Honestly I always thought "Star Trek" would best work as a 'mature' cartoon series - there'd be no practical limit to what you can show on the screen, unlike with a TV show, which comes pretty handy when your premise involves a new planet or a new alien species practically every episode.
Chad | Email | 03.15.05 - 11:16 am | #

I'm trying to figure out if you actually liked First Contact or not. Personally, I really enjoyed it and find it one of the better Trek movies out there. I went and picked up my copy today like the good little consumer I am.
Rick | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 - 11:32 am | #

I did a little essay over the weekend suggesting what to do about Star Trek, but I didn't think about animation. Good call!

(By the way, I bought both The Incredibles and First Contact. "The line must be drawn heah!")
Tom Bondurant | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 - 11:41 am | #

Whoa, whoa, hold on a minute. You list the 'top three' Trek films and Wrath of Khan isn't one of them?

Blasphemy.
David Lawson | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 - 12:34 pm | #

Hold on, I just realized what you were doing. Nevermind.
David Lawson | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 - 12:37 pm | #

If you've not seen the actual director's cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I'd recommend giving it a gander. It's trimmed and edited much more tightly now with some new scenes that were storyboarded but never made added in to give the viewer a real sense of what was going on when V'ger was doing its stuff above the planet.

Shit, I'm a Classic Trek Nerd.
BeaucoupKevin | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 - 1:11 pm | #

Effing BRILLIANT.
Chris Galdieri | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 - 1:32 pm | #

I dunno if the Clone Wars/ Samurai Jack people would be the ones to do a Star Trek cartoon. While I liked Clone Wars (and LOVED the Mace Windu segments) I did think it was heavy on action and light on story. That works in Star Wars, because really, we just want to see Jedi cutting shit up, but Star Trek can't really get by as much on lasers and meaningful stares.
Dav | Homepage | 03.15.05 - 2:08 pm | #

Dav: I dunno, it might be kind of nice to have a Trek show with some ACTION in it again. Classic Trek was full of action (for its time), but ever since Next Gen (or even, admittedly, the movies) the folks in charge have been reluctant to do action in the show.

If Star Trek is going to go anywhere (and I'm not sure it should - maybe it should have died when Roddenberry did) then maybe reducing it back to its roots as a TV action/drama show and then re-imagining it for a modern version (even animated) would be a good way to go.
Jer | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 - 2:46 pm | #

Return date: Isn't that what I said way back when this discussion first started?
Kurt Onstad | Email | Homepage | 03.16.05 - 6:33 pm | #