Would you go for this Trek idea?

[All Seeing Eye]

Ok, it's the 26th century and we're introduced to a genius Human scientist who has been (through Starfleet) constructing a state of the art vessel. The Ship is spherical in design and boasts state of the art technology such a Multi-density shielding, a temporal jump drive, transwarp engines, a primary weapon that works similar to what Moya uses on Farscape and what Anubis uses in Stargate to defeat all those Hataks.

Anyway, the bridge comprises of only a single chair that is consoled on each side of the seat, there is device that attaches to the side of the head which allows added mind control of the vessel, there is no viewscreen but when the ship is activated the spherical walls of the bridge become transparent and information appears around objects etc relaying information from the sensors.
An arm device similar to the pipboy3000 from the game Fallout3 is used when outside the vessel to control the ship. The only way in and out of the ship is via a space folding transporter beam activated by the arm device.

The ship also has a multiphasic cloaking device and an external holomimetic projector allowing the ship to disguise itself as another ship altogether.

The series takes of when the scientist is onboard the vessel testing it out. The Breen attack the base in an attempt to get a hold of the vessel and the scientist in an attempt to stop the Breen from aquiring the ship activates the temporal jump drive, the ship jumps through time and exits into the 24th century but the temporal jump drive fuses causing it to cease to function correctly, it works but there's no way to program it to a specific date and technology in the 24th century is not advanced or adequate enough to repair the temporal jump drive.

Basically the series focusus on this scientist with his ship jumping around through time trying to get back to his own time period but everytime he jumps he runs into trouble and when the timeline screws up he must put it right. More often than not he ends up going back through time and even ends up as far back as the 22nd century and even the time of the Iconians.

In order to make it more appealing the scientist ends up taking on a small crew.

Also at one point he accidentally jumps to the mirror universe where he meets his counterpart who is completely evil compared to him, his evil counterpart manages to get a hold of the ships design and builds his own version which he uses to travel to 'our' universe to wreak havoc.
So I guess he will be the 'main' antagoniser of the series.

Well whadya think?

 

[JNG]

I think I'd rather see people boldly going somewhere on purpose and wanting to make a difference rather than getting lost and trying not to.

Thank you for the interesting read.

 

[trekkerguy]

Definitely an interesting idea. I just don't see it being put on screen.

Though if you set it in a non-Trek Universe and wrote it out you could very well have an original scifi novel on your hands

 

[All Seeing Eye]

well the actual storyline can be changed. I mean I suppose he doesn't HAVE to be lost in time. Perhaps the pilots job is to travel to different Trek time periods hunting rogue time travellers and rectifying the mess they make.

I'm mostly more into the idea of the ship, it's design and it's time travelling and mimetic abilities.

My main hope for the series was so we could get glimpses of lots and lots of different time periods, we're not stuck with just one time period like the other series.

 

[Admiral2]

The series takes of when the scientist is onboard the vessel testing it out. The Breen attack the base in an attempt to get a hold of the vessel and the scientist in an attempt to stop the Breen from aquiring the ship activates the temporal jump drive, the ship jumps through time and exits into the 24th century but the temporal jump drive fuses causing it to cease to function correctly, it works but there's no way to program it to a specific date and technology in the 24th century is not advanced or adequate enough to repair the temporal jump drive.

Basically the series focusus on this scientist with his ship jumping around through time trying to get back to his own time period but everytime he jumps he runs into trouble and when the timeline screws up he must put it right. More often than not he ends up going back through time and even ends up as far back as the 22nd century and even the time of the Iconians.

In order to make it more appealing the scientist ends up taking on a small crew.

Also at one point he accidentally jumps to the mirror universe where he meets his counterpart who is completely evil compared to him, his evil counterpart manages to get a hold of the ships design and builds his own version which he uses to travel to 'our' universe to wreak havoc.
So I guess he will be the 'main' antagoniser of the series.

Well whadya think?

I thought it was great back in the eighties when it was called Quantum Leap.

 

[trekkerguy]

well the actual storyline can be changed. I mean I suppose he doesn't HAVE to be lost in time. Perhaps the pilots job is to travel to different Trek time periods hunting rogue time travellers and rectifying the mess they make.

I'm mostly more into the idea of the ship, it's design and it's time travelling and mimetic abilities.

