Would you listen to Big Finish produced trek?

[sveinbjorn]

I love BF. It keeps Doctor Who alive and centered, its as much its home as the BBC is. There are way more good DW audio dramas than tv episodes in this century.

But BF is in the UK. You’d want the BF of Star Trek to be in california.
I absolutely think Trek should have *a* BF. An ongoing home for Trek audios. I think it would spur creativity, and it could take fans to new places, experiment at much lower cost, and like with Doctor Who, translate some of the best stories to the screen.

I feel like star trek is controlled by suits, so not much happens. A production company that needs 2-3 releases a month would be much more creative.

So yeah. Cbs should drop a blanket license on Eye or whoever to just go nuts.

 

[JD]

Doctor Who is controlled by suits just as much as Star Trek is, so there wouldn't really be any difference between the two when it comes to those kind of decisions.
A Captain Proton audio drama could be a ton of fun. If they do it, I just hope they can get back the Martin Rayner back as Dr.Chaotica, he was great. He didn't come back for Lower Decks, so I'm not sure what the chances of him coming back for a podcast would be.
I wonder what the other podcast series ideas are/were?

 

[Christopher]

But BF is in the UK. You’d want the BF of Star Trek to be in california.

Except that most modern Trek is filmed in Toronto.

So yeah. Cbs should drop a blanket license on Eye or whoever to just go nuts.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, Eye Podcast Productions is the podcating division of CBS Studios. It doesn't need a license, because it's in-house.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

A Captain Proton audio drama could be a ton of fun.

Have Dayton Ward involved and I'm in. (IIRC, he's wanted to write a Captain Proton book for years.)

I would also be interested in a radio series based on "The Last Frontier." And it could, and probably should, be completely recast, like the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel was an adaptation of the television series and recast. Though I might go in the opposite direction and have the radio version be the original form and the television series an adaptation of the radio version, like Gunsmoke.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Speaking of potential Star Trek audio drama projects....

I'm going to be the proverbial stick in the mud here, and say that a Captain Proton podcast/audio drama wouldn't really interest me much at all.

The article mentions a potential Voyager framing story... well, then, OK, I guess. But if it was going to be strictly in-universe, and these were supposed to be the original CP serials that the holoprogram was based on, then, well... that just seems like a type of Flash Gordon homage by way of Star Trek, not actual Star Trek itself. And that's not really anything I'm interested in.

 

[Christopher]

I would also be interested in a radio series based on "The Last Frontier." And it could, and probably should, be completely recast, like the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel was an adaptation of the television series and recast. Though I might go in the opposite direction and have the radio version be the original form and the television series an adaptation of the radio version, like Gunsmoke.

Since The Last Frontier was part of a holodeck simulation of the Amelia Moon mysteries, and "starred" likenesses of Enterprise and Farragut crewmembers, I doubt it ever actually existed as a TV series in the Trek universe's 1960s, but is just a generative-AI amalgamation of bits and pieces of "real" 1960s pop culture, or perhaps a fictitious series depicted in one of the Amelia Moon books. ("Elementary, Dear Data" did a pretty good job of prediction when it showed the holodeck AI creating a "new" Sherlock Holmes story by just mashing up bits and pieces from the Doyle canon.)

I don't think I'd want to see it depicted as a "real" series anyway, since it's too much of a spoof. Captain Proton is different, because it feels like an authentic vintage sci-fi serial, only slightly heightened from the inbuilt cheesiness of the genre.