My Dream Vulcan
It's probably no secret to anyone who knows me that I have a deep appreciation for Jennifer Garner! I loved Alias, I loved Elektra (I know . . .see my post below this one)--heck, I even loved 13 Going on 30.
SyFy Portal has just reported that Garner is in talks to be a part of the upcoming Star Trek movie (Star Trek XI), directed by JJ Abrams. Apparently, she may play a love interest for a young Spock.
Jennifer Garner as a Vulcan. Be still my beating heart!
I'm not quite sold on Trek XI, but I'm certainly willing to give it a chance. I do think that the Trek franchise would have been better off creating a show featuring Star Trek Academy rather than what they did for Enterprise, but I'm not the once who signs the checks!
Keith Strohm
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They'd do better to move another century past Next Generation and not have to worry about shoehorning stories into time wars or how Klingons lost their ridges and got them back.
The move to film was really more about greed than storytelling, and if they'd actually hire good sf writers to do the stories, I think even Enterprise might've worked.
Agreed with you on Jennifer Garner, but they need more than beautiful women who can act to make this franchise start up again.
Wow, I didn't see this comment until this morning. Sorry about that. I like the idea of moving the new Trek into the future. Also, I am actually enough of a continuity dweeb that changes to the Trekverse between shows bothers me to no end. The fact that Enterprise played around with Stellar Geography, or example, making the Klingon Homeworld a mere three days' journey from Earth closed my mind to the show. Not just because of the change, but because of how nonsensical such a change was given the rest of the continuity.
If Earth were just three day's "slow" warp from the Klingons, don't you think Earth would have been a Klingon colony before we discovered warp travel . . .sigh.
Anyway, moving the new Trek into the future lets them create new things and add twists to establishd things. What would appen, for example, if the Organians allowed the Borg to assimilate them--the Borg might in turn be assimilated by the pacifist philosophy and peaceful nature of these powerfully advanced beings, creating an entirely new species. And what if other parts of the Collective detached to avoid this. Now you have Borg civil war! :)