A New Star Trek Series?

[Temis the Vorta]

HBO and Showtime are too adult-skewing

You said it, thats just what we need! A trek centered around relationships with lots of softcore sex scenes :P

Our resident jokers got it right, we'd end up with ENT. Which is certainly not what HBO or Showtime would have in mind. Sex - okay. Juvenile, sniggering approaches to sex - not so much.

Let's face it, romantic entanglements are not Trek's strengths. As much as I'd enjoy seeing some fanfic scenarios played out on TV, especially now that Kirk and Spock are young and hot again, Trek should just stay away from that whole topic and play to its strengths. PG-13 forever!

 

[Aeronomer]

Might as well put my two cents in...ST debuted the year I was born but I still grew up watching it. As a kid it was, of course, the coolest thing ever. Looking back, I find the original a bit corny and campy. But the stories were good. Any talk about trying to recapture that era makes me nervous. Although, I really liked the direction things took in the ST movie franchise.

I remember HATING ST:TNG its first year but once they got their legs I loved the show. It has become, for me, the standard.

I never watched ST-DS9 regularly. Never liked it much and still don't. Can't agree with all this sentiment that it was the best Trek.

I was a HUGE fan of Voyager. Still am.

I'm one of those people who (regrettably) didn't watch Enterprise when it aired. Scott Bakula and a return to the early days just didn't interest me. Too late, I watched it after the fact and LOVED it. Why? Mainly because it was Trek I guess.

Even in the case of DS9, I always considered it mediocre. But mediocre Trek is still better than anything else on TV.

I hope a new series does NOT attempt to be ANYTHING like BSG. I LOVED BSG at first, despite the screwed up release schedule. But the show got so "gritty and cutting edge", so friggin weird by the end that I didn't even tune in for the last season. And, it was not something I could watch with my kids.

I hope someone resurrects Trek for TV. I am not "satisfied" with what exists. I always want more. I would like to see something that moves the Trek universe forward rather than backward. I don't want to see a "reboot" either. I'm sick to death of those from the world of comic books.

I'm not in a frame of mind to do any deep analysis of why but, whatever made TNG and Voyager and Enterprise great in my mind, I want more.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

New Star Trek - miniseries (4 hours)

This article is talking about 2 SyFy miniseries fantasy projects that have been greenlighted as 4 hour movies as backdoor pilots to expand from movies to series programming. It's the programming model the network has used with success before, as in the case of "Battlestar Galactica."

"The four-hour format allows us to command large dollars around the world for our shows that puts about ($4 million-$6 million) of production on the screen per hour," said Robert Halmi Jr., president and CEO of RHI entertainment. "It gives the network a chance to try a concept with the same production values, if not better, than you'd get for a series."

March 22, 2009
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i2ded48a3101e540bf8fbe8a0cd8d42fe

How much did a 1 hour episode episode of ST:Voyager cost in season 7?
How much did a 1 hour episode of ST: Enterprise cost in season 4?


Could this be possible as a budget for a 4 hour Trek miniseries?

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Perhaps TPTB has this waiting in the wings for new Trek on TV?

Viacom (VIA) (which owns Paramount), Lionsgate (LGF) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. They're defying all odds to launch a bold service, called Epix, that hopes to break into the premium TV business long dominated by HBO, Showtime and Starz.

Showtime's priorities have changed. It wants to boost the airtime it devotes to new series such as Dexter and Weeds and said last year that it would slash the $350 million a year it paid for the studios' movies beginning in 2009. Parent CBS has been under pressure, with its stock price down about 81% from its 52-week high, as it grapples with the soft ad market.

[EPIX]
The channel recently approved its first original series for 2010, Tough Trade— a one-hour drama about a Nashville music dynasty — that the executive producer of Weeds will make for Lionsgate.

3/2/2009
http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2009-03-01-viacom-lionsgate-mgm-epix-channel_N.htm

Epix is a premium television movie channel that is scheduled to launch in late 2009. The planned channel will be operated by Studio 3 Partners through a joint venture between Viacom, MGM and Lionsgate.
Epix will also offer a companion video on demand service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epix_(TV_network)

Viacom-owned Showtime may have some time freed up for original programming if they are not playing so many feature films.
or Epix channel could have their own original Trek series for 2011...

 

[Cdr MacDuff]

As others have said, I think with the commercial success of the new Trek movie, the possibility of a new Trek series in the next few years are great. The commercial success of the movie have proven that the Star Trek name still sells and money talks in those business. It would be great having some Trek every week with new writers and new bloods on the production side.

 

[borgfan8of5]

Love the idea that this guy has. I think that trek needs what it had in the 60's, but with a more ds9 storyline where descisions have consequences.