"And the Children Shall Lead" could have been far more watchable, had it been 22 minutes long. "Plato's Stepchildren," I'm not so sure, but point remains.... 
Poll The TAS Redux That Might Have Been
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It sounds like a cool idea, but after looking at those pasty-faced zombies that are supposed to be Kirk, Spock, and McCoy... NOPE.
And as a comics fan, Dan Didio being involved doesn't exactly get my pulse to racing, either. Sounds like we dodged a bullet there.
I'd need a blood oath that they'd never do anything with Questworld, either.
And as a comics fan, Dan Didio being involved doesn't exactly get my pulse to racing, either. Sounds like we dodged a bullet there.
I'd have doubts about this too, as most computer animators aren't on the level on Doug Wildey or Alex Toth.
I'd need a blood oath that they'd never do anything with Questworld, either.
I prefer more conventional animation than what these guys came up with. Filmation style animation always looked good to me as well. Still, I have heard that the Roddenberry estate is interested in redoing the visuals of TAS. Live action style animation like the recent video showing Spock visiting Kirks grave would be incredible. Add the computer games from the 90s and we would have the 4th and 5th season of Star Trek. We are still a long way off I assume, but I hope that they can make it work.
I think it would be fun to do like a showreel or one whole TAS scene in 3D animation, like how Gazelle Automations did the opposite for TNG and Voyager episodes. And I think it would be fun to do some 3D animation for something like the 25th Anniversary game's audio and stuff of that type. I think it would be a bit weird just straight up replacing TAS's visuals entirely.
The current interest in making TAS, or elements of it, look live-action goes beyond making it look like a cgi cartoon. They have already shown us the live-action TOS bridge with the changes made to it in TAS. We have already seen a live-action Lt. Arex.
I’ve tried my hand at it as well in creating more realistic live-action versions of ships seen in TAS.
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/tas-made-real.302238/
But remaking entire episodes or even making new remains a big question mark.
I’ve tried my hand at it as well in creating more realistic live-action versions of ships seen in TAS.
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/tas-made-real.302238/
But remaking entire episodes or even making new remains a big question mark.
The scene in "Beyond The Farthest Star" where the insectoid captain appears on the screen of the alien bridge speaking in a distorted voice scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid. That scene, and Space 1999's "Dragon's Domain," were my nightmare fuel in the mid-1970s.
Mix both. TAS, 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rites and even Secret of Vulcan Fury
A few seasons worth of CGI Trek WITH the original crew
These efforts by Gazelle Automations were magnificent.
Maybe make "Thew Pastel Terror" or "Patient Parasites" as proof of concepts, if need be use AI to recreate voices, so long as the estates approve and are paid, but use the same design style
The sad thing about TOS is there are only three remaining main cast members. They handed the movies over to Picard, there were a couple of TNG/VOY appearances, then the Berman Era continued until ENT ended (Shatner was in talks for an ENT appearance but wanted too much money!)
BUT when the franchise ended up in the hands of CBS, things reverted back to TOS. They worked on and released the remastered episodes, then:
- Walter Koenig and George Takei starred in episodes of New Voyages
- Walter and Nichelle did Of Gods and Men then later Renegades for Sky Conway
- Nimoy appeared in the 2009 movie, which rebooted TOS
Then, Discovery was set in the 23rd Century, then Strange New Worlds spun off for it, a kind-of TOS for the 2020s. TNG Era stuff was mostly confied to the books and comics.
I guess a logical way for SNW to continue following Pike's mission is to do a 'Year One' series with Paul Wesley and Ethan Peck, but taking all those voiceovers of the original crew and creating an up-to-date but faithful animated series would be magical.
BUT when the franchise ended up in the hands of CBS, things reverted back to TOS. They worked on and released the remastered episodes, then:
- Walter Koenig and George Takei starred in episodes of New Voyages
- Walter and Nichelle did Of Gods and Men then later Renegades for Sky Conway
- Nimoy appeared in the 2009 movie, which rebooted TOS
Then, Discovery was set in the 23rd Century, then Strange New Worlds spun off for it, a kind-of TOS for the 2020s. TNG Era stuff was mostly confied to the books and comics.
I guess a logical way for SNW to continue following Pike's mission is to do a 'Year One' series with Paul Wesley and Ethan Peck, but taking all those voiceovers of the original crew and creating an up-to-date but faithful animated series would be magical.
The Flintstones was the most successful, but Jonny Quest, The Jetsons and Wait Until Your Father Gets Home were not only aimed toward older audiences, they ran in prime time. Star Trek deserved that chance as well but instead got a late morning slot.
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And Jonny Quest. On ABC, 1964-1965
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964–65_United_States_network_television_schedule#Thursday
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Those were definitely fun, yeah. It'd be a kick to see Lower Decks do an episode animated in that style. They go through an anomaly or something, and suddenly they're all drawn in Filmation style.
Could they do "Even More Trouble, Even More Tribulations" and have to interact in between parts of the TAS tribble episode?Those were definitely fun, yeah. It'd be a kick to see Lower Decks do an episode animated in that style. They go through an anomaly or something, and suddenly they're all drawn in Filmation style.
Cute. Someone should do it.
God, no.
I think it'd be even more fun to
have the Cerritos crew travel back to the original Tribbles episode, so they're trying to stay away from the crews from the Enterprise AND DS9.
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