.

I agree about rebooting the franchise and following a totally new crew in the time of NextGen/DS9/Voyager.

kvrdave

It is Trek so I will watch it and love it.

I'd rather see them regroup and get rid of the old and do a kickstart to a new series, though.

milo bloom

Not quite, it's a pre-academy Kirk going into space with his dad who's serving under April. Kirk initially wants no part of space because it's kept his father away from home for so much, but when disaster strikes and young Jimmy sees what these Starfleet people are capable of, he's bitten by the bug.

It would make a great movie IMHO, and Kirk in the framework story could still be played by Shatner.


Also, I've somehow managed to miss both Alias and Lost all these years, so I have no idea about these guys.