Kate Mulgrew Hasn’t Seen JJ Abrams Star Trek – But Wants To Be In Sequel October 29, 2009
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The latest project for Star Trek Voyagers’ captain Janeway is providing voice work for Bioware’s new fantasy role-playing video game "Dragon Age Origins". In a new interview promoting the game, Kate Mulgrew also talked Star Trek, including talking about the latest JJ Abrams movie, and the next one too. See below for excerpts.
Mulgrew wants back in
Kate Mulgrew got a cameo in Star Trek Nemesis in 2002, and it should come as no surprise that she would like to Trek again in the next Star Trek movie. The following Trek related excerpts are from a new interview at SciFi Now
What is it about Star Trek that captures the imagination so well?
Well isn’t it a perfect metaphor for life? First of all, mortality is an encapsulating thing; we are all in a ship of some kind. I mean, we’re all caught, aren’t we, in time or timelessness if you wish, and we are lost. All we have is each other, and the transcendence of time, race, creed, species, gender, all of it, I think that it’s probably the most advanced way of looking at the physical world, and that was Roddenberry’s extraordinary prescience. He understood that we know nothing, and to put these people in space, let alone an uncharted quadrant of space was a brilliant concept, a way of letting go of the mortal coil, and the slings and arrows of the world that really have no bearing at all on our souls. So it’s an exploration of the soul, isn’t it?
Have you seen the new Star Trek film?
I haven’t, I imagine that I’m going to be asked that all the time! I haven’t, but not for any bad reason; it’s a reason of comfort. I did Star Trek myself, and I want to enjoy it when I see it, I want to be comfortable when I see it, so I’m going to wait until I can see it in my living room. I understand that both of those young men [Pine and Quinto] are extraordinary. I’m sure it’s beautifully done. I just want to see it in the comfort of my home.
Would you ever consider a return to the character of Janeway?
I would, I’d love to return to Janeway! I’d love to do her in a movie, it would be great.
So if JJ Abrams came along and offered…?
I’d love to do it! I think he’d be wise to do it, don’t you? He should get Picard and myself in there. I think that’s a brilliant idea.
Go to scifinow.co.uk for the rest of the interview.
Mulgrew’s cameo as Admiral Janeway in "Star Trek Nemesis"
Mulgrew in Dragon Age
Here is a trailer showing Mulgrew (and Tim Curry) recording her voice work for Dragon Age: Origins.
More on Dragon Age: Origins at dragonage.bioware.com
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Oh… Good god… Please no, I dont even want to think about more Janeway
First?
I am not sure how they would get her in…………………
ONE WORD:
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
That is all.
I only awaite the return of THE SISKO . Janeway can crawl into a borg alcove and die!
I like her as an actor, and it’s good to see that she’s a team player, but….uh….no.
She don’t need to be janeway just a captain with anyship of the federation…..
Loved Janeway!
Put her in!
I have an Idea…Harry Kim…..blahhhhhhhhhhh
She could be the new computer voice.
I don’t really care… as long as there are KLINGONS KICKING ASS!
She could be a Klingon.
GOD NO. Keep Mulgrew away from Star Trek. Terrible actress and a terrible character. Can you guess i don’t like Voyager lol.
Star Trek: Voyager? What’s that?
That is a great idea! She would a perfect computer voice!
I’m all for any and all Star Trek alums making cameo’s. They don’t need to play “their” character, they could be anyone.
YES YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mulgrew is a fine actress, she just didn’t have much to work with. VOY was pure fail.
if she wants to me a new character in star trek: something something, let her audition and if she beats out the others, cast her.
why not? are we blacklisting former trek actors or something? if people are fine with a shatner cameo, or a spiner cameo…
no.
13:
agreed… computer voice would be just fine.
First of all STV was the best Star Trek ever done… It was original unlike next gen that was ridiculous… Giant Ship with your family onboard.. gimme a break…
i wouldn’t mind seeing her in the new star trek not sure why some people dont want to see her again
@ 11
I can understand terrible character but terrible actress? I don’t think so. An actor or actress is only as good as the character that’s been written for them. I think Mulgrew is a fine actress and did some excellent work on Voyager.
But as the saying goes, if it ain’t on the page it ain’t on the stage.
That would be awesome! Janeway and Picard!! We love Janeway, we’ll go see it 7 times. Mulgrew is a brilliant actress and a spectacular Star Trek ambassador. Long may she be Janeway!
No to Mulgrew as computer voice as well. Blasphemy.
I want Paramount to invest in making a computer that can talk like Majel Barrett based on the work she’s already done. When the goal is an unemotional machine, I think re-using synthesization of her voice would at once maintain her legacy as THE voice of the Enterprise, maintain the series connection to the Roddenberry family (the original crew) regardless of who is running the show, and provide that familiar element that instantly says Star Trek. If she hasn’t hit every vocal sound a computer needs within 3 years of TOS, myriad years of TNG and lesser shows pluss all the movies, you can bring in a good voice actor to imitate her to cover the small bits needed to fill up gaps. If computers are not good enough today to recreate the voice of someone trying to sound like a computer, the world Roddenberry envisioned will never happen….
A movie with Janeway and Picard. Hell yes. I take anything, just spare me another atrocity that the last movie was.
@ 20
I’ve never rated her, and she was terrible in VOY. A lot of actors can pull of great performances with little to work with. All opinion though :)
They could easily get anyone in the new Star Trek universe without making any waves AT ALL.
All they have to do is show them as this universe versions of themselves in the future, telling a story about how something happened in the past with Kirk and the gang. Doesn’t matter who it is or from what time or anything.
The story could even relate to whoever is telling it, and end up with them in the end.
Example: JJ universe Picard in the future is on an excavation during a holiday and uncovers an artifact that the old enterprise once had but lost.
Flashback to PineKirk and the gang and tell a wonderful story of discovery and loss of the artifact. Insert great story here. Ends with some sort of cliff hanger that only the JJ universe Picard can solve in the future. Flash forward.
End it with a flashback to the Enterprise getting out of whatever situation and flies off to the continuing missions.
Very simple, can be made very complex and entertaining, and most importantly can use ANYONE who wants to be in the movie.
Specially Mr. Shatner.
Doesn’t have to have an artifact or even really have to tie to anyone, just a reason for Janeway/Picard/OldKirk/anyone to tell or read a story about our adventurers.
@11
Kate is a wonderful actress, with a commanding presence on screen, with that touch of femininity that made Janeway compelling.
Dang, what is your deal anyway? Such hate, its just not cool.
Remember folks, we always have the timeline established in Star Trek: Coundown comic book series. As far as Picard is concerned, Spock and the Narada vanished… why can’t Admiral Janeway still be around?
I don’t get it… why all the hate for Voyager? Honestly… I’m clueless. I really enjoyed that show, and think it is superior to DS9.
Don’t hate… I just don’t get it. can someone really tell me why the community hates Voyager?
Loved Kate as Janeway, still do. I don’t understand the haters. She’s a very good actress, and pretty much carried Voyager, for what it’s worth. Look at what she had to work with, from bad storys/scripts, bad producers, to bad co-stars.
However…… in the next film? Sure, but only if it’s a NEW character. Janeway hasn’t been born yet, and the time-shifting well has run dry, very dry…… I for one would love to see her involved with Trek again!
BTW, I love AJ’s idea, now that our beloved Majel has moved on to the stars……
A movie with Janeway and Picard…now THAT would be an atrocity. I can just picture it now, Picard wandering into one of Janeway’s romance novel holodeck programs, followed by Data and Worf joining in for a rousing musical number, and everyone overacting…badly.
No thanks. TNG had its day, DS9 had its day, Voyager had its day and Enterprise had its day. None of them were able to capture and maintain public awareness and interest like the TOS characters did.
Trek belongs to the new cast and creative crew it is theirs to run with for the forseeable future. I’m perfectly fine with that.
Still think a TNG Era Mini Series with cast members from DS9, TNG, and VOY could work with the right script.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO……………….
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…………..!
Also, loved her quote about Trek. She’s “out there” for sure, but that’s what I love about her. She gets it, in her own special way. Sounds like a lot of us, huh? ;-)
To all those who think mulgrew was a bad actor – check this out, i’m sure many of you have seen it – but it gives you the rare chance to a character portrayed very differently – i think it makes you appreciate the mulgrew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIZcDWKyw0
Weighing in as thrilled if Mulgrew would be in Star Trek again, as Capt. Janeway or other incarnation of her illustrious Starfleet career. I had no idea how articulate she is! Mulgrew, not Janeway. Janeway had standard issue captain’s dialogue. They were much the same, weren’t they? Think about it.
I guess the Enterprise’s timeline is a compound fracture by now, so who knows what and who may come down the slippery slope to offer wisdom from a cave.
HELL YESSSSS!
#22
Thanks for trolling! You are free to return to your Star Wars fanboy site and pull one off while drooling over George Lucas…..
@ 25
To me, she was just a plain bad actress, and terrible on Star Trek. You may see a presence on screen, but i don’t. Nor do a lot of people.
HELL NO.
Stay away, stay light years away from JJ’s Trek. This is new trek, time to throw away the TNG/Voyager garbage.
@9
Great idea! She could do voice over work as the next LCARS computer network! She need sto have a cameo in the next movie someting like Kirk coming back to life in the Prime Timeline and her heading back through the singularity that Spock created with him! Great idea since we’ve allready seen Kirk and Picard in a movie together! Now it could be Kirk, Kirk, And Janeway! (Awwwweeeessssooommmmeeee!!!!) The problem is Paramount might not be able to fund a movie this big with “now” high profile actors in it!
