JMS to save Star Trek?

[Biggles]

According to a slashdot article (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/21/171255), JMS and Dark Skies creator Bryce Zabel have come up with a way to turn Star Trek into "a hell of a show".

[David of Mac]

So? He came up with a pitch. Pitches are a dime a dozen. Now, if Paramount actually provides some indication of listening to the pitch, and accepting it, that'd be news.

So, taking bets: Who thinks JMS is regretting mentioning that pitch, given the unnecessary press it seems to be generating? I mean, considering writer Peter David's (http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/archives/000802.html) thoughts on being misrepresented to make a news story, I bet he isn't exactly thrilled.

[Biggles]

Meh. So I didn't think about the headline that hard. I didn't get much sleep last night due to other, rather historic events. :) At least I put a question mark on the end rather than making it sound like something he was going to do.

[JackN]

Originally posted by Biggles
I didn't get much sleep last night due to other, rather historic events. :)

What?!? One of those volcanoes in Auckland sprout?

:p

[Biggles]

No, but it took something that sure sounded like it (loudest thunder we've had in a while) to wake me up today. :)

[Bekenn]

Gotta agree with David here; this is non-news, and never should have been posted on /. at all, because the simple act of posting it as a serious news item completely distorts the context.

[Mundane]

all publicity is good publicity :)

[Captain,Simmonds]

Whats scary is that on the forums at scifi-meshes I said that they should fire the writers on Enterpirse and hire JMS, a few months ago.

[RubberEagle]

small clarifications from jms:
originally posted by jms (http://jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17119):

There's some misinterpretations of what I said going around...so let's address
them.

>Well - the now verified (from the horse's mouth, so to speak) fact
>that JMS WAS approached on the possibility of taking the reins of Star
>Trek: Enterprise (and wisely turned that down - gag, hack, hack)

Nope. I said that Paramount approached me about coming on board as an EP, not
show-runner position. Berman and Braga would still have run the thing. I
didn't feel that I could function best in that arrangement.

As for the treatment Bryce and I wrote for another Trek series, as I said, we
wrote it on our own, NOT as an assignment from Paramount.

Just in the interests of accuracy.

jms

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