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Watch: Star Trek: The Next Generation as a cartoon

By Chad Porto

Nov. 2, 2015 – CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new “Star Trek” television series in January 2017. The brand-new “Star Trek” will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966. The new series will blast off with a special preview broadcast on the CBS Television Network. The premiere episode and all subsequent first-run episodes will then be available exclusively in the United States on CBS All Access, the Network’s digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service.Pictured: LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi LaForge and Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh / Third of Five in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATIONScreen grab: ©1992 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved
Nov. 2, 2015 – CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new “Star Trek” television series in January 2017. The brand-new “Star Trek” will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966. The new series will blast off with a special preview broadcast on the CBS Television Network. The premiere episode and all subsequent first-run episodes will then be available exclusively in the United States on CBS All Access, the Network’s digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service.Pictured: LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi LaForge and Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh / Third of Five in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATIONScreen grab: ©1992 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved /
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Watch Star Trek: The Next Generation turn into a cartoon.

Fans of a certain age may very well be familiar with the cartoon stylings of Filmation, a 1970s animation studio that is famous for making Star Trek: The Animated Series. The cartoon was the follow-up series to the original Star Trek series of the 1960s and i’s even considered canon, despite all the changes the show made.

Like the introduction of new alien races never seen before.

It’s an interesting piece of history, so when Canadian animators, Gazelle Automations released a video of that same style, but this time with the crew of The Next Generation crew, fans took notice. Instead of creating a brand new scene, they animated the infamous Next Generation scene where Jean-Luc Picard gets abducted by The Borg.

It’s rather well done, considering the crew is just two people, husband and wife team Justin and Lindsay Lee of Toronto, Canada. It’s done in a style that seems rather low-budget, but that’s because that’s how the Animated Series was done. It embraces all the key hallmarks of the original cartoon in its Next Generation remake.

The Next Generation cartoon is a neat concept but an awful idea

Let’s be very clear, the couple who made this cartoon are very talented. This is a well-made, excellent homage to the original cartoon. The only problem is the original cartoon wasn’t well made. So making a Next Generation version of that cartoon would be a bad idea.

There’s a reason when people talk about iconic Star Trek episodes, it rarely involves The Animated Series. That said, they deliberately made the cartoon just like the original, so of course, it’d be very hard to watch, which is what makes it so wonderful, and a perfect remake of the original.

That said, I would not want to watch such a slow-moving cartoon in 2022. Yet, I’d like to see what this duo can do with a more modern idea, and with more modern animation techniques.

If you’re curious about the couple and how this fan project came to be, be sure to check out TrekMovie.com’s interview with Justin Lee.

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