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Opinions Wanted On My Next Project

So everyone I'm planning on writing another story starting in a few days but, I'll admit, I'm at a loss of which story I want to do. I've had a couple of ideas playing around in my head for the last few days and I thought it'd be best to stop by here to see what people would be interested in seeing. These are just the rough descriptions of what I'm considering. Opinions are welcome:


Star Trek: Legends

“To seek out new worlds and new civilizations…”

Like a thief in the night they came from the darkness of space and struck against our homeworld. Hundreds of ships opened up their brutal onslaught ripping into out planet's surface without regard for their targets. Civilian, military, all of them were treated the same by the mysterious Vaudwaar Coalition. In the span of one evening they had viciously damaged the homeworlds of the Federation, the Klingons, and the splintered Romulans. Billions were murdered before the enemy could be forced back into their underspace and left for parts unknown.


What was intended to kill, however, was the birth of a brave new galaxy. When the enemy attacked they wanted to drive wedges between the men and women of the galaxy, instead they united them. Old infighting between the Milky Way's greatest powers came to an abrupt close and brought them together into a new unity built on mutual cooperation and trust. This was the birth of a new Federation made up of one time enemies that were now friends. Leading the continued exploration of the galaxy was the new combined Starfleet made up of ships from all three empires making up the Galactic Federation of Planets.

Leading the charge is the Starship Unity. The first Federation vessel to be crewed by members of each of the races making up the new Federation, the Unity is ready to begin its first adventure deep in the Alpha Quadrant. Her official mission: to seek out new worlds and explore space. Her unofficial mission: to find the Vaadwaur threat and help bring peace.


Star Wars: Renegades

“Execute Order 66.”

Designed as a contingency plan, Order 66 brought about the greatest catastrophe in the galaxy. Throughout the worlds of the Republic Clonetroopers turned on their Jedi Commanders and murdered them in cold blood to appease the needs of their Chancellor.
Meticulous, the clones found each of their leaders and brought them to their knees in swift strikes. A new galactic order was born in the claimed search for peace and justice, but it was really an exercise in tyranny.

In one place though the Republic still exists: on the decks of the Acclamator Class cruiser Redemption. The troopers of the Redemption never turned against the Jedi Generals and instead have isolated themselves from the rest of the galaxy. They are fugitives from justice, they harbor innocent men and women deemed enemies of the state, and they’re constantly hunted by an enemy intent upon their destruction. They have no safe harbor, no haven to call their own, and their own brothers have turned their backs on them with orders to kill on sight.

They have resolved themselves though with one mission and one mission alone. They will continue to serve the will of the Galactic Republic. They will strive to promote the ideals upon which their government was founded. They will fight to bring peace back to the worlds of the Republic or die trying.


Star Wars: Myths

“May the force be with you…”

For all of recorded history talk had echoed through the galaxy of the unifying force. It surrounded all the beings of the galaxy. It penetrated each and every one without prejudice or disregard. In the eyes of the force all were equal and none were better than any other. It united galaxies, it united worlds, and it united the citizens. It sparked academic and theological debates. More than once it even sparked devastating war. Then one day the galaxy forgot about the Force.

Five millennia later no one remembers what the Force is nor do they truly believe that it ever existed in the first place. What once had been fiercely debated has become nothing more than a faint and distant memory told to children as a bedtime story. Many believe it to be a myth passed down to give hope and belief in something greater than the galaxy itself.

Things are about to change. An archeological team on the planet Ruusan has found evidence of a massive historical site buried beneath the sands of time. Now a operation is underway to be the first to find the legendary Valley of the Jedi, but what mysteries await the man to first step foot in the historical site?


The Terminator Chronicles

“Anybody here ever heard of a John Connor?”

With those simple words the life of John Connor changed in an instant. He had been born with his life predestined: he would be the man to lead humanity in the war against intelligent machines. It was John Connor who fought the human refugees how to fight back against the machines. It was John Connor who was so important that his greatest rival, Skynet, would build a machine to try to kill him before he was ever born. It was John Connor who would lead humanity to salvation. It was John Connor who became a legend.

Now everything has changed and his destiny is no longer his. One decision in the past to save the life of a friend has cost John Connor his future. There never was a John Connor that formed the Resistance. There never was a John Connor who taught humanity to fight. Now the world is paying the price. In this future humanity is on the brink of defeat with only a handful of humans still alive and the machines lessening that number with each passing day. The world is about to change forever and its not for the better.

