Seth MacFarlane Star Trek Idea of the Day: In a Hollywood Reporter cover story, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane reveals that he’d rather be working on a new Star Trek TV series than making more Family Guy.

He brought up Trek after saying he hoped his most famous series would end “while the show is still strong.”

“I don’t know who would give me the keys to that car,” he said, “But I’d love to see that franchise revived for television in the way that it was in the 1990s: very thoughtful, smartly written stories that transcend the science fiction audience.”

MacFarlane is a huge Trek fan, judging by all the jokes about the franchise on his animated shows, and he’s currently bolstering his space nerd cred by reviving Carl Sagan’s Cosmos with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

If he somehow got the gig, do you think he could make the next Next Generation?

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