Straczynski Wants To Reboot Trek

[Miyu]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.p...gory=0&id=30385 (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30385)


Inspired by a recent SCI FI Wire poll, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski posted a message to a newsgroup urging fans to write to Paramount, owner of the rights to the Star Trek franchise, in support of a new Trek series that he and Bryce Zabel (Dark Skies) developed last year.

Although the studio originally passed on the treatment due to "political considerations," Straczynski feels that they might reconsider if they knew that fans were eager for such an idea. "I'm taking the unusual step of going right to the source ... right to you guys," Straczynski said in the message. "Fueled in part by a number of recent articles and polls, including one at www.scifi.com/scifiwire in which nearly 18,000 fans voted their preference for a new Trek series, and 48 percent of that figure called for a [J. Michael Straczynski] take on Trek."

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[Silent Bob]

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Straczynski Offers To Re-Boot Star Trek [updated] http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicscifi.gif (http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=214)
Posted by timothy (http://www.monkey.org/%7Etimothy/) on Wednesday February 16, @06:33AM
from the trekkie-or-trekker dept.
EvilMagnus (http://slashdot.org/%7EEvilMagnus) writes "I just came across this thread (http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/pipermail/b5jms/2005-February/005495.html) over on usenet where J. Michael Straczynski (http://worldsofjms.com/), creator of Babylon 5 (http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html) and Jeremiah (http://www.jeremiah.tv/), talks about the cancellation of Enterprise. It seems he and a collaborator have already written a series bible and treatment for a new version of Star Trek - but it's not been pitched to Paramount out of 'political considerations' (Berman refusing to give up his dead horse?). JMS calls for everyone who thinks a JMS-run Star Trek series would be a good idea to write Paramount and let them know." Along similar lines, yonnage writes "Last week there was an article posted here about Enterprise fans atempting to pay for the next season (http://slashdot.org/mainpage/05/02/08/1551243.shtml?tid=214) of Enterprise. It seems that all the efforts have been pulled together and a new website has been created (http://trekunited.com/) and has started collecting contributions for Enterprise's next season." Update: 02/16 19:47 GMT by T (http://www.monkey.org/%7Etimothy/): Read the rest of the thread to see JMS's followup; he's decided to at least postpone this endeavor. ( Read More... (http://slashdot.org/articles/05/02/16/0312249.shtml?tid=214&tid=186&tid=129&tid=1)