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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6224201" data-attributes="member: 17106">This is true. However, an explanation meant for fans hardly changed the nature of the show in the eyes of non-fans. And frankly, now there have been numerous other films and TV shows where we had aliens as humans in makeup. In the '60's, it was necessitated by cost and technology. Now it isn't. However, the humanity of Trek's aliens is also part of its appeal.It's a complex problem. In the JJ Abrams movies, alien makeup is generally in the background and played for laughs. I don't know what mix of humans, makeup, and CGI would be appropriate (and affordable) for a TV show.That's true. It's a high bar though. The original Trek really captured people's imaginations with its speculative vision of the future. Recapturing them with a new vision that is equally speculative, but also equally gripping (and eerily accurate, in some cases) is a high bar. Roddenberry was a visionary, and it would take another equally special person to revitalize the franchise (no offense, JJ).Also, there's a question of what out of the existing technology will we as an audience let them get away with. Numerous books have now been written about how warp drive, transportation, replication, etc. are physically impossible. Is the more informed audience of the 21st century still ok with those things? What about the rampant goalpost shifting wherein technological capabilities are redefined as needed for the plot? In the reboot, you can now beam on to moving ships light years away and warp from Earth to Vulcan within minutes, and to Qo'nos within hours. Those kinds of things could mess up a TV series.Agreed.It's hard to pull off.It can be, but I'm not holding my breath. It will require not only a game-changing new personality to provide a creative vision, but also a network who will take it on, and a great deal of behind the scenes wrangling. Then it'll require the same things that every other TV series does: a good team, a lot of hard work, and good timing.I hope people try, but I think there's a lot more ways it could go wrong than go right.</blockquote>

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