New Star Trek series - 2017

something daft already!! · 2 Nov 2017 at 14:09

Hades said:
I really wish they would remake Space 1999.

But, but it was ridiculous! The whole premise was absurd. How fast would the Moon have to be travelling to reach interstellar space and other planets every week? Many times the speed of light. Then how would it stop long enough near a planet for anyone to go there and get back again.

Steampunk · 2 Nov 2017 at 14:26

howiepoohs said:
But, but it was ridiculous! The whole premise was absurd. How fast would the Moon have to be travelling to reach interstellar space and other planets every week? Many times the speed of light. Then how would it stop long enough near a planet for anyone to go there and get back again.

There was a lot of cool stuff too. The eagles, the uniforms, the little communicator things with the screens, the guns with the three beams. It had a real atmosphere of desolation, the base was very "Space Odyssey", a lot of serious actors were on it. At the time it was a bit of old school dark sci-fi and had a unique look and style for the time. It's what happened when Gerry Anderson got stuff made with real actors (see UFO).

Woden · 2 Nov 2017 at 14:31

howiepoohs said:
But, but it was ridiculous! The whole premise was absurd. How fast would the Moon have to be travelling to reach interstellar space and other planets every week? Many times the speed of light. Then how would it stop long enough near a planet for anyone to go there and get back again.

If we are going ridiculous, I want to see a Buck Rodgers reboot!

melmac · 2 Nov 2017 at 14:32

Woden said:
If we are going ridiculous, I want to see a Buck Rodgers reboot!

Buck Rogers!! yeah bring that back. I don't think it would ever work now though

something daft already!! · 2 Nov 2017 at 14:37

Steampunk said:
There was a lot of cool stuff too. The eagles, the uniforms, the little communicator things with the screens, the guns with the three beams. It had a real atmosphere of desolation, the base was very "Space Odyssey", a lot of serious actors were on it. At the time it was a bit of old school dark sci-fi and had a unique look and style for the time. It's what happened when Gerry Anderson got stuff made with real actors (see UFO).

They would need to come up with some other reason for it travelling through interstellar space. Maybe teleporting or something.

Hades · 2 Nov 2017 at 14:59

howiepoohs said:
They would need to come up with some other reason for it travelling through interstellar space. Maybe teleporting or something.

Maybe it has an encounter with some Mycelium spores???

J.T · 2 Nov 2017 at 15:24

melmac said:
Buck Rogers!! yeah bring that back. I don't think it would ever work now though

Mmmmmmmm..... Wilma!

Steampunk · 2 Nov 2017 at 15:36

howiepoohs said:
They would need to come up with some other reason for it travelling through interstellar space. Maybe teleporting or something.

I'm sure they went through a black hole or wormhole or something so they could pop out somewhere else in the universe.

MissChief · 2 Nov 2017 at 15:58

XPE said:
This episode showed the problems with the show.

imo A time loop episode needs to focus on the person that's in the loop and shows how they deal with it and yet the show still focuses on Michael. This in its self was just a very peculiar as the chief engineer had grown a lot since we were first introduced to him and could definitely have held the episode together if it focused on him. Also given his rather anti-social manner it could have been fun watching him interact with the crew day after day and trying to help them (think Bill Murray in Groundhog Day) but instead we focus on Michael again. The stuff going on with Michael was fine but should have been kept for another episode.

Actually this is a really good point and he could have easily carried it off. There should be some development of the crew too.

Steampunk · 2 Nov 2017 at 16:42

MissChief said:
Actually this is a really good point and he could have easily carried it off. There should be some development of the crew too.

That's against this new philosophy of concentrating on one character. Previously all Treks were an ensemble cast and an episode like this concentrating on a different character would have been normal. Now, it's all about Michael. I think they are going to have real problems with this approach as they will quickly run out of things to do with her, especially if the audience get bored of her, or just find her dislikeable.

robgmun · 2 Nov 2017 at 17:34

Steampunk said:
I'm sure they went through a black hole or wormhole or something so they could pop out somewhere else in the universe.

