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psmith2.0
Mr. Vieira
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
 
2022-04-06, 08:31

Interesting to see how Star Wars isn't the only "space franchise" who can't quite ever seem to escape its original, establishing roots.

We now have a Star Trek (1966) prequel, set 10 years prior to the original series, with Pike's Enterprise, a younger Spock, Uhura, ties to Khan, etc. Of course we do.

I blame 1999 and The Phantom Menace with this ongoing fascination in going backwards to fill in all the holes/answer all the questions (and coast on those coattails of All That Came Before™).

Spock appears to be the Artoo of the Trek stuff...appearing in every single iteration - past, present, future, hallucinations, holograms, animation, games, novels, etc. 🖖 Has anyone thought about putting those two into something together? "Your beeps are highly illogical..." BEEP-BOOP-BOOP-BLARRRRTT

I've truly come to hate prequels - any form, any property - because there's really only so much that can be done with them. However, that other big "space" property clearly showed what can happen if you go too far into the future, without any purpose, grounding or coherency. So it's a balancing act.

Moral of the story: probably best to just make stuff about Kirk and Picard until the end of time. If they can make bridge troll Mark Hamill look like he did ~40 years ago, they can probably do wonders for Shatner. We have the technology (oops, wrong show).
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