New Animated Star Trek In The Works 343
Philias writes "A new web-based Star Trek Animated Series may be in the works. CBS is considering a pitch by veteran Trek producer Dave Rossi for a 'Clone Wars' style animated series for StarTrek.com. Like Clone Wars the episodes would be just a few minutes long. Unlike the old animated Trek show from the 70s, this one would be with a whole new crew set in a new time period. The setting is to be a war-torn post-9/11-like Trek universe 150 years after the time of Picard." From the post: "The Zero Room team felt that the time was right for a new approach to Trek. The setting is the year 2528 and the Federation is a different place after suffering through a devastating war with the Romulans 60 years earlier. The war was sparked off after a surprise attack of dozens of 'Omega particle' detonations throughout the Federation creating vast areas which become impassible to warp travel and essentially cut off almost half the Federation from the rest. During the war the Klingon homeworld was occupied by the Romulans, all of Andoria was destroyed and the Vulcans, who were negotiating reunification with the Romulans, pulled out of the Federation. The setting may seem bleak and not very Trek-like, but that is where the show's hero Captain Alexander Chase comes in."
Alexander Chase? (Score:2, Insightful)
New Animated Star Trek (Score:2, Insightful)
No more wagon train to the stars.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Star Trek became closer to Star Wars as time went along. And a new series based after a war? No shit....You'd think they would actually sit down and try to come up with a thought provoking story at some point.
Beam me up scotty (Score:2, Insightful)
"The franchise is dead, Jim." (Score:5, Insightful)
Does new Trek content really have dominion over any part of our cultural consciousness anymore? Go on: quote me a well known line from Voyager. No, no -- the show. Remember? How could you forget? It not only featured the worst series finale of any TV show ever produced, it also made my ears bleed whenever the quavering caterwauling of that shifty-ass captain sounded.
And let's not forget Enterprise...no, wait -- let's.
Anyone who sat through Deanna and Riker's wedding in those waiter uniforms knows what I'm talking about: the whole idea has seen its day, and Star Trek should be buried alive...buried alive...buried alive...
The franchise peaked with "There are four lights!"
Re:And the first time travel episode will be... (Score:5, Insightful)
But what about mark twain (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Omega particles, really? (Score:4, Insightful)
Why not any other series? (Score:4, Insightful)
So, is there a reason that we have to keep coming back to Star Trek - The Search for More Money every damn time?
The franchise is dead. People just don't seem to get it.
Racism in Star Trek continues apace (Score:5, Insightful)
Star Trek is dedicated to the idea that every species has one culture, one religion, one government, and they all belong together on the same planet (or at least the same star system). Anybody who dares to marry outside of their race, err, species, will have children that are horribly torn between their two distinct and apparently utterly immiscible heritages. "Oh, woe is me, shall I be Vulcan or Human because it isn't possible for me to forge my own distinct identity, I must only belong to one race, err, species!"
What other reasons would the Vulcans have for re-uniting with the Romulans? The Vulcans may be the same species but in almost every other way they are night and day; their culture, their philosophies, their approaches to problems, everything except maybe general arrogance. They're geographically separated so far apart that there was enough time before they re-discovered each other that they forgot they were related. They share few to no strategic interests.
But blood will out, apparently.
I bet Vulcan or Romulus ends up destroyed at some point (probably Vulcan) and all of the Vulcan refugees go live on Romulus, cause the post-TNG Star Trek mythos can't tolerate races living in two places.
Re:Andromeda (Score:3, Insightful)
Andromeda was a perfectly good show until Kevin Sorbo turned it into Hercules in Space.
There's already a post-911 Star Trek on TV (Score:5, Insightful)
-Eric
Re:And the first time travel episode will be... (Score:5, Insightful)
Vedran homeworld plot? Gone.
Magog plot? Gone.
Abyss plot? Gone.
The really cool human technologists who became the Commonwealth's enemy? Gone.
I mean, is it even possible to do any more injustice to a show?
Re:Alexander Chase? (Score:3, Insightful)
Bad reference (Score:4, Insightful)
So there will be no liquids or gels allowed on starships? "Tea Earl Grey powdered"
I'm not even American and it still pains me to see how diluted 9/11 is becoming. Call it war-torn or whatever, but at least reference an event that occurred in a warzone.
Re:And the first time travel episode will be... (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah, the setup for Farscape was more like The Wizard of Oz. The lead gets pulled into a swirly storm-like phenomenon, taken from the ordinary world, dropped in a fantastical place where s/he accidentally causes the death of some probably-nasty character. The deceased's nasty sibling then declares revenge and pursues the lead across the region. And for all the adventures the lead has, s/he just wants to get back home.
In Crichton's own words: "I am not Kirk, Spock, Luke, Buck, Flash or Arthur frelling Dent. I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas."
A character that should've done a cameo... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Uniforms (Score:3, Insightful)
Deep Space Nine was more about politics than exploration. But in my opinion that's okay, because it still made good sci-fi (it was alien politics)! For example, they "explored" the ethical situation regarding the Tosk [wikipedia.org], the dichotomy between science and religion on Bajor, the drug dependence of the Jem'Hadar, biological warfare (Section 31 infecting the Founders with that disease), etc.
Re:Racism in Star Trek continues apace (Score:5, Insightful)
The explanation for all of this is just that it makes a convenient shortcut for the writers: they don't have to spend any time on character development for minor characters in a given episode. Want a sneaky, conniving bad guy? Romulan. Want a greedy, selfish bad guy? Ferrengi. Want someone controlled by reason? Vulcan. Any race that you care to mention in Trek is characterized by a handful of primary traits that set them apart from everyone else. And almost every member of that race is an exemplar of their racial identity. I find it tiresome that so much of what happens in Trek is based entirely upon racial stereotypes. And I don't find it much of a consolation when they occasionally throw us a demented Vulcan or a noble Romulan.
The exception to this, of course, is the human race. Humans tend to be more realistic characters because they're not constrained by such narrow stereotypes. The stereotypes are still there, especially for people who are members of particular factions. But they're a little more tolerable.
Re:Omega particles, really? (Score:3, Insightful)
Someone always does reply that way. And then someone else says "Yes, it iscrazy... crazy enough to work!"
the further in the future the more magical it is (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Alexander Chase? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, this does seem awfully close to re-pitching Andromeda (back in the Trek universe where it started)....
Not exactly Roddenberry's vision (Score:2, Insightful)
But, you had a russian on the bridge during the 60's, the height of the cold war. You had black commanders and admirals. You had female commanders and admirals.
This new series kind of pisses on the original intent of star trek.
Oh, and it's not the first time that paramount has ripped off the plot line from another show. The creator of babylon 5 pitched the series to paramount, they rejected it, but.... lo and behold DS9 has almsot the same plotlines as B5.
Besides does anyone expect quality from paramount after watching the series "Enterprise". They ought to rename paramount to miracle movies, because if they can make an orignal and good series it's a miracle.
Re:And the first time travel episode will be... (Score:3, Insightful)
R. H. Wolfe was actually an executive producer. The problem was Sorbo.... They've just gotta start hiring actors that don't insist on becoming producers so they have so much control of the story. Same problem with Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner... My guess is it was their input that killed Nemesis and Insurrection.