What sci-fi TV series or movie would you like rebooted/continued, and how?

[maniacalpha1-1]

First off, obligatory "Continue Firefly as-is but erase the events of Serenity".

That having been addressed, here's the example I've been thinking of right now : Reboot Stargate SG-1 but with more seriousness...somewhat like Battlestar Galactica's reboot. For example, new technology is introduced much more slowly and deus ex machina technobabble that kills all the bad guys in one genius move is out or very rare; instead, humanity actually has to fight militarily and diplomatically; lots more drama and less tech stuff (but still very sci fi). The enemy need not be the Goa'uld again, but just using them as an example; humans could acquire the plans to build their own ships and slowly but surely build up their own fleet to facilitate a more militarily direct war, or they could perhaps ally with a much more directly involved Asgard, who could build lots of ships for us in exchange for humans doing the actual soldiering.

Oh, and please please reduce the number of weird disease episodes that turn you into who knows what until the doctors find a cure.

Or maybe make a TV series based off Independence Day that's basically the same thing; using technology derived from the destroyed alien ships in the first movie, Earth is able to build its own to respond to a later invasion.

Note: You don't have to respond to my idea of an SG-1 reboot, and you need not limit it to old shows (Stargate may be too fresh to reboot but this is the idea I was thinking of).

Some random other sources ideas could come from:

Buck Rogers
Dune
Buckaroo Banzai
Star Trek
Vampire Hunter D
Babylon 5
Honor Harrington

 

[spaceman]

enterprise

 

[Oric]

sg-universe

 

[Kaido]

Buckaroo Banzai would be amazing with modern graphics. Could be like a Doctor Who for adults :thumbsup:

 

[cronos]

First off, obligatory "Continue Firefly as-is but erase the events of Serenity".

Wait, why? Because of

Spoiler

the deaths

? Serenity is a great movie, and it is also

Spoiler

River's coming-of-age story of being a badass we all know she is that we had been waiting for.

Erasing Serenity would negate all of that.
(I have no idea why I felt the need to spoiler-tag that, but there it is)

I see what you mean about more serious SG-1, but they did try more serious SG with Universe, and it didn't work as well as they thought it would be (at least at first). So I'm kind of skeptical.

Anyway, speaking of sci-fi reboot/continued, somehow I thought of V. I wasn't happy when they canceled that reboot. Sure, it wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either. But then again I would watch anything if I get to see Elizabeth Mitchell every week (yes, including Revolution!), so maybe I'm a bit biased

 

[Kaido]

First off, obligatory "Continue Firefly as-is but erase the events of Serenity".

imo there's a huge amount of room for them to do a continuation series between where the show left off & the movie began.

 

[tynopik]

airwolf
sliders

 

[poofyhairguy]

First off, obligatory "Continue Firefly as-is but erase the events of Serenity".

Part of the Firefly magic is its limited run. Joss would have ran it into the ground eventually. Firefly is the John Belushi of TV shows. The movie almost proves that.

My vote goes to some sort of Trek. The Enterprise Atonement has to be over, and it would be nice to have a modern 1080p serialized Star Trek that nerds didn't hate. Problem is Ron Moore is the only man I trust to do it, and he is all over the place now.

 

[smackababy]

I don't get the whole "continue Firefly" garbage people continue to clamor about. You didn't watch it when it was one. Don't act like you did. 99% of the nerd brigade wants to complain "They kept changing the time!" That happened for ONE episode. You didn't watch the ones before or after that either.


As far as continuations of shows, it doesn't really work. It would have to be a new story in the same universe, ala Star Trek. A new Star Trek, if done correctly, wouldn't be a bad thing.

While not a "show", I wouldn't mine Star Blazer / Battle Ship Yamato getting a reboot.

 

[sourceninja]

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[Leyawiin]

The old British series "UFO" from the early 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(TV_series)

Movie remake, new series - whatever.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I don't get the whole "continue Firefly" garbage people continue to clamor about. You didn't watch it when it was one. Don't act like you did. 99% of the nerd brigade wants to complain "They kept changing the time!" That happened for ONE episode. You didn't watch the ones before or after that either.

