re: Star Trek: TOS getting rebooted on CBS All-Access

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If they keep it true to TOS with the types of stories, it might not be bad. Still, it would be far better were they to use new characters instead of replaying and replacing established ones.

Tying Michael to Spock and his family and then bringing Pike in... to me that's just lazy writing.

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When TOS first aired, they could put the cast in a room with minimal props and almost no FX and bang out an outstanding episode like "The Empath" and when you actually gave them a little money for FX and you get masterpiece's like "Balance of Terror" or "The Doomsday Machine". This group of writers with more money than then no what to do with thinks over the top FX with a splash of story with obligatory LGBT scenes and girl-power is the recipe to success.

They could learn so much if they would look at all of the TNG, TOS and DS9 episodes that had very little FX that also used a minimum number of actors to see what great writing is all about and build off of it.