Would you like to see a Trek sitcom?
Poll A Trek sitcom?
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Trek characters could be awesome in a sitcom (that "At Home With the Rikers" thing might have been a laugh if Majel Barrett was still with us), but I can't imagine it being done right. Save it for nutty fanfic.
I'd very much not like to see this, it's just not what Trek is made for, but it was, at one point, a plan. Gene Roddenberry himself had the idea in 1991. His wife should have starred as Lwaxana Troi. It never got past planning stage because of his death.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Undeveloped_Star_Trek_projects
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Undeveloped_Star_Trek_projects
I think the Trekverse is flexible enough to handle a sitcom, but it would have to be grounded humor in order to be consistent with the rest of the canon. So, yeah, something at Quark's-- or, better yet, Station K-7-- would be something that might work. Or something set at a small, out-of-the way starbase, in a format similar to F Troop or McHale's Navy. Or even something more on the surreal side, like Lexx or Firefly, set in border space. I don't know if something like a domestic comedy would work in the 23rd or 24th century, because what would be the point?
I'd rather have the Galaxy Quest TV series that's now been put on hold.
Curb Your Enterprise. Something for grown-ups anyway. No canned lsughter or any of that cobblers.
Redshirt Blues - A look at the daily life of a Starfleet ship's redshirts. Lots of gallows humour.
Hm. It's hard to make a sitcom under the frachise's name because everybody expects a "typical" Star Trek show and not that. But apart from that, we can't rule out there was a genius born who could write a Star Trek sitcom. Sitcoms generally aren't my thing, but I'd occasionally watch a Star Trek one (if it's good!).
Still, I doubt this will ever happen.
Still, I doubt this will ever happen.
I think I'm just tired of the sitcom format in general, so I don't have a lot of enthusiasm for a Trek sitcom. Science fiction that has an exclusively comedic bent often falls flat, with precious few examples actually being good.
In the first scene on the bridge, the young helmsman says something snarky and there is canned laughter. The captain grimaces and says, "Computer, disable laugh track." That's the end of that.
Community, Futurama, Rick & Morty, and Family Guy were/are often spiritually Star Trek comedies-- and Galaxy Quest was the funniest tribute imaginable.
No need to do an actual licensed one.
No need to do an actual licensed one.
Quark's is filmed in front of a live studio audience!
Seriously though, if a second series was possible, being animated, or even in a totally different genre would be a good change of pace.
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