Straight from inside Paramount, that was Brannon Braga’s work. Manny (a friend of a friend) is really pissed about that ending and last I heard, he had no idea how to write himself out of it. I feel his pain. The only thing I could come up with (speaking with friend) was it leading to an explanation for all those parallel earths seen in TOS… Then it’s straightforward mystery/action to figure out they’re not on Earth and something very odd happened to the homeworld…
I consider it an example of Star Trek that my favorite series (ds9) came as a COPY of Babylon 5 (B5 > all, imo), and that the best parts of DS9 came when there was an overall arc.
Overall arcs are the way to do sci-fi, I think. I think it can be roughly defined as “if a problem is presented in an episode, it doesn’t necessarily have to be solved in that same episode”. That happened in the last DS9 season and all throughout B5.
I dunno. I kinda liked how they were self-contained hour long episodes in TNG… the occasional two-parter…
Then again, I’m considering this from the point of the after-TV DVD sales wherein watching 2-3 episodes or more at the same time is possible. Longer stories than just one episode are possible, and pretty good, too.
Fuck.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040709c.php
While I admit this has potential to be cool, there’s a 99.44% probability that with Berman/Braga involved, it’ll suck ass.
— Alan
I’m thinking that the Romulan War movie will never make it out of the script phase. Or worse, end up as a Telefilm on UPN.
Instead of boldly going where no one has gone before, they’re mining a raidly decaying carcass of the original series.
My confidence in Star Trek will go up tenfold if Berman and Braga get their asses fired.
I’d bid 800 quatloos on some newcomers…