New(Old) Roddenberry show in development

[Caliburn24]

http://www.roddenberry.com/corporatestories/index/detail?id=39

I've heard mention of the Questor Tapes before, but never really known what it was. But with Tim Minear perhaps attached to the project I am certainly curious now.

Will it be a distant future sci fi show, or something like a present day or near future Caprica type of deal?

 

[Vendikarr]

My only problem with this is Minear has a deal with Fox Studios. I hope they don't try and bring this to the Fox network.

 

[StarshipDefiant]

My only problem with this is Minear has a deal with Fox Studios. I hope they don't try and bring this to the Fox network.

Same, I have no idea what it is this...Questor Tapes is (Haven't read the article), but Tim Minear is pretty good, and Fox...well, after Firefly and Dollhouse, I am honestly surprised he's working with Fox still.

 

[Vendikarr]

Same, I have no idea what it is this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Questor_Tapes

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Data Rides Again.

 

[Captain Craig]

If it's going to be on FOX I can't wait for the real debates.

Will it last 7 episodes or 13, let the discussion begin!!

 

[Alpha_Geek]

As tot he "Data" comment, there's more than one link between the original Questor Tapes and TNG...

Guess with technology moving on "tapes" are passe' now, but if it gets some GR on the air, I'll be happy to watch since I enjoyed the first QT movie.

 

[Caliburn24]

Hey mods, if you don't mind, please roll this thread into the other Questor Tapes thread. It seems silly to have two threads discussing an identical topic.

 

[Lord Garth]

If I'm right, this is the last posthumous Roddenberry series.

 

[Vendikarr]

If I'm right, this is the last posthumous Roddenberry series.

No, they can dust off the Spectre pilot.

 

[Marc]

My only problem with this is Minear has a deal with Fox Studios. I hope they don't try and bring this to the Fox network.

Well Fox couldn't be any worse than Alliance Atlantis.

 

[Christopher]

If I'm right, this is the last posthumous Roddenberry series.

No, they can dust off the Spectre pilot.

Or they could revive that Genesis II remake that Majel was trying to develop simultaneously with Andromeda (which took some of the same concepts but went in a different direction). Or they could finally make his Starship premise, which was being developed a while back as an animated series by Stan Lee Media before that company collapsed. (Which was a shame, since it would've been produced by Leiji Matsumoto of Space Battleship Yamato.) Then there's The Tribunes, an unsold premise that David Gerrold mentioned in his 1973 book The World of Star Trek; that would've been a show about cops using cutting-edge technology to aid in their police work (though I suppose the CSI franchise has kind of covered that already, but maybe the tech could be made more futuristic). And there are probably various other unsold ideas in his notes that could be mined for series possibilities.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Seems like a thin premise, but get some very compelling lead actor, like Alan Tudyk, and it just might work.

Or...Zachary Quinto will soon be looking for another (and hopefully far far better) TV gig soon, right?

If I'm right, this is the last posthumous Roddenberry series.

No, they can dust off the Spectre pilot.

Wow, that sounds interesting. And eminently bankable. Supernatural cop stuff is evergreen.

 

[Mysterion]

Seems like a thin premise, but get some very compelling lead actor, like Alan Tudyk, and it just might work.

Or...Zachary Quinto will soon be looking for another (and hopefully far far better) TV gig soon, right?

Okay, so you cast Tudyk as Jerry Robinson and Quinto as Questor. Everyone wins.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Seems like a thin premise, but get some very compelling lead actor, like Alan Tudyk, and it just might work.

Or...Zachary Quinto will soon be looking for another (and hopefully far far better) TV gig soon, right?

Okay, so you cast Tudyk as Jerry Robinson and Quinto as Questor. Everyone wins.

 

[23skidoo]

Data Rides Again.

Data was based on Questor, so you're not too far off the mark.

If they do a Questor Tapes remake, they'd probably be wise to change the character to a female android, mainly to avoid the inevitable Data comparisons.

Maybe it'll result in the original TV movie being released to DVD. I hear it's considered something of a classic. I read the novelisation by DC Fontana about 25 years ago and it was quite good.

Alex

 

[Christopher]

If they do a Questor Tapes remake, they'd probably be wise to change the character to a female android, mainly to avoid the inevitable Data comparisons.

Except that would bring inevitable Bionic Woman and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles comparisons. I can't see the network being comfortable with that, especially the former. (Although the thought of Summer Glau playing Questor gives me a warm feeling inside...)

 

[Temis the Vorta]

If they do a Questor Tapes remake, they'd probably be wise to change the character to a female android, mainly to avoid the inevitable Data comparisons.

Or cast a male actor who doesn't remind us remotely of Data. I have no objection to making the character female. But good lord, NOT Summer Glau. Isn't the poor girl typecast enough as it is?

 

[Kegg]

But good lord, NOT Summer Glau. Isn't the poor girl typecast enough as it is?

This. It's a TV show, not a Firefly cast reunion (and if you are bringing people back, bring back the people I actually liked - I dunno, Adam Baldwin as an asshole.)

Ah hell just cast Claudia Black. After Dragon Age: Origins I'd watch her in just about anything that isn't Stargate. I'm sure she could do the whole stiff android becoming vulnerably human thing well and would not invoke Data comparisons.

 

[Christopher]

But good lord, NOT Summer Glau. Isn't the poor girl typecast enough as it is?

Of course I wasn't offering that as a serious suggestion, for precisely that reason. I'm just saying that it's pleasant as an idle fantasy.

I think they should cast a nonwhite actor as Questor. Too often, it's assumed that if people had the ability to create an artificial person, they'd default to making it Caucasian. I'd love to see that assumption rejected. How about Daniel Dae Kim, say?