Create a new series premise

[ijdgaf]

Adults watch cartoons. They watch Family Guy, The Simpsons, South Park... maybe King of the Hill and Futurama can/could be thrown in there as well.

A new animated Trek series would not be able to capture those viewers, at least not many of them. I'm thinking the best they could hope for was a Batman TAS vibe -- something marketed/aimed toward the kids, but with an adult enough vibe that certain longtime fans would pick up on it too.

But I think PHJ is right. Unless they were deliberately TRYING to capture the kid market (and really, Batman is way cooler than Star Trek and I imagine even a good, similarly toned Trek series would have/achieve stigmas and wouldn't capture the kids' interest nearly as well), I don't see it being a good move by Paramount.

Really, I think talking about any new series (at least, realistically) is a bit silly as that's just not where they're going now and won't be for a long while. I'm content to sit back and enjoy the films. Or not, as the case may be.

[Chancellor Valium]

TAS is really no worse than the rest of TOS in terms of story.

[ijdgaf]

I agree, except my adjectives would be more positive.

Doesn't stop a new TAS from not being the smartest move the studios could make.

Chew on those double negatives.

[Nate the Great]

Of course there's been a resurgence of TAS! Hey, I've only known that there was a TAS in the first place for less than ten years. That's the odd part, I own most of the novelizations from the seventies, but I never knew they were novelizations of a cartoon, I just thought that they were short stories, Trek fiction from the pre-Pocket Books days. We have DVDs now, the staff at Enterprise stuck little bits of TAS canon in the background, etc. etc.

I'm still worried about the idea of "if we did make Kiddie Trek, would those kids actually buy the live-action Trek DVDs when they grow up and become all-purpose Trekkies, or would they shun it?" The latter option seems more likely.