Describe YOUR new Star Trek series.

[Bry_Sinclair]

How about a mini-series set around 2300 onboard the U.S.S. Brunel, an Oberth-Class ship attached to the S.C.E. given a crucial mission, which will not only save billions of lives but go a long way to fostering good relations with a powerful former enemy.

The Brunel has the daunting task of installing a new environmental control system on Qo'noS, to counter the devastation caused by the destruction of Praxis.

It would look at the tension between the two super powers, the distrust and uncertainty that would still be rampant (from both sides), the problems the engineering team would face with the new technology that they have to deal with on their own, whilst the ship's Captain and cultural expert work on ensuring everything goes smoothly with the Klingon High Council and Defence Force.

Though this would involve some technobabble, I think there'd be more than enough other plot points and character moments to focus on.

 

[Tim Walker]

One gets the impression that the X-Files were not a prestigious assignment. A two person department that was obscure and stuck away in some corner.

Imagine that Star Fleet gets saddled with an assignment, to explain the inexplicable. The brass approve only a token effort, utilizing a single ship (an old rust bucket). This is an assignment where careers go to die.

A Trek with some affinities with X-Files, but also the Twilight Zone, the Outer Limits, Dr. Who, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Lost, Northern Exposure, and Twin Peaks.

I imagine that among the regular characters, one archetype will be Every Man.

 

[Autistoid]

Several ideas, in chronological order:

"Orion" - Set during the Dominion War onboard the Constellation-Class Orion, downgraded from the frontlines to act as an escort/supply/medical/courier ship. It is filled with a motely crew who aren't the best and brightest, who have issues and problems on other ships, so they are dumped on this bucket of bolts as a way to make them useful in some small capacity.

I would alter this to make these people misfits, capable, but square pegs in round holes. The commanding officer would be a captain now out of favor.

The ship is a small ship, an old beater vehicle-but like Serenity, it becomes the little ship that could.

Kind of like Down Periscope, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Periscope

I like this concept but the idea of misfits or motley crew doesn't quite fit for me in the supposed idealized Federation, with planned communities and the like.

But, the idea of an older ship, not expected to do much, in my opinion would be very enjoyable

Agreed I think this rag tag fleet/motley oats whatever is so done, and so 90s.

I'd much rather have a crew of competent folk, who can be a bit rough around the edges who are finding their stride etc.

I'm a fan that relationships are dynamic. Nobody gets too comfortable around eachother yet nothing that explosive.

I.e. a captain who's always nervous about how the crew sees him. Who has a strange awkward friendship with his number 1. The two are always being puzzled by each other just at those moments when they start to feel they are alike.

 

[eyeresist]

The U.S.S. Good Hope.

I think a way to do the "motley crew" thing in a new way is to have the crew made up of survivors from the Dominion war. A few would have obvious disabilities, while others would have internal scars. This would give opportunities for interesting backstory to come out, revealing a bit more about the specifics of the war from different viewpoints, even enemy viewpoints. This would also mean the ship's counselor would actually have a vital role to play in the stories. The overall feeling would be of a slow climb out of darkness, though one or two might not make it...

As for their mission, I don't think a simple "boldly going" mission would fit. It would be better if they were on a post-war reconstruction mission. Building hope amongst the ruins. They could visit any colony or station affected by the war, including Bajor, Cardassia and the Maquis outposts. They could still encounter almost anything on these trips, but the overall mission would be informed by ongoing developments in the Alpha quadrant. We could even see a return of the Sisko!

 

[xortex]

Trek is a space opera. There should be a more advanced form of Humanity out there who left us behind as criminals. There should be awesome technology out there that makes us look primitive - bordering on magic. They should be 'the old ones' and we're the upstarts exposing corruption and such.

 

[eyeresist]

^ Problem with this is if they really are superior, they just crush us like a bug. Unless we overcome them with the power of love.

 

[wulfio]

I think they need to retcon the idea that there is time travel later in the millenia, and start playing on a galactic scale. Visiting other galaxies, etc. Fast forward to the 31st century. The federation is like 70% of the galaxy. And traveling to distant galaxies is like traveling to distant stars.

Start dealing with macro politics, metaphysics, and human evolution. It's either that or a reboot. That's the only way I could see the franchise coming back to TV.


While a klingon show or a section 31 show would be cool, I just don't see it being feasible. A niche show like that wouldn't appeal to the general audience I don't think. And the trek fans would either be on board with it, or despise it because it's not in the spirit of Trek. So I don't see it being successful with only the fan base, let alone half of it.

 

[Tim Walker]

It occurred to me that the Preservers may have terraformed planets, to make them more Earth like. That is where they would deposit human groups.

 

[xortex]

It all takes place in Q's mind including the where about's of Decker and the new race he created with Ilea. Q's mind is holographic and the crew is trapped in there.

 

[Warped9]

For sometime now I've had two ideas that really intrigue me. And crazily enough they could both be done at the same time if we indulge in fantasy that CBS would allow two Trek projects yo be ongoing simultaneously.


The first would be a Pike era animated series. The basic idea is to tweak the materiel to be updated a bit particularly in terms of characters and pick things up after the events of "The Cage" (so this would be returning to the Prime universe). You have easily a decade's worth of story potentiel there before the events of WNMHGB. Given that you could easily tell stories without worrying about what's in the future continuity wise. The only real constants are that Pike and Spock have to survive. And, if so interested, we could see the evolution of Spock from the person we saw in "The Cage" to the person we see in TOS. Another neat aspect of this is that the clean designs and aesthetics of "The Cage" and TOS would lend themselves easily to animation. In terms of tone I would aim to something similar to the adult level tone in the DCAU features.


