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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 8:13:55 GMT
More of The Kelvin Timeline Cast
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Post by mbt66 on Mar 28, 2021 13:04:08 GMT
More of The Kelvin Timeline Cast Seeing as they haven’t done a fourth film because the cast wanted too much money, I doubt Big Finish would be able to afford them!
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Post by Kestrel on Mar 29, 2021 1:10:37 GMT
More of The Kelvin Timeline Cast Seeing as they haven’t done a fourth film because the cast wanted too much money, I doubt Big Finish would be able to afford them! There's still hope, at least. I'd kill for a Big Finish to do some Babylon 5 stories, but so much of the cast (most?) has passed on by now--all too soon.
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Post by The Matt on Mar 29, 2021 11:05:06 GMT
I would love a BF Trek set in TOS time. A new ship and crew obviously as the cost of using the surviving cast would be ridiculous.
Can't get enough quality Trek for me and I need something to make up for the slightly disappointing Picard and the almost unwatchable Lower Decks
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Post by iainmclaughlin on Mar 30, 2021 15:24:08 GMT
1. A continuation of Enterprise. This is basically the equivalent of the 6th Doctor's era of the TV show, right? A lot of potential for awesome storytelling let down by really, really awful writing.... cancelled right when things were finally improving. The "Rise of the Federation" books would provide some basic groundwork--stories focusing on the Earth-Romulan War, and the eventual establishment and early years of the Federation. Many years ago, when I was bored and waiting for notes on a few jobs, I planned out my own Season 5 of Enterprise - just wondering "What would I have done at that time and I need use some of the stuff that was talked about?" I mapped out a 22 episode season, which would have led into the Romulan War. Episode one was based around troubles on Mars and ended with Archer and T'Pol killed in a "terrorist" bomb blast. The next couple of episodes were dealing with their deaths, repairs o a damaged Enterprise (if I'd known about the secondary hull refit I'd have gone for that) and the assigning of a new captain and science officer. The new captain was Bill April - yes, an ancestor of Robert April - and I had Tom Selleck in mind. He was doing ropey TV movies back then so it was possible. Parminder Nagra would have been the new science officer - brought by April from his previous command. Out of spacedock their first job is to find who bombed Mars and killed the captain. There was a fistfight lifted straight from Coward of the County. with April leading a party including Trip and Malcolm to a meeting with someone who had information but wasn't for sharing it. It looked like April was leading his party to back down but he just locked the door and a punch up between Enterprise crew and villains ensued. It allowed the crew to vent some of their rage and got them onside with the new skipper - and they got the info. All this time, Archer and T'Pol still crop up in flashbacks, old video messages, they're part of the conversation... but everybody is accepting that they're dead. Trip gets drunk and has a one nighter with a crewmember, which starts to develop into more than a one nighter. Adventures ensue for a few episodes until they have evidence that it was a plot by an alien government and the Enterprise has to meet a contact on Rigel - and the contacts are Archer and T'Pol. They beamed out just in time but were listed dead to let them investigate incognito. And they've found that it's possibly a Vulcan who was behind it. Except the Vulcan is Romulan and he's T'Pol's dad and we're into the start of the Romulan War. I think April stayed in command of the Enterprise until 12 or 13, when he transferred to his own ship of the same class. The two ships were in the series through to the end of the season. I think I had one episode that was just a battle. A really intense, desperate one. I may have suggested doing it in real time. I can't remember. There was an attack on a Vulcan colony, border worlds attacked, crew coming to terms with the deaths of Archer and T'Pol and then getting on with their lives and... oh thank you god they're alive, but oh bother I'm in bed with somebody else... I can't remember much else about it other than that I was pretty pleased with it and really liked Bill April as a captain. I liked T'Pol's arc, which ended with her killing her dad to stop him transmitting vital war data to Romulus, just after he drops the bombshell that she's half Romulan. Everybody got episodes focused on them. I've no idea where its stored but I might look it out some time and see if it actually is any good. My memory may be conning me.
Eeh, the things you do when you're bored, eh?
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Post by Kestrel on Mar 31, 2021 1:47:07 GMT
Ahahaha... I won't be one to judge. My first (and only) foray into fanfiction was to rewrite a 50-episode cartoon series to ""fix" the original's many and myriad problems. I think I made it through 36 or so "episodes" before abandoning the project.
