Cut and pasted shamelessly from StarTrek.com:
"CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new Star Trek television series in January 2017."
"The brand-new Star Trek will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966."
"The new television series is not related to the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond which is scheduled to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in summer 2016."
(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:44PM
NG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise all had their problems, some more (Enterprise), some less (DS9), but I liked them all. However, I stopped watching Enterprise shortly after its second season because it got, in my opinion at the time, stupid. My view has since changed now that I own the DVDs and have watched them a couple times. The show got a lot better and much more interesting as it progressed, with some notable exceptions.
Picard was not a pussy, just with different principles than Kirk, who was much more a man of action. And as one of the shows pointed out, Kirk would have been court martialed for some of his stunts if he did them a century later. Janeway in my opinion made the wrong decision (and perhaps violated the prime directive in the process) by electing to destroy the Caretaker's array instead of using it to get home. But it would have been unrealistic for her crew to ditch her after her gaffe. (And there would be no seven years of shows!)
Star Trek has been more about stories that are excellent moral plays than mere science fiction. That's what I like about it. Hopefully, the next show will return to that and get away from this shit the latest round of movies has done.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @09:14PM
Picard has it all over Kirk. He's poised and measured and doesn't wear a cheap rug. Rather he accepts even baldness with a quiet cool that says: "I am in command. You are safe with me."