Hi all - I've been out for a week with pneumonia - so haven't been able to
> toss in my two cents (or two pence worth for the Brits on-line, ha ha). I
> find Anthony's comments about UFO2 to be what I've always felt.Yes, the
new
> show/movie would have "new" faces - that's a given (at least to me), BUT
> like ST:TNG, they can bring in Straker, Foster, Carlin, Ellis, et al as
> cameos, part time guest stars, etc. At least it makes sense to me -
anytime
> TNG wanted to garner bigger ratings, they brought Spock, Scotty or some
> connection to TOS on. Look at DS9's "homage" to the 30th anniversary of
TOS
> with their clever and amusing "Tribbles" eps. I definitely feel the ideas
> Anthony encapsulated in his e-mail (excuse me for attaching them but I
> thought them very salient):
>
> (1) SHADO gets much further travelling spacecraft and can go further in
the
> Solar System.
> (2) SHADO copies alien FTL (= faster than light) travel technmology, and
> perhaps can take the war all the way to the alien homeworld.
> (3) Aliens have landed and are here in secret, like in various unrelated
> "secret gradual alien takeover" scenarios.
> (4) Other species of alien, e.g. the Greys.
> (5) I wrote a UFO story ("How it Ended")(I read it Anthony, and liked it -
> was finally able to get the whole thing off the Net)
>
> I guess what I like most about UFO fan fiction is that there are tons of
> ideas and since GA gave us only 26 eps of the original to play with, there
> is very little in the way of "canon" out there - so that gives us fan
> writers and those who end up scripting for the re-make, alot of leeway and
> possibilities. UFO, for me, was the continuation in some ways of the "The
> Invaders", and the progenitor of "Dark Skies" - I see alot of room here
for
> imagination and interesting plot twists. In addition to the UFO fan-fic (I
> checked out the SHADO LIbrary before I got sick), I've discovered other
> sites for other shows, such as Hawaii 5-0 and the Man from UNCLE - both of
> which were favs of mine. I even read an amusing little "cross over story"
> between MFU and Hogan's Heroes! The MFU librarian has asked me to submit
my
> UFO-MFU cross over to her as soon as it's finalized - she says there are
> alot of UFO fans who also like MFU!
>
> As long as the ideas are good, the writing is good - the new UFO will
create
> a whole new set of fans - as Anthony said - Picard and his crew, Sisko and
> DS9, Janeway and Voyager now have as many fans as Kirk & Company - but the
> interaction of TOS characters with the spin-offs are just as eagerly
> anticipated as the regular TNG, DS9, Voyager sagas. TOS is still the
"daddy"
> of the whole movement/franchise - without the original - the others would
> not have existed. Sooooo, I'm hoping when UFO2 hits the big or small
screen,
> whichever they decide, I'll still get to see Ed B, Mike B, Peter G, et al
in
> some way, as cameos or as semi-continuing characters!
>
> Cheers to all those making UFO2 a reality! Long overdue I say! Pam
McCaughey
>
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