'Star Trek' Captains to Team Up?

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Posted Friday August 20, 2010 7 hours, 40 minutes ago

Star Trek captains William Shatner, Patrick Stewart and Scott Bakula are set to join forces in a new movie.

The trio will reportedly star in the unnamed film that will be set in the 'mirror universe,' which was featured in both the Next Generation and Enterprise TV series.

An insider tells movie gossip website CanMag.com, ""Apparently Shatner was in talks to do a guest role on Enterprise, but it didn't work out. The ideas for the episode will now be incorporated into a movie.""

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This sounds like a terrible idea. Though, as long as Kirk is only in the mirror universe it might be ok.... if he didn't die in Generations I guess...

How in the hell are they going to fit Archer into that though?

Kirk and Archer could overlap, but not when William Shatner is as old as he is.
 
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No. It took J.J. Abrams to reboot Star Trek into something fun and watchable again. It's like getting a Ferrari back from the mechanic and then pointing it full speed at the nearest concrete divider.
 
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Huh.. ya know, we never DID see a mirror version of Picard... what, would that mean he likes kids now? Hopefully not in a Michael Jackson creepy kinda way..

Oh think of the possibilities! A smartass Data, evil Geordi, punk Wesley (well.. no difference there) .. no Worf cause his mirror version is dead (I think.. never was a DS9 fan) Wil and Deanna Troi... man my mind is already boggling.
 
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Matt² said:
Huh.. ya know, we never DID see a mirror version of Picard... what, would that mean he likes kids now? Hopefully not in a Michael Jackson creepy kinda way..

Oh think of the possibilities! A smartass Data, evil Geordi, punk Wesley (well.. no difference there) .. no Worf cause his mirror version is dead (I think.. never was a DS9 fan) Wil and Deanna Troi... man my mind is already boggling.
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There was a least one TNG franchise book with the Mirror universe. Deanna Troi was quite the sadist.

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Mirror-S...r_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282342951&sr=8-13
 
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No. It took J.J. Abrams to reboot Star Trek into something fun and watchable again. It's like getting a Ferrari back from the mechanic and then pointing it full speed at the nearest concrete divider.
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actually, smashing a newly repaired Ferrari into a concrete divider is exactly the best idea ever, and would be awesome to see.
 
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It's hard to describe just how enormous the gap in awesome there was between the regular awful theme and the perfect mirror universe eps theme.
 
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I doubt this is legit anyway... the article doesn't list any source, and no one else has reported on it.
 
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Not to derail too much, but despite the theme (and the fans), I liked Enterprise. I thought it brought a nice gritty realism to the Trekverse. Tech wasn't perfected. Ships were pieced together from modular parts. People resorted to less than savory actions for the greater good. It fell nicely between our world and the far future. Plus, I like Bakula.
 
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Maybe we have different opinions of what constitutes "gritty". Dealing with the murder of millions of Floridians, backstabbing crewmembers, blowing up treaty-protected bases, subverting Vulcan High Command... that all sounds pretty gritty to me.

gritty (from OAD): Showing toughness and resolve, toughness and uncompromising. That pretty much describes the character they wrote for Archer.
 
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I mean, it's the way they dealt with those situations, to be clear. They didn't follow the book, Archer did what it took, which is something Picard usually had a fairly hard stance against.

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And it wasn't my definition. Like I said, it was from Oxford. It's the definition.
 
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fade said:
I mean, it's the way they dealt with those situations, to be clear. They didn't follow the book, Archer did what it took, which is something Picard usually had a fairly hard stance against.

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And it wasn't my definition. Like I said, it was from Oxford. It's the definition.
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No, it's a definition, and not one that's typically used when describing a work of fiction. When someone says a work is gritty, they don't usually mean the characters in it are "gritty" (as in tough), they mean the work itself is gritty. I really hate to quote Wiktionary and Urban Dictionary, since they're not particularly reliable sources, and I'm not implying that they're in any way authoritative, but they do a good job of describing the word.

Wiktionary said:
gritty (comparative grittier, superlative grittiest)

1. Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
2. Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
3. (film, literature) Intense and starkly realistic, especially if violent.
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Urban Dictionary said:
harsh, coarse, rough and unrefined, as in film depictions that portray life as it truly is, without false distortions, stylizations, or idealizations. Often, the realism is exaggerated such that the culture or society being portrayed appears more coarse than it really is.
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Enterprise sucked, especially with all the Suliban / Time Meddling. Leave that crap to Doctor Who.
 
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