Wish List for Star Trek: 2017
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I suppose it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they could focus mainly on the HQ in San Francisco although it sure doesn't sound like any sort of program I'd like to watch.
Maybe it doesn't need to be a ship.
A series could focus on an elite first contact team (almost like an SG1 team) that are dispatched to various places and the series follows their adventures. That could open the possibility for all sorts of different ships or stations or other vessels.
A member here called Ptrope once had this idea of show about a team charged with enforcing the prime directive, or fixing the consequences of its violation, I like this idea and would make a good show.
A series could focus on an elite first contact team (almost like an SG1 team) that are dispatched to various places and the series follows their adventures. That could open the possibility for all sorts of different ships or stations or other vessels.
A member here called Ptrope once had this idea of show about a team charged with enforcing the prime directive, or fixing the consequences of its violation, I like this idea and would make a good show.
It's a scifi franchise built around spaceships. Kinda needs to be.
I'm not saying don't, I'm just saying that within the trek universe that there are many premises that could work and could bring some different types of stories to the mix.
An episodic series on the Enterprise would be unique in today's market.
Name another show like it?
One way TOS could keep costs down-compared to anthologies-was by reusing the same sets over and over.
The greater the diversity of sets, the higher the costs.
The greater the diversity of sets, the higher the costs.
Stand-alone episodes with a positive message - not exactly "unique" in 1966. Or 1986.
I do think that it's hard to look at an alien character without subconsciously thinking "latex" or "CGI". So the main character (not necessarily the captain) should be human.
Actually, if they do set it in the far future, I'd like to see the Ent-J.
I see the uniforms as relatively dark but with an iridescent (i.e. oil slick) quality. All controls except emergency functions to be holographic.
Future-y!
If they set in Abramsverse, the characters can just beam everywhere. No need for starships. It would be like Stargåte, basically.
Since all the transwarp technology is gone, I doubt it. And it can't transport any materials, or needs vastly greater energy, like Stargate!, to work like that.
Spock pointed out Scotty invented it sometime after the TNG episode, by 2379 Starfleet not only gives the Enterprise E a massive upgrade before the movie, they refit her after Picard wrecks her F&F style instead of scrapping her.
Star Trek Online, the Novelverse, etc all take place after Scotty invents it, and even with 2409 Primeverse technology to make it better, Starships are in high demand, as is dilithium.
So...really dumb argument dragged out agaisnt the films yet again by the same people.
Spock pointed out Scotty invented it sometime after the TNG episode, by 2379 Starfleet not only gives the Enterprise E a massive upgrade before the movie, they refit her after Picard wrecks her F&F style instead of scrapping her.
Star Trek Online, the Novelverse, etc all take place after Scotty invents it, and even with 2409 Primeverse technology to make it better, Starships are in high demand, as is dilithium.
So...really dumb argument dragged out agaisnt the films yet again by the same people.
Gone how?
Transporters cannot transport materials? Since when? And I'm sure there's plenty of energy on Earth.
Rest of your post makes little sense. Star Trek things that were made before the technology was introduced, naturally have not taken it into account.
They got it from Spock Prime, he entered it into the equipment Scott had to hand, and could easily have made sure it was erased or destroyed before or around the end of the film.
Scott's research into it was taken by Section 31, Khan nuked their headquarters taking out the organisation. The module he used burned out and was useless afterwards.
Scotty most likely got rid of, or more heavily restricted his research after that, and in Beyond we see the Enterprise go down.
A star ship named Enterprise that "feels like both a location and a character" as Gene put it. A diverse set of explorers under the banner of The United Federation of Planets. Most importantly, well crafted and engaging stories.
Everything else is pretty much negotiable.
Everything else is pretty much negotiable.
If we are going to get into religion, why not have things that many people have taken very seriously over the centuries, things that are now often dismissed as superstition?
Divination, for instance. Ancient Rome had officials called augurs who would try to find the will of their gods by observing bird behavior. What kinds of birds were they? What sounds were they making? Which way were they flying? Were they flying alone or in groups? They observed not just flying birds but also sacred chickens. When they were given some grain, their pecking the ground was considered a good omen, and their not doing so a bad one.
