We need a series set at least a century after Voyager

Why the Frakk not?

They're still into Betty Boop.

Although...

Simple black an white cartoons are not mindfood for erodite citizen soldiers.

After you've surgically lobotomized political dissidents into loyal ape warriors who need cartoons to calm down between murders, its easier to crush your enemies without questions.

 

I've wanted to see a Dark Federation ever since reading the TOS novel Crossroad.

Spoiler: novel

A plague devastates the Federation, and in the wake of it a ruling party called The Consilium takes over. Among many other things, they end up breeding a mentally handicapped slave caste of humans by the 26th century.

There's also a creature not entirely unlike the Tardigrade, which allows instant travel anywhere in the galaxy.

 

In my 585 page "Star Trek: New TV Series Universe - Writers Guide / Technical Rules Manual" that I have wrote for myself over the years, it's storyline starting point is on:

2501/01-01 Sat 00:00;00.0 GMT = Start of the 26th century on Earth
which is equivalent to:
StarDate Version 5 = +345/826¦847

 

Frakes said Season 3 is more like earlier Treks, so I think it will be more optimistic than dark.

 

I doubt ST:P will adhere to the 1 season = 1 calendar year like TNG did (or technically, 1000 stardates).

 

It seems to me Season 3 is going to be more in the line of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda set in the proper framework of the Federation falling.

 

Michael isn’t a man’s name — at least not “just” a man’s name. It’s a unisex name, albeit it’s not as common for women, but it is also not unheard of. As others have mentioned, there’s actress Michael Learned from The Waltons TV show and Michael Steele from the band The Bangles.

Similarly, the are names like Kim and Stacy that aren’t women’s names, but unisex names as well (male writer Kim Stanley Robinson and actor Stacy Keach).

 

Eleventy Zillion years after VOY....or I riot

#MakeStarTrekFuturisticAgain

 

I wouldn't mind a dark or corrupted future at all, as long as it eventually ends with them traveling back to an earlier point to save the Federation or something. They can mess up all the stuff they want, as long as we see them roll it all back later. I know people don't like reset buttons, and I feel the same way on a weekly basis, but as the goal of the big arc, I'm okay with it.

 

Michael the Archangel was a hermaphrodite, so that tracks.

 

How about they clean up the dark corrupted future the hard way (and the way we desperately need to IRL), in their present? Time travel as an undo button is tiresome.

 

Because it wouldn't hamper the next 700 years of continuity and would leave things open ended when they are done playing in the future.

Really, ANY future time travel story could undo Discovery S03.

It just doesn't make any sense to me, to lock in the future that far ahead of time.

 

How about we don't have a dystopian Federation? Wouldn't that be novel? Then we don't need reset buttons.

 

I don't believe their intent is to be "done" playing in the future. I thought it was meant to be a new era opened up in Trek, along side the 23rd (Disco 1-2, S31 etc), 24/25th (LD, Picard) century eras. Remember they're gonna eventually have 5 shows running.

700 years is a VERY long time. It's far less of a constraint than TNG was on the TOS movies.

 

Thing is, Calypso has already established the Federation are evil in that time period, so they already seem to have started down this path.

 

Is that true? Or did they simply reveal that the Federation was at war with Craft's people?

That doesnt make them evil necessarily.

 

I really hope not.

I've liked DSC thus far primarily because it's dared to be different from "earlier Treks. "

I don't really want more of the same. We have all 750 hours of that...plus The Orville as well, which is an obviously highly nostalgia-driven contemporary product.

 

IIRC, the writer provided a Word of God stating the Federation are indeed villains in Calypso.