tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17244873.post114382015384827822..comments2024-03-28T01:09:15.056-07:00Comments on Horrorthon: Star Trek XI continues to go nowhereOctopunkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948127593611773731noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17244873.post-1144167756410219152006-04-04T09:22:00.000-07:002006-04-04T09:22:00.000-07:00They have no idea what the hell they're doing.The ...They have no idea what the hell they're doing.<BR/><BR/>The basic problem, as I see it: On the one hand, Star Trek is good; Star Trek is great. We all like Star Trek. It's historically significant; it's part of our childhoods; it's a high-water-mark in the history of sci fi because of how it popularized something that previously had a fringe following.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, do we really need to keep watching every week as the captain makes a log entry, a spaceship model orbits a planet, everyone falls out of their chairs on a round set with a big phone screen in the front, and all the guys with rubber masks on their faces introduce their phoney-baloney problem (the solution of which involves phasers, transporter, talking a lot, and gizmos that play your heartbeat through a speaker)? Isn't it all, I mean, kind of played at this point?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17244873.post-1143839093258337832006-03-31T13:04:00.000-08:002006-03-31T13:04:00.000-08:00Good point! It's weird because they have been tak...Good point! It's weird because they have been taking a break but you'd never know it because every week we get a new report about the status of Trek. I say wait 5 years.JPXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213973405902714780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17244873.post-1143834623364698712006-03-31T11:50:00.000-08:002006-03-31T11:50:00.000-08:00What's weird is that the idea of Trek taking a bre...What's weird is that the idea of Trek taking a break for a while has been in discussion (at least among my friends) for some years now, but the actual process of lying down to rest is taking FOREVER.Octopunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948127593611773731noreply@blogger.com