Will any new Star Trek series *have* to be like Battlestar Galactica?

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Re: Will any new Star Trek series *have* to be like Battlestar Galacti

As much as I like NU-G, I don't want to go thru another 4 years of apocolyptic crap! At this point I'm exhusted.

Moore succeeded at creating a great series in BSG by being true to what he saw as meaningful in the original BSG pilot from 1978. Someone doing the same thing well with Star Trek would probably not come up with anything similar to Moore's BSG - and that would include Moore himself.

 

[JustKate]

Re: Will any new Star Trek series *have* to be like Battlestar Galacti

I don't think any of the Treks, except possibly my least favorite (which would be ENT), had "all-too-perfect two-dimensional cardboard cut-outs" as characters. And whatever Trek's flaws, a lack of ideas was never, ever, ever one of them. Ideas are what Trek is and always has been about.

 

[Gary7]

Re: Will any new Star Trek series *have* to be like Battlestar Galacti

So, we have to watch Star Trek with constant shaky cameras that randomly over-zoom in and out?

NO

I feel your pain. While that technique does give a visceral feeling of reality and add dimension to the shot, they overuse it... and it becomes tiring. VERY tiring.

 

[Myasishchev]

Re: Will any new Star Trek series *have* to be like Battlestar Galacti

Any new Trek should be similar in the sense that the show should be built around characters and plot arcs that involve and mean something to those characters. BSG was at its most successful when it did this--as, for that matter, was DS9.

I don't want to say that the TOS formula of rolling for random encounters is a bad one--but sometimes, maybe even often, it produced hollow results, and in the latter Treks, that seemed to be all it was capable of producing.

And, yes, any new Trek should be like BSG (and again DS9) in that the characters and systems in which they live should be flawed, and human (even if they're, you know, not ).

 

[RAMA]

Re: Will any new Star Trek series *have* to be like Battlestar Galacti

No, BSG is really the antithesis of ST...ST uses a positive future as a springboard to tell stories about adventure and/or important topics, BSG uses negative history to tell soap operas about its characters.

RAMA

 

[mirandafave]

Re: Will any new Star Trek series *have* to be like Battlestar Galacti

I think rather than be like BSG it should go the way of DS9 which had deeper more complex arcs and characters - main and minor - that's the model rather than a different show.

As for random encounters, I think there is still lots of potential with that concept and it allows for new and unusual things to happen. The original concept of DS9 was a fixed setting with a new back yard in which to explore but come back home. Something akin to that might work. A space base with vessels docking and departing, rich and varied characters, new politics and aliens - not necessarrily building up to a war but just recurring characters and themes.

 

[DarKush]

Re: Will any new Star Trek series *have* to be like Battlestar Galacti

I agree with Mirandafave that DS9-in terms of characterization/writing, and maybe arcs is the way I would like to see Trek go if it returns to the small screen.

I applaud BSG for bringing back social commentary and trying to be contemporary, something VOY and ENT especially failed to do. But due to BSG's premise it could be very dark and glum. I don't think Trek needs to go that route. However, I never liked the idea of perfect humans living in a utopia.

Though TOS showed a highly advanced society the characters were still flawed, there was internal conflict, and drama. TNG had too much of the drama coming from outside sources. DS9 had a good mix of internal/external drama. VOY started out that way, but quickly reverted to the TNG model, and ENT had poorly drawn characters pretty much all around.

Though Trek is based in future, its written by contemporary people, for contemporary audiences, and audiences today-like they have throughout time-thrive on challenge and conflict. Removing this element for the sake of an utopian future robs writers of a chance to create truly gripping characters and limits the audience to hardcore Trekkies/Trekkers.

Interesting characters, well written conflict might pull in more people than watching a bunch of neutered, perfect people puttering around on a starship, preaching how great they are to planet after planet (Admittedly, that's an exaggeration).