Would remaking TOS episodes make you upset?

[Adventerprise]

It could probably be an audiodrama instead.

 

[Firebird]

Trek after SNW could always dive into...Axanar. Or is that a wound best left closed?

Don't give Alec Peters something to complain/grift people about again.

 

[Dryson]

Don't give Alec Peters something to complain/grift people about again.

Just like when Kirk told Scotty, 'A ship is a ship.'

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Extremely doubtful Paramount or even SAG would allow that. I think there’s legislation going through in California that adds protections against AI/deepfake videos such as those.

Good.

Personally, a future where it’s all AI slop of reimagining pre-existing properties is a bleak one.

Agreed, but some cannot resist the urge to fuck with existing properties in the way discussed here.

No reason, to reboot/update TOS period!!!!

True.

 

[Sn0man]

Hey guys,

With the increasing number of TOS characters who are now in SNW (Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Scotty, Chapel, etc.) it seems inevitable if it goes on for long enough we are getting a full on TOS reprisal. The question then is what Paramount would do with it.

The more conservative option is to write all original episodes - new adventures for existing characters to engage in. Just presume that on odd weeks, they had the TOS adventures, and on even weeks, they had the adventures on the other show (or whatever).

The more interesting possibility, though, is to actually adapt TOS stories. Just straight up mine them, readapting for a more modern audience. Canon purists might balk at this, but I've always seen Trek episodes as more being "dramatic adaptations" of events which take place within the Trekverse than actual documentary footage, so I think there's tons of leeway here.

Some positives:

• Like it or not, some people really have issue with the dated VFX of TOS episodes, and cannot watch them in their entirety. There's lots of fantastic TOS episodes which would be absolute bangers with higher production values (The Doomsday Machine is one that sticks out to me).
• New adaptations could play around more with point of view. TOS seldom let us slip away from Kirk for very long, and more of an ensemble vibe would let us see how the rest of the cast was impacted by the crises of the week we enjoyed in the past.
• Lets us fix some bad aspects of TOS history (particularly off-comments regarding women) with different dialogue choices.

Negatives:

• Some people would argue that novel stories are better because we don't know how the stories would unfold. But re-adaptations are incredibly popular now in general, so there's clearly lots of people who think a "spoiled" story.
• Getting the rights to some of the old screenplays to adapt may be difficult.
• Canon purists may have a stroke.

I don't have strong feelings on this, despite presenting this as a possibility. But I wondered what others would think if they went down this route.

I think a remake would make TOS and its foundational stories far more accessible to people who got into trek long after its release, so in that sense it's a good idea. On the other hand, I have a hard time imagining them simply recreating the original stories without making changes that include modern day social spins, an I'm not sure how trying to do that would affect their approachability. I'm also not convinced they'd be able to pull it off without introducing a number of timeline inconsistencies or narrative problems. How big an issue that would be is arguable.

In the end though, Paramount is going to do whatever they think is going to make them money, regardless of how anyone feels about it. And since "hollywood" has shown a considerable lack of creative inspiration lately, the odds we'll get a reboot of some sort is probably high.

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

Just like when Kirk told Scotty, 'A ship is a ship.'

And that's all a ship is.

 

[SatrianiRules]

There's over 1800 days over the course of a 5 year mission. If they ever chose to do an updated Original Series, there's plenty of room to "fill in the blanks" of a show that only had 79 episodes.

maybe pickup after Turnabout Intruder and make seasons 4 and 5