which of these Star Trek projects should have been made?
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I've always been tempted by Harve Bennett's Starfleet Academy movie... and it would've beaten JJ Abrams to it, with a proper Prime Universe meeting for Kirk, Spock & McCoy. Wraparound scenes with Bill, De and Leonard remembering how it happened.
On the whole though, I'd much rather have a Fifth Season of Star Trek Enterprise.
I wish I were watching that on DVD right now.
Consider it all my Birthdays, Christmasses and dying wish - rolled into one. Paramount can keep the change.
On the whole though, I'd much rather have a Fifth Season of Star Trek Enterprise.
I wish I were watching that on DVD right now.
Consider it all my Birthdays, Christmasses and dying wish - rolled into one. Paramount can keep the change.
On the whole, I'm happy with Trek as it turned out. But I am curious about Starfleet Academy and Star Trek: The Beginning. JMS's "Reboot the universe" thing sounds inspiring... right up until you remember that he already tried to do Star Trek in the mind blowingly awful and short lived Crusade. I bet the pitch for that was a pretty cool read, too.
The only idea I'd really like to see is Star Trek: Federation. It's kind of crazy and full of ideas, but that's better than something boring and thin.
The article makes the JMS idea sound appealing but I know enough about it to know, it ain't Trek.
I'd love a series based on the Earth-Romulan War, but a movie? Eh.
The animated series really should involve the new Kirk, Spock, etc, maybe with voice actors. Kind of a waste not to go that route when you can, and not break the bank.
The article makes the JMS idea sound appealing but I know enough about it to know, it ain't Trek.
I'd love a series based on the Earth-Romulan War, but a movie? Eh.
The animated series really should involve the new Kirk, Spock, etc, maybe with voice actors. Kind of a waste not to go that route when you can, and not break the bank.
Star Trek: Planet of the Titans had me at 'Toshiro Mifune as a Klingon' (although if memory serves, Mifune was also considered for Admiral Nogura in the first Star Trek movie actually made.)
Seriously. Mifune as a Klingon. This, granted, is before the Klingons donned samurai costumes, but even so.
That said, Star Trek: Phase II would top the list here for me. Maybe it's my fondness for that Reeves-Stevens book on the subject, or for the first movie, but it's probably my most longstanding what-if for the franchise. I'm not sure it would have been a better direction then what we had - if the series turned out to be a choppy, uneven season of TV, who knows where'd we go from there, and also, no Spock, and no Khan, and as intriguing as Decker, Ilia and Xon might have been, we got them thinly repurposed as Riker, Troi and Data.
Incidentally, thinking of JMS's pitch:
Vonnegut, alas, no longer with us, as I would have killed to see what a Vonnegut script for Star Trek would be like. I choose to imagine it as Sirens of Titan, for no good reason.
Really though, besides Rikers In Space (and a little wary of Assignment: Earth), I sort of like all the potential pitches, and I'm excluding Rikers In Space because it's pretty thin on the ice what that actually is.
Also, no mention of the Mudd spinoff? Didn't they consider that?
Seriously. Mifune as a Klingon. This, granted, is before the Klingons donned samurai costumes, but even so.
That said, Star Trek: Phase II would top the list here for me. Maybe it's my fondness for that Reeves-Stevens book on the subject, or for the first movie, but it's probably my most longstanding what-if for the franchise. I'm not sure it would have been a better direction then what we had - if the series turned out to be a choppy, uneven season of TV, who knows where'd we go from there, and also, no Spock, and no Khan, and as intriguing as Decker, Ilia and Xon might have been, we got them thinly repurposed as Riker, Troi and Data.
Incidentally, thinking of JMS's pitch:
Who says any of them would have returned his calls?
Vonnegut, alas, no longer with us, as I would have killed to see what a Vonnegut script for Star Trek would be like. I choose to imagine it as Sirens of Titan, for no good reason.
Really though, besides Rikers In Space (and a little wary of Assignment: Earth), I sort of like all the potential pitches, and I'm excluding Rikers In Space because it's pretty thin on the ice what that actually is.
Also, no mention of the Mudd spinoff? Didn't they consider that?
That does seem a bit wildly optimistic. Vonnegut? Michael Crichton? Ray Bradbury? (As I recall, they tried to get Bradbury to write for the original STAR TREK series, but he wasn't interested the first time around.)
