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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 1997279" data-attributes="member: 509">RE: The Star Trek well is dry.The well is not the problem, it's the water inside that's lacking. The well is as sturdyas ever. There's no limitations to what is able to be done with any franchise. There'salways something new to be done (or old done in new ways). Look at any long lasting comic book series. Batman/Superman/Spider-Man/X-Men all have had their good andbad periods, but they always come back with new good stories.Batman had been horrible for decades, a joke, until Dennis O'Neil brought him back to his Dark Knight roots in the 70s and changed him into *the* comic book franchise. Rivalled only by the X-Men, another similar case, which were Stan Lee's least inspired creation and Marvel's slowest seller, but Claremont sculpted them into the market's best selling book in the 80s. Of course, it then sucked again in the 90s, but when GrantMorrison took over in 2000 it was good again. JMS and Bendis on Spider-Man. Busiek on Avengers. Giffen/DeMatties on JLA. Morrison on JLA. Simonson on Thor. Jurgens on Thor. Same story again and again.Creations don't get stale, only the creators (and possibly, the fans).Heck, Manny Coto was on the right track. Just bring in fresh blood. Change the water.</blockquote>