Nominate a book to adapt into a Trek movie.

[The Laughing Vulcan]

It would have been a pipe dream before, with the passage of time meaning that the original series actors weren't as spry, or as able to fit into the uniforms.

But all that has changed with Trek 2.0, with a new cast and a return to the TOS time period, albeit in a new continuity.

With JJ and the gang citing certain works of Trek Lit as an influence on the way the characters have been re-imagined, could this be the time to return to those original novels for ideas for a new film?

Of course The Vulcan Academy Murders are out...

I've recently been re-reading Dreams Of The Raven, and that's a book that I think would translate brilliantly to the big screen, and since McCoy was my second favourite character in the new film (Pike was my favourite), I'd love to see a McCoy centric film. Also, the horror action in space would work really well, even if it is a path that many films have taken before. The Ravens are certainly a unique and chilling alien foe.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Prime Directive

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Prime Directive

I can see a lot of that working as a sequel to the film. (Okay, not the first sequel. Maybe the second or third.) I even know which changes I would make. (Replace the Admiral character with Pike, for one thing.) But I'm not sure if the ending would work on screen, and the ending revelations might fall flat. (Of course, now I wonder if Warren Ellis read Prime Directive before coming up with Ultimate Galactus.)

Now, Memory Prime could work really well, and I think an audience who's experienced The Matrix would be able to understand the Pathfinders.

Diane Carey's First Strike could also work as a film.

I used to think Imzadi would make a great film, and I worked on a screenplay adaptation purely for fun about ten years ago. (I say "about." I started it in '98, and the last work was in 2002, as that version used Elias Vaughn in a minor role.)

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

The Wounded Sky--though I almost wonder if that one's TOO meaty for the silver screen.

If it were to make it, though, I've got the music for the last part of the book picked out...this version of "Stairway to Heaven": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys0hBEEM2Lo

Yes, I know that TNG tried to adapt this one, but it was an awful stinkfest in comparison to the book.

 

[Saul]

Ashes of Eden.

Federation.

 

[Trent Roman]

Q-Squared. I'd love to see that sort of mayhem on the big screen.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Sci]

A Time to Kill/A Time to Heal.

 

[seigezunt]

The Return.

 

[captcalhoun]

Wildfire. and then they can trash that fugly ass ship.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I've always thought that Q-Sqaured would make a great chaotic type of movie. It really has everything in it that you need : action, drama, tragedy, comedy! I would love to hear Micheal Dorn give the Winnie-The-Pooh report that he does in the book!

 

[Daddy Todd]

The Entropy Effect, but not right away -- I'd do it as the third or fourth NuTrek movie.

 

[JB2005]

A Time to Kill/A Time to Heal.

Turn the entire A Time to...series into a series of films/miniseries would be good

 

[Dancing Doctor]

^I like that idea.

I think Articles of the Federation could work, either as a movie or a TV series.

The Death of Princes.

Oh! The Destiny trilogy would be awesome.

 

[JB2005]

I think Articles of the Federation could work, either as a movie or a TV series.

Would work better as a TV series, couldn't get in depth enough with the characters as a movie.

Of course you'd need A Time For War/Peace + Kill/Heal possibly to lead into it

I actually think that this could be a winner, because it wouldn't be traditional ST, but it would be Trek enough to appeal to the fans, but you'd also get people who enjoy political intrigue and whatnot

 

[Sci]

I think Articles of the Federation could work, either as a movie or a TV series.

Would work better as a TV series, couldn't get in depth enough with the characters as a movie.

Of course you'd need A Time For War/Peace + Kill/Heal possibly to lead into it

I actually think that this could be a winner, because it wouldn't be traditional ST, but it would be Trek enough to appeal to the fans, but you'd also get people who enjoy political intrigue and whatnot

I actually really doubt that AotF could attract a large enough audience to justify it as its own series. Maybe as a relatively low-budget direct-to-DVD or made-for-TV movie.

But, I mean, AotF didn't even attract a large audience as a book -- and the books are already a niche audience. It attracted a niche audience within a niche audience -- and one that was too small to support a direct sequel.

Mind you, I say that as someone for whom AotF is his second-favorite Trek novel ever.

 

[JD]

I would love to see a movie of Serpents Among the Ruins, it's a great book that is fairly stand alone, so you could do just the one movie and be done with it.
Or a Animated series based on SCE. I don't know why, but ever since I started the series, I've thought it would work really well new animated series. Or Titan or Vanguard.

 

[Broccoli]

Ashes of Eden.

+1

 

[Paris]

For a TNG-era film, my hand's down pick would be the Destiny trilogy. As for a TOS-era film, i'd love to see Ex Machina. Unfortunately this would mean having to explain the Yonada/Fabrini situation and I already got blasted for suggesting a story that has already been touched upon in another thread (ironically by Ex Machina's author amoungst others...)

 

[Christopher]

Ex Machina is way too closely tied to ST:TMP as well as "For the World is Hollow." It's a portrait of a unique moment within the original ST continuity, and it couldn't function outside of that moment and that continuity.

 

[Paris]

Ex Machina is way too closely tied to ST:TMP as well as "For the World is Hollow." It's a portrait of a unique moment within the original ST continuity, and it couldn't function outside of that moment and that continuity.

You're probably right. I liked it as a character piece (especially Spock), but it is tied directly to TMP. It probably wouldn't make a good film for the nuTrek world. Which book would you (Christopher) like to see?...or is this another situation where you would only want to see a new/fresh story and not see a story that has already been told, even if only in book form?