CBS All Access is branching out. How about another show set aboard a space station?
Another space station show?
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There are a lot of folks who find the setting to be a great draw, spatial or temporal. I'm not one of them. Compelling characters and plots, whenever or wherever it's set, will nab my attention. Lack thereof will make me change the channel, and/or drop the subscription.
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How about the other way around?
Interesting idea. Seeing Starfleet through different eyes could be an intriguing take.
It would definitely be fun and a challenge to design a new federation outpost, stranded, and an alien ally which we are introduced for first time have to fix the station and then later operate. The whole idea could be about the mystery of what happened to the Starfleet crew and why they abandoned the spacecraft. What they discover could lead to some spacial anomaly which deals with a new alien life while we're introduce to our alien heroes adversaries.
What I would love to see is a Star Trek Medical show that takes place on a either a hospital ship (eg. The U.S.S. Pasteur) or station similar to James White's Sector General series of books or the short lived Mercy Point TV series that was shown on UPN. I think that such a show would have a lot of potential.
I think it would have to be a variant like the Hospital show, we already had a station set series, and need a new hook/trope if they want to do another one.
I'm basing this off nothing, but I think one day Alex Kurtzman will do some sort of follow-up to DS9. They've reached out to TOS, TNG, and VOY Fans. DS9 is all that's left. At least for '60s-'90s Trek.
Like one of the early concepts for DS9 (later used on Stargate Atlantis), I could get behind that, assuming the characters were interesting.
Meet the O'Briens
Miles O'Brien tries to hide his talking marmoset from his wife Keiko, his daughters Molly and Kirayoshi, and most importantly his nosey boss Gul Dukat. Hijinks ensue.
On tonight's episode, sexy 7 of 9 visits to "spice up" proceedings.
There is a place in the galaxy where a vast number of locations, universes and time periods all over lap in a single spot, existing simultaneously.
A space station was established eons ago to study the over lap, the original species is long gone, the station has changed hands countless times.
While Starfleet has a place on the station, they in no way control it, or the many species who come there to study the over lap.
After being attacked and occupied by a powerful interstellar alien species, Earth is once again free. There was a space station left in Earth orbit, place there by the occupying species. A different interstellar power has been asked by Earth's governments to administer and operate the station.
A Human was choosen to be second in command, the commander is a alien, as are the majority of the admintrative staff. The station's police force however are Humans.
I dunno...like 70% of medical issues in the 24th century are solved by shining a blue light on it.
Yoshi was a boy.
Yoshi could be non-binary or transgender, so the pitch could still work
Yoshi could be non-binary or transgender, so the pitch could still work
That's it! The son identifies as a daughter. Furthermore, Gul Dukat identifies as a marmoset, explaining his fascination with proving that the talking marmoset can, indeed, talk.
I liked the start but does it have to be Earth? Can it be an Earth Colony like Earth Colony 5, something which is part of Star Trek Universe but the reset button is not starting from Earth. I'm still hoping to see a Trek idea where Earth is so far away where it's a legend. That's how far I want the UFP to expand, an evolution from the journeys done by James Kirk, and Jean Luc Picard, I think it's time that it showed.
I like the idea of Starfleet exploring an alien megastructure - like a Dyson Sphere or a ringworld or something. Or maybe even exploring a virtual world like the Unimatrix. Basically something unimaginably big (allowing for wide open adventure) but which can also be mostly filmed on location, rather than having all of the action take place on a starship.
For a franchise about "new worlds and new civilisations" they do spend an inordinate amount of time going back to Earth. I'd love to have a show where they really are out on the frontier, where the human characters are all colonists and boomers, so Earth was just another place they had to go to in order to attend the Academy and begin their lives in the vast unknown expanse of the galaxy.
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