What ideas do you have for TV shows based on existing franchises?

[Weeto]

I've always liked the idea of a Star Trek anthology show which switches around the Trek universe and different eras and cultures.

It would be pretty cool to have a Klingon story one week based in the classic Trek era and then jump to a Next Gen era story about Bajorans the next and then an Enterprise era Earth based story. Obviously they couldn't go crazy with sets for every single eventuality but CGI has helped in this regard, especially for ships and planets.

I'd like to see something else from the Buffyverse but I can't see any of the original characters returning to it. Maybe something involving historical slayers would be cool. This was touched on during the original series and movie and it would be interesting to see medieval slayers fighting vampires.

[Karen El]

I've always liked the idea of a Star Trek anthology show which switches around the Trek universe and different eras and cultures.

It would be pretty cool to have a Klingon story one week based in the classic Trek era and then jump to a Next Gen era story about Bajorans the next and then an Enterprise era Earth based story. Obviously they couldn't go crazy with sets for every single eventuality but CGI has helped in this regard, especially for ships and planets.

I'd like to see something else from the Buffyverse but I can't see any of the original characters returning to it. Maybe something involving historical slayers would be cool. This was touched on during the original series and movie and it would be interesting to see medieval slayers fighting vampires.

I had a similar Trek idea. It's such a large, defined universe there's room for so many stories.

[FanboyStranger]

Weebey and Chris from The Wire running the yard in prison.

[saintsaucey]

Seeing tom lenk narrating the history of the vampyre slayers would be awesome.

Id love for the X-Wing books to be done as a series. Get look alikes for han Luke and Leia or do it as an animated series either way it needs to be done. That they haven't adapted them and most of the books between jedi amd the new jedi order is almost a crying shame.

Daredevil start with Guardian devil and end shortly after the devil on cell block d. And gimme casting control.

[Kingsmythe]

For the Apprentice challenge over on Bendis' board, both teams (and a judge) independatnly ending up doing pitches for an Avengers Academy cartoon. I'd kinda like to see any of those on screen.

[sunbird]

I want a prime time TV show based on X-Factor (the Peter David incarnation). It would be cool to have a superpower show where the team are solving crimes with detective work rather than just flying around and beating stuff up, and Jamie Maddrox would be an awesome lead character for TV. Especially if he made nor style monologues interrupted by the other cast.

[saintsaucey]

I want a prime time TV show based on X-Factor (the Peter David incarnation). It would be cool to have a superpower show where the team are solving crimes with detective work rather than just flying around and beating stuff up, and Jamie Maddrox would be an awesome lead character for TV. Especially if he made nor style monologues interrupted by the other cast.

Gimme 100,000 dollars and I could make a madrox movie based on the mini series.

[JBK405]

I've actually worked up a prety in-depth pitch for a new Trek series:

It takes place after another time-skip from the Next Generation era, placing the current characters and conflicts in the realm of "Important and impactful, but not what this is about." Either the Romulans or Klingons have to return to being a primary antagnist in order to retain continuity and as a return to "classic" Trek, but the other should become even more closely allied with the Federation than they were at the close of DS9. They don't need to have joined the Federation, but it has to have progressed to actually liking each other, as opposed to just thinking that they shouldn't kill one another. I've thought of how they could do either option with either species:

