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Is Star Trek Coming Back To TV As An Animated Series?

Date: Jul 18, 2012 | Author: Rudie Obias | Category: Sci-Fi

With a year until the release date of the untitled Star Trek sequel, screenwriter Roberto Orci talks about the possibilities of creating a Star Trek animated series. The last time there was a Star Trek animated series was in 1973 and it ran for two seasons before it was canceled in 1974. Are mainstream audiences ready to see a new animated version of Star Trek?

In an interview, Roberto Orci teases the prospects for the animated series depending on the success of the Star Trek sequel. It would possibly take place between the second and third film in the series. Orci states,

So after [the 2013 Star Trek sequel] comes out or as it’s ramping up and after the powers that be determine whether or not Star Trek is back or not – one movie doesn’t make a trend. Two movies starts to indicate that there is a trend and its viable. It will become more real as the year goes on.


It’s really a question of Star Trek over-saturation. It has been three years since J.J. Abrams took the nation by storm with his Star Trek reboot and it is pretty clear that fans of the series are hungry for more. This hunger will become more rampant next year until the sequel is actually released. If there were new Star Trek properties, would people eventually feel the series is getting stale, Orci admits…

I don’t think there is a hard and fast rule where if there is a movie you can’t do it. It means let’s be aware of whether or not we are cannibalizing Trek. Let’s be aware of not saturating the audience and having them not be tired of it but hungry for it.

An animated series would be a logical conclusion to the success of the new Star Trek franchise but ultimately Star Trek fans would rather have a new (non-animated) TV series. The universe started on TV and should remain on TV. The bad taste of Star Trek: Enterprise is still lingering in most Trekkies’ mouths.

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Comments

  • Endoboy

    Never got the utter hate for Enterprise. I thought it was one of the better ones, overall.

  • Kapt

    Enterprise was great!!! You haters never gave it a chance

    • http://pandoranage.com/ Dante D’Anthony

      I completely concur. It was very well crafted, well acted, and brought in whole original plot devices with the temporal wars.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jerry.swinehart.5 Jerry Swinehart

    i liked the show also,have dvd box sets of the series,,there was so much they could have expanded on and it would have become the best of all the series

    • http://pandoranage.com/ Dante D’Anthony

      I agree. The set design is what, IMO, pulled the series into…the gray.Looking at the original series, and any and all of the Golden Age Sci-fi Pulp Art covers and there was COLOR. A fabulous, technicolor wonder of color. Whoever decided that SO MUCH gray was going to predominate should have at least then gone back to the black and white masterpieces of NOIR and given us at least dramatic lighting and unusual camera angles. Other than that, the rest of the craftsmanship of the ship designs, the acting, (the title sequence was to die for) etc was well thought out. Color and lighting…kind of important. It wasn’t a radio show…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Yager/1518049116 Jim Yager

    Why all the hate on Star Trek: Enterprise? I think the Voyager was much worse.

  • SgtReuster

    So, the real question is, Prime Universe or JJ’s?

  • SeattleJohn001

    For me, The Next Generation was the last Trek TV series that was good; everything after it was iffy at best. The writing on TNG, along with Patrick Stewart’s classically trained performance & delivery, set it apart from every other franchise, including TOS (which I revere). IMO, in some episodes, it was the equivalent of American Shakespeare…

  • Kronosososo

    Enterprise was CRAP! It was offensive to the very idea of Star Trek.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ken-Lavine/100000263456683 Ken Lavine

    Enterprise had a mediocre first season, two craptacular middle seasons, and a fourth season that tried to climb it’s way out of the latrine hole it had dug for itself. I re-watched the series again recently and found myself being a little more forgiving of it, but not by much. It was still a great deal of the same-old, same-old.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mike.adamson.10 Mike Adamson

    Well it ain’t bloody lingering in mine! Your staff writers generalise outrageously. Enterprise had a lot going for it, and its fourth season was in many ways its best — it died too young.

  • http://pandoranage.com/ Dante D’Anthony

    RUFKM? Would an animated Star Trek find an audience? Is there bear **** in the woods? What is it with this franchise that it seems eternally dogged by bad corporate guesstimating? It isn’t even just a franchise, it’s a cross-cultural global phenomenon that hasn’t lost steam in 45 years. If anyone can own THAT property and NOT make it bank, shame on them, because there is a planet full of creative people who could.