[mdhprime]

Originally Posted by ThePhaige

Never Made?

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/

I am referring to Phase 2.

[ThePhaige]

You are correct that the proposed Phase 2 in early pre production as a follow up series was never made, but that is not what was referred to here. I believe the point was that Cawleys project attempts to follow Treks next evolution from TOS and emulate what Phase 2 would have been had it been made.

[mdhprime]

Originally Posted by ThePhaige

You are correct that the proposed Phase 2 in early pre production as a follow up series was never made, but that is not what was referred to here. I believe the point was that Cawleys project attempts to follow Treks next evolution from TOS and emulate what Phase 2 would have been had it been made.

Ahhh. I misunderstood.

I guess my only point was there could have been more of an effort to keep certain elements of the design of the original series than making it look a bit sharper. I think there was a conscious decision by the creators of the new movie to diverge from anything that would resemble TOS. I know the characters have the same color uniforms and the Enterprise exterior looks mostly the same, but all in all it is a completely different vision. I am sure it will be well done and well liked, I just don't think it has much to so with Star Trek.

[ThePhaige]

They could have done a lot of things, but at this point its useless to cry over spilled milk so to speak. The jury is still out until May 8 weather or not they made a good move or not. So far it feels like Star Trek to me, but I decided to open my mind awhile back and since then the excitement has risen consistently from week to week for me. I hope you too come to embrace it if its well done.

[Magnum]

I just want to add something. If the Name of the ship was USS Exeter, and Kirk, Spock etc were not in the movie, I would be more willing to watch this (Exeter is just a name drawn out of thin air it can be any good starship name). As we saw with Voyager. That ship was not the Enterprise, Captain Janeway was not Kirk. Yet the series to me was very good. The Ship even landed on the planet. (Making of Star Trek said in the early begining of the show they thought about landing the USS Enterprise on planets but that was abandoned due to budget problems) So if JJ Abrams had used a new crew (Not Kirk, Janeway etc) and named his ship differently I would had been a lot happier with it.

Thank you for reading my Opinion.

[OneBuckFilms]

mdhprime,

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

To me, it feels like Star Trek. It doesn't feel like the Star Trek we've known through Rick Berman's command, nor the Original Series.

I didn't expect it to.

It has Captain Kirk and crew in an adventure on the Enterprise.

Star Trek, the Original Series, was always primarily an adventure. Captain Hornblower in space.

I think this is what we're going to get here.

[TMRiddle1912]

Originally Posted by Magnum

I just want to add something. If the Name of the ship was USS Exeter, and Kirk, Spock etc were not in the movie, I would be more willing to watch this (Exeter is just a name drawn out of thin air it can be any good starship name). As we saw with Voyager. That ship was not the Enterprise, Captain Janeway was not Kirk. Yet the series to me was very good. The Ship even landed on the planet. (Making of Star Trek said in the early begining of the show they thought about landing the USS Enterprise on planets but that was abandoned due to budget problems) So if JJ Abrams had used a new crew (Not Kirk, Janeway etc) and named his ship differently I would had been a lot happier with it.

Thank you for reading my Opinion.

To me, and this is just my opinion mind you, this would be a horrible idea. The whole point of going back to the basics is to get the non-Trek fans into the movie theater. And when those people think of Star Trek, they think Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the Starship ENTERPRISE. I would bet, although I don't know for sure, that most non-Trek fans don't even know who Picard, Sisko, Janeway or Archer even are. Before I became a fan of Star Trek, I thought Picard WAS Kirk, just played by a different actor, lol. So that's why they've gone back to TOS. It is THIS crew of THIS ship that people think of when they hear STAR TREK.

[kevin]

Well I appreciate and understand that a lot of people will avoid the spoilers and reviews of those starting to see the film - but it seems (since I am one who does check these things out) that this is not any kind of wrecking of the original series.

I still support everything that's been done. And when it came to the changes - I can only say that the writers knew everything they were 'changing', they don't appear to have done it arbitrarily. So I give them some leeway because it's becoming clear the film does explain itself in that way.

[MrQ1701]

The new bridge may still grow on me one day. I still think the design is too different from previously established UFP design. I know, I know... this is a "reboot", an attempt to make Trek more "relevant", but really... would have a more recognizably UFP bridge really made this impossible? When I see the new Bridge I think a jewelry store!

[Dominus of Megadeus]

Originally Posted by jla1987

Great interview and I agree Captain Tom.

Yes, and very well said, Captain Tom.