Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Re: What would a good Star Trek movie look like, anyway?

[quote name="fucking newbie"]I don't hate star trek, I want to love it and find myself looking at things like MacLeod's hit-and-miss Culture series for something better - but MacLeod is only capable of brilliance as much as he's capable of being a pretentious piece of shit with troublesome execution. He does manage to ape literature every now and again, which is something space opera as a genre has failed to do many times since 1940. My problem with Star Trek is that even if the technology and political situation and other surface shit wasn't an issue it'd still be very much something with substance at one tenth of its potential because of marketing stomping on the brakes. If you took whoever wrote Black Mirror, told them to make anything else on television (and not just sci-fi) look bumbling in comparison and that nothing was off the table, and made them fear failure like grim death, they might write a Star Trek I'd watch for a lot of seasons. ...But I can honestly do better for myself elsewhere, because visual entertainment that claims to be smart sci-fi is a sham :([/quote]