But... some1 hasn't been reading his Shatner I'm afraid. Some1 hasn't been following the adventures of the great Captain James Kirk inthe mirror universe - more particularly, some1 hasn't heard the Reeves-Garfield's, Imean Shatner's reasoning that the mirror universe was created when Zeprane Cochrum told everybody that in the future the Borg would come, not all at once, or I dunno - so Earth decided fuck history, we gotta prepare for that - and they turned Evil/.
But then maybe this idea is compatible with the mirror universe - and Enterprise is creating an evil ST. I'm sure many of yous would like that, like twisted spectres of the mirror world yourselves. But then you'd have to decide whether to accept Enterprise as mirror cannon, or as real-world spin-off. It's a tough call.
But thinking about the films and what they need to do - I think this ideas on the right lines - at least it's shaking things up. What the films need is wht the first films had - they should mean something; they should say something, something profound, intangible though it may be - they should be 'experiences', that tell you about life and how to live it... they should be more than just films! I mean, in recent times it's 1 film followed by another followed by another.... it wasn't called A Motion Picture now was it? - it was called *The** frickin Motion Picture. Accept no substitutes, called themselves, 'The Movie', or 'A film by ...' no it was all there, and it was more than celluloid, it looked at the vastness of space, and how humans could explore such a bewildering environment, and.. why!! Or TWOK - which manages to be so much more than the film itself - I honestly think that line of Kirk;s, 'You have to learn why things work' is 1 of the most useful lines in all of cinema.
One step in all thisis to bring in past films and events - like the Klingon in ST3 - comment on them in a way, acknowledge that what happened was more than film - yeas even Nemesis which I'm incredible dissapointed in I haven't even seen it recently. I mean, 2 opening scenes to set it up - 1 highly dramatic, then other light and comedic, getting aquainted with the crew, both totally bollocked up. But getting back to the idea, this does at least do this - the trouble with trek in condition it is how to incorporate the incorporatorable.
The answer to all our questions: 10 years.
Posted on Oct 22, 2003, 3:37 PM from IP address 80.225.5.236