It’s all speculation, but…would you want to watch a TOS remake?
http://www.trektoday.com/news/170703_01.shtml
I don’t think I’d want to.
Wow, that sounds like a -really- bad idea to me! That being said, look at how many TV shows from the 60s and 70s are being turned into movies. Why is Koenig giving Berman and Braga (Bermaga? :)) this idea?! LOL Makes one wonder…
At one point, one of the ideas for a new Trek show was one based at Starfleet Academy. Now that’s something that could be a good show, imo. I read the entire interview, and liked Koenig’s suggestion about the movie franchise as well–incorporating actors from all of the shows into the next movies. Kind of an expansion of ST Generations, I guess.
Thanks for the info, Vivalostwages. 
Heck, I’ll watch Captian Sulu of the Excelsior any time they care to make it.
The setting is perfect for contemporary sociopolitical commentary: a few years after Praxis/Chernobyl, the Klingons are in disarray and the Feds suddenly have to deal with leftover cold-war baggage, including upstart nations willing to use terrorism and violence. Sulu would like to just cut loose and fight violence with violence, but those damn politicians keep holding him back…
Whoa, Walter. Lay off the wodka.
I’m skeptical. Wery, wery skeptical. But then, this is just Koenig saying what he thinks might be cool, and does he have a lot more influence than-- say-- me, at this point?
There is so much potential for new Star Trek adventures, and they want to keep going BACK instead of FORWARD. Berman and Braga need to have their sorry asses fired. I heard once that Rick Berman takes PRIDE in the fact that he’s never seen any of TOS. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is just sad…
I once came up with an idea for a new Star Trek series. Set a few centuries after the TNG+ era, the background is that some cataclysm (centered around the Q and their death) caused massive galactic upheavals, such as disruption of subspace and the destruction of several stars. The subspace disruption created all sorts of funky power surges, loss of communication, and made warp travel extremely risky. The major powers of the galaxy collapsed, and (my favorite part) a disruption of the Borg collective caused the Borg to go insane (I even drew a picture of an insane Borg drone, with rampant, almost cancerous growth of bio-organic structures and almost total replacement of the original biological host).
Then, centuries later, we find that some survivors of the original cataclysm have started to rebuild society, scraping together a rough, less-pretty, less-idealized view of what civilization was in the original Star Trek series. It’s similar to the Andromeda idea (though I had this idea kicking around in my head before I’d even seen that series, so HA!), but without the lame Hercules In Space motif.
The basic idea would be to get back to the roots of Star Trek… exploration, bettering oneself, building society, to seek out new life and new civilizations. Without Rick Berman.
And there won’t be any cracks in event horizons.
But, they WILL be able to reverse the polarity, right?
I always wanted to see a Star Trek series set in the waning days of the Federation, after corruption and decay had firmly taken hold. The Klingons have been admitted to the Federation, and promptly arranged a political coup to oust the Vulcans. In the resulting civil war, the Vulcan homeworld is reduced to a cinder, and the Vulcans abandon logic to become a race of nomadic berkserkers who attack Starfleet vessels on sight. A lot of technology has been lost, including transporter/replicator technology and most shipbuilding industry has been destroyed. The Romulans have closed their borders again, and are secretly outfitting an armada to bring the rest of the quadrant under their heel. And somewhere out there is the last Enterprise, stolen by a certain rogue android who downloaded his consciousness into the ship’s computer, and is waiting for the right crew to come along and restore order to the galaxy…
Speaking of Data, remember that episode where he was put on trial to prove he was sentient? I always thought he should have lost the trial, mutinied, and gotten his own spin-off where he travels through space dodging Starfleet agents and helping those who have fallen through the cracks of the Federation. 'Nother missed opportunity, I guess.
Sounds like a stupid idea to me. I’d rather see something set in the early 25th century.
Sure… but it’ll do what reversing the polarity WOULD do, and cause their electronics to melt down.
I would like to resurrect my Twilight Zone-style anthology series idea. Nimoy or Frakes could host, and everybody would get a chance to tell their story. C’mon, you can just see it now…
the Star Trek fanfare plays…
Tales of the Federation
opening montage from all Trek series intermixed with new images- all types of ships and lifeforms…
Then the host appears, and introduces this moment in Trek history- for instance, the story of how Spock/Riker/whoever was recruited by the Fed temporal faction, and the episode plays out.
Each of you writing a Trek story gets an hour to pitch your concept, so to speak. If the ratings are good you get another episode…
Tales of the Federation
Or, it could be in the ST:TOS era, but a different ship & crew.
That could be OK.
Dammit Jim I’m a… oh forget it.
Well, that would make the “Klingon forehead problem” look like an insignificant continuity problem, now wouldn’t it?
Klingons defeat Vulcans? LOL! The Vulcans would outsmart those turleheads every step of the way and then Qonos would be your “cinder.”
(Insert supercilious, pointy-eared smiley here.)
Dumb, dumb idea.
I much prefer the Fall of the Federation idea or the serialized Twilight Zone idea that’re always mentioned in these threads.
Just be sure to have lots an’ lots of Romulans. That’s all I ask.
