What series would you do for the 60th anniversary
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At this point? Probably something on the streaming side of things. I can't see Trek on the big screen happening anytime in the near future.
As for what I'd do? It depends on what ends up happening with Strange New Worlds.
If season 4 unfortunately ends up as the last season, for its finale I'd want them to jump ahead and show the last adventure with Pike on the Enterprise and end with Kirk taking command. It Would bring the entire 60 years of the franchise full circle and possibly give hints to a continuation with a new series showing Paul Wesley's Kirk in command. It wouldn't need to be a direct reboot of The Original Series as I'm sure there were lots of adventures we didn't see during Kirk's 5 year mission.
Now if Strange New Worlds were to hopefully continue beyond season 4, I can think of a couple other fun ways to celebrate the 60th Anniversary.
One could be an episode that resembles The Original Series in every possible way. On the outside, the Enterprise would look exactly as it did in the 60's, possibly even filming an actual model. On the inside, they could film on the sets in Ticonderoga. I'd want TOS music, props, uniform, hair, special effects, etc. But they can't draw attention to the fact things look different. In-universe, it's just another day on the Enterprise. Play it 100% straight. Could be this generations Trials and Tribble-ations or In a Mirror Darkly.
Another option could be a "TV movie" showing the launch of the Enterprise under Captain April. Adrian Holmes is a damn good actor and I'd love to see him given a chance to shine in the franchise. Would also present an opportunity to bring in Scott Bakula for a cameo as Archer witnessing the launch of The Enterprise. The film could almost be seen as a love letter to the Enterprise herself.
But yeah. Just a few of the ideas I have rolling around in my head. Most importantly, they could all be done relatively easily, using mostly existing sets and assets. I believe in having realistic expectations.
As for what I'd do? It depends on what ends up happening with Strange New Worlds.
If season 4 unfortunately ends up as the last season, for its finale I'd want them to jump ahead and show the last adventure with Pike on the Enterprise and end with Kirk taking command. It Would bring the entire 60 years of the franchise full circle and possibly give hints to a continuation with a new series showing Paul Wesley's Kirk in command. It wouldn't need to be a direct reboot of The Original Series as I'm sure there were lots of adventures we didn't see during Kirk's 5 year mission.
Now if Strange New Worlds were to hopefully continue beyond season 4, I can think of a couple other fun ways to celebrate the 60th Anniversary.
One could be an episode that resembles The Original Series in every possible way. On the outside, the Enterprise would look exactly as it did in the 60's, possibly even filming an actual model. On the inside, they could film on the sets in Ticonderoga. I'd want TOS music, props, uniform, hair, special effects, etc. But they can't draw attention to the fact things look different. In-universe, it's just another day on the Enterprise. Play it 100% straight. Could be this generations Trials and Tribble-ations or In a Mirror Darkly.
Another option could be a "TV movie" showing the launch of the Enterprise under Captain April. Adrian Holmes is a damn good actor and I'd love to see him given a chance to shine in the franchise. Would also present an opportunity to bring in Scott Bakula for a cameo as Archer witnessing the launch of The Enterprise. The film could almost be seen as a love letter to the Enterprise herself.
But yeah. Just a few of the ideas I have rolling around in my head. Most importantly, they could all be done relatively easily, using mostly existing sets and assets. I believe in having realistic expectations.
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60th anniversary special movie title options
The search for Pike
The Sisko returns
The gazelles strike back
Picard - The lost daughter syndrome
Attack of the Soong clones
The search for Pike
The Sisko returns
The gazelles strike back
Picard - The lost daughter syndrome
Attack of the Soong clones
They should absolutely use some of the technology used for Trials and Tribble-ations to return to DS9... and remaster the whole series in HD.
I don't think they could even better trials and tribbleations
the effects look good still today
flashback was OK but not as good
the effects look good still today
flashback was OK but not as good
Didn't Voyager do Flashback for this as wellFor the 30th, DS9 went back into TOS for the fun and respectful Trials and Tribble-ations.
For the 60th, SNW should do an episode where they go forward into DS9 in some fun and respectful way.
I'm mostly joking.
And absolutely, I always thought it'd be nifty if SNW or a future show did something like that, walking among the DS9 crew. I don't care if it's cliched.
Yes. I just didn't bring it up because I thought it was poor.