Here's my pitch, while on the moon they find a huge alien artifact buried deep (size of a city or something), something goes wrong and it automatically turns on, this interferes with mining explosives creating a massive explosion. This causes the alien machine to malfunction and starts teleporting the moon to random parts of the universe (Not just the galaxy, the whole universe) in the first it teleports every few minutes then it slows down to every few days. Job done and allows from some real imagination in stories.

While they're dealing with whatever they teleport to in each episode, they're trying to figure out the machine to take them home again

Kainz · 2 Nov 2017 at 17:45

Stargate SG1 - Window of Opportunity did time jumps the best imo

CaptainRAVE · 2 Nov 2017 at 19:09

No more episodes until January?

JediFragger · 2 Nov 2017 at 21:12

Kainz said:
Stargate SG1 - Window of Opportunity did time jumps the best imo

Thanks for that, I adored that ep and was great to see it again!!

Tombstone · 2 Nov 2017 at 21:26

If we are going to reboot a scifi show, then lets reboot Blakes 7. That was a superb show with a quite unique ending.

Steampunk · 2 Nov 2017 at 21:34

Tombstone said:
If we are going to reboot a scifi show, then lets reboot Blakes 7. That was a superb show with a quite unique ending.

**** yeah! Watched that growing up, it's was brilliant, so dark, and some of the crew actively hated each other. They tried to do it a few times, but there's some really complicated stuff with the rights going back and forth, and even some attempts that got as far as scripting and then didn't get taken up. I suppose if Terry Nation's estate gets a serious offer, something may come of it at some point.

Hades · 2 Nov 2017 at 23:15

Tombstone said:
If we are going to reboot a scifi show, then lets reboot Blakes 7. That was a superb show with a quite unique ending.

Yes another one I would love to see a remake for.

Talking of unique endings on British shows I'd adore a remake of Sapphire and Steel (very, very unique ending) although that's a little less known than Blakes 7 and Space 1999 (also not a space based series, although it was science fiction to a degree).

Steampunk · 2 Nov 2017 at 23:29

Hades said:
Yes another one I would love to see a remake for.

Talking of unique endings on British shows I'd adore a remake of Sapphire and Steel (very, very unique ending) although that's a little less known than Blakes 7 and Space 1999 (also not a space based series, although it was science fiction to a degree).

Can't believe S&S was ever a kids show. There's a lot in that that creeps me out even now. Watching it as a kid I didn't understand then how scary some of it was. Now I can better appreciate how downright disturbing it is. Plus David McCallum and Joanna Lumley were brilliant.

something daft already!! · 2 Nov 2017 at 23:47

Steampunk said:
Can't believe S&S was ever a kids show. There's a lot in that that creeps me out even now. Watching it as a kid I didn't understand then how scary some of it was. Now I can better appreciate how downright disturbing it is. Plus David McCallum and Joanna Lumley were brilliant.

The first episode was a bit dodgy from what I remember but the one with the WW1 soldier whistling "Pack up your troubles" was quite haunting!

Hades · 3 Nov 2017 at 00:12

Steampunk said:
Can't believe S&S was ever a kids show. There's a lot in that that creeps me out even now. Watching it as a kid I didn't understand then how scary some of it was. Now I can better appreciate how downright disturbing it is. Plus David McCallum and Joanna Lumley were brilliant.

They are available on youtube. I watched them with my kids a few years ago. They were a similar age to me when I watched them and they absolutely loved them, saying nothing on TV today was like them. They were a bit scared in places though.

howiepoohs said:
The first episode was a bit dodgy from what I remember but the one with the WW1 soldier whistling "Pack up your troubles" was quite haunting!

Everyone who loved the programme remembers the WW1 assignment. As above I watched it recently and it really is quite scary even today. I also liked the way they didn't always win or had to make sacrifices to do so. Aside from the WW1 episode(s) the one about the man in the photographs was good, as was the final assignment. I did like the first too about the nursery rhymes.