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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6224105" data-attributes="member: 17106">I have a hard time seeing Star Trek being a successful weekly show. The concept is dated and has been done to death (I say this as someone with a pile of DVDs and soundtracks and novels). There hasn't been anything original in Trek in a while. The new movies are okay as popcorn movies and an exercise in nostalgia, but don't stand up to much scrutiny. Human-shaped aliens seem sillier now than they did in the '60's, and the futuristic technology that characterized the original show now falls into one of two categories: things that are clearly impossible, and things that we have right now. So many plot devices and conceits that Trek pioneered are now tropes and have become obvious and tired.To me, it would need a complete reinvention, not just a timeline redux and an increase in special effects.That's a very tall order.</blockquote>