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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3277792" data-attributes="member: 9037">I said I would not watch Trek if it went dark and gritty unless it was a mirror universe story or maybe a romulan war story. Lets face it the mirror universe is not a nice place and the romulan war happpened before TOS so I could see it being a little gritty.If they made it like the new BSG I would be sick at heart. I don't want to see fraked up selfish addicts as heroes in my Trek. I would watch it if they went that route.All those movies I mentioned did not do well in the box office nor did they do well with the critics they bombed. I don't want to see another Trek movie bomb.Batman did not start off as a TV series it started off as comic so the first Batman you see was not interpreted by an actor but by a writer and illustrater. Yes William Shatner has played other roles that is not by point. My point is that he helped create Kirk and to me it would bother me to much to see someone else play the roll. Especially if they want to keep it has cannon and part of the timeline of trek.I watch BSG both versions and while I will freely admit I wanted a continuation not a remake I can watch it because it so different than BSGTOS. For example to me Capatin Apollo and Lee Adama are not the same character at all the same with Commander Adama and Admiral Adama and while I know it pisses off the new fans to say this but to me the new show is Galatica in name only. I think it is an good show but as a fan of the old show it is not the same at all and to me it is not even set in the same universe.I don't want to see that happen with Trek.You don't neeed to end the franchise because the old stars are as you put it leaving. There are four other casts that could be used if you are worried about that. Also the Trek universe has several series of books that do quite well  with orginal characters.I think Trek is well enough known that you don't need a familiar name to get people to watch it.As for the prequels of Star Wars well that is not the same. Lucus wanted to tell how the Empire came about and how Skywalker became Vader and how the twins were separated. So it would have been silly not to have the characters in it. Besides if you watch Ewan Macgreor he studied the mannerism of Alec Guiness and they even made him look like him as he aged.</blockquote>

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