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Post by constonks on Mar 31, 2021 4:43:31 GMT
Like I don't see any scenario where the TOS or TNG casts get back together to record stories. For TNG, I admit Patrick's a long shot, but I can completely imagine a subset of the cast being into it. People like Frakes and Sirtis whose whole careers pivot around Star Trek. (Also have a glance at what Big Finish has done for Adric, then let me sell you this new and refurbished Wesley Crusher.) Haven't checked out Enterprise yet myself - but if BF ever got Scott Bakula, my next "Just Imagine" thread would be about Quantum Leap!
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Mar 31, 2021 6:51:16 GMT
I'm surprised nobody's suggested* what I'd see as the obvious option: the USS Excelsior. A major established character/actor (but not "too big" for Big Finish to potentially get), an interesting setting that's mostly unexplored (post Original Series, Pre-Next Generation), and there was massive fan demand for a series a while back. It feels so obvious to me I'm sure I'm forgetting something...
An Enterprise continuation would also be fun and not impossible.
*As as I could see. Apologies if I missed a post while skimming the thread.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2021 8:04:46 GMT
I'm surprised nobody's suggested* what I'd see as the obvious option: the USS Excelsior. A major established character/actor (but not "too big" for Big Finish to potentially get), an interesting setting that's mostly unexplored (post Original Series, Pre-Next Generation), and there was massive fan demand for a series a while back. It feels so obvious to me I'm sure I'm forgetting something... An Enterprise continuation would also be fun and not impossible. *As as I could see. Apologies if I missed a post while skimming the thread. It's a good idea. Sounds as though he'd be interested, too. Takei's a regular and current voice actor, from memory, so in all likelihood, there'd be very little need for adjustment there. I think the Excelsior idea would be fun in the same way as the Archer era Enterprise concept; i.e. seeing how we got from A to B (I'd read the hell out of that, iainmclaughlin ). Moving through the age of Enterprise-A's enquiring frontiersman bowing out to the carefully balanced brinkmanship of the Enterprise-D and Picard's crew. The old and the bold making way for the new and the few. Excelsior at the spearpoint. A mix of the two eras would be rather interesting. The rough-and-tumble of TOS and the philosophy of TNG. There's even a ready-made adversary in the conspirators left after the Khitomer conference.
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Post by tuigirl on Mar 31, 2021 17:18:55 GMT
I'm surprised nobody's suggested* what I'd see as the obvious option: the USS Excelsior. A major established character/actor (but not "too big" for Big Finish to potentially get), an interesting setting that's mostly unexplored (post Original Series, Pre-Next Generation), and there was massive fan demand for a series a while back. It feels so obvious to me I'm sure I'm forgetting something... An Enterprise continuation would also be fun and not impossible. *As as I could see. Apologies if I missed a post while skimming the thread. I would be on board... They could even get Tim Russ as a guest star.
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Post by Kestrel on Mar 31, 2021 19:19:10 GMT
I think that's probably the ideal way to do it--or, alternatively, an Enterprise-C show. Setting the range within the "golden era" of the TV show would maximize opportunities for fanservice from fan-favorite characters, while minimizing the opportunities for disastrous,y affecting continuity. Then whether Sulu or Garret, there's the one big familiar character to draw fans in, with lots of open spots in the roster for new characters to be inserted. Like I don't see any scenario where the TOS or TNG casts get back together to record stories. For TNG, I admit Patrick's a long shot, but I can completely imagine a subset of the cast being into it. People like Frakes and Sirtis whose whole careers pivot around Star Trek. (Also have a glance at what Big Finish has done for Adric, then let me sell you this new and refurbished Wesley Crusher.) Haven't checked out Enterprise yet myself - but if BF ever got Scott Bakula, my next "Just Imagine" thread would be about Quantum Leap! First couple seasons of Enterprise are pretty weak (not as bad as the Kurtzman stuff, though) but it starts to pick up really well in the third season (if you don't mind all the "War on a terror" analogy, at least) and the final season, barring the finale, is pretty fantastic. I definitely recommend trying it out sometime--if you do decide to skip any of the early episodes, though, at least make sure you watch the ones with Jeffrey Combs (plays Shran in ENT; Weyoun in DS9; mad scientist in 4400). Quantum Leap would definitely be cool to see, but I dunno how well it'd work on audio. Wasn't a lot of the humor based on visual gags? But, yeah, I can think of a ton of properties I'd love to see Big Finish tackle. The aforementioned 4400, for example; Babylon 5; the X-Files, maybe; Blackadder; Red Dwarf; etc.
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Post by Jeedai on Apr 1, 2021 3:46:35 GMT
Quantum Leap would definitely be cool to see, but I dunno how well it'd work on audio. Wasn't a lot of the humor based on visual gags? Sam stopping to describe the face he sees in the mirror before saying "Oh boy!"... I just don't see that working.
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