Ideas sharing for a NEW animated show

[The Overlord]

More and more shows are going towards the CGI option. Clone words is CGI, as are Transformers Prime, Green Lantern and the upcoming Beware The Batman. It's the way things are going with action-adventure sci-fi animation.

When Battlestar Galactica Blood & Chrome comes out as a pilot on SyFy this year we will see how an virtual set all-green-screen show works and it would still cost more than an all CGI-animated series.
I'm all for a CGI-animated Trek but it would have to be for age 14 and up. TV-14 ratings would be the aim and with violence.
If it is TV-PG then it will be so watered down it's not even worth it.

PG was the TV rating for the live action Star Trek shows. I don't think there has a TV-14 Star Trek show. So I don't see how a PG rated Star Trek show wouldn't be worth it. Star Trek has never been that graphic in terms of violence, language or sex.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

I don't think there has a TV-14 Star Trek show. So I don't see how a PG rated Star Trek show wouldn't be worth it. Star Trek has never been that graphic in terms of violence, language or sex.

The Overlord you are incorrect. see these threads for specific episodes and ratings in the USA:
TNG forum:
TNG's most violent episodes & TV-14 ratings

before the TV rating system came into use in 1995 with VOY being the first Trek TV series to have it:
Voyager forum:
most violent episodes (& TV Parental Guidelines rating system)

Enterprise forum:
most violent episodes (& TV Parental Guidelines rating system)

 

[The Overlord]

I don't think there has a TV-14 Star Trek show. So I don't see how a PG rated Star Trek show wouldn't be worth it. Star Trek has never been that graphic in terms of violence, language or sex.

The Overlord you are incorrect. see these threads for specific episodes and ratings in the USA:
TNG forum:
TNG's most violent episodes & TV-14 ratings

before the TV rating system came into use in 1995 with VOY being the first Trek TV series to have it:
Voyager forum:
most violent episodes (& TV Parental Guidelines rating system)

Enterprise forum:
most violent episodes (& TV Parental Guidelines rating system)

No, I am not wrong, because if you look on those threads, there not a whole lot of episodes that were not rated PG.

Conspiracy is likely the only TNG ep not rated PG. Episodes not rated PG are exception, not the rule, in Star Trek.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Why would an animated series be more likely?

Because the only space opera series on TV today (at least that I know of) is The Clone Wars, and that's animated and successful.

It's far more likely that any new TV show on any topic will be greenlit if the showrunners can point to X, which is a success. Something coming out of the clear blue sky is going to have a much tougher job, because then the question is, if this has such immense potential, why isn't anyone else doing anything like it now?

Then you don't do an animated series, cause in the USA the "wider audience in general" thinks all animation is for kids

The primary audience for The Clone Wars is definitely kids. They track Nielsons for the kids' age groups (6-11 and 9-14) and the ads are a dead giveaway. But that show also appeals to adults, even if they aren't the primary target.

Since any animated Star Trek series would sit in the immense shadow of The Clone Wars and owe its existence to same, it's easy to predict that it will share many of the same traits: half-hour format, CGI animation (for the sake of depicting gorgeous and complex alien worlds even if the characters end up looking a bit funky), lots of action, lots of fighting, but also character growth, online storylines, and a fair amount of political and psychological nuance, of the type that a pre-adolescent could grasp or at least wouldn't bore them.