Star Trek series coming in 2017

[mirth]

Interesting that the new starship looks like the concept Enterprise from the never-was Star Trek: Phase 2 series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise#Star_Trek:_Phase_II

Yeah, it's pretty much Ralph McQuarrie's Phase II design which is butt fugly.

[mirth]

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/08/new-trek-series-committed-to-casting-diversity-main-character-wont-be-captain

[mirth]

This is interesting speculation and something I would be okay with

http://moviepilot.com/posts/4034303

[bbmike]

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/08/new-trek-series-committed-to-casting-diversity-main-character-wont-be-captain

+1. See my last post.

[bbmike]

This is interesting speculation and something I would be okay with

http://moviepilot.com/posts/4034303

+1. That would actually be cool.

[mirth]

http://www.startrek.com/article/you-ask-the-qs-ronald-d-moore-answers-part-1

Moore: Star Trek, to me, was always Kirk and Spock and those guys. On an inner level, Star Trek was always bigger than what I did.

O0

[Staggerwing]

Since there has been some speculation about the 'event' in question being the Battle of Axanar, and that (Fan movie not withstanding) according to MemoryAlpha that battle was probably not with either the Klingons or the Romulans, and that there was a negotiated peace which 'held together the Federation'...

Could Axanar have been a nipped-in-the-bud civil war, perhaps even between Earth and a Vulcan faction that felt Earth had too much influence?

[mirth]

Excellent AMA with Ron Moore:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2c26yi/i_am_ron_d_moore_formerly_of_battlestar_galactica/

Favorite books, genre-related or otherwise?

Ron-Moore

I was a childhood fan of the Hornblower series of books. At the moment, I am reading the third volume of Shelby Foote's series on the Civil War, which is one of the best historical narratives I've ever read.

O0

[mirth]

Since there has been some speculation about the 'event' in question being the Battle of Axanar, and that (Fan movie not withstanding) according to MemoryAlpha that battle was probably not with either the Klingons or the Romulans, and that there was a negotiated peace which 'held together the Federation'...

Could Axanar have been a nipped-in-the-bud civil war, perhaps even between Earth and a Vulcan faction that felt Earth had too much influence?

Hmmm...I had always accepted the FASA version of events without thinking about it not being canonical. Interesting that the Axanar fan film is going with the FASA storyline.

I hope the TV show isn't looking to intentionally undercut the fan film.

[bbmike]

Free books based on the FASA Four Years War. I've started the Romulan War books and they are pretty good so far.

I doubt this show will be about Axanar. It would have to be set more than 10 years before TOS. That is if they care about canon.

[mirth]

Free books based on the FASA Four Years War. I've started the Romulan War books and they are pretty good so far.

Nice find!

[bbmike]

Yeah, I probably need to go post the link in the books forum.

[mirth]

Now I need to dig through and see if I have copies of these:

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Four_Years_War

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Return_to_Axanar

[bbmike]

This is interesting. If this series is indeed about the fall of Captain (Lord!) Garth, it could be very interesting indeed.

[edit]That ship really is butt fugly.[/edit]

[mirth]

If they were smart, they'd let the Axanar fan film go forward and use it to provide backstory for the TV series. If they were smart...