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Post by zdnexus on Oct 15, 2006 15:15:37 GMT -5
Many dialogues in Star Trek different series and films have quotes form Shakespear. How about having episodes based on Shakespear's plays. Imaging a Klingon Romeo in love with a Vulcan-Klingon hybrid on a planet called Verona. Or Macbeth starting out with a spectacular space battle and Macbeth becomes the Thane of Cwador (the moorn orbiting the planet Scotland). Even Denmark could be a planet and Hamlet returns to it in his starship - there is a signal which cannot be cleared because alll communications of his father have destroyed or corrupted. Shakespear's tales are timeless they can fit in any time and circumstances and Star Trek is can be a way of telling them.
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xkamelx
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Post by xkamelx on Oct 15, 2006 15:26:17 GMT -5
Many dialogues in Star Trek different series and films have quotes form Shakespear. How about having episodes based on Shakespear's plays. Imaging a Klingon Romeo in love with a Vulcan-Klingon hybrid on a planet called Verona. Or Macbeth starting out with a spectacular space battle and Macbeth becomes the Thane of Cwador (the moorn orbiting the planet Scotland). Even Denmark could be a planet and Hamlet returns to it in his starship - there is a signal which cannot be cleared because alll communications of his father have destroyed or corrupted. Shakespear's tales are timeless they can fit in any time and circumstances and Star Trek is can be a way of telling them. Hi, An interesting idea. In away we did have a Robin Hood episode based on the Robin Hood story when Q sent Picard to Sherwood Forest. Episodes based on Shakespeare plays is an interesting idea, but they would need to tie into the Star Trek universe, the way the Sherwood Forrest did (intervention by Q), otherwise they risk a backlash of people saying they cannot come up with original stories of their own.
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Post by alyeska on Oct 15, 2006 21:35:16 GMT -5
Many dialogues in Star Trek different series and films have quotes form Shakespear. How about having episodes based on Shakespear's plays. Imaging a Klingon Romeo in love with a Vulcan-Klingon hybrid on a planet called Verona. Or Macbeth starting out with a spectacular space battle and Macbeth becomes the Thane of Cwador (the moorn orbiting the planet Scotland). Even Denmark could be a planet and Hamlet returns to it in his starship - there is a signal which cannot be cleared because alll communications of his father have destroyed or corrupted. Shakespear's tales are timeless they can fit in any time and circumstances and Star Trek is can be a way of telling them. Good idea. It would be cool to see Shakespear set in Star Trek times. I saw a play once called "The Complete Works of William Shakespear, Abridged". It was rather funny.
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Post by zdnexus on Oct 24, 2006 14:20:05 GMT -5
the Tempest is another example. The Character Caliban could be a robot or a cyborg. The ship could be called Naples. Ariel could be an elemental alien n aboard the ship the court jester Trinculo could be a hologram only programmed crack jokes or harmless practical ones if there can be an emergency medical hologram why not one simply programmed to crack jokes and have a monstrous library of them. The spirits could be could be trans-dimensional beings. The ideas about in Midsummers Nights Dreams there are fairies, these too could be aliens with unique abilities. All set in the Star Trek universe maybe in the 24th Century.
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Post by thunderquill on Jan 15, 2007 2:53:55 GMT -5
I love it when the bard makes appearances in science fiction from all sorts of worlds, universes and dimensions. (No small feat mind you, considering he's been dead for hundreds of years.) But I don't see Shakespearean elements showing up in Star Trek stories, as being a lack of creativity. It only serves to prove the relevance of both Shakespeare and Star Trek. Perhaps the larger question would be, how has Star Trek shown up in other stories and films outside it's own realm?
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