Jonathan Frakes..."CBS turned down my ST TV series"

[Captain Atkin]

Of course, the mistake Paramount made was ending TNG in 1994 and starting Voyager instead. They should have treated it like any other procedural show, which is effectively what it was. It's a ship, have a revolving door cast policy. Stewart wants to move on? Cast a new captain. If someone wants to leave, or the producers want to write them out, fine.

You keep the essential spirit and brand recognition of the show intact, and give it more longevity and potential for renewal. Don't go all Stargate with numerous diluted spin-offs which can only confuse people. I'll just pop in my time machine and tell Sherry Lansing.

I agree... they should have just kept making Star Trek:TNG and changed the crew, leaving the original TNG crew for the films.

 

[JarodRussell]

Of course, the mistake Paramount made was ending TNG in 1994 and starting Voyager instead. They should have treated it like any other procedural show, which is effectively what it was. It's a ship, have a revolving door cast policy. Stewart wants to move on? Cast a new captain. If someone wants to leave, or the producers want to write them out, fine.

I hate that. It ruined SG1, E.R., X Files, and couple of other good shows.

Don't go all Stargate with numerous diluted spin-offs which can only confuse people.

LOL, I'd rather say Stargate went all Star Trek, not the other way round.

 

[Winterwind]

With the X-Files, while the show starting slipping (but all shows will after several years), the cast changes didn't bother me. In fact, I preferred Dogget to Mulder in the end.

 

[Destructor]

I would have loved to see a Titan series, animated or live-action. I'd still love to see an animated series (obviously Frakes is too old/fat to be a cool Captain now, but his voice on an animated Riker would be awesome), actually. The novels are excellent, real classic-Trek stuff.

 

[RAMA]

More 2 cents...I've been reading the second Typhon Pact book, enjoying the Titan crew enough to consider if they had actually had a show if it would have been better than Voyager or Enterprise.

RAMA

 

[Tomalak]

I agree... they should have just kept making Star Trek:TNG and changed the crew, leaving the original TNG crew for the films.

That's not really what I mean at all. Films could have been made every few years if they really needed to. The idea of having "the crew" as a fixed entity is where I think modern Trek went wrong.

But that's arguably with hindsight. TV wasn't quite the same in the late eighties.

 

[AviTrek]

I agree... they should have just kept making Star Trek:TNG and changed the crew, leaving the original TNG crew for the films.

That's not really what I mean at all. Films could have been made every few years if they really needed to. The idea of having "the crew" as a fixed entity is where I think modern Trek went wrong.

But that's arguably with hindsight. TV wasn't quite the same in the late eighties.

I've never thought of this before, but if anything it would have made the show more realistic. Naval crews don't stay together for their entire careers. And the notion that people would be doing the same job in their 60s that they did in their 30s is unrealistic.

Of course, TNG began before Law and Order, so I'm not sure anyone really thought about a serial with a changing cast at that point.