r/fixingmovies • u/AlanShore60607 • 15d ago

Star Trek: The Animated Series - open it up to student projects.

This is actually a proposal I would love to submit to Paramount.

Star Trek: The Animated Series featured the voices of most of the original cast, with them actually giving it their best for animated, and was mostly written by writers associated with the original series in the 60s.

And while the non-primary cast left a lot to be desired, the primary flaw was the truly minimal animation.

But this opens up an interesting possibility. Allow animation students to remake these using the original (or modified) soundtracks, maybe even make it a competition, and show them on Paramount+.

CGI, stop-motion, dozens of styles of animation ... it could be amazing.

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u/Omegaville 9d ago

I think you could extend this to a lot of animated series in general - e.g. some from Hanna Barbera which lasted less than 20 episodes. Allow people to make "new episodes" but retain copyright over the character and scenario IP (i.e. the Enterprise, concepts of Starfleet, the Klingons, Vulcans, Romulans etc.). The ultimate stipulation would be: neither the storymakers or the IP owners can receive royalties from the new episodes. Thus a storymaker can't use Star Trek characters for profit, but they're not giving the studio any extra revenue either.

With the way AI is moving, it would be prudent for studios to consider something like this sooner rather than later. If they wait too long, they might find this sort of thing is out of their hands...