Audio dramas you'd enjoy hearing

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Now that the Khan audio drama is well on its way, what other stories would make a good audio drama? One advantage is that like animation, you could hire a sound-alike for actors who cannot appear, without them having to resemble the original actor.

A series of captain's logs could work.

 

[fireproof78]

I think some of the New Frontier books could work.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I wasn't thinking of adaptations so much as types of stories to create/characters to center them around, but yeah, those are also valid ideas.

 

[Turtletrekker]

There was this trilogy of Captain Sulu stories set on the Excelsior. That's something that's still doable.

Captain Sulu Adventures

The Captain Sulu Adventures was a trilogy of audio dramas from Simon and Schuster Audioworks starring George Takei as Hikaru Sulu in command of the USS Excelsior. The three stories were released in 1994 and 1995. Transformations Cacophony Envoy Star Trek Monthly issue 2 announced that a Captain...

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[The Old Mixer]

The Romulan War. How was it that Earth fought a years-long war with the Romulans without ever seeing one? It was fought in an audio drama!

 

[TRON JA307020]

Now that the Khan audio drama is well on its way, what other stories would make a good audio drama? One advantage is that like animation, you could hire a sound-alike for actors who cannot appear, without them having to resemble the original actor.

A series of captain's logs could work.

I would love some captain sulu stories. They don't have to be adaptations of the books. They can be original pieces. George is still alive and it would be great to have him perform in some well written radio dramas. His captaincy is a whole mysterious era of trek. Lets see Sulu actually be a legend in starfleet on the excelsior.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe he could reunite with Chekov, too.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Maybe he could reunite with Chekov, too.

Great thought. That would be sweet. Both actors are alive and well. Koenig did a voice over for picard and sounded good. Yeah both of them on the excelsior having an adventure would be great.

 

[Alexander Corrino]

The writer in me has always wanted for Sir Patrick to voice Jean-Luc in audio book adaptations of my fics The hubris, eh?

On a more serious note I'd love some Stargazer audio adventures. (Not the Stargazer books tho, I didn't care much for those.) Idk. One or two stories would be enough. Just a little gimmick.

 

[FredH]

Heck, take Big Finish’s approach to the Doctor Who universe and apply that to Trek — i.e. find pretty much any excuse for endless new spinoff lines or box sets! You, I, and probably everyone reading this can endlessly come up with Trek-series ideas, especially in an audio format that doesn’t have to worry about visual-effects/setbuilding budgets.

So anything from obvious ones like a 2nd-5YM-after-TMP series (and/or a 3rd-5YM-after-TFF one) — mostly with soundalike actors, obviously— to stuff that’s more in the “only fans would get this” category that would never happen on TV because general audiences wouldn’t know/remember anything about them (say, a post-DS9 series about seeking out the rest of the lost Changeling orphans to vaccinate them before the S31 virus reaches them), to “further adventures of that character from that one episode” stuff (Helen Noel Investigates!), to in-depth series about a given planet (Vulcan? Babel? etc).

 

[Tosk]

Something set on Cardassia.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I think the absolute last thing I would want would be just a standard Starship and crew planet of the week type of setup. There are lots of ideas that can be explored, many of which have already been brought up here. I would love to see something done with the Fenris Rangers. If Prodigy can't be continued in animation, then why not audio? I think the biggest issue with most of these ideas would be budget. The actors would probably all be willing, but would the project's budget accommodate for the salaries that they would need to pay out?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

In the past, radio shows were the format forerunner to TV (short (audio) movies for home consumption) so you portrayed stories that today are (relatively speaking) a cinch to do on television. So what's left for audio? What does it still do well that TV would be lousy at? Not having to watch a screen, for starters - excellent description and appropriate sound that augments the audiobook experience.

What else?

 

[Turtletrekker]

NPR did some amazing audio adaptations of the original Star Wars trilogy, and you can't find a more visual story than the original Star Wars trilogy.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

At least if you'd seen the film, you might be able to picture what they were saying directly from memory without having to rely solely on brand-new imaginations.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I could seriously go for new audio TOS adaptations by Big Finish with perhaps 50 percent faithfulness to script dialogue. Start with TRISKELION, ZETAR and BY ANY OTHER NAME.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Yeah, each episode told from another character's POV through logs and internal monologues. Perhaps another crewmember, or the villain, or the alien/creature of the week.

 

[Yistaan]

Hasn't Big Finish exploited Dr. Who's Last Great Time War for all it's worth? They might as well handle the Temporal Wars as an excuse to bring in actors from all eras of Trek.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Hasn't Big Finish exploited Dr. Who's Last Great Time War for all it's worth? They might as well handle the Temporal Wars as an excuse to bring in actors from all eras of Trek.

And crossover with Doctor Who!

 

[Turtletrekker]

At least if you'd seen the film, you might be able to picture what they were saying directly from memory without having to rely solely on brand-new imaginations.

How is that any different from reading a book?