A Sequel Series to Deep Space Nine

[Temis the Vorta]

As much as I love DS9, I wouldn't want Series 6 to be a sequel to that fine series. I feel as though the finale put a pretty neat lil' bow on that saga, and I'm content with that. I have had very mixed feelings about the novels, in fact....Captain Ezri? Nope!

If there is a Series 6, I want a new century (25th or 26th), a new ship (for chrissakes, does it have to be called "Enterprise"?), a new crew (no legacy characters, please---I'm not interested in seeing the adventures of Mayweather's great-great-great-great granddaughter), and a new status quo (maybe the Klingons are UFP members, but the Andorians are not---something like that), as long as they're "exploring strange, new worlds", it's all good. Get a veteran actor or actress to play the c.o. and some hot young up-and-comers to round out the crew, get some good writers, and you're off and running............................

You're not thinking like a producer. Any producer worth his salt who is given the reins to the Trek "franchise" is going to capitalize on the success of the new Trek films. They are not going to go backward and restart something from the prime universe that, in their minds, nobody really cares about, has run it's course and is now effectively over. Now, with this new universe, they don't have to worry about being consistent with 40+ years of what came before it. They have a fresh start, and can tell fresh stories that are more than just the "aliens/planets-of-the-week-that-we-visit-once-and-never-see-again-or-care-about-again" stories that was what killed Trek to begin with.

WRONG!!!

Any producer worth his salt is only going to take a Trek tv series to implement his vision. He will have no more loyalty to the Abramsverse than the Bermanverse.

He'll have loyalty to whatever looks like a winner rather than a loser. Fair or not, Abramsverse = winner and Bermanverse = loser. A producer in theory could just forge a new reality and gamble that it will succeed on its own. But look at TV now, in general, and CBS in particular: the fall season is awash in safe stuff like cop shows and family-oriented vanilla sitcoms with very very little whiff of anything risky.

Even what passes for sci fi shows are vanilla and safe: a show about a family of superheroes. A show about a superhero who just wants to be with his family (boo hoo). A show about an FBI agent investigating paranormal phenomena. Real bold there.

If Trek gets back on TV, it will be in the least risky form imaginable, and that's riding the coattails of the movie success. But sadly I think even that is too risky for the current cowardly state of TV, and CBS is the least risk-taken entity in the TV biz right now.

 

[indolover]

post-DS9 Trek should be a Dominion strikes back series. For one, who seriously thinks that Dominion would honour the piece of paper signed at the end of the war?

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

It's a shame Trek isn't affiliated with Fox instead. At least then we'd get a single season to complain for the coming decade should have been more like seven seasons, eh?

 

[SISKOONE]

The best of the star trek series was by far DS9. I know we won't get a DS9.2 but i would love to see a movie of the week or a direct to video movie. "what you leave behind" left a great cliffhanger....although it wasn't really a cliffhanger...just wanted you wishing more. And how about that pull back shot of the station as it becomes just another star in the galaxy. It would be great for second DS9 series, but I agree...the sixth star trek series better be moving forward beyond the 24th century...and no...it doesn't nessarily have to chronicle the u.s.s. enterprise

 

[Temis the Vorta]

post-DS9 Trek should be a Dominion strikes back series. For one, who seriously thinks that Dominion would honour the piece of paper signed at the end of the war?

Bing and go. The Feddies sure were gullible there.

Of course in their defense, the writers veered all over the place in their depiction of the Dominion. Is it an empire relentlessly bent on conquest or a bunch of paranoid but essentially isolationist loonies who could make decent neighbors if you avoid pushing their buttons?

 

[milatchi]

A Sequel Series to Deep Space Nine

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[Kelso]

If Trek gets back on TV, it will be in the least risky form imaginable, and that's riding the coattails of the movie success.

By remaking TNG.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

If Trek gets back on TV, it will be in the least risky form imaginable, and that's riding the coattails of the movie success.

By remaking TNG.

Uh...by movie "success," I meant the successful movie, not the TNG stinkers.

 

[Kelso]

If Trek gets back on TV, it will be in the least risky form imaginable, and that's riding the coattails of the movie success.

By remaking TNG.

Uh...by movie "success," I meant the successful movie, not the TNG stinkers.

No disagreement there. But I think that there is enough nostalgia behind TNG the tv series that giving it the Abrams treatment seems inevitable.

Or seemingly inevitable enough to be funny to joke about anyway... they can't mine the TOS crew forever, can they?