Keep in mind that back then if it is like most shows, no one knew what it was until it was too late. For me, the name itself was a turn off, because I had no idea it was a sci-fi show. I never saw commercials about it or caught it on the air. I know at that time (I was out of the house by then) I was watching cable, not network television, or I was out working at night or just out out. There were no DVR's then, etc. I had thought this was earlier than the internet blow up, but 2002-2003, I know 'we' had internet since 1995 so maybe there was buzz if you knew where to look, but I can't say I remember ever seeing anything about the show.

When the previews for Serenity came out I was in awe. Went to it on opening night and loved it not even knowing there was a TV show about it until 2-3 years later when the series was out on DVD at the rental place.

Add to that how Fox screwed up the airing of it out of order, etc, etc and you can see how it was a miss considering how expensive it probably was to produce.

So yes, there are plenty of reasons for such things to happen. Especially when people catch shows AFTER they are over and out on disc which was just starting to happen at that time.

Aside from the obvious ones...

Maybe Invasion. It had just started to get interesting at the end of the season when it was cancelled.

Or Odyssey 5 which I always liked.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

I don't get the whole "continue Firefly" garbage people continue to clamor about. You didn't watch it when it was one. Don't act like you did. 99% of the nerd brigade wants to complain "They kept changing the time!" That happened for ONE episode. You didn't watch the ones before or after that either.


As far as continuations of shows, it doesn't really work. It would have to be a new story in the same universe, ala Star Trek. A new Star Trek, if done correctly, wouldn't be a bad thing.

While not a "show", I wouldn't mine Star Blazer / Battle Ship Yamato getting a reboot.

I didn't even know it existed back then, and in any event, I don't watch anything when it's "on", as I have no cable or satellite, only using Netflix/et al. Haven't for years, and I can't wait until the entertainment industry catches up with that reality and the number of times people watch/rewatch something on on-demand sources counts as much or more as Nielsen ratings.

Also, your Space Battleship Yamato comment reminds me : where is Spice and Wolf 3?

Part of the Firefly magic is its limited run. Joss would have ran it into the ground eventually. Firefly is the John Belushi of TV shows. The movie almost proves that.

My vote goes to some sort of Trek. The Enterprise Atonement has to be over, and it would be nice to have a modern 1080p serialized Star Trek that nerds didn't hate. Problem is Ron Moore is the only man I trust to do it, and he is all over the place now.

Here's the question on Trek....So original Trek is about 80 years before TNG/DS9/Voyager, and Enterprise about 80 years before that (I'm not hardcore enough to know the exact dates so those are guesses). What era would you want a new Trek to be set in? I think 10-15 years after the TNG/DS9/VOY era would be good. Again though, I like a BSG seriousness to any of these ideas (perhaps slightly milder for a Trek).

Also, every time I think of Starfleet in San Francisco, I keep thinking, what if there was a TV series set in a universe such as Star Trek, but not actually related to the main storyline? Like a rebooted Three's Company set down the street from from Starfleet Academy and gets occasional reference but not at all the focus of the show? Shows what civilians do in the ST universe.

Wait, why? Because of

Spoiler

the deaths

? Serenity is a great movie, and it is also

Spoiler

River's coming-of-age story of being a badass we all know she is that we had been waiting for.

Erasing Serenity would negate all of that.
(I have no idea why I felt the need to spoiler-tag that, but there it is)

I see what you mean about more serious SG-1, but they did try more serious SG with Universe, and it didn't work as well as they thought it would be (at least at first). So I'm kind of skeptical.

Anyway, speaking of sci-fi reboot/continued, somehow I thought of V. I wasn't happy when they canceled that reboot. Sure, it wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either. But then again I would watch anything if I get to see Elizabeth Mitchell every week (yes, including Revolution!), so maybe I'm a bit biased

Well, the definition of "erase" is not fixed here...maybe a new series could start off 5 minutes after Serenity showing

Spoiler

River healing Wash...or, well, I guess the burial scene kinda prevents that, damn.

I liked SGU, but as for why many people didn't, I'm not sure how to explain. Maybe a little less serious than SGU but more than SG-1 and SGA, and please no deus-ex-machina of the week design...

 

[Kadarin]

I wouldn't mind seeing a new Trek that continues the story and creates new canon. Same with Babylon 5. I want to know what happens next, not rehash what we already know.

