was 1994 too soon to recast star trek tos in movie form.my idea it would be a,adventure after turnabout intruder and ds9 would detail the current trek axcenture.
why not recast tos trek in 94
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My opinion in 1994 was that the TOS cast was not too old to do movies. While many felt they were, I still wasn't the only one who didn't think so. So, yes, I think 1994 would've been too soon to recast.
TNG was red-hot in 1994. There was no way they weren't going to do a TNG Movie. I just wished they'd have made a better one than they did.
TNG was red-hot in 1994. There was no way they weren't going to do a TNG Movie. I just wished they'd have made a better one than they did.
I guess instead of starting the TNG movie series in 94 they could've done the SFA movie or maybe something similar to ST09 giving TOS the big budget/big star treatment that was going on around then for 60s shows (Fugitive, M:I, Avengers, LiS). with a bigger budget/stars than usual (Sam Neill/Pike, Alan Rickman/Sarek. Ed Harris/Nero, and Shatner and Nimoy could've cameo'd)
basically kept TOS era/characters as 'movie Trek' and the TNG era as 'tv trek'.. and instead of VOY just kept TNG on tv for another 3-4years (imagine Patricks face when he was told that!) ..
basically kept TOS era/characters as 'movie Trek' and the TNG era as 'tv trek'.. and instead of VOY just kept TNG on tv for another 3-4years (imagine Patricks face when he was told that!) ..
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After the original actors riled up fans saying the movie was "Police Academy in Space" because they were afraid of losing their jobs.
Didn't William Shatner allude to this as to why he opted to let Kirk die; in that Paramount was only interested in TNG films and spinoffs at the time and that nothing more could really be done with TOS? Rebooting TOS wouldn't have panned out anyway, given the expansion of the 24th (and a half) century (given how daffy some DS9, VOY, and especially ENT got).
It did seem like 60s nostalgia was a fad for a little while there in the 1990s. Along with those you mention there were also The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, The Addams Family, My Favourite Martian...
I've often thought this might be what would've happened had Star Trek simply have been the original three seasons and then never come back in the late 1970s. By 1992/93, it probably would be warmly regarded as one of those 60s shows with a cult following, and as with Mission: Impossible etc, Paramount probably would've given it the movie remake with a fresh young cast treatment at that point anyway.
TNG was the bee's knees in 1994, as indeed the broadcast of All Good Things was a Major Television Event. With the TOS cast sauntering into the sunset, the TNG cast was the next logical choice to inherit the Trek movie series. We can look back and judge things, they should have waited longer after the show ended than six months to release the first movie, the movies could have been much better. But given how popular TNG was, a movie based on it was inevitable and there is a certain logic in striking while the iron is hot.
Besides, the Berman era Trek franchise had a certain reticence towards unusual ideas. A recast TOS in the 1990s would have been too out there for a franchise which at that time was still against the idea of long-term story arcs in the TV shows.
Besides, the Berman era Trek franchise had a certain reticence towards unusual ideas. A recast TOS in the 1990s would have been too out there for a franchise which at that time was still against the idea of long-term story arcs in the TV shows.
Agreed. For better or worse, 1994 was the YEAR OF THE TNG MOVIES. TNG was at the height of its popularity, and EVERYONE I knew was excited that Picard et. al were going to have their own big-screen debut. The TOS films were done. TUC pretty much ratified that. As for recasting the TOS crew? Why would they do that, when they had the TNG crew to work with? At the time they honestly thought that a TNG movie franchise was the way to go, and while Generations didn't quite live up to their expectations, First Contact certainly did. Of course the films went into a decline after that, but that was more mismanagement than anything else.
TNG already was the 90s reboot of a popular 60s thing.
As others pointed out above, it sometimes seems like people don't remember how huge TNG was in the early 90s, absolutely no one was considering more TOS as the way to go at that point. Shoot, after the disappointment of TFF, I doubt Paramount would have even bothered with TUC if they hadn't been able to crap it out on the cheap.
As others pointed out above, it sometimes seems like people don't remember how huge TNG was in the early 90s, absolutely no one was considering more TOS as the way to go at that point. Shoot, after the disappointment of TFF, I doubt Paramount would have even bothered with TUC if they hadn't been able to crap it out on the cheap.
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