George HAD a Excelsior show in the PS2/XBOX game Star Trek: Shattered Universe, in which you play a starfighter pilot on board the Excelsior as it travels through the Mirror Universe kicking butt all the way to a dimension point that will take the Excelsior back to the late 23rd Century. The game-which I did play, and get SOME enjoyment out of-was not that great, and didn’t do well (maybe the makers should have got Chris & Erin Roberts to port over the game engine used in Starlancer, or maybe just make over Starlancer into Shattered Universe.) As for DS9 not being really Star Trek-like: I’m sorry, but Gene had too much of a Pollyanna vision in his declining years, and this made Next Generation a bit too silly for most fans, resulting in DS9.

Frankly, I think Gene should have just contributed the basic outline for Next Generation, and left the funning of the show to David Gerrold, Dorothy Fontana, and Michael Piller, settling for an older statesman role overseeing the show-it would have saved his health considerably.

Apparently its a “Criticise the Star Trek Series You Don’t Like” fan site. Maybe I don’t belong… I like ‘em all. Still it is an interesting read… terrans are so passionate.

Living briefly and going broke.

A) anything that B&B produced would have failed. Enterprise may have been good if it was actually a prequel. Excelsior would have been good if Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor and others stayed on board for it. (I am aware Michael Piller passed away).

B) I don’t understand why people, including some producers, don’t understand Utopian literature. Perhaps the best thing for them is to actually read some Utopian literature and compare it with Star Trek. Star Trek was Utopian, Star Wars as Distopian. Any person with a hint of literary understanding can comprehend this. Gene’s ‘vision’ was a Utopian future of humanity. Where did the conflict come from? Outside. Ira Behr decided that the Trek Utopian future was stupid (either because he just didnt understand Utopian literature or disdained it). Granted DS9 has some of the strongest and deepest storylines of any trek series, and the continuing arcs were a first for the series. I am not disdaining DS9, however I am saying that people need to understand the type of society that Rodenberry was envisioning.

GOOGLE: Utopian literature

Deep Space Nine became a war story. It had no real starship. It was stuck on one planet most of the time. It should not have worked.

But it did, and I liked it.

The story is the thing. They recycled some old Star Trek episodes, but they did it so cleverly, they were nearly invisible.

Gene Roddenberry created the Star Trek Universe. He insisted on good stories and believability. If you have those, you cannot fail.

The rub is Star Trek also has a history. To be believable to most fans that history cannot be violated.

I always said with good writing they could have spun off Vic (the holigram played by James Darrin.) On the other hand perhaps good writing can only take you so far…

I would have liked to seen Captain Sulu and the Excelsior as a series. However I also wanted Voyager to be better- which never happened.

Never even gave Enterprise a chance. Whenever I channel surfed by it all I could gather is that Captain Archer had an anger management problem.

All I can say about the future is that the USS Enterprise better look like the
Enterprise or I am hitting the escape pod.

Also, I really wish the people on these blogs were a bit more sensitive to the feelings of others. Star Trek was about tolerance, diversity and keeping an open mind. All the things that are now being destroyed in the world, especially in America.

Live long and Prosper.

And be excellent to each other.