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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    I can't believe so many people are against allegory in a Trek film.

    Have any of you ever watched the Original Series or Next Generation?

    Next thing you know, people will be complaining about the X-Men being a metaphor for racism/discrimination.
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    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    Bush sucks!1111!

    Christ move on already.
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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    09/16/09

    @soulpilgrim:

    Not until...

    ...the Iraq problem is solved.
    ...the war in Afghanistan is finished.
    ...New Orleans is restored.
    ...the economy improves.

    And, really, the rule is you're allowed to bitch about a breakup for half the time of the relationship. Applying that to Bush means I get at least 3 more years to make fun of that idiot.
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    Image of BritSwedeGuy BritSwedeGuy
    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    The rest of the world will stop going on about Guantanamo when the USA stops going on about 9/11 - deal?
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    cletar promoted this comment Edited by BritSwedeGuy at 09/16/09 4:32 AM BritSwedeGuy was starred BritSwedeGuy was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    Its our worst fears all along. Trek 2. The crew Vs plants.......and social disorder!!
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    09/16/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    The biggest issue of our time is global climate change. I wouldn't be surprised if the next Trek movie has the Enterprise crew trying to stop some global climate disaster somewhere.
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    09/16/09

    @Roklimber: Wasn't that ST:IV?
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    Image of dry-roasted-peanuts dry-roasted-peanuts
    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    What are we going to be torturing them with, Green Matter and Camel brand cigarettes?
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    Right now all I care about new TREK is that it never goes where it has bodly gone before but goes in a new and intelligent direction.
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    Image of Marasai Marasai
    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    Yeah, i already saw that episode of enterprise. I realize its a bit much, but maybe these guys could give us something we haven't already seen before?

    Wasn't that the entire purpose of the quasi reboot?
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    09/15/09

    @Marasai: I, too, remember the episode of which you speak. They also did it in next Gen, but Picard was the torturee.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    09/16/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: Which he bore rather well. Preach it Picard, you should them how Star Fleet officers stand up to torture.
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    Image of justingeist justingeist
    09/16/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Little known fact: That scene was based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Read act 4, scene 5. Petruchio puts a Cardassian-level mindfuck on Kate.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    Well, if the crazy-ass Federation president responded to the destruction of Vulcan by attacking...the Klingons (who didn't actually have anything to do with the destruction of Vulcan)...you could get some modern-day social commentary out of that. And some kick-ass space-battle fx.
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    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    Maybe this team will have the guts (unlike the Berman era) to include gay people on any level this time around. Wether it be an actual character or just some kind of background acknowledgment. The gay Trek fans will take what they can get at this point. I think that's certainly a very up to date social issue.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    I think torture/Guantanamo allegories have already been beaten to death on film and tv.

    ( [www.sadtrombone.com] )

    If they want to be topical, they should have the Enterprise crew fight an impending ban on vulcan/human interspecies marriages.

    The romantic subplot would automatically surface once Kirk and Spock realize they both share the same passion for intergalactic liberty and lens flares.

    Then Uhura could also get that fight scene she wanted with Kirk!
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    Image of Jeriba Jeriba
    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    It will be about the ongoing war between the people who are Arab on the right side and Israeli on the left side and the people who are Israeli on the right side and Arab on the left side.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    Spock & Kirk Escape from Guantanamo Bay?
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    This sounds like maybe we're going to see that in this alternate reality that Khan Moonien Singh was found earlier and sent to Space Guantanamo and is tortured and gravely mistreated.

    Thus, when he breaks out and swears vengeance against Starfleet, he will be a more complicated and ambiguous character.
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    Image of mosquitosBuzzz mosquitosBuzzz
    09/15/09

    In reply to Star Trek Going To Guantanamo? Next Trek Will Be Topical, Say Creators
    Sounds like a "safe-bet" follow up. A war in space is a gaurantee at the box office. Space fights, lasers, spacesplosions... and maybe even some kind of dog fight involving individual piloted attack ships, who knows what else they'll take from StarWars? but it should be cool.

    Reflecting modern day issues sounds like a review I read once regarding Battlestar being the best show on television exactly because of its clever portrayal of modern issues.... so its a safe bet, and it should look really cool. I was most impressed by the space battle scenes, they looked just phenomenal in Imax, more more more please.

    Oh and at the very very end like after the credits or something, have the SS Botany Bay float by...
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    09/15/09

    @mosquitosBuzzz:

    Well said.
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