The adventures of Picard and his crew aboard their luxury Hilton-turned-Federation starship took point on leading the charge of quality syndicated TV content, while reinvigorating the then-dormant Trek brand with a new Enterprise crew and new mission.
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When the series did hit bullseye, however – finding a very rich, how'd-they-do-that balance between character and twisty turny plot – Lost was that rare idea that changed the way we watch television, spoiling us on its virtues and, in its absence, reminding us how barren the current genre TV landscape is.Īfter a rough first-two season start, The Next Generation proved that Trek can exist independent from The Original Crew. Despite that, the series became must-see television even when it was more miss than hit – see Nikki and Paulo, chunks of Season 2 and most of Season 6. Entire act breaks and season finales hinged on the characters asking the same mythology questions that we did, so for showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse to say that the series finale is built on what the series is all about – 100 percent characters – is not accurate, and accounts for why the final hours are met with a range of fan reactions. Lost's pilot is one of the best things television has ever made, instantly getting us hooked on the science-vs.-faith struggle between Jack and John Locke, as subsequent episodes would introduce us to the series' dense and inspired mythology centered on flashbacks, DHARMA stations, Smoke Monsters and time travel. Now, on paper, this premise sounds like the mileage is limited how dramatically satisfying can a sci-fi version of Cast Away be? Very, as it turns out.
Abrams' successful Trek reboot gave us a space worth calling the Final Frontier, TOS gave us a reason to want to explore that Frontier in the first place.Ī plane crashes on an Island, and those who survived the crash try to survive in a place governed by random monsoons and occasionally stirred by a monster's mwrrrroar. Several spin-offs and symptoms of franchise fatigue later, Trek manages to weather the fickle tastes of fandom better than most. The production values don't quite hold up, but the heart behind the storytelling does. The show lives and dies on the strength of Kirk, Spock and McCoy's interactions, with a few "Givin' ya all she's gots" from Scotty and some Tribbles in between.
Kirk's phaser-first, talk later approach needed McCoy's passionate Country Doctor Ways and Spock's half-human, half-Vulcan logic to work, and in doing so helped make the characters of this triumvirate some of the genre's most iconic. Kirk, (and more importantly, the Shatner!) and his two best friends: Dr. Now the OG Enterprise crew may not have delivered the best drama with every one of their original 79 missions, but they inspired a generation with their Comic-Con friendly adventures, challenged the way networks can bring science fiction to the masses just as NASA was taking men to the moon, addressed Civil Rights issues with tact, challenged the Vietnam-sensitive time without preaching and laid pop-culture bedrock in the process. In 1966, Gene Roddenberry's warp-fueled vision set the standard for sci-fi TV: Fill your shiny, iconic spaceship with a diverse and complex crew and boldly go on "missions of the week," with some serialized elements.
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Happening December 18th at 5:30pm PT, we'll be on location in San Francisco for the premiere, revealing an exclusive clip from the movie during the stream.Trek is the reason why so many ship-based sci-fi shows exist. 17th, look for #TheWitcherSeason2 then! And finally, IGN is partnering with WB to host the U.S. Speaking to us here at IGN, Cavill mentions how this land exists in the books, and he'd love to explore it in a future episode. In other Witcher news, Henry Cavill wants to visit Toussaint, the setting of The Witcher 3's acclaimed Blood & Wine DLC. Hissrich and her team know how big of a deal the Wild Hunt is and have purposely been foreshadowing the arrival to communicate to the audience, both fans and the unfamiliar alike, that a bigger danger is on its way. It seems to be the looming threat that Executive Producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, compared to a particular purple, gauntlet-welding Marvel baddie, Thanos. The phantasmal force was mentioned in the pilot episode of The Witcher, and reportedly there'll be subtle nods to it throughout The Witcher season 2. The Wild Hunt is coming to Netflix's The Witcher, eventually.