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New Animated Star Trek In The Works
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."
Can we start a pool on when the first time travel episode will be? I'm betting 5th show of the first season.
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Are the uniforms still made out of real velour?
On a serious note, this sounds like it might actually
make me interested in Star Trek again. I never really
identified with anything after TNG.
Cartoons + Star Trek? Man, this is going to be the nerdiest show ever.
it's about as bad Dylan Hunt :-)
I agree. They should have called him "Captain Peter Quincy Taggart"
Exactly: doesn't even have a "j" in the name: James Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Kathryn Janeway.
Maybe they should do a reverse TNG: hire a French actor to play a British captain who's enamored with Voltaire.
There you go. See how much better than is?
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"Get that cheese to sickbay!"
I thought Star Trek was about ferrying important people between planets, and playing Sherlock Holmes in the Holodeck.
Apparently, the symbol of the human race in the real world is the rectangle, with arches sprinkled in for interest.
I pity the rest of the races of our galaxy, whose architects are crippled by the fact that they can't use rectangles and arches because unbeknownst to them, twenty thousand light years away, humans already claimed them.
Pity the poor, primitive Kr'zilt'k of Tomporon, as they attempt to build their first primitive mud huts completely out of isosceles triangles.
Pity the poor, advanced RRRRRzzzzzzRrrz of ZZZZrrZzRz, as they try to build skyscrapers that look like clumps of mud stuck together, but fail due to the simple laws of materials science, and are thus stuck with cities built out of the equivalent of five-story buildings.
Curse humanity! Curse them and their claiming of the precious "simple, unadorned rectangle"!
It's not that the creators ran the series into the ground -- it's that the rest of the world made it out of the 80s, which was really the only decade in which it was acceptable for grown men to be seen in leotards.
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