First season Space: 1999 was not too bad - but even in those days watching as a kid I knew some of the science was suspect. If it were rebooted - an actual science advisor or set of writers who know reasonable science and drama could make a decent fist of it. Set the show in '2099' to get around the prematurely advanced tech the Eagle ships and the Moonbase had.And: many of the novelizations were better than the show scripts - because real science fiction writers like Brian Aldiss, EC Tubb and John Rankine 'tweaked' them and improved them. It wouldn't have to BE Space: 1999 rebooted - just based on Space:1999...
How about a reboot of "Salvage One"
Space 1999 had the moon drifting from one star system to the other which would take tens of thousands of years. I always thought that the nuclear pile that caused it to blast out of earth orbit could have a cyclic wormhole creating mechanism similar to Battlestar's FTL drive, but they had no control over it. So it would put them in a star system, but with maybe 48 hours before the next event, but not known with any certainty. Martin Landau and Barbara Bain didn't help, especially the latter who displayed as much on-screen passion as Steven Seagal. She could have been replaced with a poster of herself. Barry Morse was great in season one.
I loved the Wing Commander spin-off videogame Privateer. But it basically won't run on modern hardware, and the flight engine was crap anyway. I know there was a project to modernize the original game, but I want to see full scale re-up.Dream is that Bethesda (Fallout, Skyrim) would do it, and do it right.
Stargate Universe didn't last long in my opinion for a trio of reasons: not all the characters were immediately likeable (not necessarily a handicap), there was 'franchise fatigue' because of being third out of the gate. SG1 was enormously successful, Stargate: Atlantis was moderately successful. And Stargate Universe? Well... It simply wasn't the original SG1 - that show had a fan loyalty.But the premise that 'Universe' came up with near the end? That there was an ancient message/pattern encoded into the fabric and background radiation of the Universe?! That intrigued me.Just like the sometimes unfairly-maligned 'Star Trek: Enterprise' - I think people who didn't give 'SG: Universe' a chance should just go back and revisit it. I think you'd be pleasantly surprised...
Quote from: nacnud on 08/04/2017 09:59 pmA couple of reboots that I would watch would be:Star Cops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_CopsA series based on Enemy Mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Mine_(film)Something based in Iain M. Banks culture universe, although that would be a boot, rather than a reboot.And if we are going to allow boots then a series based around House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds could be amazing.I'd definitely like to see a reboot of star cops - realistic police procedural in space.
A couple of reboots that I would watch would be:Star Cops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_CopsA series based on Enemy Mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Mine_(film)Something based in Iain M. Banks culture universe, although that would be a boot, rather than a reboot.And if we are going to allow boots then a series based around House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds could be amazing.