No new Star Trek for 2+ yrs | JMS (Babylon 5) wants to run it

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In a panel at the WizardWorld convention in Philadelphia last week, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski was critical of Paramount for its mismanagement of the Star Trek franchise and said that he would like to work on a reboot of the series when the studio is ready to produce more Trek.

Newsarama reported that when Straczynski was asked about whether he had met with Paramount executives about the possibility of him writing for a new Star Trek series, he said that he and Bryce Zabel (of Dark Skies and The Crow: Stairway To Heaven) had written a treatment for a "reboot" of Star Trek, presumably similar to the way Ron Moore reimagined Battlestar Galactica.

Straczynski added that they had spoken to people at Paramount, but the studio felt that the franchise needed to take a two to three year break after the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise. When they decide that it is time for more Star Trek, said Straczynski, "I'll be there" if an offer is made.

In another report on the convention at Comics Continuum, the writer said that he still loved the original series and would like to see it return in triumph. "They're driving that franchise into the ground because they don't understand what it is," he said of Paramount. He also talked about his plans for a television project featuring Marvel comics characters and insisted that he has no further plans for Babylon 5.

more: http://www.trektoday.com/news/080605_03.shtml

[coloradodem2005]

1. I'd be very interested to see what he comes up with.

SHould be better than Berman and Braga.

[Deja Q]

2. Hah! The new BG has turned out to be as boring as bermantrek...

in terms of characters anyway.

They can fill the plots with all the philosophical ideas that they want, but without good, real characters it's pointless. The new BG characters, while some of them are fair, are generally cardboard.

[LeftyMom]

3. Lets not.

B5 was boring as hell.

I heard a rumor a few years ago about a series centered aroung a non-federation ship. I don't know if that would work (and the makeup would probably be a nightmare) but it's a cool idea.