At one point in TTI Cutty and Garrovick are in a turbolift and specifically mention Garrovick's uncle who died (meaning Captain Garrovick who was Kirk's former commanding officer)
Fan production ideas....
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Actually in re-reconsidering my idea I think you're right. It could work if done right. Television in the 1950s had quite a few half-hour dramas.
I'm wondering if the economics would be similar today for a web series. Back in the day networks and studios found that hour long dramas weren't much more expensive to produce than a half hour. Today would a web production save much by producing half hour episodes versus hour segments?
Here is another thought.
Fans have often talked of rebooting Trek in some form or other, and in a larger sense many fan productions are essentially that only presented as extensions to the original television continuity (or continuities). But what if someone took TOS or TNG (or whichever) and rebooted it in certain ways?
In a sense it could be something like DC Comics' Elseworld stories were familiar characters and elements are reinterpreted into new forms.
I was partly thinking of my TOS In The 29th Century concept which was largely an updating of TOS into more contemporary sensibilities in terms of characters, design and story while retaining certain familar TOS elements.
But, of course, there are any number of ways this could be done. It would be rather balsy given many fans don't want too much to change, but if handled right it could be interesting.
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I didn't think it would ever happen. It was mostly an idle thought given I like SE's overall setup of characters.
There are actually two authorised crossovers between Starship Exeter and Star Trek: The Animated Series here:
HOME IS NOT A PLACE
http://startrekanimated.com/exetercomic.html
FOR DEATH OR GLORY
http://startrekanimated.com/tas_comic_si_main.html
Exeter was such a good show and it brings great nostalgia, especially The Savage Empire which I think was the first full-blown TOS fan film with replica sets.
I am surprised that Continues and Starship Farragut never attempted a full crossover when they were together with the exception of Captain Kirk's visit to the Farragut. You had two crews under one roof which they could have taken advantage of. With Farragut Forward hopefully coming I would have liked them to have done kind of a 'Star Trek 2.5' movie with the crew of the Enterprise, but I guess that's prue fantasy
Ironically the most well-known Trek crossovers were between Hidden Frontier in California and Intrepid in Dundee - two groups divided by both the Atlantic and most of America!!
To be fair, neither of those TAS crossovers are with other fan productions, they're with Kirk's crew. It's been years since I spoke with Jimm, but I've never gotten the impression he was in any way willing to do crossovers with other fan productions. Josh on the other hand.......
I'm actually surprised we haven't seen more fanfilm crossovers. The various Starbase Studios productions do seem to be trying though, so I think we'll be seeing more soon enough.
I'd love to do another proper crossover with HF, but that seems very unlikely to happen. Bar someone donating enough money to us all to make it happen. Maybe if I win the lottery.
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There is a lot of crossover as for personnel working on soem of the TOS productions and I think with Saladin and other lesser-known was there is some crossover.
A HF crossover is an interesting idea since Odyssey finished 5 years ago and that group seems to have moved on! JT and Adam have since reprised Corey and Jory for Kickstarter videos (with a Bobby Rice cameo in one) but otehrwise I miss those characters. I think you said you had an idea to bring Risha Denney over?
Yeah I'd still like to bring Risha over here to do a Shelby/Hunter story, but I suspect such a thing would be financially prohibitive.
You never know, there's always a slight chance we may yet shoot something new on a future LA trip. If we had the right script and a window of opportunity, I suspect enough folks would be up for it. Certainly, everyone I spoke with from HF last year was willing. Heck, even JayTee said he'd be willing, though he couldn't commit to a large role.
You never know, there's always a slight chance we may yet shoot something new on a future LA trip. If we had the right script and a window of opportunity, I suspect enough folks would be up for it. Certainly, everyone I spoke with from HF last year was willing. Heck, even JayTee said he'd be willing, though he couldn't commit to a large role.
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I should have referenced it as "a beyond the bulkhead" statement, which meaning I take as using a supporting subplot and expanding it into a stand alone series.
Another one might be the 4-5 years Mr. Spock was in command of the Enterprise on Cadet training missions.
Years and years ago someone suggested a 50s-style sci fi prequel to star Trek modelled on the Gold Key comics. That would be great, Forbidden Planet probably influenced Star Trek anyway?
I'm looking at your reboot idea now and it is interesting.
I've been mulling over a movie-era project featuring Captain Sulu and the Excelsior. It would cover the 3-year "gaseous anomaly" mission of the ship and crew between Star Trek V and VI. I've always felt that ship and captain were a huge missed opportunity for the franchise.
Hidden Frontier to me was the fifth show, I felt Enterprise was a step backwards but I enjoy it now. I do miss it, such a rich tapestry of characters and stories, Intrepid I feel is one of their spin offs as it was so linked in so in that respect it continues.
I have imagined my own 'TOS with a TNG aesthetic' reboot which actually nicks elements from TNG/DS9/VOY too. I hav made up a cast, outlined a pilot, done the uniforms and am currently brainstorming storylines I'd like to use!
Chekov is now a female Andorian...
Since we're just throwing things out there I think it would be interesting to see if it were possible to adapt a TAS story to live-action. It could be interesting to see what concessions and changes would need to be made to make the stories still work effectively.
It would really push folk's creativity and resourcefulness.
It would really push folk's creativity and resourcefulness.
I'd quite like to see something like that. I'm not sure the studio would permit it though, since they've been squiffy about licensed scripts being used before. That said, they've also not objected to some licensed scripts being produced so who knows?
Well since one is doing an adaptation then the changes could conceivably be significant enough to make it work.
The easiest stories to adapt would be the bottle shows where most of the action takes place aboard ship. Character wise it's easy enough to swap Uhura and Chekov back in for Mress and Arex. The rest could be largely CGI.
A story like "One Of Planets Is Missing" should be relatively easy to adapt since in many ways it's a retelling of "The Immunity Syndrome." Something like "The Infinte Vulcan" is a lot more iffy since the Phylosian planet and its inhabitants are a huge draw for the original episode. A great part of TAS' appeal was its ability to show us things TOS couldn't.
The easiest stories to adapt would be the bottle shows where most of the action takes place aboard ship. Character wise it's easy enough to swap Uhura and Chekov back in for Mress and Arex. The rest could be largely CGI.
A story like "One Of Planets Is Missing" should be relatively easy to adapt since in many ways it's a retelling of "The Immunity Syndrome." Something like "The Infinte Vulcan" is a lot more iffy since the Phylosian planet and its inhabitants are a huge draw for the original episode. A great part of TAS' appeal was its ability to show us things TOS couldn't.
Hmm... Speaking of adaptations, what about a series adapting some of the Power Records stories from the seventies? The ones written by Alan Dean Foster, at least... certainly not the nonsensical rubbish that was "The Time Stealer."
In the early years of television, half-hour dramas were normal. At some point, somebody decided that a full hour should be the standard.
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