For the 30th, DS9 went back into TOS for the fun and respectful Trials and Tribble-ations.
For the 60th, SNW should do an episode where they go forward into DS9 in some fun and respectful way.
I'm mostly joking.
Go one further and have them jump into multiple eras of Star Trek...for some reason.
Don't forget the animated shows either, and have our characters take on the animation style of TAS, LDS and PRO.
You're only 60 once.
Well, I wouldn't do a new show, I would prefer the legacy shows to be polished up.
I'd redo the original series on blu ray, fixing the seamless branching errors that have plagued the episodes since the 2006 remaster. I'd restore and offer the actual original mono sound mix to every episode, the original opening and closing "electric violin" themes in the episodes that had them, put the episodic previews at the end of every episode (with the original "next week" restored in the first two seasons), put the correct Paramount logos at the end, add NBC network interstitials and station break billboards, NBC advertising and even upgrade the correct the new effects to much better result (although I never watch them and don't care I would want the set to appeal to new fans and people who like the upgraded effects). I'd make sure the new effect actually match the intent of the scenes (I'm looking at you Doomsday Machine).
Then I would turn my attention to DS9 and Voyager and give them a proper restoration and release.
Then I'd release all the films in theaters, about 1 a month so the entire year is covered. Space them so all 13 get out there.
I'd redo the original series on blu ray, fixing the seamless branching errors that have plagued the episodes since the 2006 remaster. I'd restore and offer the actual original mono sound mix to every episode, the original opening and closing "electric violin" themes in the episodes that had them, put the episodic previews at the end of every episode (with the original "next week" restored in the first two seasons), put the correct Paramount logos at the end, add NBC network interstitials and station break billboards, NBC advertising and even upgrade the correct the new effects to much better result (although I never watch them and don't care I would want the set to appeal to new fans and people who like the upgraded effects). I'd make sure the new effect actually match the intent of the scenes (I'm looking at you Doomsday Machine).
Then I would turn my attention to DS9 and Voyager and give them a proper restoration and release.
Then I'd release all the films in theaters, about 1 a month so the entire year is covered. Space them so all 13 get out there.
Do not want a reboot of TOS!!!!!!
If the exterior and interior of the 1701 looked as it did in TOS then maybe amenable to unseen adventures.
If the exterior and interior of the 1701 looked as it did in TOS then maybe amenable to unseen adventures.
Define ''do.''
For TOS's 50th, my brother and I ''did'' all of SEARCH FOR SPOCK, THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, FIRST CONTACT, INTO DARKNESS, KITUMBA, BLOOD AND FIRE, THE PRACTICAL JOKER, MORE TRIBBLES MORE TROUBLES, TRIALS AND TRIBBLEATIONS, Q-PID, RASCALS, RELICS, CAPTAIN'S HOLIDAY, plus the last 60 percent of WRATH OF KHAN, Kirk's TMP intro, the VOYAGE HOME'S hospital rescue, Bones's TNG cameo, the best of Data and Kirk in GENERATIONS and (before anything else) INSURRECTION's bouncing ball scene. To honor the thoroughly-memorized series, we did everything but!
As for the 60th, when anniversaries are for people, I say go all out, but for institutions like TREK, I'm more of a 10th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 50th and 75th kind of a human. So.....perhaps the blooper reel this time.
For TOS's 50th, my brother and I ''did'' all of SEARCH FOR SPOCK, THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, FIRST CONTACT, INTO DARKNESS, KITUMBA, BLOOD AND FIRE, THE PRACTICAL JOKER, MORE TRIBBLES MORE TROUBLES, TRIALS AND TRIBBLEATIONS, Q-PID, RASCALS, RELICS, CAPTAIN'S HOLIDAY, plus the last 60 percent of WRATH OF KHAN, Kirk's TMP intro, the VOYAGE HOME'S hospital rescue, Bones's TNG cameo, the best of Data and Kirk in GENERATIONS and (before anything else) INSURRECTION's bouncing ball scene. To honor the thoroughly-memorized series, we did everything but!
As for the 60th, when anniversaries are for people, I say go all out, but for institutions like TREK, I'm more of a 10th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 50th and 75th kind of a human. So.....perhaps the blooper reel this time.
