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I do, but will the studio be willing to pay for a porn director to come in and film Star Trek III: Captain Kirk and the Quest For the Pastel Colored One-Night Stands
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Oh man, and if what I've heard about Vin Diesel is right, he's gonna be all over that in the best way possible.
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Well, improved odds of my enjoying the next movie, even if it does end up being a bit more generic space action.
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I'd heard that Shatner was apparently going to be brought in if Abrams was directing again. Maybe with a change in leadership, that won't happen. Apparently it's exponentially harder to get Shatner into a Star Trek movie than it is to get Nimoy, from what some of the news articles mention.
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One can hope. This movie needs to step away from the original timeline completely and stand on its own. No Old Spock, no Old Kirk, I'd even suggest not using any villain characters from TOS (Although I am partial to the idea of a modern take on the Doomsday Machine).
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The Doomsday Machine should be unavoidable regardless. Old!Spock would probably be implicit that the Enterprise should be on the scene from the word 'Go'. Of course, I'm not Hollywood, so that means that they're not gonna make any sense with how they go about things. (Also, the Doomsday Machine was, in reality, a threat even worse than Nero - even once he got a hold of the Red Matter. Nero only wanted to destroy the Federation. The Doomsday Machine would have destroyed everything.)
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Hell, if you want to get into very serious old-timeline threats that wouldn't have been negated by the switch to a new timeline, Nomad is also capable of sterilizing entire planets so fast they barely get a distress call out, and can fire blasts each equivalent to 90 photon torpedoes. This is not something you want to let roam about your universe if you've got a time traveler who can warn you it's coming.
"The Creator instructs ... seek out ... identify ... sterilize imperfection...."
I trust Old!Spock has talked to somebody at Starfleet to save all those baby Hortas, too. No need to show that, though ... or the warning to the Intrepid about the space bacterium, or to the Exeter about bio-contamination on Omega IV, or....
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Yeah, I more-or-less expected somebody, or several somebodies, had already come up with the idea. If I can think of it....
And yes, that is a pretty nice fic. I think the bit about teaching T'Pau ping-pong may have tickled me more than any of the other vignettes, although I'm not sure why.
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