@All
Has anyone ever heard of Darker Projects.com’s Star Trek Audio Productions? They take place after Spock goes back in time and funny enough was writen and recorded before there was a thought of a JJ-Abrams Star Trek! If all the Captians go back in time in the movies this might work very well for both partys! Are you reading any of this Bob and Alex? JJ?
@37
“This is new trek, time to throw away the TNG/Voyager garbage.”
There wasn’t enough half-nudity and pointless action with flat villains there for your taste, ey?
I agree about a TNG era direct to DVD movie. Honestly, I’d like to see a proper send off to the TNG era characters. DS9’s finale was a good send off for those characters . . .
Voyager’s finale? Not so much. It showed us an alternate future for them, which, by the end of the episode had been erased. For two hours, we were given cause to care for their fates . . . and then those fates were erased and the closest thing to seeing any fate beyond that is a Janeway cameo.
TNG finale? Which one? All Good Things was an AWESOME ending, and a better movie than Generations, to be honest. (Too bad THAT couldn’t have been Star Trek VII — with Q’s time manipulations, Kirk could have STILL been a part of that movie to pass off the baton, and maybe HE could have gotten a better send off too!) But to end with Nemesis was unfortunate.
The direct to DVD market is hurting, though. Without some sort of network broadcast support, I doubt it would happen.
@26
That really would work because her voice has it’s simalaraties to Majel’s voice from ST:TMP! Kate Mulgrew as the new voice of the computer! Wonderful, briliant! Wonder if Paramount sniffs around on these sites or not? They should have a contest to let fans cast their vote for the next voice of the computer! Again Wonderful, briliant!
Another missed opportunity: making the Enterprise finale work as the send off for TNG.
Why, oh, why didn’t they make that episode be about Riker and Troi after Nemesis? Riker faces a NEW problem, gets his answer from the “last” mission of NX-01 . . .
Could’ve served as a backdoor pilot and pushed the narrative forward instead of stalling it out.
No.
Anyone calling Kate a “bad actress” (notice actress, not actor) is clueless, IMO. Maybe she should have worn a short skirt, or emphasized her boobs like Jeri Ryan did. Or thrown herself at every available male in the crew. Or been less strong, more vulnerable.
Cougar-phobia among Trek fans? Can it be, for such an “enlightened” group?
@39
Yes and the novels answered the life long question of wheter or not Sisko was dead. Good ending to TNG and DS9 but not TOS,VOY,and ENT.
TOS mainly because it never finished it’s originaly planed 5 season run and finished with a 30-minute kids cartoon.
YOY because the rush to get home was over rushed and stupid stuff was added in seasons 2-3 and again in season 6. It was still one of the best ST series but was over rushed at the end because Paramont wanted it off the air!
ENT was an awesome series untill the last episode. Trip Tucker should have NEVER died! Big mistake! The tie in to TNG was also a bad idea although it was interesting to see the Enterprise-D in CGI. Also this was the first time we saw the NCC-1701 Enterprise in CGI and it looked awesome as well. But Trip should have never died and Daniels should have made a cameo at the Federation Charter signing to show the audience he truly was a good guy since he was over looked in the series.
Over all DS9 had the best ending of all the series followed closely by TNG, starting and ending a series with Q!
I love Voyager, its the best in my opinion (although I know I’m in the minority)…but I’m not sure how that work getting the Janeway character in there, without more time travel or cheesy Janeway’s ancestor stuff. If you wanna see a VOY member, I say go for Robert Picardo. He’d be perfect for any role…
I find it incredible that, for a site dedicated to ST, so many people slag it off in one form or another, be it the new movie, ST Online, Voyager, Enterprise…And then the same folks, wonder why the franchise got left in the wilderness for so long… If these are the “fans” what chance does it have!!! Grow up, stop making throw away insults on the actors, the writters, the whole sha-bang.. Either ALLOW yourself to enjoy what you (I would have thought) were on the site to relish.. or go find another thing to be “fan boy” of.. and then pick at till it dies!
WOW
If there wasn’t years of Majel Roddenberry in the can as the computer voice, then I’d say she’s be great doing that, but I’d rather not see her in new Trek as Janeway. Someone else, maybe…
For me… I would love to see as many cameos in there as they want to muster.. yes to the shat, picard, janeaway.. whatever.. I have faith in the writters and team.. let them do their jobs.. and allow YOURSELVES to enjoy the results!
46 – THANK YOU!!! I couldn’t have said it better myself.
One major thing i loved about the new movie was that both captains could rightfully hold the rank of captain. they werent stand-ins with typical captain dialogue and mannerisms, they held their own. did you see how robau handled things when his ship was being attacked? i never saw any fear in that man’s eyes. and pike, what can i say about pike that hasnt already been said. in all the other movies and some of the series, i wondered how some of those men and women got to the rank of captain. its like starfleet was giving it away. captain styles…um wtf??? the captain of the grissom…such an idiot. janeway shouldve been written much better than she was and archer…ugh. dont add in a ship named enterprise that’s supposed to come before the ncc-1701 and then write a captain into the center seat that’s anything like him. if i ever see janeway again, someone please give her the weight she deserves. sisko got it right, picard got it right, and so did kirk obviously. and by the way, why ask for a role if you’ve never seen the movie? next tim russ will be on the “i want a cameo list”. if anything i’d only like to see tos actors (main cast or guest members) cameo, if that even.
Ok, the question I have is: HOW COULD SHE FIT IN?! We would all know her as Katherine Janeway, not some other captain. Unless of course she was Janeway’s Great Grandmother who was in Starfleet at this time. Still, I don’t think it would be right seeing Kate Mulgrew in this movie, especially set in an Alternate TOS era.
all that being said, i like janeway as the voice of the computer, and thats not a dig at her, i think that’d actually be cool.
The earliest work of Mulgrews I have seen was about 3 or 4 episodes of Mrs. Columbo. I don’t disrespect her as an actor, but I think that much of star trek had devolved into space/soap opera during and after TNG focusing on the interpolitics of people and races. The sense of exploration and the wonder of the unknown, the vastness of the universe and a palpable senes of danger were lost. I can’t care about the Bajorans or Cardassians. I can’t care about freed half Borg no matter how hot. I hate pinnochio the android and Dekker’s uncontrolled sexuality (which had become a joke) juxtaposed with his seeming impotence in the chain of command I found to be an annoying distractions. I found Voyager to be mostly annoying. I found DS9 to be the most boring and redundant. I watched it all and hated it all. Ditto with Enterprise.
#45
I may be in the same minority as you. My personal ranking of the spinoffs:
DS9
VOY
TNG
ENT
I’m not against the idea. She could be her own ancestor in JJ Trek!
why even talk about Mulgrew, the sequel must have Shat
TWO WORDS: Romulan Commander
54 – I haven’t seen all of DS9, but from what I’ve seen I enjoyed it a lot! I grew up with Voyager, so I could also be biased in that regard…
VOY
TNG/DS9
ENT
Star Trek: Lost In Space
Let’s keep it that way.
Unless, of course, we could get a Captain Proton feature film.
That would rock.
45 and 54, I too believe that VOY was a great show with great characters. Of course, I love all of the shows set in the 24th century and that era will always be my favorite.
My ranking of the spinoffs:
TNG
DS9
VOY
ENT
All are great shows that I’m proud to say that I have on DVD. People who bash VOY and ENT should go back and rewatch them on DVD. They will find that they are wrong, imo.
BTW, I recently picked up the new movie collections on DVD and there is an increase in quality when compared to the Special Edition DVDs which I assume can be attributed to the movies being upgraded for Blu-Ray. Further the new special features, especially the “Captain’s Summit” and the “Evolutions” bonus discs, make these sets a must own.
24. I’m sorry, but reading your post just reminded me of that so-called ending for Enterprise.
Mulgrew as the computer voice could work, it’s a minor part of the films.
This cast has been set up with Star Trek 2009, now they need to stand on their own without the help of any previous cast members, regardless of how much we trek fans love them, or how often they take the opportunity to brag about themselves. Yes, this means you, Mr.Shatner!
#51
Think outside the box, for all of the previous actors. They don’t need to play their character, or even a relative.There have been some very good actors involved in Trek, including Kate, that would do great work in minor character parts, different from what they have done. Some of us would love to see this alumni again, and would gladly accept them in any role.
53, I couldn’t disagree more. I believe that the inner politics of various races made Star Trek more realistic. Just look at real life news:
-U.S. Fears Iran Close to Having Nuclear Bomb
-Russia, China Drag Feet on UN Sanctions
-President Obama Wooing Overseas Allies
-President Obama Deciding on Proper Afghanistan Strategy
In short, politics, politics, politics. Politics is a part of our everyday life, especially the lives of those who work for the Federal government, whether that be the military, law enforcement, diplomats, etc. We may wish that it wasn’t the case that politics is everywhere, but the fact remains that politics plays a key part in everything that governments do. The Federation would be no different and Starfleet would also be dealing with politics a lot, as the military does. As a result, it was only appropriate to show this in the TV shows. Further, TOS dealt with interstellar politics in “Errand of Mercy,” “Balance of Terror,” “The Enterprise Incident,” among others. Indeed, my favorite Star Trek movie, “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” is my favorite because of the plot, which deals with the internal politics of both the Federation and the Klingon Empire and the attempt to broker peace between the two powers. A great film with a great plot.
She can’t be in the sequel! William Shatner is gonna be in the sequel!!!
Like #4 waaaaaaaay upthread, I await the return of the Sisko.
I don’t really hate Janeway–I hate how poorly she was written. One day she’s a female Picard, the next day she’s a transgalactic psychotic soccer mom with a bunch of wooden dimbulb subordinates. As someone noted on another blog, the only thing consistent about the writers’ portrayal of Janeway was her absolute inconsistency.
