Star Trek Infinite Space Cancelled

[GDS_Starfury]

Whoever controls the ST video game rights should team up with the World of Warplanes guys to do a straight up starship combat game. Call it 'Galaxy of Starships' or something.

HELL NO!!!
that would make an Awsome piece of Americana be made by damn Russians.
that and they would make all of the Klingon ships overpowered.
because theyre commies.

[Staggerwing]

Calling the Klingons 'Commies' is most ill advised. I suggest you immediately start practicing Bat'leth defensive postures in case one of them hears you...

[MetalDog]

Original Star Trek was the best and Star Wars was the cinematic masterpiece of my youth, so, it's a tie.  For me.  And I'll sit on this fence for as long as I'd like.

[LongBlade]

Calling the Klingons 'Commies' is most ill advised. I suggest you immediately start practicing Bat'leth defensive postures in case one of them hears you...

Excellent point. +1

[GDS_Starfury]

the klingons were the soviets in star trek.  even Gene said so.

[mirth]

Gene thought of Star Fleet as an entirely peaceful, humanitarian organization. The equivalent of the UN in space. He'd be entirely opposed to the concept of a Star Trek Starship combat game. Unless it was wrapped up in some sort of morality play.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Roddenberry was a hack

Star Trek: Gene Roddenberry

Gene Roddenberry is world renowned for creating the original 1966 Star Trek series, which grew over the years to spawn 11 (soon to be 12) feature films, more than 700 episodes of television, dozens of video games and countless books. Star Trek itself also gave birth to both the modern fan convention phenomenon and the concept of slash fan-fic. So ... thanks, we think?

Roddenberry was the first human whose ashes were taken into space, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and even has an asteroid named after him.

We basically gave the guy dominion over space for making a sweet TV show, is the long and short of it. We assume he rules it with an iron fist.

Who Actually Deserves the Credit:

It's a sad fact of life: There's only enough room in the human heart for one Gene at a time. That's why you probably haven't heard of Gene Coon. He served as producer for the original Star Trek in its first and second seasons, wrote eight of those episodes, and then wrote another four for the third season. Among his contributions to the franchise are the Klingons, the Federation, Starfleet Command and the Prime Directive. He also wrote the episodes with Gorn (the lizard man), Khan, those half-black/half-white aliens who taught us that space racism is bad (again) and the inventor of the warp drive. Basically, if there's something you remember from old Star Trek that's not Uhura's miniskirt or Kirk's dropkick, Coon did it.

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy have both called Coon the unsung hero of Star Trek. And without his over-arching structure and influence, Star Trek probably would've just been a show about unitard-wearing swingers screwing aliens across the galaxy. Which is ... kind of awesome, actually. We call dibs on the rights.

We wouldn't even have to change the leading man.
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[GDS_Starfury]

those half-black/half-white aliens

we Jews call those cookies.

[Huw the Poo]

The main reason I got a lifetime sub to STO was for the starship combat - unfortunately the lousy ground part sucks up too much time IMO.   :-\

That's exactly why I stopped playing.  I just wanted to fly around the galaxy, shooting stuff, but the horrible ground missions ruined it.

[GDS_Starfury]

cookies in space!!!

I hope those pigs dont catch up!

[GDS_Starfury]

[GDS_Starfury]

and their counterparts:

[Tpek]

the klingons were the soviets in star trek.  even Gene said so.

They were more the Chinese than the Russians in that regard (looks, names, etc...)

[LongBlade]

the klingons were the soviets in star trek.  even Gene said so.

They were more the Chinese than the Russians in that regard (looks, names, etc...)

Who were the Romulans then?

[Martok]

Original Star Trek was the best and Star Wars was the cinematic masterpiece of my youth, so, it's a tie.  For me.  And I'll sit on this fence for as long as I'd like.

Star Wars will always have a special place in my heart, despite what George "Franchisicide" Lucas later tried to do his accidental masterpiece.  The characters, the locales, the themes of good & evil, betrayal & redemption...they're iconic, and I'll treasure them til the end of my days. 

However, Star Trek was my first love -- and it remains so.  Despite the various ways in which Rick Berman and (more recently) Jar Jar Abrams have tried to sully Rodenberry's vision, I keep coming back to it.  The characters, locales, and themes are just as iconic as those in Star Wars, but with the addition that they also give mankind a hopeful vision of the future -- and a goal to aspire to. 

Calling the Klingons 'Commies' is most ill advised. I suggest you immediately start practicing Bat'leth defensive postures in case one of them hears you...

Excellent point. +1

;D

[Sharpening, sharpening, sharpening my blades...] 

the klingons were the soviets in star trek.  even Gene said so.

Indeed they were.  Even I understood that much at a fairly young age, long before I ever heard Rodenberry himself confirm it.  And just in case it wasn't already blatantly obvious, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country made it crystal-clear exactly who the Klingon Empire was supposed to represent. 

Roddenberry was a hack

Star Trek: Gene Roddenberry

Gene Roddenberry is world renowned for creating the original 1966 Star Trek series, which grew over the years to spawn 11 (soon to be 12) feature films, more than 700 episodes of television, dozens of video games and countless books. Star Trek itself also gave birth to both the modern fan convention phenomenon and the concept of slash fan-fic. So ... thanks, we think?

Roddenberry was the first human whose ashes were taken into space, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and even has an asteroid named after him.

We basically gave the guy dominion over space for making a sweet TV show, is the long and short of it. We assume he rules it with an iron fist.

Who Actually Deserves the Credit:

It's a sad fact of life: There's only enough room in the human heart for one Gene at a time. That's why you probably haven't heard of Gene Coon. He served as producer for the original Star Trek in its first and second seasons, wrote eight of those episodes, and then wrote another four for the third season. Among his contributions to the franchise are the Klingons, the Federation, Starfleet Command and the Prime Directive. He also wrote the episodes with Gorn (the lizard man), Khan, those half-black/half-white aliens who taught us that space racism is bad (again) and the inventor of the warp drive. Basically, if there's something you remember from old Star Trek that's not Uhura's miniskirt or Kirk's dropkick, Coon did it.

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy have both called Coon the unsung hero of Star Trek. And without his over-arching structure and influence, Star Trek probably would've just been a show about unitard-wearing swingers screwing aliens across the galaxy. Which is ... kind of awesome, actually. We call dibs on the rights.

We wouldn't even have to change the leading man.


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Yeah, I've heard of Coon.  And you're right, he doesn't get nearly as much credit for Trek as he ought.  To a large extent, he was to Rodenberry what Dave Arneson was to Gary Gygax.