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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7337942" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>I almost stopped. </p><p>Really, the sole reason I kept watching was out of a morbid desire to see how it ends and to generate content for the Star Trek Adventures RPG on the <a href="https://continuingmissionsta.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Continuing Mission</a> fan site.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Given the budget given to the show it wouldn't have been impossible. It wouldn't look as good (i.e. movie quality like the current series, but it would have been decent. </p><p>But having to continually recast and lose the character momentum would be tricky. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Nostalgia. </p><p>I think they assumption was that the Kirk era was the most well known and most popular era of Trek. It allowed them to namedrop familiar characters, like Sarek and Spock. And, presumably, required the least audience familiarity. </p><p>(Although, honestly, I think TNG and that era is arguably just as popular and well known.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>It makes me miss Roddenberry, who was pretty insistent TNG introduce new aliens rather than just coast with old favourites. </p><p></p><p></p><p>They could just have easily positioned the story in 2130 and said it was 25 years before TOS. Or placed it in 2300-2350 and had it between the TOS films and TNG. </p><p>Instead of Klingons it could have featured the gorn or tholians and still had a classic enemy feel without stepping on established lore. Or a brand new enemy, which would make it more suspenseful over the idea of Starfleet potentially scourging the planet. But they *really* wanted to milk that nostalgia. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's surprising, but they're very rarely good surprises. Most often they're surprises in a “WTF are they thinking?” vein. Like saving the emperor. </p><p></p><p></p><p>There's predictive text TNG scripts out there, and I never have any idea where they're going either. But I don't think they're good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7337942, member: 37579"] I almost stopped. Really, the sole reason I kept watching was out of a morbid desire to see how it ends and to generate content for the Star Trek Adventures RPG on the [url=https://continuingmissionsta.wordpress.com]Continuing Mission[/url] fan site. Given the budget given to the show it wouldn't have been impossible. It wouldn't look as good (i.e. movie quality like the current series, but it would have been decent. But having to continually recast and lose the character momentum would be tricky. Nostalgia. I think they assumption was that the Kirk era was the most well known and most popular era of Trek. It allowed them to namedrop familiar characters, like Sarek and Spock. And, presumably, required the least audience familiarity. (Although, honestly, I think TNG and that era is arguably just as popular and well known.) It makes me miss Roddenberry, who was pretty insistent TNG introduce new aliens rather than just coast with old favourites. They could just have easily positioned the story in 2130 and said it was 25 years before TOS. Or placed it in 2300-2350 and had it between the TOS films and TNG. Instead of Klingons it could have featured the gorn or tholians and still had a classic enemy feel without stepping on established lore. Or a brand new enemy, which would make it more suspenseful over the idea of Starfleet potentially scourging the planet. But they *really* wanted to milk that nostalgia. It's surprising, but they're very rarely good surprises. Most often they're surprises in a “WTF are they thinking?” vein. Like saving the emperor. There's predictive text TNG scripts out there, and I never have any idea where they're going either. But I don't think they're good. [/QUOTE]
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