Ok. lets have both. lets get a Star Trek Tng – DS9 – Voyager Mini series on C.B.S and let them have a great and grand story. lets make it a 6 Hour Event and we can have all the tie ins and conclusions to the 24th century. What happens to the Cisco and the Domion war and We can see Riker Commanding his Ship and how B4 Comes about to be Data and Maybe See what happens after Spock is Chased by Nero through the Lightning Worm Hole. Thats What needs to happen.
if she lowers her voice and isnt following brandon and bragas writing I wouldn’t mind but how the hell would she fit into the parrale universe?
Bring Janeway!!!
Love her.
Why can’t people agree to disagree??
In my opinion Voyager was a great series, yes it had its ups and downs, but it was unique.
I don’t see why people are being so explicit about thier hatred for Voyager, seriously, ever heard of constructive criticism?
@61
Romulan commander would be a great idea for a role for Mulgrew in the new Star Trek, i think it would be too difficult to fit Janeway into the storyline this early.
The post-TOS hatred on this site is getting seriously annoying. I don’t want Mulgrew to cameo for cameo’s sake. I wasn’t overly fond of Voyager or Janeway, but the amount of people taking TNG era potshots at every opportunity is just absurd.
The hostility is completely unnecessary and misplaced. It’s very likely TNG got most of you into Trek in the first place. I’m not going to bother defending a series who’s success speaks for itself.
Star Trek’s universe expanded beyond it’s brilliant 1960’s beginning.
Deal with it.
@70
We saw what happened to Data’s transformation in the prequel comics! Read them!
No#2, Spock was chased by Nero and if they bring The Shat in the next movie chasing Spock after his resurection then they could show all this on screen in Star Trek 2! Khan needs to be the villan and give Janeway a cameo for crying out loud! If the story is like it should be in my head Kirk hijacks the newly built Enterprise-F and takes it into the black hole Spock created to find him. Since Janeway is an Admiral now she chases him into it in a ship that was designed for Star Trek Online since the game is considdered Canon. They end up on the other side and help new Kirk and Spock fight Khan since the New Kirk is incompatent and let Khan hijack the Enterprise! Wonderful story and it would be awesome, as long as no one important dies!(except Khan!)
#74. Yes I did read the Comics. But would be fun to see it happening and not just read about it.
#9: I think that’s a great idea for her to be the voice of the computer. Unfortunately with the passing of Majel Barrett Roddenberry, they wouldn’t be able to use her voice unless they (ironically) use a computer to simulate her voice. But Kate Mulgrew would be a great choice in my opinion to do that.
Otherwise, Janeway as a character was alright. Lost the ship wayyy to many times.
@75
Ok I understand! I still think Shat needs to be in it as well as Khan! Khaannnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loved the character, hated the actress. Although her character in Dragonage sounds good.
Kate Mulgrew is great actress.
Janeway is my favorite captain, and Voyager my favorite star trek show.
JJ Abrams should get Janeway in the next star trek movie.
@75
Also, if anyone deserves a cameo in the next film(besides Shatner) I Scott Bakula! Scotty killed Porthos so I don’t see why not! The LCARS screen in “In A Mirror Darkly, Part 2″ doesn’t matter any more since this is a new timeline, let him live and give him a cameo too! Heck give every Trek Captian a cameo in the next film an d we have nothing to argue about! LOL! Here’s another idea, I’ve not seen the movie yet so no spoilers to me PLEASE!, but the New emEnterprise could take Spock back home and bring the Captians in that way! Again, not seen the movie and WILL see it on November 17 so please no spoilers untill after I see it, just had that idea if Spock don’t die! (hope he don’t!)
I could stand her to be in it if she brought her friend “Q” along for the ride.
If she’s a Starfleet Captain I’m Donald Duck.
^83
She’s more a captain than that jerk NuKirk.
@82
At some point in the JJ-verse they will have to introduce The Borg and Q. It will be very interesting to see Q in a movie because he has infanite knowledge of both universes so he could tie it together very well. On the other hand John “whatever his name is” says he’s sick and tired of Q and wishes it was all over. Never the less I don’t think he’d turn down a movie offer this big!
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!! she was one captain that could kick some borg but!
MORE JANEWAY!!! PLEASE, LET THERE BE A VOYAGER MOVIE!!!
They should bring her back as Kahn in the next movie…
Somebody please tell Mulgrew that the Star Trek reboot is NOT the Love Boat with guest appearances by washed up actors looking for a little scratch to make a house payment.
YESSSSSSSSSSSS Put in the Janeway! That’s one kick ass captain!
ouch 89, ha…
@89
That’s not true. Look cameo apperances are the best thing in the world of movies! Deal with it an suck it up that you only like Spike Lee fi where the actors are always diffrent!
@all
Did I hear this corectly or wrong but I heard the Leonard Nimoy got a cameo in Transformers 3! Someone please confirm but he would be a great autobot! They need to have “Weird Al” Yankovic be in a role in Transformers 3 as well! He can act better than the SpongeBob guy even though he is only in one movie (UHF) and 2 TV series ( The Weird Al Show, Thansformers Animated)! Sorry for off topic stuff but this is bugging me!
They can do a Star Trek crossover with Voyager and the new cast for the squal to bridge the gap between the two universe to show the fans that there is still the orignal universe that is going on
She’ll always be Mary Ryan to me. lol.
Kate Mulgrew could play an ancestor of Janeway like Brent Spiner did on Enterprise as Soong and Michael Dorn did as Worf’s grandfather in STVI. While I know there are many fans who hated Voyager, I grew up with it so I have a different view of it and actually enjoyed it. DS9 was a little too grown up for me especially with the whole war arc, though I do appreciate it more as an adult. It would be cool if they could do a miniseries featuring VOY, DS9, and TNG, possibly incorporating things from the books.
Voyager should do Direct to DVD movies. I think they would do well.
It could do no harm, all things considered.
#95 – You and I have very similar points of view, and similar backgrounds. I grew up with Voyager, and similarly I didn’t understand what was going on in DS9 as a 2nd grader :) I remember thinking: This can’t be Star Trek! They’re in some weird station and there’s a BAR! But anyway, I think Kate Mulgrew was actually a great actress, but she was given some poor writing on Voyager, and it’s really a shame. Conversely, there was some great drama given to Janeway, and I think she was strong and fitting as the first major woman captain. I would love to see her in XII, although I’m not sure how they would incorporate such a thing.
Mrs Mulgrew is a fine actress, but I don’t think there is any wa they would be able to have her in the film. If they were to put her in a TOS film and not Shatner I’d be a little upset :)
Kate Mulgrew the actress in the next Trek? Hells yeah!
Kate Janeway the character in the next Trek? Errr… not so much.
I read somewhere she got so frustrated with the different Voyager writers’ takes on her character she decided that Janeway was bipolar…
You know what? Screw it, can we just have Tim Curry as the Big Bad in the next Trek?
Tell me with a straight face that Tim Curry as an evil ANYTHING (Klingon, Romulan, Andorian, Cardassian, whatever) wouldn’t be awesome.
#88….Madelyn Khan?
Dear Janeway,
EFF NO!
Tim Curry as an evil ANYTHING (Klingon, Romulan, Andorian, Cardassian, whatever) wouldn’t be awesome.
I wouldn’t mind a good psycho turn from Gary Oldman or the oft-mentioned Javier Bardem.
You want a truly mean Klingon? Don Rickles (*snicker*).
They should have her and Picard rescue Spock from the past.
@104: Oh come on! Shatner’s not going to be in the movie, and I have all this scenery lying around. It’s not going to chew itself, you know…
I like her. The comment above suggesting that she be the new computer voice is a good one.
CarlG
I enjoy Curry’s work. You walked into that one, so I had to oblige.
NO singing, though.
The difference between Mulgrew and Shatner is that no one really cares if Mulgrew is in the movie, and she brings nothing to the table. Janeway was arguably the biggest villain in Trek history, well, until Nero came along.
And it’s arguable Janeway doesn’t even exist anymore thanks to Nero.
What about John Cleese as a Starfleet Admiral?
as long as its not written by brandon and braga Im all for it, and for those who dont know why im so inisistant on this have a look at this review
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCKXTOaZmx0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsaucfx8lxI
it did have its good points though look at “the thaw”
With all respect to Henry Blake’s Plane, one word: YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Computer voice, maybe.
Anything else?? Hell no, they crossed the “Tipping the Hat to Inferior Series” barrier when they mentioned Archer’s beagle.
p.s. no shatner either. its not that i dislike him or what heams done for trek but it feels like he’d only be put in for those whining for it. and unless he goes to marine boot camp, shatner will only be a shadow of the bill we loved as captain kirk. even the most devoted fanboys know that deep down. he went out with class in trek vi…then screwed it all up with generations. jj is moving forward, no more prime universe stuff after trek 09
@109
How about have Scott Bakula as “Angry” Admiral Archer who is plotting revenge on Scotty for killing Porthos! Poor Porthos! I bet he misses those nights in sickbay!
Or how about Antonio Banderas as The New Khan? An interesting take on it.
The Shat has to be on ST:XII and when he comes back to life and hijacks the new Enterprise-F and Janeway follows him they end up in this new timeline looking for Spock! Khan needs to be the villan and needs to beat up Chris Pin’es sorry little…well you get the picture! If Kork comes back he must live and not die! In a Generations alternate ending he doesn’t die but they never explain on screen what happens to him but if he had lived it most likely would have in First Contact!
Bring The Shat BACK!!!!!
Can you add both Shatner and Mulgrew?
I love Janeway and I’m not afraid to say so!
Janeway is awesome and Mulgrew is too!!!!!!!!!!
“I’ll say this for her, she’s controversial!”
If there is any Star Trek captain that can go anywhere is “The Sisko.” Since he is in the wormhole with the Prophets, he can travel anywhere and anytime.
