TOS Spinoffs?

[Nerys Myk]

Doubtful there was much of anything anyone could do, the quality of SF of network TV was soon to degrade with the 'adaptations' of Planet of the Apes, Logan's Run and others.

Sadly such lowered the bar to intelligently written TV fare, SF or otherwise, that it would never return to the levels of ST:TOS, The Prisoner or Dr.Who.

Case in point, Battle of the Network Stars.

Did you stop watching TV in the 70s? There have been many excellently written TV shows since then.

I watched Battle of the Network Stars, back in the day. It was fun, but hardly typical of TV from the last 40 years.

 

[MANT!]

There's nothing to that title sequence. It's one image, some animated text, and some repeating patterns of animated squares. It tells you nothing about the show.

Wow, you guys are a tough crowd. For what it's worth, I thought the credit sequence was very appropriate for the era it came from. Sorry, it's all personal opinion. I liked it.

Remind me never to show you my work for broadcast TV.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6lmBbV3VWo[/yt]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WMQFfMOQg[/yt]

 

[Maurice]

There's nothing to that title sequence. It's one image, some animated text, and some repeating patterns of animated squares. It tells you nothing about the show.

Wow, you guys are a tough crowd. For what it's worth, I thought the credit sequence was very appropriate for the era it came from. Sorry, it's all personal opinion. I liked it.

Remind me never to show you my work for broadcast TV.

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Those are better.

 

[Therin of Andor]

While not a ST-TOS based spin-off, Roddenberry did do his best to get Genesis II-Planet Earth going, perhaps if he had 'back-storied' such as a pre-Trek progenitor the fans might have give the projects more support.

Remember that one of the on-hand scripts for this was "Robot's Return", which evolved into "In Thy Image"/"The Motion Picture".