Another Star Trek animated series?

[Danlav05]

DC have been at it for 20-odd years now, how about some new Animated Trek? In the Fan Productions thread it has been suggested that the surviving members of the TOS crew (Shatner, Takei, Nichols and Koenig) could provide vocals alongside ST Continues*/Online's Chris Doohan as Scotty, maybe with recasts for Spock and McCoy. Maybe they could be set between TMP and TWOK?! That’s a largely untapped area.


An alternative is to licence out vocals from Interplay's 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rites and (if it can be found!) Secret of Vulcan Fury to create all-new episodes with the WHOLE original cast – in fact for the games we have some fans are already trying to ‘make it so’. They’re the last known existing TOS original cast stories that can be used to make episodes.


Of course as well you could tap into any era through the animated medium – I’m not sure how popular an Enterprise animation would fare but TNG post-Nemesis stories could also do well.


* many of whom are professional anime voice artists

 

[Kor]

The problem with making episodes out of games is that the story structure and writing for an interactive game is different than for a movie or TV episode that you watch non-interactively.

Kor

 

[The Old Mixer]

DC have been at it for 20-odd years now, how about some new Animated Trek? In the Fan Productions thread it has been suggested that the surviving members of the TOS crew (Shatner, Takei, Nichols and Koenig) could provide vocals alongside ST Continues*/Online's Chris Doohan as Scotty, maybe with recasts for Spock and McCoy. Maybe they could be set between TMP and TWOK?! That’s a largely untapped area.


An alternative is to licence out vocals from Interplay's 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rites and (if it can be found!) Secret of Vulcan Fury to create all-new episodes with the WHOLE original cast – in fact for the games we have some fans are already trying to ‘make it so’. They’re the last known existing TOS original cast stories that can be used to make episodes.


Of course as well you could tap into any era through the animated medium – I’m not sure how popular an Enterprise animation would fare but TNG post-Nemesis stories could also do well.


* many of whom are professional anime voice artists

I've merged this with an existing recent thread on the same subject.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'd love to see a CGI remake of TAS. Keep the existing voice tracks, just do all new animation.

 

[Kor]

I'd love to see a CGI remake of TAS. Keep the existing voice tracks, just do all new animation.

To me, the audio has a somewhat "tinny" quality that I don't think would go well with CGI animation. It sounds like a seventies cartoon.

Kor

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Tin. Dreadful TIN things. AAAAAAAAAAA!!!

 

[velour]

I would like to see a Lego ST animated series.

The Star Wars Lego Freemaker series was fun to watch. It was for kids, but I think even an adult can appreciate it. I also enjoyed the Lego movie and some of the Lego superhero shows. I think a Lego Trek series would be something that would be worth watching.

 

[Kor]

Except that it would have to be with Mega Bloks, the "poor man's Lego."

Kor

 

[VulcanMindBlown]

Any era might be fine... but please... don't do the TNG Enterprise-D crew again...

 

[Space Coast]

An animated series, while possible, would need to straddle between adult interest and children's interest. Something like the Star Wars CGI shows have done. I don't think Janeway would particularly interest kids.

Says who? There's always Japanese or French studios. I imagine an Ufotable-made Trek series would look fantastic.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

An animated series set in Kelvin timeline with the movie crew could work. Have a tone similar to Batman The Animated Series and have some sort of ongoing arc like a lot of kids shows are doing now. They could even do some updated versions of some TOS episodes if the message was still topical. They could easily make an episode similar to Balance of Terror, but focus more on the crewmember upset over Vulcans looking like Romulans, thinking that Spock might be a traitor.

I'd love to see a remake of Patterns of Force, with the revelation that Ekos and Zeon are lost Earth colonies, with Zeon being a success and Ekos ending up a failure for some reason.

The same could be done to similar episodes with the 'Earth culture on another planet' plot:

1. The Omega Glory-Revealed to be another lost Earth colony of American and Chinese people that had not been able to see past their differences and ended up launching bioweapons on each other, leading to what happens in the episode.
2. Bread & Circuses- Same, with the revelation that the reason this planet is like Rome is due to the planet being at the tail end of a time-space hole which the colony ship crashed on (or the episode could be set in a parallel universe that the Enterprise and the Beagle before it ended up in.

An alternative is to licence out vocals from Interplay's 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rites and (if it can be found!) Secret of Vulcan Fury to create all-new episodes with the WHOLE original cast – in fact for the games we have some fans are already trying to ‘make it so’. They’re the last known existing TOS original cast stories that can be used to make episodes.


Of course as well you could tap into any era through the animated medium – I’m not sure how popular an Enterprise animation would fare but TNG post-Nemesis stories could also do well.


* many of whom are professional anime voice artists

I doubt that would work; it's time to do a new Star Trek animated series with new characters (or perhaps a new 'Saturday morning' adaptation of the new movies that could air on Cartoon Network or Nick.)

Says who? There's always Japanese or French studios. I imagine an Ufotable-made Trek series would look fantastic.

I'd go with Japanese, Chinese (Hong Kong) or South Korean studios myself (the French ones like to do their own stuff, and wouldn't give a shit for doing 'work for hire' jobs, as seen here in this article

 

[Riverside2233]

I think a version of S.C.E. could work as animated. You could go younger with the target audience as a sort of science "problem solving" show with different missions each episode. It could have that Magic School Bus feel to it but still be smart and futuristic if done right.

GRANTED kids these days really don't have exposure to real Trek so I get how hard any animated series is to make in the genre.

 

[ironnerd]

I would be most interested in an anime-esque Star Trek animation set between TOS and TNG. Perhaps not Enterprise B (since it's story is pretty well laid out already). Maybe a Miranda or one of the last operational Constitution Class ships.