A TNG Animated Series
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But...anime/manga facial proportions look better than they do in real life.
I think it's a cool idea, with or without the original actors. What I really think would work would be a Starfleet Academy cartoon aimed at a younger audience, set in the JJ universe. I could see that happening.
I recently saw a video of Spiner imitating Stewart as Picard and he did a great job. He could do both voices if old Shiny is too busy!
Seriously, I would love an animated series with the same reverence and maturity that was done for Batman: TAS and the other WB superhero shows. Then market the hell out of it with action figures and video games. I would like a Titan/TNG/DS9/VOY/New Frontiers era series. I wouldn't mind an anthology series that could cover any era, any species, any planet, any space station, any ship, etc.
Seriously, I would love an animated series with the same reverence and maturity that was done for Batman: TAS and the other WB superhero shows. Then market the hell out of it with action figures and video games. I would like a Titan/TNG/DS9/VOY/New Frontiers era series. I wouldn't mind an anthology series that could cover any era, any species, any planet, any space station, any ship, etc.
That's what great about voices in an animated production. There are really talented impressionists who could capture the characters perfectly, say if you couldn't get the original cast
Perhaps it wouldn't even be that bad of an idea to just incorporate the whole of the Trek universe into it, with Voyager & DS9 characters & the Titan & such, but it just wouldn't seem like Star Trek, if you didn't center it around the Enterprise (Most likely the E, in this case)
The great thing with an idea like that is that you could make minor alterations to the cast, just like TAS did
Done right, I think it could be hugely successful. Adult audiences are way more embracing of animated shows & movies now, than they were when TAS was made
Perhaps it wouldn't even be that bad of an idea to just incorporate the whole of the Trek universe into it, with Voyager & DS9 characters & the Titan & such, but it just wouldn't seem like Star Trek, if you didn't center it around the Enterprise (Most likely the E, in this case)
The great thing with an idea like that is that you could make minor alterations to the cast, just like TAS did
Done right, I think it could be hugely successful. Adult audiences are way more embracing of animated shows & movies now, than they were when TAS was made
There was an awesome set of concept sketches for a Titan series over in the Trek Lit forum, it actually felt like something of a no brainer to me. Star Trek is a proven moneymaker, the stories for Titan are already written, Sirtis and Frakes would totally be up for the voice-work, all it would take is an enterprising animation company. Trek fans would lap it up. Someone needs to get on this, pronto.
There was talk of a TNG animated series during TNG's original run, but nothing came of it.
Lots of TNG cast members have voiceover experience, especially Michael Dorn, who's probably done more voice work than on-camera work in his career, and Wil Wheaton, who's been fairly active in voice work for most of the past decade (playing Aqualad on Teen Titans, Cosmic Boy on Legion of Super Heroes, and Darkstar on Ben 10 Alien Force). LeVar Burton has a fair amount of voice-acting experience, and Frakes, Sirtis, and Spiner all had major roles on Gargoyles (and Colm Meaney was heard there too). Patrick Stewart has a recurring role on (ugh) American Dad, and has done voice roles in such feature films as The Prince of Egypt, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Chicken Little, and TMNT. Whoopi Goldberg has done plenty of voice roles, including Gaia in Captain Planet and characters in The Lion King and the upcoming Toy Story 3. And of course all the TNG cast has voiceover experience from video games.
If they couldn't get Stewart for an animated TNG series, I wouldn't be surprised if they went with David Kaye, who did a very Stewart-like version of Professor X in X-Men Evolution.
If they couldn't get Stewart for an animated TNG series, I wouldn't be surprised if they went with David Kaye, who did a very Stewart-like version of Professor X in X-Men Evolution.
I thought it was Frakes, Sirtis, and Dorn on Gargoyles.
I'd love another animated Trek series. Especially if it were CGI. They could do stuff that was unfeasible for a TV budget back in the day. Preferably a 24th C era show with either the TNG characters, or a combo TNG/DS9/VOY thing.
Dorn appeared in six episodes as Coldstone; I didn't specify that because I'd already addressed his extensive voiceover career. Spiner was in four episodes as Puck. My point is not that only those three were on Gargoyles, but rather that those three don't have many animation credits other than Gargoyles.
Other Trek regulars with guest roles on Gargoyles include LeVar Burton (Anansi), Avery Brooks (Lokkar), Kate Mulgrew (Titania), and Nichelle Nichols (Diana Maza).
Fair enough. I didn't watch more than the first few episodes of Gargoyles. My hazy memory was that there was some buzz about Sirtis, Frakes, and Dorn doing the show. I didn't realize Spiner, let alone the others, worked on the show as well. I guess someone running the show was a Star Trek fan.
Let's not forget Dorn's vocal Magnum Opus, I Am Weasel.
I'd watch it, too. As far as Dorn is concerned, his best voiceover work was Kalibak in Superman: TAS.
