Big Finish doing a Star Trek series!

[StCoop]

Just casually thrown away here...

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/big-finish-podcast-2018-07-01-the-first-doctor-and-callan-1872

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Prometheus

So how long before we get a crossover?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Wait, Callan, the late 1960 early 70s dark spy TV show, how many under 45 will know that reference because that is one obscure crossover choice. lol

 

[The Wormhole]

So these are just adaptations of the novels, or more adventures of the Prometheus?

 

[Marc]

Wait, Callan, the late 1960 early 70s dark spy TV show, how many under 45 will know that reference because that is one obscure crossover choice. lol

But on the other hand it does give some exposure to the character and series so they will try and track it down (wonder if that happened with The Prisoner).

Then they can decide if the character of McCall in the Equalizer was David Callan atoning for past sins as one theory goes

Not sure if there were any other actors who appeared in both shows but while Doctor Who fans would remember Russell Hunter as Uvanov in Robots of Death (and the Kaldor City audios), Callan fans would remember him as Lonely.

 

[StCoop]

So these are just adaptations of the novels, or more adventures of the Prometheus?

A little investigation seems to suggest that it'll just be audiobooks of the novels. So less exciting than it first sounded.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

But on the other hand it does give some exposure to the character and series so they will try and track it down (wonder if that happened with The Prisoner).

Then they can decide if the character of McCall in the Equalizer was David Callan atoning for past sins as one theory goes

Not sure if there were any other actors who appeared in both shows but while Doctor Who fans would remember Russell Hunter as Uvanov in Robots of Death (and the Kaldor City audios), Callan fans would remember him as Lonely.

Callan's boss Hunter was in The armageddon factor if i remember correctly.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I’m a bit surprised that Peter Woodward isn’t voicing Callan, TBH.

 

[ATimson]

I’m a bit surprised that Peter Woodward isn’t voicing Callan, TBH.

That's... pretty disappointing, now that you mention it. I probably would have picked them up had they done that.

 

[thribs]

It’s just a audiobook. That’s a bumner.

 

[ATimson]

It’s just a audiobook. That’s a bumner.

It's just an audiobook... for now. If it does well, and if S&S doesn't get the license again, the door might be open to more.

 

[thribs]

Can’t really be a audio play anyway since a few of the actors needed for it are dead.

 

[Marc]

Can’t really be a audio play anyway since a few of the actors needed for it are dead.

The Callan audios are full (re)cast - it's the Prometheus series that will be an audio book.

 

[The Wormhole]

It's just an audiobook... for now. If it does well, and if S&S doesn't get the license again, the door might be open to more.

S&S isn't even involved with the Prometheus series anyway, so their status with the license has no bearing on this whatsoever.

 

[ATimson]

S&S isn't even involved with the Prometheus series anyway, so their status with the license has no bearing on this whatsoever.

Has no bearing on this release, probably correct. Has no bearing on potential future audio drama releases, as I was referring to? Not necessarily. At one point S&S had the license to do original audio titles (and put out several of them); if that's still something they negotiate for, Big Finish may not be able to get the license if they want it.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Has no bearing on this release, probably correct. Has no bearing on potential future audio drama releases, as I was referring to? Not necessarily. At one point S&S had the license to do original audio titles (and put out several of them); if that's still something they negotiate for, Big Finish may not be able to get the license if they want it.

The only S&S releases that I'd consider audio dramas are Klingon and Borg, and they were essentially the audio tracks from the computer games. Wait, there were the two Spock Vs. Q audios.

I remember John Ordover saying, years ago, when someone complained that the Sulu audios were nothing more than audio books without the books, that the BBC held the audio drama rights to Star Trek. If they do (or did), they/ve never done a damned thing with them. Famously, the Q-in-Law audio book almost wasn't released because it was too much like an audio drama, with John de Lancie and Majel Barrett doing it together so Q and Lwaxana could face off, because S&S didn't have those rights.

 

[FreddyE]

that the BBC held the audio drama rights to Star Trek. .

I thought if you have licensed the rights to something then you have to use them in a certain timeframe or you loose the rights?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I thought if you have licensed the rights to something then you have to use them in a certain timeframe or you loose the rights?

Depends on the contract terms.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

But on the other hand it does give some exposure to the character and series so they will try and track it down (wonder if that happened with The Prisoner).

I was actually a fan of The Prisoner before I discovered Doctor Who. Looking back, I can't remember what made me get into that show in the first place. Still, my mom & I constantly reference it with each other, especially now that my grandfather has moved into a retirement community at Friendship Village.