What series would you do for the 60th anniversary

[Firebird]

I'd love for the franchise to dip its toe into anime, sorta like Star Wars: Visions, but instead of it being an anthology, make it continuing story with a regular cast. See if Hideaki Anno or Shinichirō Watanabe would want to create and run it.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

For the 30th, DS9 went back into TOS for the fun and respectful Trials and Tribble-ations.

For the 60th, SNW should do an episode where they go forward into DS9 in some fun and respectful way.

Didn't Voyager do Flashback for this as well

Yes. They just left out the fun and respectful parts.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Well, I wouldn't do a new show, I would prefer the legacy shows to be polished up.

I'd redo the original series on blu ray, fixing the seamless branching errors that have plagued the episodes since the 2006 remaster. I'd restore and offer the actual original mono sound mix to every episode, the original opening and closing "electric violin" themes in the episodes that had them, put the episodic previews at the end of every episode (with the original "next week" restored in the first two seasons), put the correct Paramount logos at the end, add NBC network interstitials and station break billboards, NBC advertising and even upgrade the correct the new effects to much better result (although I never watch them and don't care I would want the set to appeal to new fans and people who like the upgraded effects). I'd make sure the new effect actually match the intent of the scenes (I'm looking at you Doomsday Machine).

All of the above.

 

[evilchumlee]

Very easy.

I just do this project called "Star Trek: Legacy".

 

[CoveTom]

Yes. They just left out the fun and respectful parts.

Eh. I thought it was a halfway decent attempt. My main problem with it is, as I kind of alluded to in another thread, I just don't think George Takei or Grace Lee Whitney, either one, can act their way out of a paper bag. I'm not trying to be mean; I just don't think they are good actors. And I think that hurt Flashback. The other problem, IMHO, is that they didn't "really" go back to the Excelsior; it was just Tuvok's memories. So ultimately Sulu and Rand were superfluous.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Eh. I thought it was a halfway decent attempt. My main problem with it is, as I kind of alluded to in another thread, I just don't think George Takei or Grace Lee Whitney, either one, can act their way out of a paper bag. I'm not trying to be mean; I just don't think they are good actors. And I think that hurt Flashback. The other problem, IMHO, is that they didn't "really" go back to the Excelsior; it was just Tuvok's memories. So ultimately Sulu and Rand were superfluous.

I don't disagree with you on Takei and Whitney's acting, but Nick Meyer got a good performance out of Takei in Star Trek VI, so it is possible.

And I hate that episode mostly for the condescending "Of course, they'd all be thrown out of Starfleet today" speech they gave to Janeway, with the unspoken implication that the Voyager's crew was better than Kirk's. Way to shit on the original characters in a tribute episode, folks.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

It's supposed to be a nostalgic look back at a wilder time in history when captains had the guts to follow their gut and break a few regs to get the job done, but it doesn't really work if you've seen the original series because Kirk was very by the book and professional.

Also "Space must have looked a whole lot bigger back then," is a really weird thing for someone taking a 70 year journey back home to say.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Things change - rules that made sense when circumstances were different no longer apply, and tactics employed when there were no rules are now subject to new rules. Loopholes were closed, unclaimed regions were claimed, planets changed governments and hands, tech made the impossible possible and the necessary unnecessary.

To use a real-world analogy, a small village of 200 people in the 1800s is run a lot differently than a larger town of 10,000 people in the 1900s, or a city of 100,000 people in the 2000s.

Also "Space must have looked a whole lot bigger back then," is a really weird thing for someone taking a 70 year journey back home to say.

Shorthand for "we had four quadrants full of lots of unknowns, now we have two with many knowns, one with some knowns, and the one we're in with almost all unknowns".