JJohnson
Banned
This is a timeline where politically, most things occur same as OTL, but not TV.
A few events are different, mostly :
1964: NBC puts Star Trek on TV with Jeffrey Hunter, running for 13 episodes, filmed in color; the show does well, but NBC thinks it can do better, and asks Roddenberry to retool for next Season, bringing in the OTL cast. Captain Robert April, the first captain, makes an appearance.
1965: Star Trek becomes more popular than OTL, and runs 4 years before NBC pulls the plug. There is no Spock's Brain episode.
1979: Star Trek shows strongly as a feature film, and Star Trek 2, produced in 1981, is even more successful, easily eclipsing Star Wars - Return of the Jedi. Unlike OTL, where the first motion picture is boring, this movie is action-packed but still makes you think in the end.
1984-1988: Transformers runs for five seasons, each focusing on a new series of characters; season 4 is subtitled Headmasters, 5 is Masterforce, and 6 is Zone, with a cooperation between the US and Japan, this follows more closely with the American continuity.
1986: Star Trek, The Next Generation will debut for the 1987 season. The uniforms are mildly similar to the movie ones, but updated for TNG, and look nothing like pajamas:
1986: Transformers: the Movie reboots the series with the death of Optimus Prime
1988: Transformers 2: Powermasters shows the rebirth of Prime against Galvatron as a Powermaster with his Apex Armor trailer, in a movie that does even better than the first. MST3K debuts on KTMA, but moves to Comedy Central.
1991: TNG episode Dark Mirror revisits the Mirror Universe, as in the future Diane Duane novelization of the episode. This episode is as popular as the Best of Both Worlds cliffhanger. The TV Show "The Flash" Debuts in a contemporary setting, not utilizing 40's cars in its Central City.
1993: Deep Space Nine starts.
1994: TNG goes to the movies with Generations. The movie does well, but the producers believe they can do better with the next one.
1996: Star Trek: First Contact debuts strongly
1999: Star Trek: Infiltration brings Riker to his own ship, the Titan, and aids Picard with a conspiracy to overthrow the Federation during the Dominion War. This Trek film performs better than Phantom Menace due to the highly negative reviews of that film, and the sense that Lucas is also looking more to FX than storyline.
1999: Angel, the Buffy spin-off, airs
2001: Star Trek: Enterprise airs, with a strong sense of building to TOS; the show starts strong, and through its maintenance of continuity to the original series, shows a strong beginning, building to the third and fourth seasons' Romulan Wars and the introduction of the Daedelus class in Season 4. There are no transporters in this series, since they haven't been invented yet.
2002: Firefly debuts on Fox, showing strong ratings.
2004: Wonderfalls debuts on Fox, running until the end of the 2008-2009 season
2006: Angel's 7th and final season airs. MST3K finishes its 16th season with Mike as the host. Sci-Fi channel's exec signed a deal through season 16 for 24 episode seasons each, so long as the show 'returned to its Comedy Central look and feel' for host segments. Popular shorts included "Are you Popular" and "Patriotism."
2007: Firefly ends a five-year run, with a three movie deal with Joss Whedon. Transformers the Movie (live-action) debuts as a highly anticipated movie, with vehicle designs that are very similar to the Generation 1 cartoon, and robot modes that aren't as busy as OTL.
2008: Star Trek Enterprise ends after seven years, having shown Earth developing and creating the UFP.
2009: Transformers 2: gives Devastator as a large Green and Purple 6-bot gestalt, as an almost exact replica of the G1 version.
(OOC: a little wish fulfillment, but that's what alternate history is for)
A few events are different, mostly :
1964: NBC puts Star Trek on TV with Jeffrey Hunter, running for 13 episodes, filmed in color; the show does well, but NBC thinks it can do better, and asks Roddenberry to retool for next Season, bringing in the OTL cast. Captain Robert April, the first captain, makes an appearance.
1965: Star Trek becomes more popular than OTL, and runs 4 years before NBC pulls the plug. There is no Spock's Brain episode.
1979: Star Trek shows strongly as a feature film, and Star Trek 2, produced in 1981, is even more successful, easily eclipsing Star Wars - Return of the Jedi. Unlike OTL, where the first motion picture is boring, this movie is action-packed but still makes you think in the end.
1984-1988: Transformers runs for five seasons, each focusing on a new series of characters; season 4 is subtitled Headmasters, 5 is Masterforce, and 6 is Zone, with a cooperation between the US and Japan, this follows more closely with the American continuity.
1986: Star Trek, The Next Generation will debut for the 1987 season. The uniforms are mildly similar to the movie ones, but updated for TNG, and look nothing like pajamas:
1986: Transformers: the Movie reboots the series with the death of Optimus Prime
1988: Transformers 2: Powermasters shows the rebirth of Prime against Galvatron as a Powermaster with his Apex Armor trailer, in a movie that does even better than the first. MST3K debuts on KTMA, but moves to Comedy Central.
1991: TNG episode Dark Mirror revisits the Mirror Universe, as in the future Diane Duane novelization of the episode. This episode is as popular as the Best of Both Worlds cliffhanger. The TV Show "The Flash" Debuts in a contemporary setting, not utilizing 40's cars in its Central City.
1993: Deep Space Nine starts.
1994: TNG goes to the movies with Generations. The movie does well, but the producers believe they can do better with the next one.
1996: Star Trek: First Contact debuts strongly
1999: Star Trek: Infiltration brings Riker to his own ship, the Titan, and aids Picard with a conspiracy to overthrow the Federation during the Dominion War. This Trek film performs better than Phantom Menace due to the highly negative reviews of that film, and the sense that Lucas is also looking more to FX than storyline.
1999: Angel, the Buffy spin-off, airs
2001: Star Trek: Enterprise airs, with a strong sense of building to TOS; the show starts strong, and through its maintenance of continuity to the original series, shows a strong beginning, building to the third and fourth seasons' Romulan Wars and the introduction of the Daedelus class in Season 4. There are no transporters in this series, since they haven't been invented yet.
2002: Firefly debuts on Fox, showing strong ratings.
2004: Wonderfalls debuts on Fox, running until the end of the 2008-2009 season
2006: Angel's 7th and final season airs. MST3K finishes its 16th season with Mike as the host. Sci-Fi channel's exec signed a deal through season 16 for 24 episode seasons each, so long as the show 'returned to its Comedy Central look and feel' for host segments. Popular shorts included "Are you Popular" and "Patriotism."
2007: Firefly ends a five-year run, with a three movie deal with Joss Whedon. Transformers the Movie (live-action) debuts as a highly anticipated movie, with vehicle designs that are very similar to the Generation 1 cartoon, and robot modes that aren't as busy as OTL.
2008: Star Trek Enterprise ends after seven years, having shown Earth developing and creating the UFP.
2009: Transformers 2: gives Devastator as a large Green and Purple 6-bot gestalt, as an almost exact replica of the G1 version.
(OOC: a little wish fulfillment, but that's what alternate history is for)