A KLINGON TV SERIES

[Shatnertage]

How about a mockumentary like The Office, following around the single human assigned to a Klingon merchant ship?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Okay well then the empire would invade the federation and Jedi and star fleet captains would go at it. wonderful show. i can see it already.

I've long wondered who's more completely full of it: Starfleet or the Jedi? Your proposed series would be a wonderful chance to find out which team can out holier-than-thou the other.

A one-off documentary about humans and Earth by a Klingon film crew and commentator would be great fun.

This sounds funny but I can't envision Klingons having the patience to make a documentary.

How about a "Future of Trek" sitcom?

It's about a few dozen casual fans with no experience in television production putting forth, completely unsolicited, their demands and expectations for a new show.

There were a couple TV shows in development for this season that were more or less just that. Perhaps luckily, neither of them saw the light of day.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I think a handful of miniseries about different races would be OK. Maybe each miniseries could be between 4-6 episodes.

You could have -

Star Trek: Klingon
Star Trek: Romulan
Star Trek: Borg

The Borg one could be about how the Borg started.

 

[zar]

As pointed out, it would only appeal to a small group of ST fans. Better to make it some kind of novel series, similar to John Ford's take on the Klingons, IMO.

http://www.sff.net/people/krad/gorkon.htm

And the thing is, the Gorkon book series wasn't even able to make it past four novels. And the last book was a reboot of sorts that tried to broaden the scope of daily Klingon life. Turned out to be a snoozer. I don't know how they thought that would actually bring in more readers with the stories they focused on in the last book.

So if it can't even survive as a book series, which already has far fewer readers than the last season of Enterprise had viewers, I don't see a Klingon television show remotely working.

Re: the underlined part, that's not really fair. All the books are coming from the same author and had 2 or 3 years between their releases. The latest one came in 2008, so it's a little early to declare the series dead.

Anyway I haven't even read this series yet, I was just pointing it out for Red Ranger who apparently has not heard of it.

 

[Sigh]

So in this thread it's been said that Klingons have been the most developed race as far as 'aliens' have been in this universe. We've all got our perceptions of what they are and how they behave and what their motivations are.

In order to peak the public's interest you have to do something different... Ok, a Klingon who doesn't act like a Klingon... well, that's Worf, done that. I can't see rebooting a whole series on that concept.

You could take them out of their environment and make them work together with people they wouldn't normally be forced to get along with... wait, that's DS9...

The only interesting thing I can think of is to give them some new motivation. Given I haven't read the Trek books, I can see writers trying something besides just the old history angle. At this point I just don't care enough about the Klingons to try and give them one. As far as new franchises go it seems they want Klingons to be the barbarians and keep it that way.

 

[Sxottlan]

that's not really fair. All the books are coming from the same author and had 2 or 3 years between their releases. The latest one came in 2008, so it's a little early to declare the series dead.

Well, I'm surmising that based on postings by the writer that implied that he had to take a different approach with A Burning House because the last three books did not do so well.

Now there was instability at the position of editor for awhile there, but there has been zero talk about Gorkon's return and just about all of 2011 has been mapped out with nothing more from them. Krad has already advanced some of the character's arcs in other books like A Singular Destiny, which established Kang was promoted to general and was no longer on the Gorkon. It's one of those things where if they're advancing the characters elsewhere, I don't think they'll come back in their own book.

 

[Saquist]

Does everything have to be federation ? Why not get a new perspective ? I for one would love to see a klingon tv series. It doesn't have to run a full seven years...but hell...it would be a new approach to one of trek's most recognized. What do you fans think ?

Well the klingons were the best thing that happened to DS9.

But there would need to be plenty of war and conquering
It could work if their was something more than just "WE ARE KLINGONS" It would probably need to be a quest oriented series...like Legend of the Seeker, Hercules and Xena, no crew of Klingons like a crew of Star Fleet officers.

I think there would need to be humanoid side kick we could relate to and explain the odd ways of klingon true. Then all you have to do is have the character be legendary...saving lives, great victories...etc etc...

yeah it's possible.

 

[Capt_Pickirk]

How about a scene where a Klingon ship blasts a hole into an enemy ship's hull and a group of warriors, with spacesuits and bat'leths, board through the breach, hacking and stuff, plundering the ship.

Similar to how they would take control of naval ships during Napoleonic times

 

[Saquist]

I don't think I'd watch a show like that.

 

[indolover]

Everything is Federation since humans are members of the Federation, and Trek is meant to highlight the human condition.

I think there needs to be less Klingons in future series, what else is there to know about them?

 

[BillJ]

You'd go broke on the makeup and hair spray bill.

 

[Saquist]

Yeah that's the first thing I thought of.
There would have to be a better way of putting on all that make up.

 

[AggieJohn]

I think a Klingon Series could work.

Yes there are concerns that it would be a shallow show, the Klingons have been disappointing at times, with regards to character development but it could still work well. Because it you really consider it, there have been a few Klingons that were very interesting Chancellor Gorkon, General Chang, Kang, Kor, and Koloth.

Thus my recommendation would be to set it during the late TOS/TMP period, when tensions with the Federation were at a all time high and loyalties were divided between peace and war. I see it set on Qo'nos maybe following some key figures in two key houses, maybe the House of Mogh and Duras. That way the TNG fans would be happy since I sure that Micheal Dorn might make a guest appearance as he did play Mogh in ST VI.

I see it as something akin to SciFi's Caprica. They could even do it as a mini series and see if it caught on.

 

[Saquist]

Caprica was canceled.

 

[AggieJohn]

Caprica was canceled.

Saw that coming, the story was moving slower than glaciers. It lacked the death struggle that made BSG so great. Now just because Caprica failed does not invalidate my point. It just means you need to have more of a fast paced drama. I am thinking tension with federation, fighting with Romulans and a Klingon Civil war. You need that conflict or it gets boring.

Then again, Caprica was always going to be compared to BSG, it was so different it was hard to hold the fans who came to love the combat drama of BSG. I think they realized that, and canceled Caprica and green lighted Blood and Chrome.