if you can gum up the star wars gears, you can gum up anything. BG, to me, is pretty damn awesome considering it's a t.v. show. hell, even some of the original BG's were pretty damn good.
prequels seem to be all the rage when you've got no new ideas. and, i mean, how hard could it possibly be? i only caught a couple of 'enterprise' shows, and while i didn't particularly care much for them, i liked the idea they were taking chances along certain story-arcs (at least, that's how i perceived it).
ah, the other eternal question: with all that money and so-called professionals involved, how can a thing suck so bad? let me be the first to say star trek *should* die. without roddenberry, isn't it more or less becoming uninspired corporate sludge? it stinks of being a result of committee thinking, which, ironically, was a major principle with TNG, that everyone gets a say. that's why in real life, picard's enterprise wouldn't have made it past the third episode.
prequels aren't the way to go here. they should be propelling the franchise forward, not retro-ing it to fulfill a trend. used to be they *set* the trend. roddenberry had a vision: stick to it. find someone who shares the same values, get a new crew, possibly linked to TNG's crew members for continuity, and tell some good damn stories. good damn stories have never been a recipe for disaster, eh? lol. forget all about that gimmicky premise bs, just gimme a crew and a new ship to bang around in. oh, and give me a captain with a pair.
not rocket science... unless you're driving into the garbage pile at warp ten.