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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of)
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I’m personally not in love with simply doing more TOS. Feels like a show, once done, should stand for itself. Plus, I’m okay with Paul Wesley as younger Kirk, but he wasn’t a great fit when he debuted as mature Kirk.
I’d be more excited about something running parallel. Number One as the captain of her own ship (with the occasional 1701 team up, of course) would be more appealing to me.
I have started (another) rewatch of TAS recently.
This time, what’s struck me is how much the Kirk in TAS aligns with Paul Wesley’s performance.
Despite TAS being animated to look like Shatner’s Kirk and Shatner voicing the part, somehow there’s less swagger and a more intellectual Kirk in TAS.
It’s in the writing surely but perhaps the creators had a sense that they needed to shift the tone to sell the drama on an animated show — especially one that took advantage of the medium to show even more trippy aliens and phenomena.
I wasn’t looking for it but there it is.
Interesting point. I remember TAS' Kirk being much less, well, animated. I'd chalk it up to the limits of Filmation and Shatner being less interested in voice work, but I'll need to keep Wesley in mind next time I watch it.
I think Goldsman's actual statement is pretty vague - he could easily mean a spinoff with the non-TOS cast. Just redress the sets and you're off to the races.
He could also mean a movie, or...some third thing.
And in any case, he's moving on with his career.
It's cool that they're excited about possibilities, but I remain very skeptical that there's any actual traction there.
Hey—I got an idea for that third thing—how about we start a new spin-off from SNW, with another crew and a different ship, and then maybe at the end of say, season 2, they jump like 900 years into the future, which would give the producers a sort of clean slate but with a solid foundation, and then, start other spin off from tha… oh wait
Jump 900 years into the past and do a period costume drama.
That would be hilarious. Wolf Hall but technically in the Star Trek universe. 10 normal episodes per season, but once it twice a time traveler randomly shows up.