It’s now up to John Connor to decide the final fate for humanity. Will he sacrifice his happiness to save all mankind by becoming the man he’s supposed to be, or will he remain in the future to save the life of a friend who is a machine?


Terminator: Face of the Enemy

“It absolutely will not stop! Ever! Until you are dead.”

The story of Earl Wise, Captain in TechCOM and Commanding Officer of the Four Horsemen, continues. After barely escaping with his life from the Skynet Research Center in Los Angeles, Captain Wise has been sent on a mission he was never prepared for. He’s gone back in time to the year 2009 to locate a Skynet Researcher named Serena Kogen. His mission is a simple one: he’s to kill her to prevent a lifetime of pain at the hands of machines that are growing more and more human with each passing day.

Nevertheless, nothing is as it seems. The world he left behind is a lot different than the one he remembered it being. The Earth of 2009 is peaceful when compared to the world of the future. Before he had to deal with intelligent machines, now he has to deal with police officers who want him for questioning and the leader of a gang who wants his head on a platter for a crime he didn’t commit.

Or did he? He can’t remember and his dreams are plagued by images that he can’t quite place. Brief flashes of him murdering and pillaging in order to acquire more and more resources for some project he can’t quite understand or place. Are these dreams real or simple nightmares he doesn’t quite know, but he has to find out soon otherwise reality could become something far different from what he remembers.
 
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Legends sounds like it could be very effective if you can pitch the post-apocalyptic feel required to carry it off. Oh wait - with your Terminator stories you might have some experience with that. ;)
The Terminator Chronicles might be the only way we get any closure on the series, so there's a good reason to do that too! HA!
Renegades is Star Wars and I've never actually read any fanfic on that. How and ever, it is an interesting premise and could work well, with the Jedi working to stay hidden and continue the fight. No doubt room to be betrayed and double crossed, as well as facing big odds and a dark enemy hunting them relentlessly.
 
Well, I've never read any SW or Terminator fanfic, but your Trek idea doesn't sound very "Trekkish" to me so I'd vote for any one of the other ones.
 
Well, I've never read any SW or Terminator fanfic, but your Trek idea doesn't sound very "Trekkish" to me so I'd vote for any one of the other ones.
Oh, I dunno. I think it has a bit of a trek feel. Just like the alliance powers coming together to push back the dominion, only this time it's the vuadwaar and its a much closer alliance then it was before. I think its got a lot of potential.
 
Legends sounds like it could be very effective if you can pitch the post-apocalyptic feel required to carry it off. Oh wait - with your Terminator stories you might have some experience with that. ;)

Well, I've never read any SW or Terminator fanfic, but your Trek idea doesn't sound very "Trekkish" to me so I'd vote for any one of the other ones.

I just wanted to say that I don't really see Legends as being a dark series or not very Trekkish. In many ways I plan this series to be more about how these diverse races grow to work together than the environment that they're living in. Even though I'm still debating which series to do, I've been toying around a bit with designing characters and I've completed the Senior Staff of the USS Unity (I may change the name) and they're pretty split down the center. What I see this more as is trying to find a way for a diverse group of people to work together as they explore this 'essentially' new galaxy.
 
I like most of your ideas-don't really care about SW in general. The Chronicles sounds very intriguing.
 
I like "S.T.: Legends" though I'd write it under a slightly different name.

Such as,

"Star Trek: Voyager (Relaunch)"
"Best Laid Plans"

Captain Chakotay is forced to face-off against an old adversary as The Federation recovers from The Dominion War.


  • I don't like the fact you chose The Vaadwaar & mentioned the underspace so quickly. Voyager had already returned, & by this time months or even a year or two had passed. Thus, Starfleet Intelligence / The A.Q. Alliance would be (somewhat) prepared for them.
  • The Klingons would be more than prepared for the Vaadwaar, seeing that the Vaadwaar been in hybernation for so long & approached "A.Q. Alliance" territory uncloaked once they'd left Underspace.
  • That's like sending a Korean War jeep against today's unmanned drones, orbital surveillance technology and improved projectile weapons such as rail guns & other slight improvements to contemporary nuclear armaments.
  • I'm not sure if Voyager shared information about how to detect ships coming/going from underspace, but The Romulan Senate, Cardassian Detapa Council and Klingon High Council would have scores of Negh'var & Birds of Prey out looking for Hur'q and/or Jem Hadar escorts that had been left behind, in addition to regular smugglers / pirates / anarchists / local rivals, et al. Hideki-Class escorts, Norexan-Class warbirds, Keldon-Class hunter killers. In addition to the contemporary Starfleet telescopes, explorers & border cutters. That's ALOT of eyes n' ears watching & listening for sneak attacks & criteria by which to identify a potential underspace corridor.
 
