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Just saw this on TrekWeb...

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4th season spoilers

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According to Cinescape Magazine, 'Futurama', the sci-fi parody cartoon from the creators of The Simpsons will do a 'Star Trek episode' in its upcoming fourth season, which premieres December 2001.
"A good number of the original Star Trek cast will be involved" says executive producer David Cohen. "The story revolves around the cult of Star Trek that grew into its own religion around the 23rd Century and became too powerful in the coming centuries" says Cohen "The world leaders - Jimmy Carter's head and the Space Pope - grew fearful of its power and banned all Star Trek viewing. All tapes were destroyed and launched to a forbidden planet. Now, the entire original cast has disappeared except for Leonard Nimoy, whose head remains in the dead museum, so Fry is determined to bring back this great thing he loves and sets off on an adventure to do that."

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Could be good - or it could be awful if handled wrong. However, I have faith in Futurama's writers (even after 'The Cryonic Woman')


EDITED: added spoiler tags, thanks for the info payndz

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Interesting... I wanna see new eps... Fox should treat Futurama better, don't you think? 

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Absoluteley.
Fox treat Futurama and Family Guy as the pure S**t.
But they treat The Simpsons good.
Thats not fair

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I don't know about this one...

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It could be good. The thing about Star Trek developing into a religion and having all the tapes destroyed is funny. But the whole "Fry sets off on an adventure to bring back this great thing he loves" sounds kinda kiss-assey. On the other hand, it'll be cool to have an intergalactic type adventure. Season 3 had too many episodes based entirely on earth.

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I agree with Fishy Joe.

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I saw some of the storyboards for that show & it's one of the funniest episodes of the season. But the Fox lawyers are really slowing up production because they're scared of...well...everything.

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Well, that's just the thing we need, lawyers who's afraid of something going wrong.

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If Futurame is gonna do a Star Trek show, it's gonna be one of the really big good-natured homagedss ever made, I'm confident, which is why I hope the episodede is gonna be comåleted.

If the storu about the lawyers is gonna be correct I fear it's gonna be just like the "Nitpickers Guides" by Nick Farrell.

Yeah, I know I'm druink.

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Ooooo! How'd you get that funny thing above the 'A'?

Fox doesn't want to get in any 'tiff' with Paramount Studios or UPN. So everything (even the V-shaped communication patches on the crews' shirts) are being re-designed & discussed before animation models are finalized. That's a major delay problem.

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Originally posted by Sarge:
Ooooo! How'd you get that funny thing above the 'A'?   

Danish letter that slipped by.  å


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mmmmmmmm.......danish........ ..

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At first the ep sounded a little.... ify... but now it seems cool.   

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It's a very funny episode as of now. I hope they don't change it too much.    Plus, you gotta be a true Trekkie to really enjoy all the episode references.

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Then I'm definetely gonna LOVE it.

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Some people probably won't get it though, like all the film references in the Simpsons that I don't get. Im not a huge fan of (insert series aformentioned here) but I might get a few things about it. Still...

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Family Guy sucks

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No it doesn't. It's just a different style. It's not as sharp-witted, but they do have a few great gags once in a while. 'Death' humping his girlfriend in the back seat of his car had me in stitches.

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Hey Sarge, why is it that the storys & jokes get changed so much & why is it often for the worse? I know it's not your fault but I thought you might know, if your still here that is.

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Originally posted by VelourFog:

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Family Guy sucks

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It sure does.

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"why is it that the storys & jokes get changed so much & why is it often for the worse?"

They can get changed for a lot of reasons. The biggest reason is time. Most shows end up over 22.5 minutes when they are 'final timed' on the X-sheets. You can't lose the 'story-line', so you gotta lose a joke or 10. Another reason is because sometimes the writers & producers don't laugh at a joke during the animatic or 1st color meetings, even though they laughed till their throats were bleeding during the table read...Therefore, it's not funny. <(This one makes me vomit in terror.) Another reason would be that the head honcho is in a really pissed-off mood because some idiot scratched his yacht, & laughs at nothing at all that day, so obviously some changes gotta be made. Another reason would be that another friend (aka multi-millionaire exec) thought of the cutest little thing his 2-year-old Gavin said yesterday & he thinks it would be really neat if it was in that current Simpson or Futurama episode, thereby deleting several otherwise perfectly good gags. Another reason is that the guest star whom the entire script was written around has mysteriously backed out on the deal, or never agreed to it in the first place. Trust me, there's lots of reasons. Some make sense...but most defy logic.

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I have never seen Family Guy, but I really think it sucks.

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You wouldn't think that if you'd seen it.

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Thanks sarge for the enlightening reply.

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Family Guy is awesome. Its very funny. Its just has few high brow jokes. I like stupid funny too.

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By Sarge
Another reason would be that another friend (aka multi-millionaire exec) thought of the cutest little thing his 2-year-old Gavin said yesterday & he thinks it would be really neat if it was in that current Simpson or Futurama episode, thereby deleting several otherwise perfectly good gags.

Haha, that is awesome. Can you give us any specific examples of executive-type kiddie jokes that were forced into the final airing?

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I wish I could, but I can't. I never heard any specifics myself, just the general ideas from directors, etc. It's pretty rare something that awkward happens on the shows. But that kind of 'kissing-up' goes on all over Hollywood.