If Firefly was treated like Star Trek...
POSTED BY: Adamwankenobi
UPDATED: Sunday, August 6, 2006 23:31
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Originally posted by Fizzix:
Okay, whoever brought up Star Trekkin'... it's a song that would probably make much more sense high. And if it was quoted properly.
Hey, it's on Youtube:
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And I thought the song was scary on its own.... I didn't know there was a video...... *shudders*
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May not be smart, and it may not please you, but you're definitely gonna see what I have to say.
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Yes. I do enjoy Star Trek. It has a place in my heart, but never mix these two. I'm am shaking just typing this.
Oh, it would work wunderfully! Could you just imagine Jayne walking through the enterprise with Vera in his arms?
Or Ryker becoming all interested in Inara and Mals reaction to it?
Or Mal shooting an old, dying friend, who had just been half-eaten by reavers, and Dr. Crusher becoming all upset about that?
You might be able to tell, I'm writing on a crossover fanfic at the moment, and it's just so much fun to have these two worlds collide.
Esther
My lessons learned from Firefly (no. 12):
If you're floating in space all alone, your chances are one in about... a very big number. (well… here I am)
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Originally posted by nvghostrider:
Worse yet. 'Coats would be defined as a class of folk too geeky to be defined. No offense to the Broncoat/Trekkies out there. Would just hate for 'coats to be wrongly classified. Browncoats are so diverse it is painful to try rememberin' where everyone comes from. Makes us more like family.
I hate to tell you but, as a Trek fan of over 30 years, the one group of fans who most remind me of Trekkies are Browncoats - and there's nothing wrong with that. Sure, Trekkies are seen as geeks but, in case you didn't know, so are all Sci-Fi fans be they SG-1 fans, Star Wars fans, Browncoats or whoever. The general public will put us all in together, even though we're from every walk of life - I'm a Catholic priest for example. I know there will be rivalry between fans but there shouldn't be any snobbery. We're die-hard fans and that's what makes us mighty, that's what ensures that the Force is with us and that's what makes sure that we'll all Live Long and Prosper!
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I just keep it these images in my mind. What if the brain of Jayne from Firefly was switched with the Jane from Voyager be evil aliens. I say evil because this would obviously be evil.
Jayne would be "Where are my man parts?"
Jane would be "Got to try this out."
Must leave this thread. Run to nearest airlock. Or if on Enterprize, nearest transporter.
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CYBERSNARK,
I think you`ve just written the background for the next Star Trek series, if it ever gets made.
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Sadly it wouldn't work.
When they made TNG (and Roddenberry realized that he had a franchise on his hands), he created a "franchise bible." It's like a series bible, except that it deals with all subsequent TV series. His rules were thus:
-All Star Trek series must centre on a Starfleet crew.
-The central character of any Trek series (which usually works out to be the Captain) must be human. (This is because Trek is an allegory, and regardless of how many aliens there are, it must be "about" humans.)
(There are nonhuman captains in Starfleet, of course, but none of them can ever be allowed to carry a series.)
DS9 played fast and loose with this (Starfleet crew, but a whole passel of civillian characters. Human captain, but he effectively became a Bajoran citizen), but all other series must either follow these rules (and alienate the fandom that wants something new and creative) or throw out Roddenberry's "Creative Vision" (and alienate the fandom that considers TOS to be Gospel and Roddenberry to be God).
The only loophole is through the novels (alien captains, non-Starfleet crews, civillian life). . .
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Originally posted by goat:
One of the reasons that Star Trek increased in popularity after being cancelled was due to the number of times it was rerun on TV. At the time, the networks wouldn't rerun a series unless it had so many episodes (I think that it was somewhere around 60 but I'm not sure) and the original Star Trek had a few (one or two) more than the minimum. It was cheap to rerun, so it saw a lot of airtime late at night when the networks weren't showing new stuff and gained a new following because of it.
With cable and satellite TV, this isn't as much of an issue anymore but its an interesting piece of trivia that just farther to show my nerd-ishness. Oh well.
My poor mom... for quite a long time, dinner was eaten promptly at 6pm, off a tv tray, with good old Channel 11 (NY) in the place of honor. Wanna hear geek to the nth degree? I used to TAPE them on one of those 5lb metal push-button tape recorders (rectangular with a handle on one end, remember, old people?) then either play them to fall asleep by or bring the tapes to misfit-artsy-kid daycamp the next day, so we could all listen. It was a primitive version of portable DVD players, lol!
I think there were 78 episodes plus the pilot? It's hard to even imagine - 78 episodes spread over only 3 years. Boggles the mind, doesn't it? Back then, it was normal. Sigh.
Walk tall, or don't walk at all...
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Since the current situation with Star Trek seems to be that the franchise is all but dead, Paramount appears to be be in the process of selling off props and breaking up sets. It seems likely to me that if Star Trek is to continue in some form then its likely that whoever is now in charge will decide to throw away the bible and take it in a new direction.
Since new ideas in Hollywood are about as rare as finding a grass lawn in the Sahara then its likely that they will `borrow` from other series.
As Firefly, despite its short run and initial apparent failure now has a growing fanbase, has been well received in the SF community generally and has already had some influence on subsequent series its a prime candidate for being mined for ideas.
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I heard tell that J.J. Abrams, creator of Lost and Mission: Impossible 3, is set to direct the next Star Trek movie once he's finished with Lost, and that it's gonna be focusing on a young Kirk and Spock in the Starfleet academy, if anyones interested.
"The patients were cynical and not responding."
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