I like "S.T.: Legends" though I'd write it under a slightly different name.

Such as,

"Star Trek: Voyager (Relaunch)"
"Best Laid Plans"

Captain Chakotay is forced to face-off against an old adversary as The Federation recovers from The Dominion War.


  • I don't like the fact you chose The Vaadwaar & mentioned the underspace so quickly. Voyager had already returned, & by this time months or even a year or two had passed. Thus, Starfleet Intelligence / The A.Q. Alliance would be (somewhat) prepared for them.
  • The Klingons would be more than prepared for the Vaadwaar, seeing that the Vaadwaar been in hybernation for so long & approached "A.Q. Alliance" territory uncloaked once they'd left Underspace.
  • That's like sending a Korean War jeep against today's unmanned drones, orbital surveillance technology and improved projectile weapons such as rail guns & other slight improvements to contemporary nuclear armaments.
  • I'm not sure if Voyager shared information about how to detect ships coming/going from underspace, but The Romulan Senate, Cardassian Detapa Council and Klingon High Council would have scores of Negh'var & Birds of Prey out looking for Hur'q and/or Jem Hadar escorts that had been left behind, in addition to regular smugglers / pirates / anarchists / local rivals, et al. Hideki-Class escorts, Norexan-Class warbirds, Keldon-Class hunter killers. In addition to the contemporary Starfleet telescopes, explorers & border cutters. That's ALOT of eyes n' ears watching & listening for sneak attacks & criteria by which to identify a potential underspace corridor.
It's been a while since I've seen that episode of voyager, but I didn't get the impression that underspace made it to the AQ. I wouldn't be surprised if the AQ races wasn't concerned with them, so the attack would be unexpected.
 
I like "S.T.: Legends" though I'd write it under a slightly different name.

Such as,

"Star Trek: Voyager (Relaunch)"
"Best Laid Plans"

Captain Chakotay is forced to face-off against an old adversary as The Federation recovers from The Dominion War.


  • I don't like the fact you chose The Vaadwaar & mentioned the underspace so quickly. Voyager had already returned, & by this time months or even a year or two had passed. Thus, Starfleet Intelligence / The A.Q. Alliance would be (somewhat) prepared for them.
  • The Klingons would be more than prepared for the Vaadwaar, seeing that the Vaadwaar been in hybernation for so long & approached "A.Q. Alliance" territory uncloaked once they'd left Underspace.
  • That's like sending a Korean War jeep against today's unmanned drones, orbital surveillance technology and improved projectile weapons such as rail guns & other slight improvements to contemporary nuclear armaments.
  • I'm not sure if Voyager shared information about how to detect ships coming/going from underspace, but The Romulan Senate, Cardassian Detapa Council and Klingon High Council would have scores of Negh'var & Birds of Prey out looking for Hur'q and/or Jem Hadar escorts that had been left behind, in addition to regular smugglers / pirates / anarchists / local rivals, et al. Hideki-Class escorts, Norexan-Class warbirds, Keldon-Class hunter killers. In addition to the contemporary Starfleet telescopes, explorers & border cutters. That's ALOT of eyes n' ears watching & listening for sneak attacks & criteria by which to identify a potential underspace corridor.
It's been a while since I've seen that episode of voyager, but I didn't get the impression that underspace made it to the AQ. I wouldn't be surprised if the AQ races wasn't concerned with them, so the attack would be unexpected.
The storyline doesn't take place immediately following Voyager's return from the Delta Quadrant. The story would take place in the early 25th Century and would, to an extent, follow what is proposed by Star Trek: Online in their backstory.

The Federation didn't believe that the Vaadwaur were a threat to the Federation and that they would attempt to reestablish their powerbase in the Delta Quadrant rather than in the Alpha Quadrant. A lot of this would be revealed in the early episodes.
 
Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone know I've got a pretty good idea of what I'm going to be doing. More opinions are very welcome though before I get started - an announcement will be made probably Saturday.
 
The Terminator Chronicles sounds really awesome. All of them are actually quite good but I love TTC the most. Great stuff!
 
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