We want Worf!
That might actually be a plus, as the actors would not have to worry about being forever typecast.
There’s a lot of stories you can tell in an anthology that you can’t tell in a regular series. You could have a Twilight Zone style ending, where the crew of the ship are caught in a time warp, doomed to repeat their actions over and over for eternity with no way out. Or you could have a Caine Mutiny story where the crew overthrows a cowardly and incompetent captain. Or maybe a story where the captain sacrifices his life to save his ship. You can do that in a movie or stand alone episode, but not in a series with another episode next week.
Given that a lot of the technology in Star Trek is starting to look a bit non-futuristic, it would have made more sense to set the show even further in the future than TNG/DS9, so that they could have mostly holographic displays, cures for blindness, neural interfaces for computers, etc.
Sure you can. You just have to be willing to write out major characters every so often. The only character on TNG who died was Tasha Yar, and only because she asked to be killed off. But you don’t have to treat the core cast as immutable. Even on a single ship you can devote one-shot episodes to background characters, you can promote background characters to main cast, you can write out main cast characters either by killing them off or transfering them. And the carrot is that even if you move to another post you can still show up all the time.
I’d like to see a show with more of a feeling that the main ship is just one of many, and that if we meet another ship it would seem OK to drop our regular cast and go follow those guys for a while. The “Enterprise” doesn’t have to be the only ship in the fleet to do anything interesting. We need a “Garry’s Old Time Tavern” ship.
You mean, sort of like…
“The Alternative Factor,”
“Equinox,”
“The Doomsday Machine”? :dubious:
No, she posed for photographs in a “Gentleman’s Magazine” and was fired.
Because anthology shows have had such a great track record recently…
In other words, name a successful one in the past 20 years. Hell, the entire concept of Quantum Leap was created because the producer knew that no one would watch an anthology show.
He leapt into a Starship Captain, and we know how that series went.
Baring those droopy boobs was supremely ill-advised. :eek:
I believe you’re incorrect. Denise Crosby posed for Playboy in March 1979, and appeared in TNG in 1987-88.
AMerican horror is arguably successful - mutliple seasons, etc.
Fargo is likely the most recent one - not sure it qualifies as ‘anthology’ - but season 1 differed from season 2 greatly - just a common theme/location.
I think an anthonly show for Trek would, or atleast could, be fantastic.
Odd. I too seem to remember her posing nude *after *TNG debuted (I had never heard of her before that). Seems to me I was working at a bookstore in Milwaukee at the time, and the two black chicks on the staff teased me about it because they knew I was a Trek fan.
Maybe ***Playboy ***brushed off the photos of her and reran them because she was now “in the news”? 
Basically that’s it, but no one involved says that she was fired over it. Here’s the story.
Anthology in the sense that each season is different, not each episode. Like I mentioned in the OP, American Horror Story has been a success with this model.
Rumor now is post-movie era, original timeline. Good choice for time period, hope they get the rest right.
Post TNG movies, or post TOS movies?
It would suck to set it in TOS, because that’s the past. I’m sick of Trek in the past. DS9 and Voyager ended in 1999 and 2001, Nemesis was 2002. So make the new series set 14 years after Nemesis. That way you can bring in any actor/character from TNG/DS9/VOY and they’ll have aged correctly in real time. Wesley Crusher is now 43 years old. Picard is now 75. Riker is 63. And so on.
I like parts of this idea, I don’t like others. There certainly are parts of that intermediate era that would be interesting to fill in canon-wise, but really, I think that sort of defeats one of the major purposes of Star Trek. I see it as the ultimate hopeful projection of what our future can be and when they stopped moving forward and started re-exploring tread ground in Enterprise and in the new films, I think it lost a lot of what made it Star Trek. I want to see new technologies arise. I want to see the future having solved problems we’re facing now, particularly with how different the social and economic environment is now to when the last shows ended. There’s plenty of parts of the galaxy that can still be explored; hell, there’s countless other galaxies that can still be explored. The Star Trek universe is as vast as the writers can imagine it to be; there’s no need to rehash old timelines.
That said, I do like the anthology concept… to an extent. One of the things that bothers me with the way the shows have gone is, I like knowing the cast, but the stakes are low. Rather than a whole new cast, they can actually have a major character die. Or, particularly since it’s a military organization, they can non-permanently “kill” characters by having them transfer or do temporary duty elsewhere. It leaves them with opportunities to bring them back for cameos and all too and it leaves us with enough continuity from season to season by keeping many of the crew while still keeping it fresh and they can reuse the primary set for years. Hell, when they DO decide they need to do a soft reboot with a new crew, or they want to create a spin-off or side-arc with a certain character or set of characters, they can just follow that character or characters on a transfer to another ship or after the previous one is destroyed so we still get at least some small continuity. There’s room for endless seasons and spin-offs that can react nearly in-time with how the fans are responding.
Either way, please, please, move the story forward and don’t just recast and an else-world version of characters we already know.
Teaser trailer is up. Note the plural “Crews”. Anthology it is?!
Spinal tingles!