I'd do a one-off streaming movie based off Roddenberry's original 1964 pitch for Star Trek featuring Captain Robert M. April commanding the SS Yorktown. It would intentionally look like it had been made between 1964 & 1965 (as much as possible), including a few tongue-in-cheek "commercials" reminiscent of the era. It would be shamelessly retro, if not gleefully outdated, and meant to be solely a "What If...?" movie.
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A 60th anniversary anthology streaming special.
The first 8 episodes would be 60 minutes in length.
Ep.1. Based around the SS Valiant, Bonaventure C1-21, XCV-330, SS Columbia (TAS-style, callbacks to The Cage, WHMHGB, TMP, FC)
Ep. 2. Archer celebrating an anniversary related to the NX-01 or even the founding of the Coalition of Planets, followed up with maybe a sendoff of the USS Kelvin
Ep.3. April at the launch of TOS-era NCC-1701 with a sendoff from Archer; mission with Pike & Una
Ep.4. TMP era Enterprise, ft Kirk, Spock, Chapel, Uhura, Scotty, M’Benga, & Amanda Grayson (the TOS legacy character that have appeared in SNW)
Ep 5. Garrett/Harriman in the Lost Era, with Garrett being briefed on some S31 mission to find the Ent-B, and shown early construction of the Ent-C (Probert design)
Ep.6. DS9/VOY/LD/PRO crossover, LD-style. Starring Admiral Janeway and the Doctor, and featuring the Ent-F (maybe based around the Romulan supernova)
Ep. 7. Ent-G (Seven & Admiral Riker, Raffi & Worf, Data & Soji, maybe recovering the Ent-E to be placed in the Fleet Museum alongside the Ent-D)
Ep. 8. 32nd century holodeck with Reno, Tilly, Stamets, and cadets; start with a hologram of the ENT-J, then a hologram of Pike’s Enterprise
The last anthology episode leads into a 90 minute Christmas special with the SNW crew.
The first 8 episodes would be 60 minutes in length.
Ep.1. Based around the SS Valiant, Bonaventure C1-21, XCV-330, SS Columbia (TAS-style, callbacks to The Cage, WHMHGB, TMP, FC)
Ep. 2. Archer celebrating an anniversary related to the NX-01 or even the founding of the Coalition of Planets, followed up with maybe a sendoff of the USS Kelvin
Ep.3. April at the launch of TOS-era NCC-1701 with a sendoff from Archer; mission with Pike & Una
Ep.4. TMP era Enterprise, ft Kirk, Spock, Chapel, Uhura, Scotty, M’Benga, & Amanda Grayson (the TOS legacy character that have appeared in SNW)
Ep 5. Garrett/Harriman in the Lost Era, with Garrett being briefed on some S31 mission to find the Ent-B, and shown early construction of the Ent-C (Probert design)
Ep.6. DS9/VOY/LD/PRO crossover, LD-style. Starring Admiral Janeway and the Doctor, and featuring the Ent-F (maybe based around the Romulan supernova)
Ep. 7. Ent-G (Seven & Admiral Riker, Raffi & Worf, Data & Soji, maybe recovering the Ent-E to be placed in the Fleet Museum alongside the Ent-D)
Ep. 8. 32nd century holodeck with Reno, Tilly, Stamets, and cadets; start with a hologram of the ENT-J, then a hologram of Pike’s Enterprise
The last anthology episode leads into a 90 minute Christmas special with the SNW crew.
Star Trek: Gerontocracy
A series taking place in a senior citizen's home, where all those of 130+ year of age complain about how in their time, everything was much better than today, now that Starfleet is being run by their grandchildren's generation, those insolent juvenile octogenarians, and how they should wrestle back power from them.
"Wagon Train to the Stars" the Trek equivalent of "An Adventure in Time and Space."
I'd love some equivalent to "The Five-ish Doctors Reboot." Get people from all the shows together for some nonsense, just little cameos. Maybe do a fight scene out at Gorn rock with people from the different shows, then you pull back and see it's just a matte painting and they're in a carpark of a Denny's
I'd love some equivalent to "The Five-ish Doctors Reboot." Get people from all the shows together for some nonsense, just little cameos. Maybe do a fight scene out at Gorn rock with people from the different shows, then you pull back and see it's just a matte painting and they're in a carpark of a Denny's
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