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By: luckybucky (Odo's file, contact) @ 20:01:26 on Jul 02, 2003

Future movies could return Trek from the world of genre fiction to the realm of genuine sci-fi storytelling again... WITHOUT having to figure out which cast to use and why.

Imagine, instead of a space-opera with villain action film, a character drama, or sci fi romance that deals with familiar worlds from Trek.

Imagine something like:
Star Trek: Blood Fever - a "Lawrence of Arabia"-like tale set in Vulcan's prehistory, telling the story of political intrigue and religious revolution surrounding Surak's movement to create peace through logic. This could work, because you could play it as epic costume drama, not as sci fi. A Merchant-Ivory production, but with pointed ears.

Star Trek: Artifacts - an "Indiana Jones" style tale of exotic discovery and intrigue, beginning in the discovery of ruins on a dead world, and culminating in a chase to recover artifacts from the black market of the Orion syndicate. Complete with John Williams soundtrack.

Star Trek: War Cry - a "Godfather" style family drama set in the House of Mogh. A film that follows several generations of a powerful family through the rivalry and betrayals leading up to the tragic events at Khittomer. Three hours, three generations, nothing but Klingons.

OK- my titles are cheesy, but my point I think is sound. There are any number of ways a film could explore the Trek universe that have NOTHING to do with crews, and that are completely different kinds of movies than the average scifi film. Using Trek to do a serious drama (not action). Or romance (the young Sarek and Amanda's interspecies romance).



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