How about we just focus on the new actors. Star Trek isn’t the effing Love Boat.
@109: “This tribble is no more! He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! This is an EX-TRIBBLE!”
… And you walked right into that one. :D
@109
Also I’d like to see Admiral Archer riddin around in his new power chair from the scooter store! Wonder if the scooter store exists in the 23rd century?The world may never know, or care!
Unlikely, unless she is playing a different unrelated character. And that would be totally fine; Star Trek has a tradition of using the same actor in multiple roles (Jeff Combs probably being the best example).
The whole point of the first JJ Abrams Star Trek was to reset the universe and bring the main characters together again, for the very first time. The purpose of the reset was to NOT be constrained by Star Trek’s past and move it forward. Every time I hear about putting a character from the “prime” universe into the “reset” universe, I have to think NO (don’t do it). Spock Prime was necessary as a bridge between the past Trek and future Trek. And it is certainly fine to use the same characters as they exist in the “reset” universe, where Janeway and Picard will not be born for generations.
I hope JJ Abrams and his talented team create new original stories that honor Star Trek’s past, but do not rely on it.
NOTHING disturbed me more than seeing Janeway be an admiral in that movie, when Picard was still a captain. SHE LOST HER SHIP FOR YEARS IN THE DELTA QUADRANT. Kirk or Picard would have had it back to Earth in a few days. I don’t know, I thought that was brutal. Let’s reward her by promoting her to a higher rank than Picard?? I don’t need to list his accomplishments. I just thought that was stupid. I would much rather see other Star Trek alumni in the sequel if any cameos are to be made.
Well, I think she would make a great enterprise computer voice. And I say it seriously. It would be a nice way to keep Majel’s legacy to have a beloved Star Trek actress doing it.
125,
Picard was offered a promotion on a dozen occasions, but he chose to reject it, much like Riker with the captaincy. Some people just don’t want to be promoted.
Personally, I grew up on Voyager and wouldn’t mind a Janeway cameo. Consider this: each new generation has its Star Trek. I still have a hard time stomaching TOS. TNG, DS9, and VOY are where I reside. I can’t stand ENT, but I know people younger than me who like it.
For those of you who say “it’s not Star Trek.” Too bad, it is. That goes for Voyager and 2009.
I love Janeway and Kate Mulgrew. Voyager is my favorite series of trek!!
I don’t see a place for Janeway in Abrams Trek, but I’m certainly down to see her bring back the character in the future.
Voyager was an excellent show, I never understood the “hate” that it received.
The Millenium gate?
Shatner has a better chance.
Don’t put shatner in the movie. Don’t put Mulgrew in the movie. We don’t want Picard or Sisko, or Archer. They all sucked. Enterprise sucked. TNG sucked. Voyager wasn’t true star trek. Blah Blah Blah. You people are just too picky for your own good. Let me tell you something. Star Trek was created and maintained by people that were willing to keep an open mind. And from all the comments being made here, it’s plain to see that your minds are anything but open. In fact, I doubt you even have a mind. And until you get one, get a life.
#132
It would appear you are the one lacking an open mind. Please refrain from using “We” – as in “We don’t want … “. I don’t believe you were appointed to speak for the rest of us.
Regards.
I have to add my voice to those wondering why there seems to be so much hatred for anything/anyone not tos related-grow up- mulgrew is a wonderful actress and janeway an awesome trek captain-she had to put up with some uneven writing for her character and had to spout more than her share of technobabble yet still made this woman captain a caring yet disciplined character who would and did do anything for her family of crewmembers to take care of them and bring them home-she did kick a lotta ass on the way as well especially Borg! And her being a woman captain has also inspired many girls/women as well that they can be leaders/scientists-whatever they want-However i would only want to see her in a new jjverse trek if she was part of the story ditto for shatner-cameos for cameos sake–no point to that cept a nod to trek fans-then again so many here seem to hate her-you all remember idic-tolerance for different views and peoples-u haters seem so one dimensional whether its hating modern klingons or janeway or bakula or braga etc…it is all trek-no series has been perfect-nor will it ever be-there is something good in every series to embrace as fans-i also agree its ok to have constructive criticism about aspects of any series or movie to discuss but just unreasoning hatred is most illogical-we all seem pretty pathetic in our support of our fave franchise with all this hatred/in-fighting all the time…
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But wait…. what if there was a rift in space time… New Kirk & Spock, Spock Prime, Old Kirk, Sisko, Janeway & Picard all have to battle it out against Harlen Ellison, Brannon Braga, and Rick Berman….
She appeared in Nemesis. Quark in Insurrection (but they left him on the cutting room floor).
Actually, I’d campaign tirelessly to get Scott Bakula’s Archer face-time in the next one.
With respect to all the other trek characters there is no big demand for their return as there is for the original crew.
The interaction between the original characters is one of the great things about trek. Later series the interaction was bare. In fact seeing data develop was almost the only character journey, everyone else remained the same and not much tension.
So most of the interest came from external sources such as the Borg.
Not saying these actors were bad and certainly i’m sure they would be fine in any proper context but there will never be trekkies lining up demanding they be resurrected.
Not that i thought CM was too serious.
They should of had her and Picard in the Spcok Prime flash-forward sequence. Would of tied the Next Gen world to the new movie nicely.
No.
Can’t we just move along with the new cast & crew (old made new again) and leave off all the guest/wanna be back in trek characters & people?
I have a lot of respect for the varied actors & actresses that made appearances in the various Trek Shows…but please! I mean if you’re going to do that, why bother re-booting at all. Why not gather everyone from Voyager, DS9, TNG & whatever geriatric cases remain from TOS and put them in something all together.
Now think about it.
It sounds off putting, right?
Just leave well enough alone.
@ 140: “Why not gather everyone from Voyager, DS9, TNG & whatever geriatric cases remain from TOS and put them in something all together.”
Last time I checked, someone already did that. Not all of them, though. (OGAM)
At topic, though, I won’t mind any actor cameos. As the ancestor of their respective characters, I’m fine with that. That’ll be enough reason for me to actually go see the film. (Mulgrew as computer voice? …For some reason, her voice bugs me. That’ll be amusing. THAT would be worth the 300PHP to see the film.)
Character cameos are something else. I’ve had damn enough of time travel.
PS: I also don’t see the hate for Voyager… And the love for DS9.
(Then again, I never really saw DS9 – there’s nothing there for me to see, except for some archive footage that I’ve already memorized)
Please sweet jesus no!!!!
“Well isn’t it a perfect metaphor for life? First of all, mortality is an encapsulating thing; we are all in a ship of some kind. I mean, we’re all caught, aren’t we, in time or timelessness if you wish, and we are lost. All we have is each other, and the transcendence of time, race, creed, species, gender, all of it, I think that it’s probably the most advanced way of looking at the physical world, and that was Roddenberry’s extraordinary prescience. He understood that we know nothing, and to put these people in space, let alone an uncharted quadrant of space was a brilliant concept, a way of letting go of the mortal coil, and the slings and arrows of the world that really have no bearing at all on our souls. So it’s an exploration of the soul, isn’t it?”
How much rubbish do actors talk? Oooh, and lets stick in a few words we learned on our last script to appear intelligent. “We’re all in the same boat” would have sufficed. And no mention of Sisko. Ouch!
Would love to see more Janeway.
hahaahahahahahahahah , i mean really who does she think she is ? william shatner ?
@137
Yes! Bill Shatner and Scott Bakula need cameos even if Kate Mulgrew does not! Refrences to both of them in the new movie and I really want to see Scott Bakula ridding around in him new hovercraft from the scooter store!
@125
Janeway deserved a promotion! Hello? Does stuck in the delta quadrant for 7 years mean anything to you? She deserved it and I always love that part in Nemesis because it’s the only part besides the end that has any heart. The best part in the movie is Data singing “Blue Skies” just because he sounds just like he did in the tv series trying to sing with just a little more emotion!(emotion chip) Picard was offered promotion dozens of time in the tv series and I know he didn’t take it in the movies because Kirk told him not to! Smart idea! The fact is you don’t have any clue what your talking about and need a good ST history lesson before you male such a comment!
Is their a prime universe Trek alum that isn’t salivating about being the sequel?
No! No! No!
Lando and Jeyl:
You guys are funny…and a welcome relief to all the other thoughful and constructive comments posted here. Your blunt and rigid comments are refreshing.
To paraphrase Admiral Kirk…I say this for you, you’re consistent.
Harry Prime LOL
The only tie in to another series I want to see at all is Jolene Blalock as T’Pring. I loved DS9 and TNG, really liked ENT, can barely stomach Voyager; the fact is it is time to move forward. There’s a whole new universe to boldly step out into. I am ready for the new adventure. It’s not hate of what has gone before that makes me say this- it’s hunger for more.
I love Captain Janeway. Be cool to have her in it
I think it would be great for Kate to be in the next or any future Trek. I don’t get all the negativity about this.
@147: I’m ashamed I had to read that twice before I got it. LOL!
Regardless of whether or not she should be in the next film, her comments above are some of the most thought-provoking and accurate descriptions of what Trek really is, and should be. Major props to you, Kate!
#153…
I wholeheartedly agree. And someone posted earlier that Ms. Mulgrew is a great ambassador of Trek…I also agree with that.
Although, I will agree that Voyager was probably the weakest of the series (but an excellent concept), I found the character of Janeway quite compelling in many episodes. Personally, I enjoyed seeing a strong woman in command. And let’s not forget, she was a last minute replacement for Genevieve Bujold…who got all high and mighty and stormed off during the making of the pilot. Personally, I think Ms. Mulgrew made a fine Captain on the series…despite it’s downfall into the dreaded “multiple holodeck malfunctions”. LOL However, “Year of Hell” still maintains it’s status as some of the best Trek and sci fi in general ever produced. Just my opinion, of course.