And my mind boggles at the idea of STAR TREK as written by Anne Rice . . . . .
I would have liked Star Trek: The Beginning as the first chapter in a movie trilogy.
I voted for none of the above. I was close to voting for Phase II, but then that probably would have meant no TOS movies, so I didn't. But that was a close call.
I voted for...
Assignment: Earth, because it would have been a really hip, 60s style spy series with a touch of Trek. Who wouldn't love to see this? I still think that this could be a series today, and I keep posting my "dream outline" in the Future of Trek section.
Phase II, because I would have loved a TV series with the look and feel of TMP. I love that movie, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. (On the other hand, we probably wouldn't have gotten TNG.)
The Beginning, because it would have delivered what Enterprise set up and did not get the chance to do. Also, it would have closed a very interesting gap in Trek's fictional history. Alternatively, a fifth season of Enterprise would have been wonderful, +1 to ChristopherPike.
Rikers in Space, because a Titan series done well could have rocked. (But not the way that Frakes and Marina keep describing it at conventions: A half-hour sitcom with a laugh track and Worf as their dog. Although...)
I did not vote for the rest because when it comes to Trek, I like neither reboots nor animated series.
(Planet of the Titans sounds too much like a TOS episode to work as a feature film. The JFK assassination and the dinosaur story that floated around as possible first movies would have been better than that. Granted, it would have been great to see Mifune starring in a Trek movie. And as a Klingon! Epic.)
Assignment: Earth, because it would have been a really hip, 60s style spy series with a touch of Trek. Who wouldn't love to see this? I still think that this could be a series today, and I keep posting my "dream outline" in the Future of Trek section.
Phase II, because I would have loved a TV series with the look and feel of TMP. I love that movie, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. (On the other hand, we probably wouldn't have gotten TNG.)
The Beginning, because it would have delivered what Enterprise set up and did not get the chance to do. Also, it would have closed a very interesting gap in Trek's fictional history. Alternatively, a fifth season of Enterprise would have been wonderful, +1 to ChristopherPike.
Rikers in Space, because a Titan series done well could have rocked. (But not the way that Frakes and Marina keep describing it at conventions: A half-hour sitcom with a laugh track and Worf as their dog. Although...)
I did not vote for the rest because when it comes to Trek, I like neither reboots nor animated series.
(Planet of the Titans sounds too much like a TOS episode to work as a feature film. The JFK assassination and the dinosaur story that floated around as possible first movies would have been better than that. Granted, it would have been great to see Mifune starring in a Trek movie. And as a Klingon! Epic.)
I voted for Final Frontier, because I'd love to see another animated Trek.
Although what I really really want and would make happen if I had Q powers would be a TNG animated series. Imagine a Sunday morning cartoon about the crew of the D. I'd sell every family member I've got to make that happen. And I really like my family.
Although what I really really want and would make happen if I had Q powers would be a TNG animated series. Imagine a Sunday morning cartoon about the crew of the D. I'd sell every family member I've got to make that happen. And I really like my family.
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All of them?
What's the Crusade equivalent of "Year of Hell", "Timeless", "Jetrel", "Tuvix", "Scorpion", "Death Wish", "Twilight", "Shockwave", "Regeneration", "Demons", "Terra Prime", "Similitude"??
Did Crusade have a single classic episode? No.
I always think the Enterprise should have been set after the Romulan War, with the formation of the Federation and a big universe to explore whilst the character have to deal with the political and personal aftermath of the war. But that's just me.
In the vote I opted for either Phase II (it would have been good to see the old and new crew clash, as well as more done with Decker and Ilia, as well as Xon being established) or the Re-Boot (an underlying storyline sounds very interesting I think).
Other projects I would loved to have seen would be Christopher Pike's missions, or an Academy series (though not one of younger established characters, a new cast of Starfleet's best and brightest upcomers).
^ What is the Crusade equivalent of The Andorian Incident, Carbon Creek, Twilight, The Forge / Awakening / Kir'Shara, In a Mirror, Darkly, Demons / Terra Prime...
Seriously.
*edit* KingDaniel beat me to it.
Seriously.
*edit* KingDaniel beat me to it.
I'll go with the X-Files episode. There's almost nothing about that which isn't excruiatingly painful.
How far did the Captain Sulu idea get? I always thought that could have been great.
After that, Phase II.
After that, Phase II.
