I really need a follow-up episode about the Valakians. I'm worried about those guys.
Pitfalls the new series should avoid
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I really need a follow-up episode about the Valakians. I'm worried about those guys.
I have to agree with the previous "forehead alien of the week" comments.
I can understand that not every alien can be as exotic as a Tholian, but I hope any new species encountered in the show are at the very least interesting to look at.
I can understand that not every alien can be as exotic as a Tholian, but I hope any new species encountered in the show are at the very least interesting to look at.
Forehead-of-the-week/humanoid-of-the-week was done to death.
Galactic politics/galactic war deserves a rest.
The holodeck deserves a rest.
Dump the technobabble.
No more catsuits. No mini-skirts.
Galactic politics/galactic war deserves a rest.
The holodeck deserves a rest.
Dump the technobabble.
No more catsuits. No mini-skirts.
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As has been pointed out by a number of people, the Transporter is a convenient way to get a character out of danger. Therefore the Transporter must be broken, or blocked, as required by the plot.
You might lose some of the old Trek flavor, but I think that relying on shuttles would be more consistent with drama.
Eliminating the Transporter would remove some paradoxes, such as using the Transporter to rejuvenate the human body. Or using it to put a bomb on someone else' ship.
Replicators? If you eliminate those, you might not have a post scarcity society. People may have to develop careers so they can pay for stuff.
It has been commented that there are no more good stories to be told with holodecks.
Trek style shields? I believe that in Babylon 5, there was physical armor on ship hulls. Of course, physical armor has limitations.
One thing that ENT did right was grapplers instead of tractor beams. A bit of useful, but almost mundane, technology, instead of a magic tech.
You might lose some of the old Trek flavor, but I think that relying on shuttles would be more consistent with drama.
Eliminating the Transporter would remove some paradoxes, such as using the Transporter to rejuvenate the human body. Or using it to put a bomb on someone else' ship.
Replicators? If you eliminate those, you might not have a post scarcity society. People may have to develop careers so they can pay for stuff.
It has been commented that there are no more good stories to be told with holodecks.
Trek style shields? I believe that in Babylon 5, there was physical armor on ship hulls. Of course, physical armor has limitations.
One thing that ENT did right was grapplers instead of tractor beams. A bit of useful, but almost mundane, technology, instead of a magic tech.
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IIRC, they got awards for that. I don't understand how that happened. Babylon 5 did it LOTS better.
Now wait just a damn minute!
I agree - their aliens looked like aliens.
I don't think the show you want is Star Trek.
Showing a post-apocalyptic struggle toward solving hunger and disease, eliminating use of combustion and fission for energy, and eliminating the need for money in a meritocracy where everyone has opportunity in the run-up to achieving warp drive as the long-term series McGuffin in the Star Trek universe, even without all the magical technology, would still be Star Trek.
The biggest problem is writing the story, because if we could make such a story believable, we would also have been able to really begin to solve those problems. That's why clichéd shows interrupt themselves - like Enterprise did - just when it's going to be revealed exactly how they were solved; they only vaguely claim there was a solution. We don't know how yet. But it would be a great story.
I'm waiting for a writer who is willing to make bold claims based upon real, predictive, and visionary science and sociology, breaking the rules of how things have "always been done," and showing us exactly how it could be done in an interesting way as something to which we can strive to achieve if we were willing to commit ourselves to the path - whatever it means.
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The new show would have much the same relationship to old Trek that NuBSG had to the original BSG.
Moore took everything he wanted to do with Trek, but couldn't, and did it with BSG. It ended poorly with some unenjoyable stuff along the way. I gave it a chance, bought the entire series on DVD, and watched it. There will be no rewatch. Dark and deconstructed is not the Trek I want.
I'm not suggesting grim/dark. I'm thinking that a new series should have a TOS like optimism.
But not a TNG style where the recurring characters have "evolved" sensibilities and are above conflict
But not a TNG style where the recurring characters have "evolved" sensibilities and are above conflict
The galaxy probably has some Lowest Common Denominator (LCD) races that do not respond nicely to evolved people. But then again, as newly space-faring, we could be that LCD being given an "education" (i.e., a whooping) by the Evolved in a way that demonstrates our own failings and a way to overcome them. There were some TOS episodes like that.
What's the alternative - universal peace and love? That seems unlikely, and boring.
I don't think there's no more good stories that could be told with holodecks. But I don't trust the writers to come up with any.
While connections to existing Star Trek is important, IMHO, certainly new stories with different character motivations and goals would be ok. Maybe more "Earth" stories, also...reveals about Earth in the Star Fleet/UFP era, government and societal structures, Earth "life" and pursuits...connected to the Exploration and Excitement we all (?) hope for...
