Newsgroup: it.fan.startrek
Titolo: GULP! J. Michael Straczynski...

..vuole creare una nuova serie di Star Trek!
http://www.trekweb.com/stories.php?aid=421215b6445e5
JMSNews.Net has posted the following online letter from BABYLON 5
creator/producer J. Michael Straczynski claiming he wants to do a new STAR
TREK series and asking fans to let Paramount know about it.
Here is the letter :
i'm trying this via google to see if I can access the groups, since I've
been offline since AOL stopped carrying newsgroups.
I don't normally do this...in fact, I don't think I've ever done this in
any group before, because I've always kind of waited to make sure it was
worth doing, and that it would make a difference.
I'm sending this to both the B5 folks reading this and any Trek fans
looking on.
Bryce Zabel (recently the head of the Television Academy and
creator/executive producer of Dark Skies) and I share one thing in common.
We are both long-time Trek fans, from the earliest days, who felt that the
later iterations were not up to the standards set by the original series.
(I'm exempting TNG because that one worked nicely, and was in many ways the
truest to the original series because Gene was still around to shepherd its
creation and execution.)
Over time, Trek was treated like a porsche that's kept in the garage
all the time, for fear of scratching the finish. The stories were, for the
most part, safe, more about technology than what William Faulkner described
as "the human heart in conflict with itself." Yes, there were always
exceptions, but in general that trend became more and more
apparent with the passage of years. Which was why so often I came down on
the later stories, which I did openly, because I didn't feel they lined up
with what Trek was created to be. I don't apologize for it, because that
was what I felt as a fan of Trek. That's why I had Majel appear on B5, to
send a message: that I believe in what Gene created.
Because left to its own devices, allowed to go as far as it could, telling
the same kind of challenging stories Trek was always known for, it could
blow the doors off science fiction television. Think of it for a moment, a
series with a forty year solid name, guaranteed markets...can you think of
a better time when you take chances and can tell daring, imaginative,
challenging stories? Why play it safe?
When Enterprise went down, those involved shrugged and wrote it off to
"franchise fatigue," their phrase, not mine.
I don't believe that for a second. Neither does Bryce. There's a tremendous
hunger for Trek out there. It just has to be Trek done *right*.
Last year, Bryce and I sat down and, on our own, out of a sheer love of
Trek as it was and should be, wrote a series bible/treatment for a return
to the roots of Trek. To re-boot the Trek universe.
Understand: writer/producers in TV just don't do that sort of thing on
their own, everybody always insists on doing it for vast sums of money. We
did it entirely on our own, setting aside other, paying deadlines out of
our passion for the series. We set out a full five-year arc.
But when it came time to bring it to Paramount, despite my track record
and Bryce's enormous and skillful record as a writer/producer, the effort
stalled out because of "political considerations," which was explained to
us as not wishing to offend the powers that be.
So on behalf of myself and Bryce, I'm taking the unusual step of going
right to the source...right to you guys, fueled in part by a number of
recent articles and polls, including one at 
www.scifi.com/scifiwire
 in
which nearly 18,000 fans voted their preference for a new Trek series, and
48% of that figure called for a jms take on Trek. (The other
choices polled at about 18% or thereabouts.)
See, if somebody doesn't like a story, doesn't want to buy it, that's all
well and good, that's terrific, that's the way it's supposed to be. But
when "political considerations" are the basis...that just doesn't parse.
So here's the deal, folks. If you want to see a new Trek series that's true
to Gene's original creation, helmed by myself and Bryce, with challenging
stories, contemporary themes, solid extrapolation, and the infusion of some
of our best and brightest SF prose writers, then you need to let the folks
at Paramount know that. If the 48% of the 18,000 folks who voted at
scifi.com
 sent those sentiments to Paramount...there'd be a new series in
the works tomorrow.
I don't need the work, I have plenty of stuff on my plate through 2007 in
TV, film and comics, so that's not an issue. But I'd set it all aside for
one shot at doing Trek right, and I know Bryce feels the same.
If you want this to happen...it's up to the Trek and B5 fans to make it so.
The rest I leave to the quiet turning of your considered conscience.
J. Michael Straczynski
The original report can be found here.
UPDATE : Straczynski just posted another message, which follows :
"Actually...belay everything I just said.
In the 24 hours between the time I composed the prior note, and sent it,
and it made its way through the moderation software, two things happened:
1) I heard from a trusted source that Paramount is giving the Trek TV world
a rest for maybe one to two years, depending on circumstances, no matter
who would come along to run it. So it's not right to have folks putting in
time doing something that ultimately would be pointless, I don't think
that's a proper use of anybody's time.
2) At the same time as the above, an offer came in to run a new TV series
for fall of '06, and since there's no way anything Trek can happen in the
interim, I've said yes (now we have to negotiate the deal, but that should
be fairly straightforward).
So on two counts, the whole thing is kind of moot.
We can reconvene a year or two down the road to see where this takes us,
but in the interim...my apologies for waking everybody up in the middle of
the night.
As you were.
Thanks and with great chagrinedness --
jms""
http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17286
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..vuole creare una nuova serie di Star Trek!
Sarebbe sicuramente la migliore. :)))
No, non sono di parte perché fedele trekker e babyloniano convinto. :)
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> ..vuole creare una nuova serie di Star Trek!
Ebbi modo di vedere solo la prima puntata di Babylon 5, e devo dire che 
all'epoca non mi entusiasmò più di tanto. Però le considerazioni di 
quest'uomo dal cognome impronunciabile mi sembrano piuttosto azzeccate, e il 
paragone con la Porsche tenuta in garage per paura di rovinarla è 
indovinato...
Non avendo visto nessun altro episodio di B5, non saprei dire se sarebbe un 
bene o un male che ne prendesse lui le redini in futuro. Certo che una pausa 
di 1 o 2 anni sicuramente farà bene alla serie, e farà ancora meglio se 
magari nel frattempo B&B se ne andranno fuori dai maroni.
Speriamo bene. 

bene o un male che ne prendesse lui le redini in futuro. 
Non sarebbe un bene, sarebbe IL BENE, fidati...
-- 
Ciao
     Kluge

> Non sarebbe un bene, sarebbe IL BENE, fidati...
Mmm... devo iniziare a vedermi B5 allora... :-) 

 
http://www.trekweb.com/stories.php?aid=421215b6445e5
Legggendo la notizia riportata in Italiano su sta trek italia sembra che 
per lui Star trek sia solo TOS e solo in parte TNG.
Stando così le cose ho molte perplessità.
Ciao.

Stando così le cose ho molte perplessità.
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Scopriremo che ci sono membri della Federazione con poteri totemici :D
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per me promette molto bene
ma vorrei sapere cosa *non* gli piace di tng... :)
mrt^^.

Marat wrote:
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Presumo non le prime stagioni, ma quelle avanzate con i Borg , i 
Cardassiani contro la resistenza Maquis.
Comunque la Paramount ha bocciato il suo progetto e si è semplicemente 
appellatto ai fan di star Trek per sostenere le sue non meglio precisate 
idee su una nuova seie.
Ciao.

 Mmm... devo iniziare a vedermi B5 allora... :-) 
Se lo fai, non lasciarti ingannare dalla fase di rodaggio
iniziale della serie, quando poi comincia ad ingranare
e' veramente ben fatta, con archi narrativi lunghi
fatti bene, con finali di arco narrativo che non deludono
e con i singoli episodi con una media qualitativa alta.
L. Micheletto