Very cool thoughts on the subject!

Darryl Perry wrote to Drew Klenotic <=-

On 03/19/17, Drew Klenotic said the following...

Why didn't he just make his own universe instead? Just like with Star Wars... They declared everything out side of the movies to be
"potentially invalid". All the books... all the games.... all the expanded universe stuff. All because JJ was too lazy to come up with his own completely original idea.

FWIW, that seems like a simple answer to me. The reason is that there
are still a lot of stories that can be told about the Kirk/Spock era.
The problem with that, is we don't have the actors to play Kirk and
Spock anymore. What do we do then? Should we be presented with CGI versions of the original crew, like they did with Princess Leia and
Grand Mof Tarkin?

No thanks!

The problem with telling about the Kirk era, is that many young movie goers have no real idea who Kirk and Spock are. So we need to get reacquainted with the characters. But if we do that, then we are just retelling stories that have already been told. Unless some changes are made, like an alternate universe.

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Re: Star Trek is not Star Tre

FWIW, that seems like a simple answer to me. The reason is that there are still a lot of stories that can be told about the Kirk/Spock era. The problem with that, is we don't have the actors to play Kirk and Spock anymore. What do we do then? Should we be presented with CGI versions of the original crew, like they did with Princess Leia and Grand Mof Tarkin?
No thanks!
The problem with telling about the Kirk era, is that many young movie goers have no real idea who Kirk and Spock are. So we need to get reacquainted with the characters. But if we do that, then we are just retelling stories that have already been told. Unless some changes are made, like an alternate universe.

There are so many really great TOS novels out there, all they would need to
do is start converting some of them into movies. I would STILL love to see
"The Great Starship Race" put on the screen.

And not just TOS, all 5 ST series' have really great books out there written
in their respective time lines. Even a couple of series about OTHER ships and crews that can be used (Capt Calhoun comes to mind).

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Hello Dallas.

22 Mar 17 20:30, you wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON:

There are so many really great TOS novels out there, all they would
need to do is start converting some of them into movies. I would STILL love to see "The Great Starship Race" put on the screen.

And not just TOS, all 5 ST series' have really great books out there written in their respective time lines. Even a couple of series about OTHER ships and crews that can be used (Capt Calhoun comes to mind).

Couldn't agree more with you. Capt Calhoun deserves a spot into the Trek canon.

Flavio

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