No Janeway, thanks. Mulgrew is a fine actress, let’s just stick to characters already invented for the original series, if we’re going to bring back anyone.
She might make a good computer voice, though.
JANEWAY IN THE NEXT STAR TREK MOVIE WOULD BE NICE BUT PROBABLY NOT PROBIBLE. JANEWAY PICARD AND SISCO IN A SEPERATE STAR TREK MOVIE WOULD BE AWSOME!!! OUT OF THOSE 3 CAPTAINS, I THINK EVERY ONE LIKES AT LEAST ONE… I LIKE ALL! BUT AT LEAST I WOULD HAVE TO HEAR ALL THE BULL SHIT ABOUT WHICH ONE IS BETTER FROM ALL THE FREEKS WHO POST ON HERE!
Kate’s a fine actress…too bad she was in the worst Trek series ever. By the second season, I was so bored that I didn’t care if they got back to the alpha quadrant…
I LOVE JANEWAY! Absolutely they should bring her and Picard somehow into the sequel! Janeway rocked as a captain… and Kate Mulgrew is a lovely woman. She’s so good to us fans!
The more cameos from big-name Hollywood actors in the sequel, the better.
Since everyone is shouting . . .
KHHHAAAAANNNNNNNN!
Yes please more Janeway she was the best Captian ever. You guys are just being sexiest…..
#68 Yes I hear he is playing Captain Janeway.
At least one cameo by a recognisable Hollywood actor per scene in the sequel. For example, in The Dark Knight, William Fichtner was in the opening scene and Michael Jai White later appeared in two scenes. The sequel should adopt this approach but on a larger scale.
Actually, they should just follow the example set by Robert Altman with The Player. Around sixty big Hollywood names made cameo appearances in that film.
But Trek only really has two maybe three Big Names. I’d say Shatner, Stewart and Nimoy are the only names/faces that would mean anything to people that aren’t particular Trek fans.
No way!! If Mulgrew / Janeway is in it in any way, I swear I will not go see it. She was the WORST “captain” ever, in the WORST Trek series ever.
I’m no huge fan of Voyager or Janeway, but that’s in no way Kate Mulgrew’s fault; her acting was splendid!
That being said, I think if this re-boot is going to go anywhere, it needs to cut the umbilical cord with the original Star Trek universe, meaning as few references to the alternate future as possible, and certainly no scenes from there. As such, if Kate Mulgrew is to have any place in Star Trek XII, she’ll have to be virtually unrecognizable (like Ethan Phillips was in “Star Trek: First Contact”… …except kind of the other way around, make-up-wise).
I remember when TNG was coming out in 1987
The editor for Starlog did a piece about the TOS fans not being accepting of the new crew before they even saw it.
I recall him saying that ST was going to be back on TV every week.
He said he was going to embrace it.
So did I and millions of others.
I remember being at a Convention in 1987/88.
There were Tshirts everywhere saying: Trek Classic: Who needs a new generation? It was a play on the Coca Cola issue going on at the time.
Its funny after 20 years we are all doing the same thing on blogs instead of tshirts
I was able to purchase a 1701D at that convention. People were everywhere either asking me if they could buy it or snort derisively as they walked by me.
TOS made some dog episodes and movies
So did TNG
DS9 and Voyager made some dogs and did some excellent Star Trek episodes
But I have embraced all of the “Treks” that have come along.
I encourage all to do the same.
I would love to see Janeway,Sisko,Picard,Kirk Prime in a new Trek.
IF IT WAS PERTINENT TO THE STORY!
Here’s a thought that NO ONE has thrown around yet:
Kate Mulgrew as ‘Number One’!
Re-United with Admiral Pike as a teacher/Commodore/whatever!
Knockout two birds with one stone. Mulgrew had the chops to play a strong female in command of HER ship, Number One was NUMBER ONE…smart strong, and loyal.
Why not?
We may even get her a canonical name
*COUGH* *COUGH* Commodore M. Barrett *COUGH* *COUGH*
The best part of that would be that she wouldn’t NECESSARILY have to be Janeway’s ‘ancestor’ just because it is Kate Mulgrew in the part…
Knowing the new movies take place in the past (of another universe) wouldn’t JJ have to put Shatner in before even considering Janeway or Picard?????
she ist nice!
I don’t mind the idea of Picard and Janeway working together. Maybe they can un-screw this screwed up time line.
Just keep JJ Abrams and his hacks away from it!
Loved Janeway, love Kate Mulgrew. I just love listening to her speak. Always has interesting things to say and she is clearly a very well-educated and most talented woman. I’d love to see her put on Janeway again.
# 173:
I just wanted to write the exact opposite…
There should be some kind of restraining order to keep Janeway away from any kind of ‘Star Trek’ product, Picard had four shots at the silver screen and messed up three of them big time (we can give him credits for ‘First Contact’) and B&B… well, I can’t the right words to express my disgust for what they did to the franchise.
Go J.J. and Gang! It can’t get worse than the 1990s and early 2000s!
Lando, Lord Ravenwood and Jeyl:
You guys are funny…and a welcome relief to all the other thoughful and constructive comments posted here. Your blunt and rigid comments are refreshing.
To paraphrase Admiral Kirk…I’ll say this for you, you’re consistent.
There are comments about TOS people hating TNG unfairly. As one of the people who watched TOS, loved it, then watched ALL the episodes of TNG (and enjoyed it though some things I found annoying) and then watched pretty much almost all episodes of Voyager, DS9, and Enterprise, I think I can fairly comment on a decline in the mystery, sense of the unknown, and palpable sense of danger in the later series. I really feel let down by DS9. It was sold as a potentially darker type of story on an alien base. I pictured something like Forbidden Planet or Myst, or Stargate Atlantis (premise only) or dare I say Lost. Instead you get something that focuses on a base station with no mystery, weak stories of spiritualism and worm holes, and family dynamics– but not different enough from TNG to stand on it’s own so they keep tweaking it (add a ship that doesn’t look very Star Fleet, do cross overs to other series, make them defend the wormhole from invasion). Then you have Voyager where you expect something more like Battlestar Galactica or Lost in Space and you get instead another world with all the same types of politics and people dealing with their flaws you get on TNG and DS9, just a new series of villains who don’t have anything novel and but for slightly different prosthetics and caste systems could be any of the other villians you already have met. All the series look too much the same, although TNG with it’s own groove and chemistry, better stories, much more variety of stories (like TOS) and less of a continuous focus on politics remains enjoyable. Finally, you get Enterprise which falls into the same rut of political intrigue just with time travel added and you have destroyed a viable franchise in such a way that a JJ Abrahms has to come along and make an action film to get anybody excited about it again. So now you want to bring the people (like Janeway) back whose stories were not compelling enough to justify a continuation of a TV franchises and throw them into the 2nd film and waste valuable screen time for them to make cutsie cameos that will make mainstream audiences hurl (great, Star Trek’s getting inbred again. I didn’t watch the TV because of this nonsense!). And you think that to state these thoughts is somehow blind hatred of all things TNG rather than a reasoned arguement?
Well said Denny Cranium!
Bring back all the Captains in the next movie. Since Sisko is in the nether world of the Prophets, he can bring Kirk into the same timeline as the others, and they can all duke it out in glorious combat against the Klingons!
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Well, I’m glad SOMEBODY got it! :>)
Janeway in the next movie-YES, YES, YES, YES, YES,, YES, YES, YES, YES-In fact, have Picard, Sisko, and Janeway in the next film!! Keep the TNG/DS9/VOYAGER/TITAN era(Yes, I add Titan in it), and junk going always back to TOS. I’m mean, come on here-BEEN THERE, DONE THAT!!!
#180—”Keep the TNG/DS9/VOYAGER/TITAN era(Yes, I add Titan in it)…”
And never get another dime from me…
“… and junk going always back to TOS. I’m mean, come on here-BEEN THERE, DONE THAT!!!”
Always going back to TOS? I waited 22 years for Trek to return to where it was best….sexy, romantic, funny, with fantastic characters, and unafraid of a good old fashioned fistfight!
Now you want to send it back to…what? Boring….If it doesn’t have Kirk, Spock, and McCoy—-what’s the point?
I’ll take my Trek right where it is….
As many have stated: Star Trek is not “The Love Boat”. However, many of you obviously want it to be “Fantasy Island”.
Proof
1. Bring back Khan, Mr. Rork?
2. Put Shatner in the movie (He’s playing everyone, he’s done with Kirk)
3. Put Capt Janeway or Mulgraw anywhere in the sequel. JJ would have to be insane.
You would have to be on Fantasy Island for any of these events to occur.
Wait till she finds out her character was wiped outth the timeline, there won’t be Tuvok in the future due to Vulcan being destroyed.
Attn: Harry Ballz: We could have Erica Durance play Janeway’s great grandmother. huh huh
#183 OMG I never thought about Tuvok not even existing. Good thing he’s got a gig with Nickelodeon on iCarly.
The Prime Timeline was wiped out, don’t let the writers or the director tell you otherwise, they are just saying it still exists to quiet the older fanbase.
My vote is for Janeway as the sassy computer voice somewhere (perhaps NOT on the Enterprise)
Of course if someone wanted to be in my sequel movie, and I was the Director/Producer, I would have wanted then to at least be interested enough to check out my first work.
But perhaps Hollywood doesn’t work that way?
When Shatner and Nimoy did that vid “Captain’s Summit”with Stewart and Frakes- I thought it was TERRIBLY obnoxious of Shatner to tell Stewart that he was a good friend, but that he’d never watched ANY Next Gen.