I once suggested an idea for a “Dark Ages” Trek that was similar to this. My series, however, would be set ~10 years after Star Trek: Nemesis. The societal collapse would be caused by an energy crisis that forces everyone to stop using transporters and replicators. This means that everyone must work for a living again. Of course, lots of people in the Federation have no marketable job skills, so poverty becomes rampant. Entire planets are reduced to anarchy and subsistance lifestyles.
The series would follow Captain Riker and the USS Titan. They would spend a lot of time dealing with pirates, rebellious planets, and even rouge elements within the Federation government and Starfleet. Of course the Klingons and Romulans would try to take advantage of the situation.
The Borg, however, would be history. They assimilate someone who has the complete collection of M.C. Escher on his ship, and they all go crazy trying to make sense of it 
There would be a religious revival. Storywise this wouldn’t be a big deal, just comments like “God help me” and maybe a cross in someone’s room. But it would be there.
The Q must die. I’d have them go on a rampage and destroy all of the other near-omnipotent beings that are always causing trouble, before being destroyed themselves. The source of their destruction will be the Organians. All throughout the fighting, the Organians keep popping up to plead for peace. The Q always brush them off. Finally the Q decide to go after the Organians themselves. The Organians tell the Q that they must agree to give up their powers and live as mortals, or be destroyed. The Q laugh at this ultimatum and attack. It turns out that the Organians are even more powerful than the Q, and the Q are wiped out. One of the Q (the one we all know) begs for mercy and is turned into an ordinary human and put in Riker’s care. At this point, someone describes the Organians’ attitude as “angellic.” They smile enigmatically, and then they and their planet disappear and are not seen again.
Riker assigns the ex-Q the job of Janitor’s Assistant. This means that he has to hose down the holodeck after people run those “age restricted” programs
I think that the anthology idea could potentially be very good. However, the last pure anthology show that I can remember that was a success was “The Twilight Zone” (sixties version). Since then, the only anthology shows that I can think of that have done well have been ones with a hook, such as “The Love Boat” or “Fantasy Island”…
Hey, where did all those squiggly lines come from?
(Music)
(Opening shot of a spaceport with a shuttle coming in for a landing. Disolve to the spaceport interior. Over the loudspeaker, bells can be heard ringing and a voice yelling “Da Shuttle! Da Shuttle!”
Tracking shot of a short Ferengi male running through the halls. He slows as he catches up with a man impeccably dressed in a spotless white suit. From an adjoining corridor, they are joined by a tall, amazingly busty Andorian woman, dressed in an impossibly tight jumpsuit. As they approach the airlock, the man in the suit speaks.)
The Boss: Ah, Scaramouche, Catsuit. Just in time to help me greet our guests.
(The airlock hisses open. A middle aged man in conservative clothing steps into the corridor.)
The Boss: That is Archer Johnson. He is a member of the Federation Diplomatic Corps. His current assignment is Earth’s Ambassador to Vulcan. His fantasy is to hit every smug, arrogant Vulcan he meets this weekend squarely in the nose.
Catsuit: An understandable fantasy.
The Boss:But it goes beyond that. His fantasy also specifies that the vulcans may not, at any time, point out that his anger is illogical.
Scaramouche: Ooh, dats tough, Boss. Who’s dat coming out now?
The Boss: That is Commander Pavel Checkov. His fantasy is to be the captain, to be taken seriously, and, uppermost in his mind, to be the one who gets laid by a hot alien woman.
Scaramouche (under his breath): Good luck to him. Dat’s been my fantasy for the last 10 years.
Catsuit: This group of people appears unusually determined.
The Boss: Ah, yes. I’ve been expecting these people for some time. They are part of a cult that refers to themselves as “Trekkers”. Their fantasy could be extrordinarily dangerous, even to the point of threatening our very existance. But I believe that the results could be worth the risk. They wish to travel back in time to prevent two people from meeting, people that they will only identify as “Gene” and “Rick”.
(The boss stands there for a moment, his eyes narrowed thoughtfully, then lifts the glass that has been placed into his hand by a nearby attendant as he turns to the group milling by the airlock and smiles warmly at them.)
The Boss: My dear friends, I am “Q”, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Planet!
What about enterprise? Oh, wait, that’s a Faux-TOS series that seems to want to undermine the rest of them.
Something I’ve always thought would be interesting is a remake of a single episode.
A while back, writer Harlan Ellison published a book, “City On The Edge Of Forever,” in which he presents the ORIGINAL script for that episode, as well as his reminiscences about writing it, meeting the cast, working for Roddenberry, and so on. He doesn’t have much good to say about Roddenberry.
Anyway, this episode is arguably the most powerful, the most popular episode of the entire original series.
What if it were remade… using the original script?
Been thinking about that ever since they remade the “Tribbles” episode. What if they used retailored, computer-altered footage of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy from TOS, hired new actors and shot new footage as necessary… and made, basically, a NEW old episode?
Or perhaps did the whole thing with super-realistic CGI animation, and got the actors to do voiceovers? Although perhaps it would be better to simply hire new actors to play the old roles…
THAT could be interesting.
But watching a bunch of new actors running around in the old costumes… man, I just don’t know. Hell, I don’t even watch “Enterprise” any more, except when someone tells me the Vulcan chick is going to be in the decontamination chamber this week…