Star Trek goes Quantum

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Star Trek goes Quantum.

Here's an image to conjure with. How would you fancy the chappie who played Sam Beckett - that famous time-jumping character from Quantum Leap - a-leaping into the captain's chair on the new Trek series set to replace Voyager when she reaches home?

Yes, indeed. Actor Scott Bakula is said to have been approached to fill the big man's command chair on the new series. If Paramount scuttlebutt has it correctly, we may now be looking at a pre-Kirk Trek series, featuring an early 22nd century Enterprise.

The Captain is also said to have been written with a chip on his block about Vulcans - blaming them for many of humanity's woes, in much the same way as ex-colonial Africa blames the interference of the empire builders of Victorian Europe for their current crop failures, wars, and structural problems.

Reconciling the need to bring a new look to the pre-Kirk series, without a return to lyrca shirts, miniskirts, and computers with transistors, the set artists have been asked to create a new look that is more gritty than clean. Are we therefore in for an Enterprise that looks more like the battleships from Aliens or Space: Above and Beyond? Surely not.

The date for Voyager's trip back to Earth is fast approaching too. May 23rd, where the episode will screen on UPN - no doubt to colossal viewing figures in the US. Paramount may not know this, but rumors suggest that a massive organized tape bootlegging effort between fans across the world is now being organized.

With CD-ROM and DVD burners humming, don't be surprised if the final episode is being played - unofficially - on TVs from Buenos Aires to Iceland by May 24th.

There are of course, serious worries now that the next Trek series may become a victim of the Hollywood strike - which as well as hitting the new TV series, also looks like clobbering the Autumn release of the tenth Star Trek movie too.

But at least Trek fans can take ironic comfort in the fact that the Screen Actors Guild's Latinum generating industrial actions are being coordinated by DS9's Quark, alias Armin Shimerman, who in one of those strange twists of fate, is also the co-chair of the Union's wages and working conditions committee.

A Ferngi organizing a strike? Whatever next.

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