My main hope for the series was so we could get glimpses of lots and lots of different time periods, we're not stuck with just one time period like the other series.

Sounds like a Starship Relativity type storyline. Have you thought of exploring that ship and it's crew?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Sounds like a Starship Relativity type storyline. Have you thought of exploring that ship and it's crew?

Not really no, as I said, i'm focused more on the ship I described and it's abilities.
I'm not really into Voyagers take on the future and the whole transporting through time thing.

Hmmmmmm, I just had an idea. Perhaps this ship is infact built and owned by section 31. They send agents through time to ensure the Federations survival.
We could have episodes where we see agents jumping back in time to the Dominion war or Romulan war etc hunting down Tal'shiar time agents etc and rectifying their alterations to the timeline.

The series could be based at section 31 temporal headquarters, there could be a huge NASA style control room, when a jump through time is detected from their time period there's a loud alarm and the ship is sent the information and ordered to sort it out.

I dunno, I just like my ship idea.

 

[trekkerguy]

I think you have a good fanfic brewing. You should write up an episode for us to read.
May give us a better idea how it all fits together and such.

 

[Kaziarl]

The series takes of when the scientist is onboard the vessel testing it out. The Breen attack the base in an attempt to get a hold of the vessel and the scientist in an attempt to stop the Breen from aquiring the ship activates the temporal jump drive, the ship jumps through time and exits into the 24th century but the temporal jump drive fuses causing it to cease to function correctly, it works but there's no way to program it to a specific date and technology in the 24th century is not advanced or adequate enough to repair the temporal jump drive.

Basically the series focusus on this scientist with his ship jumping around through time trying to get back to his own time period but everytime he jumps he runs into trouble and when the timeline screws up he must put it right. More often than not he ends up going back through time and even ends up as far back as the 22nd century and even the time of the Iconians.

In order to make it more appealing the scientist ends up taking on a small crew.

Also at one point he accidentally jumps to the mirror universe where he meets his counterpart who is completely evil compared to him, his evil counterpart manages to get a hold of the ships design and builds his own version which he uses to travel to 'our' universe to wreak havoc.
So I guess he will be the 'main' antagoniser of the series.

Well whadya think?

I thought it was great back in the eighties when it was called Quantum Leap.

I was actually going to ask if we should re-cast bakula since he's dealt with this kind of thing before.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Doctor Who meets Time Cop meets Quantum Leap.

All this chat about the plot, but none about the effects the plot has on the characters, or the characters for that matter, the series's tone, its dramatic focus. Trust me, there's a thousand fan proposals out there like this one (No offense intended).

 

[Dayton3]

This is one of the worst ideas I've heard in awhile.

Basically it continues the idea from Voyager (which was a bad idea anyway) of "adventure through misadventure". That is the show would be based on adventures caused by an accident or misfortune.

A show loses something to me when you have your characters doing what they do because they are being forced to by circumstances and not by choice.

 

[Kaziarl]

This is one of the worst ideas I've heard in awhile.

Basically it continues the idea from Voyager (which was a bad idea anyway) of "adventure through misadventure". That is the show would be based on adventures caused by an accident or misfortune.

A show loses something to me when you have your characters doing what they do because they are being forced to by circumstances and not by choice.

I don't get it... I don't understand why so many people bash on Voyager so much. Personally I think it was a great show, well written, and their misfortune is what made the show so good. Characters develop the most due to stress, or conflict, even from mistakes. What could be more stressful then finding yourself 70,000 light-years from home?

 

[DonIago]

It doesn't sound like Star Trek so much as a sci-fi show that's been wedged into the Star Trek universe. Perhaps you need more information regarding how elements familiar to fans of Star Trek will figure into your idea.

 

[Dayton3]

This is one of the worst ideas I've heard in awhile.

Basically it continues the idea from Voyager (which was a bad idea anyway) of "adventure through misadventure". That is the show would be based on adventures caused by an accident or misfortune.

A show loses something to me when you have your characters doing what they do because they are being forced to by circumstances and not by choice.

I don't get it... I don't understand why so many people bash on Voyager so much. Personally I think it was a great show, well written, and their misfortune is what made the show so good. Characters develop the most due to stress, or conflict, even from mistakes. What could be more stressful then finding yourself 70,000 light-years from home?