Klingons as enemies, Romulans as allies:
After the close of the Dominion War, the Klingong Empire was the worst off of all three major Alpha Quadrant nations. Their economy, technology base and political system was never as robust as the others, and they bore a lot of heavy fighting with the Cardassians before the big war even started. The characters were saying that it would take years, perhaps decades, before it was back up and running. With such a violent racking of the entire state there is an open ground for revolutionary groups, political extremists, and any other kind of domestic disturbance. A radical group, advocating a return to the glory days of the Klingon Empire, could easily topple Martok's government and institute a new, hardline regime that demanded concessions of Cardassian territory, one-sided treaties with the Federation, etc. The Romulans, on the other hand, as the coldly logical empire (Speaking of, tangent: Despite my love of DS9, I greatly dsliked how the Romulans described themselves as cold and unemotional, since their strong emotions and the way they reveled in them was the very thing that separated them from the Vulcans) would ahve sought closer ties with the Federation as the logical trading partner due to their already relaxed trade laws and newly established relationship. There's already a dissident movement on Romulus, and the oppressive Tal Shiar has been destroyed, so their government could gradually have legitimate reform through close contact with the Federation. Ultimately, the Romulans and the Federation form a close bond based on mutual self-interest and gradually developed commonalities, while the Klingons eventually withdraw from their treaties with the Federation out of refusal to be 'weak.'

Klingons as allies, Romulans as enemies:
Chancellor Martok, as a wise leader and extremely competent military commander, manages to easly repress the internal disaffection with his government and, being wise, recognizes that the way to keep the Empire from being down for years is to receive aid from the Federation, which remains a powerful economic force even after the damage of the war. The gratitude for this aide and increased contact between nations, which was never very high even under the Khitomer Accords, will lead to increased assimilation on both sides and a better understandings of the complexities of the other culture. The Romulans, meanwhile, as the coldly pragmatic empire will decide that, since they spent so much time and blood winning this war, they deserve to reap the benefits. They will press claims to Cardassian territory, and maybe even Klingon or Federation territory that they feel they are 'owed' for their help in the war, and will force a confrontation with the Federation who will stand against them.

However, despite all that, this series would not focus on this conflict/alliance, but would instead be what both TNG and Voager were meant to be. The main ship will be an exploration ship on a five-year ission, but a continuos five-year mission (Which was actually the original plan for TNG, with the Enterprise as a generational trip that wouldn't be back to Earth potentially for decades). Unlike TNG they will spend the entire series, or at least large parts of it, away from the Federation. They will be outside its borders and contacting new races and will not deal with the Federation's issues except at a very distant remove. However, unlike Voyager, this will be intentional, and thusly will make sense. This ship will be intended as an exploration ship and thusly will be extremely large, with enough crew redundancies to survive catastrophic casualities (Hey, it's cold, but any ship which faces danger has to be prepared to handle losses) and thusly will also be able to bring in new cast members without the viewers going "Where have they been for five years?" As a ship which is planned to not redock for years at a time it will have manufacturing facilities, mining facilities and everything else that a ship would need to repair and refit itself, thusly explaining how the large hole from last episode is now fixed (Although hopefully they'll leave a little patch on the CGI model to reassure fans that they didn't just forget about it). Most importantly, the writers will plan, at least for the first season. They will have concrete character concepts and know what their histories are and how they react to situations, and these summations will be given to all members of the staff and all guest writers, so that portrayals will be consistent across the epsodes. The show does not need to be "dark," but it does need to be serious, so the writers wil take the time before they write an episode to think if it matches what came before and if it will derail what's planned to come after.

I would like for the Captain to be single and to be happily single. That doesn't mean that he/she can never have a love interest, but he/she needs to be content with his/her life as it is, and not feel that he/she is "missing something" or "not complete." He/She went into this mission with his/her eyes open, it's five years for crying out loud, and he/she is smart enough to recognize that that means he/she will not have time to date.

So, that's my new Trek pitch.

[saintsaucey]

I don't know what a five year ISSION is.


I'm a dick I know. Actually when DS9 ended with Obrien heading to San Fran to be a teacher I wanted to see him at the head of his own series. The pilot would be called children of war and a romulan posing as a vulcan would have been a main character. So would Q's son. I'm fairly certain I thought this up before he teamed up with Icheb on Voyager. They would have had an oberth class science vessel and one of their first away missions (one set in space rather than in san fran) would have had them discovering the life form that the enterprise birthed in the one episode.

[Personamanx]

CSI: The Animated Series. Same concept, same characters, same formula. Cartoon physics and violence.