kirk

i can’t think of anything to say so i’ll just start typing and see what comes out.

saw team america. it was awful. i don’t really recommend seeing it. that said, i’ll be quoting bits of it for years.

it would have been much better as an episode of south park, condensed down to just the really really good bits.

there are trailers out that i need to track down for tim burton’s willy wonka movie, spielberg’s war of the worlds, and the neil gaiman’s mirror mask.

i’d forgotten that ultraviolet, the vampire movie coming next year starring milla, is written/directed by kurt wimmer, who wrote/directed equilibrium. apparently, this time he’s going to do gun kata the way he really wanted to when he did equilibrium. i can’t wait.

i dug out my script for chas vs courtney. good stuff. that’ll be the first geometric strip.

i’m doing like 90% of my christmas shopping on amazon. whether i’ll be able to get stuff in time for christmas remains to be seen(fairly unlikely since i won’t be able to order until saturday(this is why i want a credit card, so i can borrow money from myself)) but i don’t mind if it’s late.

i wish i knew if i was ever going to get the star trek ships and panda z minifigures hlj sent to alaska by mistake.

i can’t stop having ideas for star trek, but at the same time, i can’t quite fit my ideas into the star trek mold. it’s one of those situations i run into so many times where i’m probably better off taking the good and original bits of those ideas and creating a new universe for them that isn’t bound by trek’s rules.

but then i can’t use the solid framework trek has already set up, and i can’t bring new ideas into the tired and stale trek franchise. i love star trek, and i’d rather save it than create it’s replacement. to that end, i now have five star trek series ideas.

there’s the standard starfleet academy concept, following a group of cadets from academy through to their first assignments. ideally, written by joss whedon.

then there’s my bizarre variant of that, star trek: academy, about a group of geeky real-world college kids living a fantasy star trek life on campus.

then there’s star trek 2, which is set between the movies and next gen, about a movie era non-enterprise federation ship. returns to the space western roots from the original show, the kind of thing enterprise tried and failed to do.

then there’s the bizarre idea i had based on boston legal, where an aging and senile captain kirk is being minded/replaced by a burnt-out captain james spader.

and finally there’s star trek: odyssey, which is a fusion of ideas and leftover story elements from classic trek, next gen, ds9, and voyager; essentially next generation 2, it’s set 50-odd years after voyager gets back, and tells the story of a five year mission to another galaxy.

most of the stuff i want to do with these shows i could do in the world i’ve set up for dofa/suits/mentalism, but it wouldn’t be as epic. i don’t have a galaxy full of alien species, it’s pretty much just humans until we all die out. at the point in my universe where i’ve got a huge galaxy-wide diaspora of varied lifeforms and cultures, it’s more of a star wars universe.

i would have to create an entirely original universe to use my trek ideas, or else set it millions of years from now. or change my existing universe, which i’m not sure i want to do…

thuse, the trek ideas keep coming. i don’t imagine they’ll stop anytime soon. maybe someday i can go to paramount, pitch all of these, and they’ll do one, and i’ll have saved star trek.

although enterprise is supposed to have gotten good again, so maybe i don’t need to save star trek after all. i can just save star trek comics.

or do an anime. that’d be cool.