To Boldy Go...Again?

Apparantly Byan Singer and Patrick Stewart have been having some non-mutant discussions on the set of X3, as evident by this interesting tidbit here:

Singer Ponders Directing Next Star Trek Film

Now I'm not one to say that Bryan Singer is the "savior director" but he did do an amazing job on the X-Men and he's showing a great deal of dedication to making Superman Returns. He is at least a director that understands the genre and the fanbase (unlike perhaps, Berman & Braga).

What would be great, is that if Singer were to employ Manny Coto, the fan-turned-co executive producer of Enterprise in it's fourth season. If you weren't watching Enterprise (and many, many people weren't) you really missed a treat for Classic Star Trek fans. But, he understood what it was that made Trek the hit that it was more than probably anyone since Gene Rodenberry. Singer's direction with Coto's input would be great.

However, after the lackluster showing of Star Trek : Nemesis (which I suspect was much less about the film itself and more about the fact it was released a week prior to The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) it's obvious that Trek has problems. Berman, Brannon and Braga have been sited by many as the prime reasons. I think as a TV series, it's a lost cause for now. But, a feature film COULD be good if the right team was attached. So in no particular order, here are some thoughts:

1) Classic Crew - We've lost both Jimmy Doohan (Scotty) and DeForest Kelly (McCoy) so a classic crew is prett much out of the question. Quite frankly, the Excelsior fan-favorite idea wouldn't work as George Takei as Sulu would not be able to hold the film. Shatner would also be pushing 80 by the time this film would roll around. It just wouldn't work.

2) Next Gen - Still viable, despite the idiotic "switch" in Data's at the end. I'm not sure you want to try and waste time picking up those pieces but it would sure be good to see Stewart in the command chair again. You could always say that Data's body wasn't destroyed and reprogram him from B4, but it's that kind of thinking that got Trek into trouble in the first place.

3) DS9 - I know that Dr. Heimlich will jump on me for this, but I never could get into this series and I don't believe it to be the best. Honestly, I thought it WASN'T Trek. I agree with Rodenberry that Trek was always about The Enterprise. Not the people. To me, DS9 was just an ugly series that took way too long to find it's way.

4) Voyager - No. Just...no.

5) Enterprise - Sadly, no as well. As much as I liked T'Pol's character as well as Tripp, the rest of them just weren't that engaging.

6) Move Forward - Pick the series up post-Next Gen. A lot of people have suggested that we could pick up after the yet-to-occur Borg War. This really starts to look a bit like Galactica though.

7) Reunification - What if Spock succeeded and the Vulcans and Romulans reunified only it went the other way? Vulcans decide that the Romulan way is correct and that Humans and Klingons, responsible for more outright war and destruction, need to be eliminated (from the Romulan perpective) or at least contained (from the Vulcan perspective).

8) Enterprise NCC-1701-M - Same story, pushed a couple hundred years into the future. Eliminate the Klingons (long since died out), push the Romulans back, introduce some new races as we expand the Federation into the galaxy. Make a Galaxy-class truly that and begin pushing into other galaxies. The Borg cannot be the worse things out there.

Anyway, those are some thoughts. Yours?