Talk about Hubris. (and I like Shatner)
@169: Kate Mulgrew as Number One… That’s actually kind of awesome.
Can her middle name be Columbo? :D
With all due respect to Mulgrew, her portrayal of Janeway as a condescending, pompous, holier-than-thou captain left something to be desired. That and the painfully slow story-lines made most Voyager episodes unwatchable.
Animainiacs got it right when they spoofed Voyager with a space ship that looked like a flat-iron with warp nacelles attached.
189# I thought of her as completely the opposite, I found her humble and full of comasssion. Maybe you just have a problem with stong female type characters, especially as one who’s a captian.
I do think she would make a good computer voice since Majal can no longer provide that.
Wow all the negativity towards VOY is amazing.
I have enjoyed Trek since TOS, they are all good in their own right but the weakest one in my opinion was DS9.
If they want Janeway I would say go ahead and make a TNG/VOY movie but otherwise leave TNG/DS9/VOY characters out of TOS, we dont need anymore timeline/time travel movies, if it was so easy to move in time they’d have done it every chance they got to correct mistakes.
TOS can have some ENT references but leave the future series to themselves.
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Lore, only if they cast her as a Vulcan! That way she won’t have to express emotions!
Nah! Still too much of a challenge for Ms. Durance! I was going to jokingly suggest that she play a Horta, but I honestly think the rock they used in the 1960’s episode was a better actor than her! Yikes!
Some people nastiness toward Voyager is bordering on the ridiculous. Voyager was every bit as good as any of the Trek series. Every one of them had great characters and every one of them had both GREAT episodes, good episodes and AWFUL episodes.
I’d love to see Janeway in a movie. I loved the character and Kate’s portrayal of her.
Voyager was a seven year colossal BORE !!! Janeway and the rest of the crew were nothing but cardboard characters. PLEASE STOP DEFENDING THIS TERRIBLE SHOW PEOPLE !!!
Kate Mulgrew is a racist in real life !!!
tman 176 actually your comments are fine, they are reasoned thought out opinions based on your enjoyment of the various shows….You dont HATE janeway or Voyager and are commenting more deeply other than yelling No JANEWAY that series sucked or she was terrible etc…There are just sooo many comments on here that are not really opinions just unreasoning dislike/hatred, kinda like mentioned above when tng was coming out they had anti tng or new slogan and basically cut down everything that wasnt tos. Its like that that we call unreasoning hatred….you and all of us have our own all valid opinions on the various shows..nothin wrong with that at all
Also based on all the opinions flying about half seem to like/love janeway and voyager about 15 percent mixed the rest seem to dislike…
Give Ms. Mulgrew a piece of the action;as capt. Janeway’s great grandmother, or some totally unrelated character.
Wow I never thought of it that way! Tuvok won’t exist in the JJ-verse and the Maquis probably won’t either! And if they don’t then Voyager don’t go into the Delta Quadrant and now I’m starting to think JJ messed it up! Now sometime in the future, without Vulcan logic to help us, we will all be assimalated by the Borg if no one ever contacts them! Also since “ST: Enterprise” is canon in both timelines and the Borg sent that message out then they will arive in a alternat TNG era and the Federation will be assimalated! JJ needs to do a movie with Janeway in it, not the next one but mabye the 4th, where she helps them destroy the Borg and defend the Federation! Scarry thoughts! As far as Sisko haveing control of time and space I can see him in a Cameo but only seen in a background like R2-D2. (mabye a wormhole opening up and closeing real quick with a shot of Sisko’s head pearing up out of it. Kirk needs to go after Spock after he’s resurected by the Gama Wave from the star going nova! And have Khan the villan because he needs to test Kirk!
The plot of the new movie needs to be about Kirk troubled by the fact that he is not his original self of what he could be. This is where Kirk Prime needs to aid him in combat against Khan and in this case since New Kirk is even more erational that Old Kirk he would probably kill Khan or have him tried and prosocuted! It sure is nice to think of the Pros and Cons of Star Trek!
When are people like Kate going to try to get work other than ST? You did your thing. I want fresh faces not recycled stars from every past ST series.
GOD YES! Keep Mulgrew a part Star Trek. She is a wonderful actress and Janeway is a wonderful character. Can you guess I loved Voyager?
#46 & 131 you could not say it better. Youu rest out there sound like the outdated wingnuts that hated Majel as capt Pike’s no 1 in Treks TOS pilot! I see Janeway being treated the same way! Strong female figures are. Apart of an advanced. Enlightened educated culture. O the 50s sre history! Got that. Concerning all she had to deal with in an unknown quadyant, with no starfleet backup & total isolation. She brought the ship & crew back home. For the most oart in one piece. Not to mention textbookaa of info. Fromm the virtualy unknown quadrant. I say admiral Janewsy definitely! Rememeber. Picsrd. Twice turned down an admiral promotion. As dor her in new trek why not! But as her gradma please! No time travel. Make her strong and a bit differant though solid starfleet and a Janeway. I thought her as a good role model for all women &girls
@ 203:
that’s why she should be that strong female character as Number One…seriously.
and thanx 188. CarlG
JJ Abrams would have to be insane to give her a part???
Who is writing that stuff? it’s ridiculous!
Every actor who participated in Star Trek had thorough auditions before being cast. And Kate Mulgrew is a great actress so stop being so negative
@195, 196
wow…seriously grow up
I still think Mulgrew as a Romulan commander in the new Trek movie would be great
201. No Khan – October 30, 2009
When are people like Kate going to try to get work other than ST? You did your thing. I want fresh faces not recycled stars from every past ST series.
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THIS.
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No more Star Trek alumni. As 201 stated, they have done their thing and played there part. I want new crops of actors to take over the roles, bringing in past actors who have been apart of the star trek franchise is so stale and old, which goes against the whole premise of these new movies. No Shatner, no Mulgrew, no Stewert. New generation of movies, new faces.
(stewart)
@ 201 is right
Bringing back Star Trek alumni adds something special for longtime fans.
Its good to have fresh faces for the main cast but having cameos by previous cast members makes the movie special.
And by the way, Kate Mulgrew has done several other projects since Star Trek, in theatre and television
I would love to see a cameo from the amiable Kate Mulgrew!
@208
You have to be out of your mind if you don’t want The Shat! Or Khan!
Oh and by the way who believes The Shat’s talk about not watching TNG or Star Trek 09? I don’t! It’s a publicity stunt and all of you who said he’s not good friends with Patrick Stewart is wrong! Stewart said himself at Dragon-Con that he has a personal friendship with Shatner! If both are saying it it’s true! That’s like saying that Santa says he likes his elfs but the elfs don’t like Santa! (No I’m not meaning to say The Shat is Da’Fat!) So deal with it and embraceore cameos in Star Trek 2 because they will happen in some form, either C3PO or Bill Shatner but there will be a cameo! (oh did anyone see R2-D2 in Transformers 2? I did and it was hillarious!
Hard to believe most of you people even consider yourselves Fans of Star Trek! This commentary is more negative than the Anti-matter Universe for Pete’s sake! And Kate Mulgrew is a wonderful actress and one of the best Starfleet Captains ever!
at 212 if you like narcissistic Mary Sues. I lost hope half way through the 3nd season when Voyager became the Captain Janeway Show. I am still surprised that they bothered to acutally use the rest of the cast.
FYI I started watching the show way way way back. With the original series. I have watched every offering of Star Trek. She was the worse written character. and set back the hopes for a decent female captain. The part that utterly killed it for me was the introduction of Captain Janeway’s holodeck boyfriend the equivalent of a vibrator I will point out. And before you flame me for this post. I am not being negative on Kate Mulgrew. I happen to love her as an actress and find her extremely talented. I just had more hope for the first female captain.
Hard to believe most of you people even consider yourselves Fans of Star Trek! This commentary is more negative than the Anti-matter Universe for Pete’s sake! And Kate Mulgrew is a wonderful actress and one of the best Starfleet Captains ever!
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We are Star Trek fans but its grown stale and old. Star Trek in its prime was about exploration of the new and the different. I would like to see something that is not old rehashed plots, actors, villians, etc.
This idea of Janeway’s return is best left forgotten.
I believe the people who don’t like Kate as a captain are shovanists!
Pip did you mean chauvinist? That would imply that I dislike her based on herself or her sex? I have stated no to the first and it would just be silly to be nasty about someone that shares the same sex with me. Now wouldn’t it?
The majority of us that do not like the idea of Janeway’s return has nothing to do with Kate Mulgrew. It has everything to do with the lack of quality in the character of Janeway as well as the desire to see something new. Captain’s are not superheros they are people with needs, flaws, quirks. I, my self enjoy the flaws in a character it promotes excellent character development and growth. It makes the story more interesting. Janeway’s story became boring.
176- I disagree entirely, but your statement is well written and you have obviously thought about what you feel instead of just yelling.
And thank you for not accusing people of disliking Janeway because she’s a woman. I spent seven years hoping Kira would take over DS9. I didn’t like the character of Janeway because I found her inconsistently written. I didn’t like Voyager because:
1) Star Trek is about going out there, not desperately trying to get back.
2) Formulaic scripts, to the point you can take any episode from season 2 on, and count on your watch when the will suddenly find the answer to their problem. The solution will usually occur during the last commercial break so you can come back for a short coda showing how everything will then go back to normal.
3). Those solutions usually relied on technology not people.
There are episodes I enjoy, usually ones that don’t fall into these categories. It had nothing to do with the gender of the Captain- she was just a bad character. This is of course subjective to my own enjoyment. Pip and others don’t know me- saying I’m a sexist because I don’t like Janeway with no other evidence is like saying I am anti-Caprican because I didn’t like Helo on BSG. I just didn’t like the character. Oh, and it is spelled “chauvinist” just to help you with future name calling.