My other idea would be to retool/reboot TOS. I'm talking about a from the ground up reinterpretation and updating as opposed to simply tweaking what's already there. I laid out my thinking in more detail quite sometime ago in something I called TOS in the 29th century. We're talking about a new continuity that actually borrows elements and characters from both TOS and TNG and integrates them into a new cohesive whole with an over arcing structure. And I'm thinking of something that could be done in 13 episode seasons over a five to seven or eight year run.

There would be a Federation and Vulcans, Andorians, Klingons, Orions, Romulans and Gorn, but they could be somewhat different from the familiar. It could be 23rd, 26th or 29th century yet with a near completely rewritten historical backstory yet avoid making direct connections to the present day or anythime within the next fifty to a hundred years to come. Character names would be familiar and yet slightly reinterpreted.

The only real constant throughout the run would be the Enterprise.

 

[Tim Walker]

Came across a discussion of re-imagining Trek.

http://forum.rpg.net/archive/index.php/t-259173.html

Scroll way down to Gargoyle1981's comments regarding optimism.

"...The best part about optimism shouldn't be 'And we have all the right answers' it should be 'We're trying to be moral and and incorporate morality into our decisions' (which is a fairly radical change from our world to begin with politics wise)"

 

[Jeyl]

Came across a discussion of re-imagining Trek.

http://forum.rpg.net/archive/index.php/t-259173.html

Scroll way down to Gargoyle1981's comments regarding optimism.

"...The best part about optimism shouldn't be 'And we have all the right answers' it should be 'We're trying to be moral and and incorporate morality into our decisions' (which is a fairly radical change from our world to begin with politics wise)"

Than what would happen to the Prime Directive? I mean, some episodes ignore it while others adhere to it like it's the most absolutely correct thing in all of existence that mustn't be tainted in any way shape or form.

And I agree with the 'right answers' thing. For all the 'seek out new life and new civilizations', we seem to spend more time showcasing how utterly incompetent these civilizations and how when theres any kind of conflict, our answer is always the right one. No one wants to learn from aliens in Star Trek. Only lecture them about how they're not as awesome as humans.

 

[BillJ]

For me, I've been thinking recently that a true spin-off of TOS would be interesting. Set a century after TOS, it would offer a view into the world brought forth by all the discoveries made by the Enterprise and other starships of the 23rd century.

This show would be completely separate from the films and TNG and its spinoffs. Only beholden from a continuity standpoint to the original 79 episodes.

 

[Warped9]

For me, I've been thinking recently that a true spin-off of TOS would be interesting. Set a century after TOS, it would offer a view into the world brought forth by all the discoveries made by the Enterprise and other starships of the 23rd century.

This show would be completely separate from the films and TNG and its spinoffs. Only beholden from a continuity standpoint to the original 79 episodes.

Broadly speaking you're suggesting a TNG reboot. Or are you thinking of something else entirely?

 

[BillJ]

For me, I've been thinking recently that a true spin-off of TOS would be interesting. Set a century after TOS, it would offer a view into the world brought forth by all the discoveries made by the Enterprise and other starships of the 23rd century.

This show would be completely separate from the films and TNG and its spinoffs. Only beholden from a continuity standpoint to the original 79 episodes.

Broadly speaking you're suggesting a TNG reboot. Or are you thinking of something else entirely?

It would be on a starship. But it wouldn't be a TNG reboot.

 

[Warped9]

For me, I've been thinking recently that a true spin-off of TOS would be interesting. Set a century after TOS, it would offer a view into the world brought forth by all the discoveries made by the Enterprise and other starships of the 23rd century.

This show would be completely separate from the films and TNG and its spinoffs. Only beholden from a continuity standpoint to the original 79 episodes.

Broadly speaking you're suggesting a TNG reboot. Or are you thinking of something else entirely?

It would be on a starship. But it wouldn't be a TNG reboot.

Fair enough.

 

[Rahul]

I think Star Trek should go back to it's basics.

Star Trek has always been almost an anthology-show. Lots of different scifi-plots and ideas, only loosely connected by having the same main characters who stumble into one neat high concept-story after another.

Only in the final years the stories have become very repetitive, with almost each episode having a new kind of bland antagonist aliens, usually defeated in the final act in a phaser fight...

I say: Let's go back to the roots! Let's have a compilation of different scifi-storys our heroes stumble upon. If they are episodic, three-parters or season-long arcs, I don't care. Just go back to good, old, classic scifi and space opera, and get away from the 'kewl' action-niché!

 

[Tim Walker]

I read that TOS was, in effect, an early example of a shared universe. And much of the material came from science fiction writers.

 

[dub]

This show would be completely separate from the films and TNG and its spinoffs. Only beholden from a c********* standpoint to the original 79 episodes.

I can't believe my eyes. BillJ used the "c" word!?!? I thought there was no such thing in Trekdom...

 

[BillJ]

This show would be completely separate from the films and TNG and its spinoffs. Only beholden from a c********* standpoint to the original 79 episodes.

I can't believe my eyes. BillJ used the "c" word!?!? I thought there was no such thing in Trekdom...

You have to make sure your particular vision is clear to everyone. Just because I hate a particular word doesn't mean I won't use it when a situation calls for it.