Is There A New Star Trek Animated Series In The Works?

why not an Star Wars series, not cgi!

I hope to God it's not continuing the adventures of the current reboot team.

Why don't they make a complete TV remake?
They have justn to mantain the basic premise "starship Enterprise in peaceful exploration mission to seek out new life and new civilization to boldly go etc.", and for the rest anything goes...

@Ceejay-I agree with your post 100%. There are so many things wrong with the ST reboot I can't even begin to list them here. Roddenberry was a true visionary and created a concept that changed Science Fiction on screen forever, and he did it on a shoe-string budget. ST:TOS made the viewer think. Each episode focused on real issues our culture was facing at the time. The reboot was nothing more than a high dollar, action packed popcorn flick. Hiding behind the premise of an alternate timeline simply gives the writers an easy way out of actually writing something of any real substance.

I kind of wonder how the next movie will deal with how all of the other starfleet captains view Kirk when they actually had to put their time in and distinguish themselves to achieve a command of their own.

I say do it and let Bill Shatner play Kirk's
voice and make in really really funny

They should do the original again, just kill off Kirk, cause Shatner is #1 wife-killing douchebag. Make Takei Captain of the Enterprise with the rest of the cast resuming their normal roles.

@ Ceejay and Knightstalker - How would you have done a Star Trek reboot?

Trekkies are a rare breed. Any Trekkie worth the title will see a million holes in any Star Trek reboot. I doubt any Hollywood writer would want to tackle an honest reboot.

I think the alternate timeline "idea" was good. It's Star Trek without negating everything Star Trek. They just didn't handle it well - and they did get kind of Star Wars-ish.

@setsSister-please refer to my previous post. Read it, then read it again until it sinks in. They focused far too much on action and not enough on substance. This reboot needs a reboot. There are plenty of stories to still to be told in the ST:TOS universe and it can be cone with reverence to Roddenberry's vision. For example, Kirk taking command of the Enterprise after being promoted from the Farragut. He was still the youngest starship captain in Starfleet history, so Pine would have worked as the chosen actor.

As much as I enjoy the thought the the Star Trek universe being continued, if they're going to bastardaize it and turn it into something it was never meant to be, then leave it alone and let it pass into film and television history.

@continuezero - I know it wasn't all in a day but literally you do not finish Star Fleet and come out a Captain, you come out a qualified ensign. It takes years of service to gain the experience of many missions and a sum first contact experience just to climb up the chain of command to make you worthy of consideration to leading thousands of crew on your tried, tested and trusted knowledge. They turned the entire chain of command into a Star Wars type joke promotion.

@cosmicstranger - Because if you didn't know already, JJ Abrams is a huge Star Wars fans and not a fan of Star Trek so he used the template narrative of Star Wars A New Hope as his backbone for doing a Star Trek reboot.
1: Big Ship chasing smaller ship in the beginning (Star Destroyer/Romulan ship vs Taintive IV/Star Fleet vessel)and escapees in life pods.
2: Massive ship with planet destroying ability (Death Star/Romulan Weapon)
3: Young man dreaming of big adventure till he meets old friend of his fathers who offers him guidance. (Luke/Kirk - Captain Pike/ Ben Kenobi)
4: Fight in cantina = Kirks fight in bar!
5: Main Character meets older more experience spacer who he does not like at first yet becomes best friends with by end of film (Luke?Kirk-Han/Spock)
6: Emotional destruction of one of main characters peaceful home planet by villains (Alderaan-Vulcan)
7: Big battle at end so Planet destroying ship can be beaten by our heroes united, then end ceremony where they receive medals. (Need I say more?)

@ setsSister - I wouldn't breathe life into a reboot becasue Star Trek had no need of a reboot. The big problem with Star Trek films is that they were never meant to exist in the first place, Star Trek is a TV concept,designed as a platform for telling many intelligent scifi based tales like Twilight zone or Outer Limits. The Paramount owners got bitten by the film bug after the success of Star Wars in 1977 but the quality of the many ST films compared to their TV episodes shows how unsuitable the format is for spending 2/3 years on the production of one tale for the big screen.

In Star Trek the failure in conflict is ending up in a space battle, this is why they were rare in TNG, these people were highly advanced and capable individuals, they can debate, deduct and use their advanced initiative to solve any problem through cunning or diplomacy. They did not seek to humiliate of defeat their adversary but to win their respect so they can both progress. All this is regressed in these movies where they simply try to contrive every situation into a reason for a spectacular space battle and present these characters as Die Hard and Lethal Weapon type action heroes instead of the wise and thoughtful advanced beings they supposed to be. This just isn't the material for a mass Popcorn audience.

If you want to know what Star Trek is supposed to be like, then watch ST:TNG especially seasons 3 and 4 which truly perfected the rules that the creator Gene Roddenberry laid out before he died and the powers that be began laying the foundations of more conflict based Star Trek for shows like Voyger and DS9 to please the space battle wanting fanboys. Star Trek is about human advancement not regression, if they want to advance Star Trek then do a new show that shows exactly that or do a show that shows eras we never saw before in the Star Trek history which does not involve contradicting everything that has been done already the way Enterprise did.

loved the star trek animated show. would love to see a new one,maybe set in the next gen time period.

Really grinds my gears when people bring up star wars when talking about star trek. Why, cause there both mainly based in space, they are in constant comparison. They are separate in every single way. Why even feel the need to bring up star trek. I imagine its because people have to choose a side, especially the more popular side and in doing so projecting the success of said franchise onto themselves and making them the victor.

Luv1138: And what do you call Goku joining the tip of their fingers with Vegetta and becoming joined and powerful, and then show Goku all sweaty smiling with a towel? :P

Dr Who is more Star Trek than Star Trek these days...minus the running, LOL.

@Ceejay "I know it wasn't all in a day but literally you do not finish Star Fleet and come out a Captain, you come out a qualified ensign."

I agree with this, you're right. Star Trek has always emphasized how hard it is to be Captain and he is definitely fast tracked. He doesn't come out of the Academy as captain, (he assumes it later) I forget what rank he comes out of the academy with but I know what you're saying.

@Ceejay....You forgot to list the expanding/retracting sword in your list. I don't think the original Sulu had a lightsaber or anything like it.