Jolene Blalock as T’Pring!
@218 Brilliant post. And I loved Kira. She was unique and well written and a very good kicker of ASS.
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Before her passing Majel recorded a veritable library of voice clips as the computer. She knew she was dying and this was a way to still be involved and remembered. Have no fear, Majel will continue to voice the computer in future incarnations.
I’ve always thought (as a kid I planned a “where no man…” era prequel in my head, thinking maybe the orig actors could be made to appear younger) the only really interesting cameo would be Guinan… a young Spock encountering her in a starbase bar…
I thought Sisko and Picard grew as characters, Janeway didn’t seem to learn much during those 7 years. Too me, the finale — they get home because future Janeway went back in time to hit the rest button — really weakened the character for me. No cameos for a while.
Oh, yes! Herself and Picard (uh, you mean PATRICK STEWART!?) in a movie would be a brilliant idea! Of course, why not Sisko and Archer? You know, the ONLY prior Captains that could possibly work would be Archer and Sisko, really. Sisko lives in a non-linear state and his destiny could easily be to mend the universe or they could easily need him to help out with some kind of universe-spanning catastrophe. Same for Archer, what with the temporal cold war. Of course with the new direction, I think either would be a mistake. They’ve gone back to Kirk and Spock, the two best-known characters in Star Trek lore, and the last thing we need is convoluting it. No, I can take a little convolution. The LAST thing we need (in any universe) is JANEWAY. Sorry, Kate. You’ve been ringing your own bell for far too long.
Good for her, showing respect and love for Trek. I would like to see an appearance of the Janeway character if it fit in some future Trek, and I especially think that making Kate Mulgrew a new computer voice in some Trek incarnation would be a fitting tribute.
YES PLEASE
can we have more of her holodeck period-drama
that shit was da snizzle.
Braga & Berman were fantastic,
bringing posh frocks and accents to a sci-fi show.
just another example of their greatness
@221
Of course! Guinan! Guinan and Kirk could go back in time! But then back in time there is another identical Guinan and she knows that the timeline has changed. She always did in TNG and she would in the JJ-verse! Briliant idea! This community is actually getting some where with this, Mulgrew as The Computer and Whopie as Guinan oh and The Shat as Kirk and don’t forget Antonio Banderas as Khan! Aweesome!
I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE FEEL THAT ‘VOYAGER’ WAS THEWORST STAR TREK. IT WAS ON FOR 7 YEARS. IT EVOLVED BEAUTIFULLY . THE WAY IT ENDED WAS PERFECT. IT GAVE FINALITY TO A GOAL OF GETTING HOME FROM THE VERY FIRST EPISODED 7 YEARS EARLIER.
MULGREW’S CHARACTER SHOWED STRENGTH, YET FEMINITY. SHE HAD PRINCIPLES THAT SHE WOULD NOT BREAK, AND WAS FAITHFUL TO STARFLEET ON KEEPING THOSE PRINCIPLES EVEN LOST IN THE DELTA QUADRANT. AS CAPTAIN SHE KNEW ENOUGH NOTTO CROSS THE LINE WITH HER HANDSOME SHIPMEN. I CALL THAT INTEGRITY. KATE , I HOPE THEY GIVE YOU A SHOT AT THE NEXT ONE. YOU ARE ONE CLASSY WOMAN AND ACTRESS. FOR ME SHE WOULD BE A STRONG ADDITION TO ANY MOVIE. WISH YOU THE BEST , KATE.
I love Janeway and Ms Mulgrew!
#221 The Voyager finale was the best of all the series, in my opinion. FYI They did not get home because old Janeway went back in time. They got home without Tuvok succombing to his disease and many of her friends dying, by her going back in time. I think she was a strong charactor and a credit to Trek. Just my opinion.
31. JButcher – October 29, 2009
Still think a TNG Era Mini Series with cast members from DS9, TNG, and VOY could work with the right script.
I have always loved this idea.
43. BenAvery – October 29, 2009
I agree about a TNG era direct to DVD movie.
This could work, but I’d still like to see a 6-8 hour miniseries aired over a week, replayed at various time slots and then sold on DVD/BD six months later just as the next miniseries to be aired.
I thoroughly enjoyed JJA’s Star Trek and believe that he should remain in charge of Trek films. While there is a big cast of regulars, to have the stories remain epic in nature, it should focus on Kirk, Spock, and Bones while including the other characters in important parts of the story. Leave the history of the 23rd century to him.
TV, though, lends itself much better to an ensamble cast and, in the hands of Frakes and Burton, could do well in the TNG/DS9/VOY/Titan era as a miniseries or anthology series. Besides being great directors especially for Trek, they seem to genuinely love the franchise. Let them handle the 25th century!
@226:
Ms. Mulgrew?
:o
also just want to add my voice to those commenting on the completely uncalled for bashing of anything post TOS, some people are trying to do their very own reboot of the timeline in real life!
Why does everyone hate Mulgrew? I was really impressed with her. Just bad directing during VOY. =/
I say, if she fits, put her in… just not as Janeway! :3
Voyager sucks. Kate not so bad.
*Isn’t it funny that these former Trek stars are uncomfortable with seeing Start Trek in the theater and need to see it at home–Shatner being the other example. I wonder if it is too personal to be seen in public, or if it’s just the public attention it might draw.
I know it’s just my opinion, so I’m not stating it as fact for anyone but myself…but Voyager was the most boring Trek ever. It was so horrible, and they knew it, so they had to add the T & A factor with 7 of 9. The only reason for 7 to be there was to try to boost ratings in the male 18 – 49 demo….and it worked, to a point.
I tried very hard to like Voyager, as a Trek fan since TOS, but it was just so bad. Janeway (OK, the writers) couldn’t make up their mind if she was a super strong female or a whiny girl. Very often, during a “rousing” speech about something boring, you can actually see tears welling up in Janeway’s eyes. That’s not a characteristic of a strong captain in my opinion. Did you ever see Kirk or even Picard welling up? No.
Again, just my opinion and I know it. I hate it when people state what’s obviously their opinion as fact.
Guinan is the only character I would be comfortable with showing up in the new Treks, perhaps running the bar on the new Enterprise. Played by a new actress, obviously!
Oh . . . and I liked Janeway. She was my favourite of the modern captains, but her time has passed!
#216
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In your opinion.
I disagree.
Why some people here think, that they are center of the universe. ( and that theres opinions are law ).
My opinion is that Kate is great acttress, a Voyager great st show.
#235 No bars on JJ’’s Enterprise. We don’t get the “Love Boat” ship until Picard’s luxury cruiser comes along.
#234 Picard cried several times during his 7 year voyage. I just can’t accept that theres no cure for baldness in the 24th century. Totally unrealistic. Couldn’t he join the Intergalactic Hair Club for Males?
The Trek franchise is big enough for two — yes, count ‘em, TWO — whole parallel universes, in which JJ’s Trek movie universe is more or less self-contained.
And who could forget Voyager’s wonderfully meaningless technobabble. Giving us utterly incomprehensible terms like “Multi-spectral subspace engine design.”
Yes, that means rainbows are powering Voyager. Designed by leprechauns no doubt. Come on, even TNG never bungled the “science” part of science fiction that badly. TOS didn’t even bother with it:
“Engines are down, Captain” – Scotty
“Fix it!” – Kirk
yes to janeway. i don’t know about a movie,but maybe a made for tv movie.
as someone else said resolve the sisko thing.i know avery brooks hated the way ds9 ended. paramount has never considered a made for tv movie and should.
218: “Jolene Blalock as T’Pring!”
No. Jolene Blalock as T’Schwing!
Star Trek Voyager was an enjoyable, high-quality science-fiction program. Many people continued to watch it even after detractors compared it unfavorably to previous incarnations of Star Trek. It’s inconceivable to me that those people all had horribly bad taste.
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Oh wow…you sound so smart in that post.
Bring back characters from TOS. Please.
@ 228
Well said
Janeway stuck to her principles and to the Prime Directive and stood up for the right side of morality when others crossed the line. She used diplomacy first before resorting to violence.
I believe more attitudes like this should be used for Trek characters instead of going in with guns blazing, what will that teach people about how to react to confrontational situations in real life?
The Next Generation will always remain my favorite Star Trek series; after all it features the greatest Captain of them all Jean-Luc Picard, the most endearing crew and in my opinion the best feature film, Star Trek First Contact. I absolutely loved Voyager and Janeway as well; I’m at a loss as to why it is so lowly regarded among Trek fans. DS9 however left a sour taste in my mouth, boring, dull and often a struggle to watch, DS9 failed to capture the adventurous spirit that is the heart of Star Trek. ST09 was an outstandingly wonderful achievement for Star Trek’s future, JJ Abrams and his cast and crew deserve every success which hopefully will manifest itself in the form of another, more character and story driven adventure.
Janeway was my personal favourite Captain, Voyager and Next Gen are tied as my favourite series, and I am sick and tired of hearing the voyager bashers out there, ok we get it, you didn’t like it, but the flow of bile and nastiness seems rather vile. . .
We can all see Voyagers flaws, (Neelix) but to rule that it was a fail? Come on…
I have a least favourite series, and captain, but its a personal preferene, I see no need to force my opinions just to offend, unlike the ‘voyager – haters’ out there.
And as for the personal attacks on Mrs Mulgrew, I feel sick and rather sad by the knowledge that a woman who has spoken so highly of the fans and who attends a lot of conventions, is the target of such aggression and hate.
By the way, is anyone moderating this thread? Because some of the comments are just outright offensive.