Another form of divination was the inspection of the livers and other internal organs of sacrificed animals. There's even a surviving diagram of a liver with the significance of each part noted in it, the Liver of Piacenza.
People have done numerous other kinds of divination over the centuries.
We can also have oracles, people who channel various deities and who give out advice from that source. Classical-era Greeks often consulted them and they sometimes gave murky and ambiguous answers. When King Croesus asked for advice on fighting some opponents, the Oracle of Delphi told him that if he did so, a great empire would fall. He went into battle, but the great empire was his. Some centuries later, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius asked a certain Alexander of Abonutichus what to do about some Marcomanni who were on the other side of the Danube River. AoA responded that if MA throws two lions into the Danube, a great victory would result. But it was the Marcomanni who had the great victory. When someone asked AoA about it, he responded that he had not predicted who would have the great victory.
As to belief systems, a common kind of premodern one was correlation-based systems like the Chinese Wu Xing, the doctrine of signatures (medicinal plants or plant parts resemble what they are useful for), and astrology (some premodern Western astrological writings are collected at Renaissance Astrology ).
Divination, for instance. Ancient Rome had officials called augurs who would try to find the will of their gods by observing bird behavior. What kinds of birds were they? What sounds were they making? Which way were they flying? Were they flying alone or in groups? They observed not just flying birds but also sacred chickens. When they were given some grain, their pecking the ground was considered a good omen, and their not doing so a bad one.
Another form of divination was the inspection of the livers and other internal organs of sacrificed animals. There's even a surviving diagram of a liver with the significance of each part noted in it, the Liver of Piacenza.
People have done numerous other kinds of divination over the centuries.
We can also have oracles, people who channel various deities and who give out advice from that source. Classical-era Greeks often consulted them and they sometimes gave murky and ambiguous answers. When King Croesus asked for advice on fighting some opponents, the Oracle of Delphi told him that if he did so, a great empire would fall. He went into battle, but the great empire was his. Some centuries later, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius asked a certain Alexander of Abonutichus what to do about some Marcomanni who were on the other side of the Danube River. AoA responded that if MA throws two lions into the Danube, a great victory would result. But it was the Marcomanni who had the great victory. When someone asked AoA about it, he responded that he had not predicted who would have the great victory.
As to belief systems, a common kind of premodern one was correlation-based systems like the Chinese Wu Xing, the doctrine of signatures (medicinal plants or plant parts resemble what they are useful for), and astrology (some premodern Western astrological writings are collected at Renaissance Astrology ).
I want another gee-whiz technology to explore. TOS gave us communicators, transporters. TNG gave us an intelligent android and holodecks. VOY gave us an intelligent hologram. What could be next? An intelligent starship that is a character in it's own right?
Would like to understand why so many people leave Earth to found colonies. What kinds of diverse societies on colony planets would arise founded by bored and ambitious humans that leave the Federation?
Bring back the exploration aspect. By the end of TNG, space travel no longer seemed dangerous or all that exciting.
Would like to see real scientists brought in as consultants on the stories again. Would love to see scripts from some of the current crop of great sic-fi writers also.
Would like to understand why so many people leave Earth to found colonies. What kinds of diverse societies on colony planets would arise founded by bored and ambitious humans that leave the Federation?
Bring back the exploration aspect. By the end of TNG, space travel no longer seemed dangerous or all that exciting.
Would like to see real scientists brought in as consultants on the stories again. Would love to see scripts from some of the current crop of great sic-fi writers also.
Or alternatively, scripts based on stories written by science fiction authors.
Assuming arc plots are inevitable, I hope they will be careful to also make the individual episodes satisfying. Not just getting from B to C in the season plot.
^ This thought prompted by currently rewatching ENT season 3, though it's pertinent to pretty much all dramatic TV these days.
^ This thought prompted by currently rewatching ENT season 3, though it's pertinent to pretty much all dramatic TV these days.
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