Could they pull off a Titan series?

[Smiley]

If you're looking for a book series to inspire a TV series, Vanguard is the most likely candidate for today's TV landscape. The first three books would make an awesome miniseries, season, or short season, and they could make more if that were a hit.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

Totaly agreed it would work perfectly today. You can't go wrong great story, action, a hot vulcan or should I say a hot lesbian vulcan

 

[Bishop76]

I have yet to read any of those, but from what I've heard of the series I actually wouldn't be opposed.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

I have yet to read any of those, but from what I've heard of the series I actually wouldn't be opposed.

How could you from what we have debated over it has a Hot young Vulcan Lesbian!

 

[Bishop76]

News to me - like I said, I haven't read them - haven't got an opinion on them yet.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

News to me - like I said, I haven't read them - haven't got an opinion on them yet.

You really should read them best thing I have seen in Trek in along time.

 

[Bishop76]

That's what I've been hearing - I've been looking everywhere for the first book, but had no luck. I'm eventually just going to have to give in and order it online somewhere.

 

[Bishop76]

That's exactly the time I remember - I was at a con (ahh, the pre-internet days) and the big talk at the time was that Trek 6 was going to be Kirk and Spock at the academy... IIRC, Harve Bennett was a very big proponent of this and had been pushing for it for YEARS before it was even considered for Star Trek 6.

 

[F. King Daniel]

(managed to accidently delete my post. That's a first)

People have been saying that since 1997.

Let me be the first to call it "Smallville Trek" should it happen .

lol - hell, I've been hearing that since 1990...

Didin't the studio want TNG to be about cadets?

They nearly did a film called Star Trek: The Academy Years. Fans assumed "Police Academy in Space" and went into letter-writing mode

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

That's exactly the time I remember - I was at a con (ahh, the pre-internet days) and the big talk at the time was that Trek 6 was going to be Kirk and Spock at the academy... IIRC, Harve Bennett was a very big proponent of this and had been pushing for it for YEARS before it was even considered for Star Trek 6.

Didn't the studio want TNG to be about young cadets???

 

[Jefferies]

Sure the other two had promising premises. VOY was supposed to be about two separate crews struggling to live together while struggling to get home. It didn't go that way and just ended up being TNG in the Delta quadrant. ENT was supposed to be a show where the characters were supposed to rely less on technology as they had so much in the previous installations and had to get by on their smarts rather than using the tech as a crutch. Well, by the end of the first episode they had started using the transporter and phasers with stun settings and it had just become TNG in the 22nd century. My only point here is that DS9 was the only Berman era show that managed to keep its premise relatively intact, though it was touch and go a few times after they got the Defiant.

You are completely right on these points. I also agree that the Behr/Moore team was much more bold in trying to break the mold. I wonder what a DS9 spin-off under their full control would have been like. Say Ron had gone ahead with this in the direction of the relaunch novels and hadn't done BSG.

It's a simple enough reason. Money. That's pretty much all there is to it.

My argument was that Star Trek had been hugely successful without going mainstream for over 30 years, in fact I was trying to make the point that it made loads of money because it avoided doing that. It was more loved by its dedicted fans because of it and they therefore spent large amounts of their cash on the shows, movies and merchandise. The reason it got into trouble was because the fans felt it had lost its spirit through Enterprise and the Nemesis debacle not because it lacked sexy actors or hard action. It used to fill a substantial niche that now has become void.

 

[Epsilon IX]

I would be well up for Titan the series. Sadly, I know that it will never be because:

a) I know that it's been said in this thread a zillion times now, but Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis are both rather 'past it' now, and would very much be a parody of themselves. The dialogue would probably play out something like this:

Troi: "Once again we've saved civilisation as we know it. Right, Will?"
Riker: "That's right, Deanna. Only next time, I hope I don't have to do so much running around!"

b) The whole thing about novels is that you don't have to worry about such things as budget constraints and (lack of) visual effects technology. This is very much reflected in the scope of the Titan novels, with all the strange places they go to, as well as the equally strange beings they encounter, and needless to say those strange beings among the crew (eg. Ree, Chaka, Torvig etc.). To try and show this in live action format on a TV budget would be tricky to say the least.

c) It's a sad fact that the majority of people these days just don't like to have to use their brains, and to think about abstract concepts or pay close attention to details. They would rather watch something with a completely brainless concept, such as a dozen people locked in a house smelling each other's farts, which is somehow perceived as 'entertainment'!

That's just my two cents though. Titan the series (at least in a live action format) will never be. But I can dream!