Apparently this is going to be a thing: http://arstechnica.com/the-multiver...film-dan-simmons-hyperion-as-an-event-series/

I'm scared that they're going to fuck it up.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Here's the question on Trek....So original Trek is about 80 years before TNG/DS9/Voyager, and Enterprise about 80 years before that (I'm not hardcore enough to know the exact dates so those are guesses). What era would you want a new Trek to be set in? I think 10-15 years after the TNG/DS9/VOY era would be good. Again though, I like a BSG seriousness to any of these ideas (perhaps slightly milder for a Trek).

It has to be after VOY, if nothing else because I don't want the Enterprise problem where they tried to make it less advanced than TNG in 2004 and now in 2015 its super dated because their ship was less advanced than a 2008 iPhone.

I always like the concept that later in the future the Klingons become part of the Federation. Give me that plotline in a series, make it happen because of some mutual war/crises, sounds fun.

I agree that post-BSG Sci Fi's can no longer have VOY levels of cheese or cleanness. I think BSG's feel is a little TOO gritty for Trek, but we at least need serialization, sex and flawed main characters for a show to be watchable in 2015. And not like T'Pol's drug problem, I mean real flaws that make you relate.

Also, every time I think of Starfleet in San Francisco, I keep thinking, what if there was a TV series set in a universe such as Star Trek, but not actually related to the main storyline? Like a rebooted Three's Company set down the street from from Starfleet Academy and gets occasional reference but not at all the focus of the show? Shows what civilians do in the ST universe.

That was kinda what DS9 was supposed to be at first, just a sitcom in a non-important station. Problem is that was boring for nerds, so by the end of the series DS9 is the most important place in the galaxy and Sisko is telling admirals what to do.

I just don't know if nerds want a domesticated Sci-Fi. I mean look at how Caprica flopped. We want the space battles, we want torpedos or phasers, and we want to see different planets and people.

Honestly it doesn't even have to be Trek. Just make all the same assumptions: warp drive, replicators, etc. Star Trek is a good platform if nothing else, I hate when series get cute thinking a renamed warp/hyper/FTL drive makes it unique. It doesn't, just start with the Roddenberry model and innovate ON TOP on that model.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

I agree that post-BSG Sci Fi's can no longer have VOY levels of cheese or cleanness. I think BSG's feel is a little TOO gritty for Trek, but we at least need serialization, sex and flawed main characters for a show to be watchable in 2015. And not like T'Pol's drug problem, I mean real flaws that make you relate.

I just don't know if nerds want a domesticated Sci-Fi. I mean look at how Caprica flopped. We want the space battles, we want torpedos or phasers, and we want to see different planets and people.

Another thing that no longer makes sense post-BSG that was in SG-1, was that they're all military, but they always allow themselves to be captured by alien races they know nothing about instead of defending themselves. I realize that to an extent you need to do that for the goal of establishing relations, but if you're attacked by people that look like they might have you for dinner, come on...

I liked Caprica!

 

[MtnMan]

Firefly

 

[poofyhairguy]

Another thing that no longer makes sense post-BSG that was in SG-1, was that they're all military, but they always allow themselves to be captured by alien races they know nothing about instead of defending themselves. I realize that to an extent you need to do that for the goal of establishing relations, but if you're attacked by people that look like they might have you for dinner, come on...

BSG really was a watershed moment for Sci Fi.

I liked Caprica!

Me too but it flopped hard.

 

[SP33Demon]

How many times has been reposted.

 

[ralfy]

Continue Firefly, UFO, Sapphire and Steel, Space: 1999, and the original BSG. Reboot the missing episodes of Doomwatch and continue.

Reboot Damnation Alley.

 

[Kadarin]

Another thing that no longer makes sense post-BSG that was in SG-1, was that they're all military, but they always allow themselves to be captured by alien races they know nothing about instead of defending themselves. I realize that to an extent you need to do that for the goal of establishing relations, but if you're attacked by people that look like they might have you for dinner, come on...

I liked Caprica!

Speaking of SG, one thing that always really bugged me about SG: Atlantis is John Sheppard. He's supposedly a USAF officer, right?

He has way too much gel in his hair to be in the US military. He doesn't look like an officer, and doesn't have the bearing of an officer. He looks like an actor.

 

[SP33Demon]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2434300
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2307799
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2414666
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2303133

 

[torpid]

The Running Man. Adapt the original King/Bachman story much more closely. It's a pretty good story and feels even more relevant today than it was at the time.

 

[DigDog]

Space 1999.

because funky space uniforms never go out of style.

 

[Mayne]

we need a reboot of the original star trek series. What could go wrong?