‘TekWar’ to be animated series

William Shatner’s Canadian science-fiction franchise, “TekWar,” is being redeveloped as an animated series for adult audiences.

Los Angeles’s Pure Imagination Studios struck a deal with the “Star Trek” actor’s company, Shatner Universe, to resurrect the 1990s franchise, which

started as a book series before it was spun off into TV movies, a series, comic books and a video game.

The story, set in 2043, follows a Los Angeles private detective who’s framed as a dealer of a mind-altering drug that’s administered as a bio-digital microchip.

Producers say the series is envisioned as a “mixed-reality” program in which viewers can participate in a “real-time multiverse” on mobile, tablets and wearable devices.