Star Trek: Re-Booted

Imagine a new version of the classic “Star Trek” series with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, “re-booted” so to speak, and rewritten to account for what we know is technologically feasible in the year 2006, and then extrapolate that into the 23rd century setting of the show. This is a similar tack taken by SciFi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica”, which turned out great.

Well, this is just what was pitched to Paramount back in 2004. Bryce Zabel "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven") and J. Michael Straczynski ("Babylon 5") teamed up on a treatment outlining this fascinating proposition, which Zabel recently posted. CLICK TO READ IT NOW! Further details can be found on Zabel’s excellent blog here.

Too bad Paramount didn’t go for it dammit.

(Artwork by Nancy Tokos)