From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-03/12/09.15.tv
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L287219C3
Digital Production Solutions, a division of IDT Media, has acquired two stories by late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to turn into 3-D animated TV shows or movies, Variety reported. DPS optioned Starpoint Academy and Gene Roddenberry's Char, the only tales the Trek meister wrote for kids, the trade paper reported.
That sounds like it would be a cool thing to see. I'm not surprised to see Majel Barret raiding the archives that Gene left behind. It seems he did leave a lot of projects unproduced.
Speaking of 3d animated tv/shows, and in the lines of Trek...
There's a string of unconfirmed rumors around fan circles of a possible TOS computer animated project. Take this with a grain of salt.
It seems that around the time the PC game "Starfleet Academy" was popular, a computer game by Interplay was under development which boasted the members of TOS on 5 episodes penned by Trek favorite D.C. Fontana. The episodes were in reality a 5 part novel. The voice sessions of these scripts represent the last time the entire original cast of TOS was gathered for a full-fledged Trek project.
The previews and trailers for this game were released, but shortly after the last Trek game was released, Interplay pulled the plug on the project. Given the episodic nature of the game, a good animated movie (a la "Final Fantasy") with an actually intelligent plot may yet emerge.
I don't hold my breath, tho.
JJ
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