As a fan of TOS I’ve found it very hard to accept any of the ‘new’ Treks but have watched pretty much all of them. I couldn’t connect with DS9 but I did manage to stick with Voyager. I actually liked Janeway and Kate is a lovely lady and a fine actress. BUT…. If they bring her on board as the voice of The Computer (which I don’y suppose they will!) she will really have to not do that strange whispering delivery that she was prone to! Or they will have to make the volume control go to 11 on the console! Still, as I say, a lovely lady.
I watched the entire run of VOY and found many episodes to enjoy. However, for me it didn’t have the staying power of DS9, which IMHO is the GREATEST of the 24th Century Treks. It took chances and developed a very sophisticated approach to long form storytelling that made it unique.
I loved it!
VOY was cool. If they can get Ms. Mulgrew into a new Trek without it feeling forced, I’m all for it!
I think the Voyager Starship resembled a sperm and what was with the limitless supply of shuttles?
A polite “No” to Ms. Mulgrew, the franchise now has a new vision………..
It appears like everyone associated with Star Trek is now wanting a piece of the pie- and the kicker is they have yet to even see the new movie!!!
These actors and actressess were good in their time. It is now time to move on and let the new actors and actresses bring their talents to the big screen. And the older actors need to be more supportive and see the new film!!!
Only under one condition. A movie with Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Janeway.
and Archer.
No one has mentioned how wonderful robert picardo was as the holographic doctor in voyager-one of the very docs on trek-he was funny and his character grew with time even to arguing for rights of artifical life forms i also liked how the crew/janeway treated him as an it at first and he had to earn his humanity-picardo was perfect in the role,humorous and evolving-i remember how audiences in the movie theatres loved his cameo in first contact,and like mulgrew,picardo has time and again proven his love for trek and us fans in his many wonderful convention appearances-he would also perform more,give more time and attention to and for the fans than many of his fellow actors-my one and only trek convention in 2006 in vegas, i will never forget how accessible he was for the fans how great his speeches and performances were, and he was awesome as the star of borg4d at the experience as well!
A few things I really liked about Voyager:
Robert Picardo.
The theme music. Next to TOS, Voyager had the best theme music of them all. It was beautiful.
Although I didn’t like the series as a whole (TNG was better) I liked Janeway better than Picard. I strongly suspect she could’ve taken him in a one on one.
I say do a Q movie. It couldn’t be any worse than Nemesis or Insurrection Or Trek 5.
Actually, I probably like Voyager the best of all the modern Treks: had it not, at times, been a retread of TNG it would be better respected. That said, every time it did something we’d already seen in TNG, it did it better.
Granted Chakotay was a wasted character and Harry and Kes were pointless, but Seven of Nine was a far more interesting, physically scarred victim of the Borg than Picard who showed no physical signs of his ‘rape’ by the Borg.
A Q movie would be epic.
It would be interesting if she were in a movie but I would prefer that she not be in the the JJ time line reboot. I understand all the hate for the character, the writers were all over the place with Janeway. However, I love the character regardless of that. The reason for that is because of Kate’s great handle on the role, I just wish they had given her more of a consistent tone throughout, oh well. I guess people are like that, we are all over the place too. Not consistent or or 1 note linear characters. I’d love to see her and Picard in a movie though… Paramount should consider hiring a seperate producer/group to do a prime timeline series of movies while JJ can do his movies. The prime timeline still has a lot of unresolved storylines to play with. For instance, there is Picard’s loneliness and unwillingness to let go of the Enterprise, his quarrel with Q, his questionable history with Quinan, and those aliens that invade ala like Aliens from season 1. Then there is Sisko’s possible return to Bajor. Speaking of DS9, they should have kept enough left over characters for the future, I also felt the wrap up towards the end in season 7 was forced. I mean almost every character decided to leave the station at the same time. For Voyager, there is the matter of species 8472 and their possible invasion of Earth/the universe, there is the question as to the current condition of the Borg after End Game. Let’s not forget the Caretaker’s mate who probably wants a little revenge, and those pesky dark matter entities and what their true intentions were. These could be answered with direct to dvd mini-serieses. If Stargate can do it, why not Trek?
#254 The shape of the ship actually was designed to mimic the shape of an average woman. A large rear area and small necelles.
Lore, what the hell have you been smokin’??
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
I would love to see all the incarnations of Star Trek be put on the big screen in some way. Wouldn’t it be great to see a Voyager movie, a Deep Space Nine movie and even an Enterprise movie each with all the original cast members. JJ’s take on Star Trek is great. But why not expand the universe on the big screen? Each with different storylines and each specific to the characters from the various series. There is definately an audience for it adn it would be interesting to visit our old friends in new stories. I don’t think you have to crowd everyone onto one JJ movie. There really is room for everyone. And it would be such a kick wouldn’t it?
PLEASE GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Did the Federation get into contact with the Romulans about the Nero episode in the latest Star Trek?
This could also be a topic for the next Star Trek movie, with maybe the “current time” Romulans wanting to go to war with the federation and seeking revenge for their Future collapse of their home-world and the death of Nero. (even though Nero did say that he did not speak on behalf of the Romulan council).
Series: out of 10
ST NG – 8
DS9 – 7
Voyager – 8 1/2
TOS – 8 1/2
Movies:
Most were great.
The Final Frontier – 4
Insurrection – 5
Movies 1,2,3,4,5 all had some continuity to them. and then came the Next Gen, which stuffed everything up.
BTW, Voyager was great.
WillShat and Kate and “Picard” had their time. Let them be.
Let the prequels stars have their time.
#265 Harry, some nice man gave it to me on a street corner. I have all seven seasons of Voyager on DVD. I noticed the shape thing after watching a few seasons.
Street corner? Aw, nuts! So much for me gettin’ some!
I think Kate is perfect for the voice of the Enterprise new computer. Her voice is close to Majel Roddenberry. Although, Startrek Voyager wasn’t a good Trek show, but her acting performance is excellent.
I say give her a go.
Kate & Bill haven’t seen the film……….
a lot of fans would have loved to hear their comments on the 09 movie, but instead, they, (Kate & Bill) hussle for a part in the next one,
I’d rather have Berman produce the next one, as long as Kate & Bill arn’t in it
they can go & fuxx
Put Kate as a descendent of an actress who used to be a captain in a 21st century tv series called startrek, and bill as guy who was replaced by a youger one, as captain of a star ship, an they meet at a bar, they talk, and are kiled by a guy called KickAss Picard
I think shee was the finest capain along with Picard. What’s with hate, please?
Janeway rocks!! Let’s see her in the next movie – and I think Kate Mulgrew should pass on a few acting tips to Chris Pine while she is there….lol!
Oh my.
I do enjoy reading all of the positive comments here (and the Award for ‘Makes Most Sense, goes to #50). Not to be offensive, but every one of the shows had their incredible aspects and their…didIjustseethat*facepalm* moments.
For TOS, the sense of wonder and heroism was in abundance (and one of my favorite aspects), as well as a slew of amazing characters. Their problem, it felt like someone from the future jumped back with a ST script and decided to make a parody series out of it. Not to say that TOS was awful–it just ran on a great many cliches.
For TNG, it had the diplomacy. “Alright, so, we explored the galaxy in the previous series and mucked up a great deal of tension, what do we do with it?” The writers used what they had and created stand alone episodes that displayed morality along with diplomacy. The individual heroism and god-mongering was gone, but that’s okay. Their problem: Odd acting, over abundance of Mary Sues and Gary Stus, and perfect endings.
DS9 functioned off of the idea that peace doesn’t last forever. TNG explored making it, natrually, DS9 was going to explore breaking it. The series ran as a saga, which I felt was a first for ST, and again, we had a broader-stronger group of characters. Now, maybe not all the viewers like all the characters, but there are some you AREN’T supposed to, so that’s okay. Their problem: Worm-Hole Deities, the ‘largest’ soap opera vibe of any ST show, and a pretty cruddy ending.
VOY, with stuff in the Alpha Quadrant getting ready to hit the fan, they needed a series to be separated from all of that. The initial premise of the show was–not very original–but it worked. It gave females strong roles, showed than men could play second to that WELL, and had some pretty amazing episodes (Year of Hell, Killing Game, Tenor Tinker Doctor Spy, etc.). Kate Mulgrew was a wonderful actress (and it showed more clearly in the first four seasons, before the Borg played like the Beatles and invaded the show). While not all of the characters were strong, they were likable (for the most part, Neelix…eeehhh…he had his moments). While the previous shows were about: exploration, diplomacy, then war–this one was about family. Their problem: Their writers (Jeri Taylor butchered Chakotay), their love of time-travel, their under-use of potentially great characters (Tuvok, Chakotay, B’Elanna and Tom). Oh yes, bad ending as well.
ENT, it was a great idea, but they shouldn’t have started it when they did. We looped back to exploration and heroism, etc. but it was a time when fans wanted to know what the hell was going on in the Alpha Quadrant. Fans wanted answers–and I believe had ENT come at any other time, it may have been more well received. Good characters, good acting, good special effects. The greatest thing it lacked was the interest of the audience. I don’t know about you, but I wanted to know what happened to Voyager and the characters of DS9. Oh yes, and I wanted to know how the Federation was going to pick up the pieces.
Perhaps it was because I started watching the shows when I was five–or that my brother was a Trek-encyclopedia, but I became a fan of them all. It’s about the stories (and sure, some of the stories were awful), and the wonder of it all. Too often people mistake the writer’s mistakes for the actor’s mistakes (I doubt Mulgrew wanted Janeway to become so autonomic).
All-in-all, if they could find a way to put Mulgrew and Stewart in a movie, and it actually WORKED, I’d be happy. Trek has a history of giving odes to the past series–TOS certainly deserved the ones it received–so why complain if the others get it as well? Stop being so negative–it’s okay to look at the bad, but it’s not okay to refuse to look at the good.
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