People bash Voyager because it was one of the worst shows ever produced. Trek or otherwise.

I like my heroes to be masters of their own destiny.

Not victims of circumstances.

The Voyager crew were all victims.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

This is one of the worst ideas I've heard in awhile.

Basically it continues the idea from Voyager (which was a bad idea anyway) of "adventure through misadventure". That is the show would be based on adventures caused by an accident or misfortune.

A show loses something to me when you have your characters doing what they do because they are being forced to by circumstances and not by choice.

I don't get it... I don't understand why so many people bash on Voyager so much. Personally I think it was a great show, well written, and their misfortune is what made the show so good. Characters develop the most due to stress, or conflict, even from mistakes. What could be more stressful then finding yourself 70,000 light-years from home?

People bash Voyager because it was one of the worst shows ever produced. Trek or otherwise.

I like my heroes to be masters of their own destiny.

Not victims of circumstances.

The Voyager crew were all victims.

And bland, boring victims at that.

 

[Kaziarl]

Bland and boring how?

As for being masters of their own destiny, they were exactly that. Spirderman was more of a victim then the voyager crew was, yet everyone thinks he's great.

As for Enterprise, perfectly fits your requirement of forging their own destiny, yet still is bashed as being the worst ever.

 

[BillJ]

Ok, it's the 26th century and we're introduced to a genius Human scientist who has been (through Starfleet) constructing a state of the art vessel. The Ship is spherical in design and boasts state of the art technology such a Multi-density shielding, a temporal jump drive, transwarp engines, a primary weapon that works similar to what Moya uses on Farscape and what Anubis uses in Stargate to defeat all those Hataks.

Anyway, the bridge comprises of only a single chair that is consoled on each side of the seat, there is device that attaches to the side of the head which allows added mind control of the vessel, there is no viewscreen but when the ship is activated the spherical walls of the bridge become transparent and information appears around objects etc relaying information from the sensors.
An arm device similar to the pipboy3000 from the game Fallout3 is used when outside the vessel to control the ship. The only way in and out of the ship is via a space folding transporter beam activated by the arm device.

The ship also has a multiphasic cloaking device and an external holomimetic projector allowing the ship to disguise itself as another ship altogether.

The series takes of when the scientist is onboard the vessel testing it out. The Breen attack the base in an attempt to get a hold of the vessel and the scientist in an attempt to stop the Breen from aquiring the ship activates the temporal jump drive, the ship jumps through time and exits into the 24th century but the temporal jump drive fuses causing it to cease to function correctly, it works but there's no way to program it to a specific date and technology in the 24th century is not advanced or adequate enough to repair the temporal jump drive.

Basically the series focusus on this scientist with his ship jumping around through time trying to get back to his own time period but everytime he jumps he runs into trouble and when the timeline screws up he must put it right. More often than not he ends up going back through time and even ends up as far back as the 22nd century and even the time of the Iconians.

In order to make it more appealing the scientist ends up taking on a small crew.

Also at one point he accidentally jumps to the mirror universe where he meets his counterpart who is completely evil compared to him, his evil counterpart manages to get a hold of the ships design and builds his own version which he uses to travel to 'our' universe to wreak havoc.
So I guess he will be the 'main' antagoniser of the series.

Well whadya think?

I'm leery of any show where the technology is the star.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Well I suppose it's not better than my other ideas.

 

[johnsonalmighty]

Eh, The BBS community are as tough as an army of Simon Cowells. Don't let them discorage ya. Seriously, in my opinion it's a pretty good idea. Would work best as a Fallout-esqe video game but that's just my 2 cents.

pce.

 

[trekkerguy]

This is one of the worst ideas I've heard in awhile.

Basically it continues the idea from Voyager (which was a bad idea anyway) of "adventure through misadventure". That is the show would be based on adventures caused by an accident or misfortune.

A show loses something to me when you have your characters doing what they do because they are being forced to by circumstances and not by choice.

I don't get it... I don't understand why so many people bash on Voyager so much. Personally I think it was a great show, well written, and their misfortune is what made the show so good. Characters develop the most due to stress, or conflict, even from mistakes. What could be more stressful then finding yourself 70,000 light-years from home?

People bash Voyager because it was one of the worst shows ever produced. Trek or otherwise.

All opinion, no facts.