With the successful reboot of Star Trek on the big screen, some of you may be wondering could such a thing happen for Next Generation?
A few weeks ago, Marina Sirtis hinted that she felt this was the way the spin-off of the popular series could go and now Data himself says that a reboot could happen in a couple of years.
Talking to Trek Movie, Spiner says, “I do think it is likely they will reboot Next Generation some day. I don’t see Star Trek ever ending. I think it would better if they went further into the future, past were we did or the original series or Voyager or Deep Space or any of them, and continues the saga. I am not that keen on going backwards because then it becomes history instead of the future.”
Spiner says that he hasn’t revisited Next Generation on Blu-Ray yet and that he rarely watches old episodes from the series’ seven year run.
“It was like “what do I watch, old episodes of the show I did or Boardwalk Empire? I think I’ll watch Boardwalk Empire,” he says.
What would be the point? You would have to recast the whole lot, and no one could possibly step into Sir Patrick’s unitard.
Here’s an idea: why not make something original instead of reboots and adaptations? Oh how I long for something new.
Reboots are so much safer for the suits to believe in. Why take a chance with original content when you can mine the boundless nostalgia of Generation X.
Well, yeah, that is true, however, they will run the well dry. If there is one thing that Generation X will eventually find tiresome, it is the continuous use of nostalgia to sell us things. Hell, Tide is trying to sell me laundry detergent using a Men Without Hats song. A few months ago there was some insurance company shilling itself with Joy Division’s “Ceremony”. It is only a matter of time before the “meh” factor kicks in and Gen X takes its money and spends it elsewhere.
how about a series that shows the beginning of the Federation of Planets, and how weird it was for new alien recruits in Starfleet, when it was originally just humans.
How about you all read the article and see where Spiner says he’d like the to go “further into the future, past were we did or the original series or Voyager or Deep Space or any of them”
Sheesh
Those who think GenX would grow tired of more reboots might be right, but then again, GenX will soon go the way of GenU, & GenV & be replaced by GenY & GenZ who will undoubtedly rediscover the Trek-verse & hunger for more. As far as not being able to fill the unitard of Stewart as Picard, well I remember my Gen (that’s the free-lovin’, pot smokin’ 60’s Gen) also felt that nobody would ever be able to fill the bellbottoms of Shatner & Nimoy; but we all know that 47 years later two fine young actors by the names of Pine & Quinto did that very thing & did it quite well. I agree with Mr. Spiner that Trek will likely be around until it all becomes reality, or we don’t survive WW III, or both.
Does anybody *other* than actors who would be pretty much guaranteed work if it happened think it there will be a reboot?