All Angels are sexless, at least that whet the nun's taught me in catechism many years ago.
We need a series set at least a century after Voyager
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A fan of Dogma.
Cool.
I prefer Angels in America
Cool.
I prefer Angels in America
I'm not familiar with Discovery, but this seems like an Ezri-Barclay hybrid I never knew I needed.
I'm the opposite. Give me a Trek that embraces everything. Beam across the galaxy, with a commbadge-sized device. Cure everything. De-age, duplicate. Resurrect the dead. Beam to other universes. Serums that give telekenetic superpowers. Show us how humanity adapts to becoming technologically-assisted proto-Q.
It may not be very Star Trekky, but it would be fascinating.
Yep, your response perfectly illustrates why the tech needs to be reined in to keep it recognisably Star Trek.
This would be the ultimate outcome of Trek tech. One of the larger themes within Star Trek from the beginning was the idea that technology would help humanity become better, rather than be a deficit. Too often technology is shown to be limited (transporter) or just forgotten (pretty much every death cure shown) to really illustrate how technology could impact humanity over the long term.
I mean, even science fiction struggles with keeping up with the pace of currently technological advancement. It would be nice to explore some of those implications.
But Stat Trek is how we use all of that technology to better our selves. What that technology is doesn’t matter.
If it was the only Trek going, I can understand the concern of it becoming unrecognisable. But we're entering the era of Trekspam, so one show can dive deep into the transhuman well while Section 31 or Discovery keep more of a traditional Trek approach.
This calls for a fictional documentary of a future time. Something that describes all of these fantastical future tech that hasn't been invented yet, without the traditional constraints of episodic/arc story-telling.
Is there such documentary(ies) already in existence?
I'd love a Prelude to Axanar-type documentary piece (no toxic Alex Peters, of course) about a human history from First Contact all the way to transwarp beaming in 2387 to temporal beaming in ENT's version of the 30th century. A Trek historical retrospective would be awesome!
Narrated by Morgan Freeman!
Oh for sure! Though imagine the riot that would happen if James Earl Jones did it.Narrated by Morgan Freeman!
It's pretty much standard fare with media nowadays. "We need..." It is a rather irritating turn of phrase.
It's likely an extremely unpopular opinion here due to how many people have simply gobbled up Discovery and now Picard because it has the name "Star Trek" on it, but they're no more Trek than "Man of Steel" was a Superman movie.
I'd love to see Redstone fire Kurtzman and his ilk, wait three years, and then launch a new show that airs on one of the CBSViacom networks. The new series ignores STD and Picard and is set 75 years after Nemesis. There hasn't been a new Enterprise in 33 years (the Enterprise-E doesn't count)
The Enterprise - (pick your letter; I'm fond of H) is equipped with a new form of propulsion (quantum slipstream, a new kind of warp, maybe "hyperwarp," whatever) that allows the ship to travel further than any other ship to bear the name. The Enterprise-H can reach nearby galaxies but is a long-range explorer on a ten year mission. In past iterations of Trek outside of TOS, we got wrapped up in politics and conflicts and war. This show is about true exploration and what it means to possibly never return home. We used to visit a strange new world at the beginning of an episode and then leave at the end. This series would perhaps spend three episodes or more on that new world, though this would be balanced with bottle-shows due to budget. This would lend itself to compelling stories that explore characters and relationships aboard the ship. If it takes three weeks to get somewhere, that could be three episodes.
The argument that "the tech would be too advanced" is creative bankruptcy. Consider how advanced our tech is today and the issues that arise from its overuse. How might 25th century beings (humans and aliens alike) deal with advanced technology? What about species that are cybernetic? There's a lot of potential to explore these issues we face today via Trek, among others.
Trek has only gone in reverse since 2001, and going by Sir Pat, Picard will be less about Trek and more about his political views on Brexit and Trump. Trek has always been bigger than partisan politics; it's been about the human adventure and experience seen through the lens of a positive future. We need that approach now more than ever.
I'd love to see Redstone fire Kurtzman and his ilk, wait three years, and then launch a new show that airs on one of the CBSViacom networks. The new series ignores STD and Picard and is set 75 years after Nemesis. There hasn't been a new Enterprise in 33 years (the Enterprise-E doesn't count)
The Enterprise - (pick your letter; I'm fond of H) is equipped with a new form of propulsion (quantum slipstream, a new kind of warp, maybe "hyperwarp," whatever) that allows the ship to travel further than any other ship to bear the name. The Enterprise-H can reach nearby galaxies but is a long-range explorer on a ten year mission. In past iterations of Trek outside of TOS, we got wrapped up in politics and conflicts and war. This show is about true exploration and what it means to possibly never return home. We used to visit a strange new world at the beginning of an episode and then leave at the end. This series would perhaps spend three episodes or more on that new world, though this would be balanced with bottle-shows due to budget. This would lend itself to compelling stories that explore characters and relationships aboard the ship. If it takes three weeks to get somewhere, that could be three episodes.
The argument that "the tech would be too advanced" is creative bankruptcy. Consider how advanced our tech is today and the issues that arise from its overuse. How might 25th century beings (humans and aliens alike) deal with advanced technology? What about species that are cybernetic? There's a lot of potential to explore these issues we face today via Trek, among others.
Trek has only gone in reverse since 2001, and going by Sir Pat, Picard will be less about Trek and more about his political views on Brexit and Trump. Trek has always been bigger than partisan politics; it's been about the human adventure and experience seen through the lens of a positive future. We need that approach now more than ever.
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