Comments on: Braga’s Back!

By: CZeke

CZeke — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:27:00 +0000

Holy crap, Braga’s writing Trek again? How am I just hearing about this now? Definitely gonna pick this up.

This isn’t his first comic project, btw. Turns out he’s a big Iron Man fan; he recently got to write a miniseries, “Iron Man Vs. Whiplash”, to coincide with Iron Man 2. (Marvel decided it would be wise to introduce a new Whiplash in the comics, since the original character was nothing like the one in the film. Also, he was dead.)

By: Red Robin

Red Robin — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:12:00 +0000

Braga’s simplistic, 8 year old child view of the universe has tainted everything he has done since he was promoted to show runner/creator. Yes, he wrote AMAZING episodes like TNG’s “Schisms” and VGR’s “Projections”. But he also ran the franchise into the ground by constantly striving for the lowest common denominator and dumbing down trek until we got the crap that was ENT’s “Stigma” and pretty much all of season two and three. It was only Manny Coto who delivered an excellent season four of Enterprise. Braga is a hack and should never be allowed NEAR Trek again. Now if RDM or Coto put out a mini series, I’d be all over that. But as it stands, after picking up issue 1, this will be the first Trek book that I wont buy since 1991 (when I was 11).

By: Kang the Unbalanced

Kang the Unbalanced — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:34:00 +0000

Win.

By: seventhbeacon

seventhbeacon — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:46:00 +0000

Voyager I understand, it felt like TNG re-runs with minor twists. Enterprise was just a train wreck until the final season. DS9 however, remains my favorite series in the franchise. It’s okay to be different from the source status quo, as long as the story is deep and well-written. It did a lot of new things and pushed the boundaries in a generally positive fashion, the opposite of the close-minded you accuse the creative minds behind it of being.
While I think Abrams produced an entertaining film, I think it lacked the depth and subtletly of the best of Trek. Was it a waste? Maybe not, especially if the next movie hits the ground running and gives us more meaty plot, but there is something to the style of all Abrams’ productions that ring of “all polish and no substance” and his Trek had some of those same problems. It did, however, revitalize the franchise and bring in new fans, and for that I’m very happy with the end product.

By: trekfan

trekfan — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:23:00 +0000

That would be a nice parody!

By: Polaris01313-1

Polaris01313-1 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:13:00 +0000

More like how to ruin Star Trek by mishandling the franchise. Remember, Moore and Braga had written Kirk’s death scene in a less than graceful fashion. Even after the scene was re-written and re-shot, it was still less than graceful. The destruction of the Enterprise-D was nothing more than a repeat of the original Enterprise’s self-destruction in The Search For Spock.

Rick Berman literally drove the Star Trek franchise into the ground by recycling the same old BS over and over again with those unecessary spin-offs DS9 and Voyager. Even Enterprise didn’t help matters much.

And if that were not enough – Insurrection was nothing more than a NG version of The Omega Glory. Nemesis a NG welding of The Wrath Of Khan and The Undiscovered Country.

As for Fred Freiberger….uh, Spock’s Brain anyone? And The Children Shall Lead? Turnabout Intruder?

Abrams brought life back into Star Trek. I don’t know why you people have to act so ‘Edward Jellico’ about his efforts(i.e. be arrogant, close-minded and not face the truth).

Egotistical purists, fan or otherwise, certainly have a bad habit of turning something cool into something bad. Star Trek is not a social country club, but you arrogant close-minded types certainly are turning Roddenberry’s sci-fi classic into such a pigmire!

By: AirElephant

AirElephant — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Tangent time. Your comment made me think about Futurama and heads in jars.

I can imagine an episode where Brannon Braga’s head is in a Jar and Fry, after rambling to the head about various Star Trek time travel episodes that bothered him, accidentally knocks Brannon’s head into a nearby wormhole. Transported light years away, Braga’s head lands on the unoccupied body of a Borg Queen. Braga, finding the biomechanical zombie body irresistible, begins to fondle the various Borg-bits before the real Borg Queen’s head arrives and vaporizes him.

Don’t wake me up! This is my favorite dream episode.

By: trekfan

trekfan — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:55:00 +0000

Cool. Nice to see this Trek veteran back.

500 years in the future…

It would be nice if the next Star Trek series took place in that time. And even better if Braga worked on it.

By: trekfan

trekfan — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:46:00 +0000

You know what’s a real disaster? Abrams & Co.

Those people you mention at least knew how to make good Star Trek.

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:29:00 +0000

That fill your daily quota of inserting Farragut Films-bashing into posts on unrelated subject material? Or can we look forward to more?