A New Series ?

[GhostShadow]

I think may be the producers should think about working colaboratively with target countries for example US, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia etc where the biggest number of Star Trek fans are. This way they can have guaranteed sales and lower risk. This happens on many productions in Australia (especially Childrens programs which have required content) with co productions with UK, Canada and US.

The reason I say this is that when Gene Rodenbery started TNG they went to sindication to allow production freedom which they never had in TOS. TNG would never have happened without them going into what was then a new concept.

 

I dont think that is gonna happen, trust me i live in America. And American bussnis men are not people you want to meet in a dark ally way. Corrprite America does not care about you, does not care about me, they just want to appeal to the United States whole. They just care about getting as much money as they can for as cheap as they can. now i would assume that it would be considered too large of a step to corprite America to do what you suggest. America has hired some of the smartest people in the world to look into this stuff and they have probly aready crunched some numbers.

It would also mess up star trek sorta. American actors and UK actors are much much diffrent, we would both ave diffrent opinions about what to do and the job would never get done.

 

But I do agree that some changes should be made and if asking the UK to help produce a season faster then so be it. B)

[Wazer]

I think they have done alright with a few British actors ie. Patrick Stewart (Picard), Marina Sirtis (Troi), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Alaxander Siddig (Doctor Bashir) and

Dominic Keating (Lt. Malcolm Reed) to name a few of the most prominant.

Besides they don't nescessarily have to have actor from each contributing country there are are many ways each party could contribute on co-productions. The hardest bit is for producers to agree they sometimes have very different opinions on what the audiences what to see and that's where the corporate guys come in. I think Paramount experienced in this and since they would be involved they should have good expeience in balancing the mass appeal aspect with the good story aspect.