TAS to TOS

[Nero's Shadow]

I've been watching TAS this week fancied a change and after watching a couple of episodes it got me thinking would some of the stories from TAS could or would have made good live TOS episodes. ?

It's like the counter clock incident I would have loved to seen captain Robert April taking control of the enterprise. Also I would have loved to seen more aliens and the new crew members like arex mress .

So what u think which episodes and why ?

 

[T'Girl]

The episode I consider to be the best, likely could not be made as a TOS episode, Yesteryear. Multiple Vulcan cars, Spock's pet, the desert at night, the attack by the wild beast. There no way TOS could have done this episode without screwing it up. A perfect example of how animation can be superior for telling some stories.

 

[Nero's Shadow]

The episode I consider to be the best, likely could not be made as a TOS episode, Yesteryear. Multiple Vulcan cars, Spock's pet, the desert at night, the attack by the wild beast. There no way TOS could have done this episode without screwing it up. A perfect example of how animation can be superior for telling some stories.

Yeah that's a great episode well worth a live episode remake pity they never made a episode live or animation on kirks last five year mission I know turnabout intruder was never a conclusion to the TOS series loved to see the enterprise docking at the drydock facilty kirk getting his promotion Spock leaving for his Vulcan ways and bones retiring would have been great and special ?

 

[Therin of Andor]

I've been watching TAS this week fancied a change and after watching a couple of episodes it got me thinking would some of the stories from TAS could or would have made good live TOS episodes?

"More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Bem" were written for TOS, and David Gerrold rewrote them for TAS. "The Time Trap" seems to have its roots in an unused DC Fontana TOS script, "The Stars of Sargasso", IIRC, which featured a mysterious "Sargasso Sea in space".

 

[Archaeologist]

The episode I consider to be the best, likely could not be made as a TOS episode, Yesteryear. Multiple Vulcan cars, Spock's pet, the desert at night, the attack by the wild beast. There no way TOS could have done this episode without screwing it up. A perfect example of how animation can be superior for telling some stories.

Yesteryear was my favorite Animated Series episode as well. It gives a lot of depth to the Vulcan race, and Spock.

 

[F. King Daniel]

"Magicks of Megas-Tu" would have been quite a spectacle in live-action .

 

[BillJ]

The Infinite Vulcan

There is just something about this one that I always liked and would love to be expanded upon. Like the best of Star Trek, there is the right amount of great concept, morality play and good old fashioned cheese. It would have ranked right up with the best of TOS.

 

[Warped9]

There are quite a few TAS episodes that could have been done as live-action with the understanding that they would have to be adapted and some of the ideas reconsidered.

 

[BillJ]

There are quite a few TAS episodes that could have been done as live-action with the understanding that they would have to be adapted and some of the ideas reconsidered.

I'm not parting with the 50 foot tall Vulcan!

 

[StarryEyed]

One TAS episode that I thought was brilliantly done and could have easily been done in TOS was Albatross. I think that was the name. It involved McCoy being charged with responsibility for a plague on an alien colony world where he was stationed early in his career. This plague wiped out millions and so traumatized the race involved that they gave up space travel.

The story was amazingly sophisticated for a 30-minute cartoon.

The Pirates of Orion was another story that would have easily worked and it fit in perfectly with the established Trekverse.

 

[T'Girl]

I'm not parting with the 50 foot tall Vulcan!

A remake that incorporated the nuSpock and nuUhura romance, would make the love scenes very interesting.

And maybe a little painful.

 

[Tan Ru]

The Pirates of Orion

Would be the easiest to do as a live action episode.

 

[Timo]

They'd need to stage a hand-to-hand fight on an asteroid, though. All that styrofoam chipping... I shudder in sympathy, assuming any of the actors were as susceptible to the sound as my brother-in-law is.

It would have been interesting to see how they filled up the missing half an hour in each of the stories. Just expanding each scene with a few words or Shatnerian pauses would be as painful as the styrofoam sound. Yet inserting a B plot might be worse...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

The Pirates of Orion

Would be the easiest to do as a live action episode.

I suspect The Lorelei Signal might be easier - no new ship shots would be required.

 

[Navigator_NCC2120]

There are quite a few TAS episodes that could have been done as live-action with the understanding that they would have to be adapted and some of the ideas reconsidered.

I'm not parting with the 50 foot tall Vulcan!

You would not have to. If they could afford a giant Apollo in the Season 2 episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" then they could afford a giant Spock as well.



Navigator NCC-2120 USS Entente
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[Roberta Lincoln]

Ultimately, I would have liked to seen all of TAS done by TOS.
That said, I think Bem would have been interesting done by TOS with the separating body parts.
Beyond The Farthest Star would have been interesting too -- just to see the alien spaceship -- although they would have needed a much much larger budget!

 

[Warped9]

^^ If they could pull off the Fesarius in "The Corbomite Maneuver" and the planet wrecker in "The Doomsday Machine"--both immense constructs in comparison to the Enterprise--then I'm thinking they could have pulled off the ship from "Beyond The Farthest Star" in some way or other.

The alien entity would really have been just a play of light little different than Redjac from "Wolf In The Fold." The real challenge might have been some of those exotic alien ship interiors. Even the life-support belts could have been done although they likely would have just used the same space suits from "The Tholian Web."

With any of the TAS stories you have to reason that they would had to have been adapted in some way to be feasible for live-action '60s era television. That would mean rewriting and rethinking some ideas to get a similar end result. Not impossible, but it would demand imagination and resourcefulness.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Besides, many elements from the animated series were co-oped by Modern Trek episodes. Last night's re-run of Voyager features an alien race that ages backwards ("The Counter-clock Incident"). An episode of Deep Space Nine had a minature runabout ("The Terratin Incident"). That's just two examples off the top of my head. I have no doubt that the Star Trek producers could've pulled them off as well.

 

[Warped9]

Besides, many elements from the animated series were co-oped by Modern Trek episodes. Last night's re-run of Voyager features an alien race that ages backwards ("The Counter-clock Incident"). An episode of Deep Space Nine had a minature runabout ("The Terratin Incident"). That's just two examples off the top of my head. I have no doubt that the Star Trek producers could've pulled them off as well.

Yes, but recall that TOS didn't have the f/x resources contemporary productions have. So they'd have to be really clever about how they did things with some measure of panache. Things like the colony creature Bem or the Phylosians of "The Infinite Vulcan" and some of the other exotic aliens might have been beyond TOS' reach. The Gorn was as far as we saw them go. A non-humanoid alien would have to be very creative. The life-size Horta from "The Devil In The Dark" was as non-humanoid as we saw I think.

 

[Maurice]

I might be misremembering, but I think I read someplace that Gerrold's idea for BEM in a live-action was to have several people in one costume...so that the character could disassemble.