What about a new series set in the AU set on a Kelvin class ship with a crew that aren't Starfleets finest.
New series set in the alternate universe?
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I think the chemistry of actors and types of stories you're telling matter more than what class of ship it is set on.
You mean the Trek XI universe? Yeah if (BIG if) there's another TV show, I'm sure the basic assumption behind it will be that it's in the Trek XI universe, if only for the hope that they could lure some of the movie actors onto the show for very special ratings-boosting cameos. It would be the height of foolishness to preclude such a possibility and the bean-counters would never permit it. There's no point to doing a TV show if you don't plan to ride the coattails of the movie success.
But we probably won't get any definitive statement of what universe it's in, because 90% of the movie audience - and therefore the potential TV audience - don't realize there are two different realities and if they do realize it, they don't care.
The best hope for such a show to survive on TV would be for it to go back to the basics - starship (doesn't matter what kind as long as it looks good and bad-ass) with a Starfleet crew going boldly. They need to be competent and brave - a "rejects of Starfleet" approach would be too off-putting to the general audience. (Why are we watching a show about losers? Change the channel.) Lots of colorful adventure and explosions. The actors should be decent, with decent chemistry between them, and the writing should be good, but those things are true of any show.
But we probably won't get any definitive statement of what universe it's in, because 90% of the movie audience - and therefore the potential TV audience - don't realize there are two different realities and if they do realize it, they don't care.
The best hope for such a show to survive on TV would be for it to go back to the basics - starship (doesn't matter what kind as long as it looks good and bad-ass) with a Starfleet crew going boldly. They need to be competent and brave - a "rejects of Starfleet" approach would be too off-putting to the general audience. (Why are we watching a show about losers? Change the channel.) Lots of colorful adventure and explosions. The actors should be decent, with decent chemistry between them, and the writing should be good, but those things are true of any show.
I don't mean total losers just not the best Starfleet has to offer, I liked the way Firefly had off the wall charecters. I think it could work in a Trek setting.
The best and brightest of Starfleet could also be fun, engaging characters. I don't see why Starfleet has to be stiff and dull a la TNG.
I liked Firefly. But like Firely, this should be set on a private vessel. Then you can swing for the fences with the crew.
A private, for profit vessel maybe. And they have to operate in an area with uncertain or under- enforced jurisidctions etc. Not a bad idea. I personally would like to see a privateer captain who is like nuKirk, but took a differnt path in life. Not just a cheap space "pirate", and not a silly, sleazy grifter or con artist. As good as he is, but maybe he never got that speech from Capt Pike. Or he did, and blew it off.
For a TV show? I dont know. I think they will probably have a regular Starfleet vessel, and pretty standard approach. But its an idea worth fleshing out nevertheless. Probably better to just move this ship and crew into its own universe.
A private, for profit vessel maybe. And they have to operate in an area with uncertain or under- enforced jurisidctions etc. Not a bad idea. I personally would like to see a privateer captain who is like nuKirk, but took a differnt path in life. Not just a cheap space "pirate", and not a silly, sleazy grifter or con artist. As good as he is, but maybe he never got that speech from Capt Pike. Or he did, and blew it off.
For a TV show? I dont know. I think they will probably have a regular Starfleet vessel, and pretty standard approach. But its an idea worth fleshing out nevertheless. Probably better to just move this ship and crew into its own universe.
