Would a Star trek anime work?

[IamtheRock3]

if they decided to do some movies or a series base in the trek world

Think it might

[BoosterBronze]

I don't see what the point would be. Star Trek was never about big visuals, or action, two things that Anime can do in ways live action cant. Star Trek has always been centered on ideas and character moments. It's not that animation is incapable of these things, its just that I don't know what Trek would gain from the new medium.

[GRANT!]

I think it'd be kind of cool.

[SensorBoy]

Tentacles....

Great.

[Wenatchee the Hatchet]

Was the earlier Star Trek cartoon any good? Do we need another one from another country where they don't get the idiom? I was surprised there was anime of Powerpuff Girls but when I thought about the premise of PPG I thought, "well, at least it's something that COULD have been conceived as an anime". Trek just doesn't fall into that anywhere. It's philosophical at times but not the kind of philosophical that works in anime, which doesn't lend itself to the sort of rationalism Roddenberry was aiming for.

[Sanagi]

No reason why it wouldn't work, except that the Star Trek formula is just as old and creaky in the anime world as it is in American live action TV. An anime version of Star Trek would be like Captain Tylor without the humor, or Macross without the songs, or Crest of the Stars with interesting characters.

[rick]

Those two Manga Star Trek collections that came out were excellent, so I can't help but think that they would work as Anime too.

[IamtheRock3]

Well anime could help with stranghe type of aliens
and bigger space battles

Also anime like wierd and complex stories that might lend itself to trek

[Ontir]

if they decided to do some movies or a series base in the trek world

Think it might

There's already a "Trek" manga with the original cast/characters, which I've seen a few volumes of, so I can't see why not.

[Ghost]

Well anime could help with stranghe type of aliens

To be fair, though, Trek doesn't have to use aliens who look like humans with funny ears, noses and/or foreheads glued on. They just do because that's part of the look.

[Ninja Kris]

The Trek anime sells pretty well at my B&N.

[Jerry W. Loper]

Was the earlier Star Trek cartoon any good? Do we need another one from another country where they don't get the idiom? I was surprised there was anime of Powerpuff Girls but when I thought about the premise of PPG I thought, "well, at least it's something that COULD have been conceived as an anime". Trek just doesn't fall into that anywhere. It's philosophical at times but not the kind of philosophical that works in anime, which doesn't lend itself to the sort of rationalism Roddenberry was aiming for.

Star Trek the animated series (TAS) was very good for its time. (The series ran in 1973 and 1974, a total of 22 episodes.) It didn't have Chekov in it, but introduced a couple of cool alien characters, Arex and M'Ress, to the bridge crew. Since then, there have been so many Trek spinoffs that if there was to be any Trek anime, instead of it being an ensemble cast ongoing, I'd think the way to go would be a 13-episode or 26-episode half- or full-season concentrating on one character. (I'd prefer it to be about a TOS or TAS crew member; about 10 years ago, I read a fanfic series about the TAS character, M'Ress, that blew my socks off, which would've been perfect for an anime series.)

[J Dog]

Star Trek does have a TokyoPop "manga" (with them, that term is now being used loosely), but I don't think an anime would ever work. Star Trek was plot-driven and not action-driven, the latter being a common focal point in anime.

[T51R]

Dude. It's over in Ep1 when someone busts a Special Attack and blows up the ship. :D In the context of FMP:FUMOFFU it could work though, but it'd need to be something like "Starfleet Academy" or about a bunch of ensigns who've just signed aboard a not-so-famous ship. The serious stance wouldn't really work too well but the "fun" pathway is a definite new direction that can be explored.

[Wenatchee the Hatchet]

Thanks for the clarification Jerry, that helps. It still seems weird as an anime conceit to me but I guess old Gene would be proud that it's crossing cultural divides and all that. I don't personally see how he would have been too happy about Voyager or Enterprise but that's just me and I stopped following the franchise when he died. I guess I was a purist about that.

[The Xenos]

Those two Manga Star Trek collections that came out were excellent, so I can't help but think that they would work as Anime too.
There's already a "Trek" manga with the original cast/characters, which I've seen a few volumes of, so I can't see why not.
Um.. Those were actually American comic books. They were no more manga than the 90s DC and Marvel Star Trek comics. Whoop. They didn't use color and came in a full volume. Still weren't manga. They were made and produced in America. Maybe they got a Japanese artists for one of the stories, but still like 95% American made.

Compare that to Batman Child of Dreams or the Star Wars manga which was first published in Japan. Those are actual manga. Hell, the majority of manga isn't first published as full volumes anyway. The stuff you see at Borders or whatever giant US book chain you go to is a secondary form of publication. Hell, it's more than secondary since it's the American edition.

Don't drink the TokyoPop Kool Aid.

This was one of the worst attempts at making a book appear Japanese I've seen. They even tossed Japanese characters on the damn book and gave it some Japanese title. Pathetic. Still, the comics themselves seemed pretty good. I've got nothing against the book itself, just the false marketing. I'd have gotten it myself, but I haven't been dipping into the Trek stuff lately. Haven't bothered with the IDW comics either and they've got Next Gen stuff.

The Trek anime sells pretty well at my B&N.

-facepalm- Thank you for screwing up the terms anime and manga even more than they already are. :(

Star Trek does have a TokyoPop "manga" (with them, that term is now being used loosely), but I don't think an anime would ever work. Star Trek was plot-driven and not action-driven, the latter being a common focal point in anime.

TokyoPop's use of the term manga is looser than Coutney Love's.. um.. nevermind.

Anyway, I disagree that anime needs to be action driven. Even if a majority of anime is shonen action fluff, there's still plenty of plot and character driven anime.

Hell, Crest of the Stars is a plot and character driven space opera. It's very similar to Star Trek, focusing on politics and drama over outer space action and fighting.

Hey, how about an anime about Sulu and the Excelsior? Plus now that Takei's out of the closet, they can make it all shonen ai with him chasing around pretty boy ensigns. Ha. I know the fangirls of both anime and Star Trek would eat it up. I've seen both of them get all slash happy. (I can never unsee that woman in her like 40s at a sci fi con with a booth full of Star Trek slash.)