Hopefully, a "CW Star Trek" would be much better than Pandora.
A shitty Trek soap opera?
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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I wouldn't mind a Trek soap opera !
Standing sets, reusing sets and sfx from other shows (flip the image, no one notices !), not much in the way of costuming apart from uniforms... Decent writing could make an affordable and enjoyable 2nd string Trek show.
I'd certainly rather see this than the animated stuff that's coming.
Standing sets, reusing sets and sfx from other shows (flip the image, no one notices !), not much in the way of costuming apart from uniforms... Decent writing could make an affordable and enjoyable 2nd string Trek show.
I'd certainly rather see this than the animated stuff that's coming.
"But how is this possible? I watched you die!"
"The timeline's been altered, my dear."
"The timeline's been altered, my dear."
Isn't that exactly what "The Orville" is giving us?
That’s a funny way to spell Discovery.
(Seriously, love triangles, evil twins, moping and brooding, shock revelations about murders and dysfunctional families....DSC *is* a soap opera, it’s not even hiding it. Saru is basically the reborn as diva grandmother who came out of hospital at this point. I bet if I watched the Brazilian dub, it would seem like an odd looking telenovela.)
Come to think of it, Discovery was envisioned as an anthology series, with each season focused on some specific plot/ship/cast/whatever.
It was a Telenovela (which is basically a short soap opera), obviously some of that still remains. Why didn't I see it before
DS9 was way more of a soap opera than Disco ever could be. And you all know it.
But still, both are far higher budgeted and have a far more limited episode count for what I'm thinking.
But still, both are far higher budgeted and have a far more limited episode count for what I'm thinking.
Peter David's New Frontier series of novels, once one of my favorites of the Trek novelverse series, sadly devolved into a pretty shity Star Trek soap opera by the end.
Worf shows up singing Klingon opera... nope... wrong kind of opera...
How about something real-time a la "24." Still a low-budget soap, but set on a low warp ship traveling from one planet to another. "It'll take us 117 episodes to get there at our current speed." A few months later and BAM! A special week-long stop off at Risa.
How about something real-time a la "24." Still a low-budget soap, but set on a low warp ship traveling from one planet to another. "It'll take us 117 episodes to get there at our current speed." A few months later and BAM! A special week-long stop off at Risa.
Something like those "Boomer Freighters" on Enterprise that Mayweather grew up on would work perfectly for that concept. Hell, those ships are basically flying communities with over a dozen families living and working with each other. Plus everyone's human, so don't need to worry about alien prosthetics aside from the one alien who might show up every two months or so.
This idea has serious potential.
In this soap opera version of Star Trek, you could bring back Lorca no problem. Built-in excuse right from the start. "I'm Prime Lorca!" Then you can kill him off too and have Prime Lorca's previously unknown Twin Brother.
remember when syfy tried to make a sci-fi soap opera called caprica? the hope was it would be a tonal shift from battlestar galactica and cheaper than having a show set in space. and it ended up being enormously expensive anyway. and no one was happy with it being a soap opera so it devolved into sci-fi action by the end of its first season anyway. and then got cancelled. there's a model for this, it's a grim one.
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