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Cartoons I consider worth watching
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Futurama
Archer
Venture Brothers
MLP:FiM
Robot Chicken gets an honorable mention.

Only 12 hours to go before Civ V Brave New World is out to play!

 

Should they ever get around to making another television series, I hope they go with something more like this.

 

That Tron cartoon was great, too. Pity it was cancelled.

I'm mainly curious as to whether they'd set a new television show in the original universe, or the movie!verse.

 

I can't really see them doing the movieverse, considering how underdeveloped it is compared to the preexisting material, but I'd certainly expect them to take certain elements from it (ship and bridge design, the more advanced-looking technology, and so forth).

 

Hm. TBH, that's a large part of why I can see them being more keen on the movie!verse. It would offer them a cleaner slate.

 

Perhaps, but then they'd also be constricted by any plans made for future movies. Especially if, say, they wanted to do something significant like set about reintroducing the Borg.

 

Fair point, yeah.

 

TBH, I'm not sure if there will be another TV series; Enterprise was rather a fiasco and apparently TV and movies rights are split between Paramount and CBS so trying for a show with the Rebootverse crew would have serious hurdles.

 

I suppose they could always do a halfway measure - set a new series in a broad strokes version of the original continuity. It's not like they don't already have more parallel universes and alternate past/present/futures than anyone can count.

 

The BBC should just do a Star Trek rip-off set in the Whoniverse.

 

Make it so.

 

I just cannae do it.

 

Still can't believe that both CBS and Paramount were being so boneheaded that the AST novels set to come out after ST09 are still in limbo after four years with no chance of them ever seeing daylight. I mean, would it really have caused that much confusion to have books set in the prime timeline with the TOS crew still being written while new books with the AST crew were being written as well? I think they could have found some way to differentiate between PUTOS and AST books without difficulty, and if consumers didn't pay attention and picked up a AST book in mistake for a PUTOS book or vice versa, then it's their own fault.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/16/how-rights-issues-killed-a-new-star-trek-tv-show

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/artic...rights-killed-jj-abrams-grand-ambitions-91766

 

Funny, that's exactly what my son just said to me.

 

Hey, I understood that joke!

 

I have to wait 4 more days

 

Fixed.

 

You know, as a fan of the non-Abrams timeline, this actually makes me happy. I want more Star Trek on TV, but NOT THE ABRAMSVERSE. I want the prime timeline, not the damned reboot timeline. Christ, at least in the prime timeline, the Federation is still an entity to admire and root for. While Star Wars is always nearest to my heart, ST is a close second. Hell, the very concept that former adversaries/rivals such as Earth, Vulcan, Andor, and Tellar could set aside their differences and form a galactic union is still one of my favorite stories ever. Period.

--Adm. Nick

 

Each to his own. The only aspect of the prime universe that I really love is TNG, though TOS, VOY, and DS9 are decent too, and I absolutely enjoy TWOK and TSFS. Maybe its because I grew up watching TNG on TV, but I've always had more fondness for it than TOS or the others.

The Abrams movies are good, IMO. My parents like both TOS and the AST movies, so for some at least it's not a case of one or the other.

 

Well, if I were one of those marketing suits, I would think the best option would be to make it ambiguous. Set it around a new ship, a new captain, one that could exist in either universe. That said, I'm not much of a Star Trek aficionado, so there may be some core differences in the universes that just can't be ignored, I'm not sure (the one I could imagine would be the destruction of Vulcan).

 

Why a rip off?