An alt-Trek/reboot I'd like to see

[Gaith]

(I put this in "General" because I'd love to see it on the big or small screen; however, the latter would probably always be fiscally prohibitive.)

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Obviously, with the success of Alternate Reality Trek, the franchise's future direction will be secure for some time. Still, at some point, I'd love to see a version of Star Trek...

... on water.

The movie or show would take place on an M-Class planet about Earth's size, and various continents would represent the major races: humans, Klingons, Romulans and Vulcans. (Or maybe Vulcans would be a remote part of the human continent.) There'd also be small tribes of the other races.

Anyhow, I see the tech level as being in a permanent late-18th century state. There'd be naval battles, strange new islands with weird natural phenomena (okay, magic) to explore, etc. The humanist ethos of Trek would be reflected to some degree in the "Federation" fleet, but that empire could also be partly corrupt, and the protagonists of the main ship could then fight for justice inside and outside the Fleet's domains.

Realistically, the only way I see this working financially would be if, after the new moveis run their course, Paramount did a one-off in this style, and sequels if it were popular, much like POTC.

Thoughts?

 

[barnaclelapse]

I guess?

I don't know. That seems like an idea I'd rather see applied to a wholly original universe and not based off something pre-existing in any way.

 

[captcalhoun]

that's not Star Trek

 

[Toruika]

that's not Star Trek

Yep. It's Sea Trek, at best.

Might make for a kind of "What If" Star Trek comic issue. Just write it as fanfiction...

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I'll move to Future of Trek.

 

[Logical Leopard]

that's not Star Trek

You know, in a weird way, I think it is. The races of Trek have always seemed to represent real world nations(Klingons-Russians), or abstract mindsets (Greed-Ferengi, Logic -Vulcans). So it seems like the point of this idea is to "shrink" those ideas down to a planetary level that were originally "expanded" to a galactic level by Gene Roddenberry.

Not that I think it's necessary. It's a bit like planting a wooden chair that used to be a tree.

However, I'd watch it if it were a two part television episode of an ongoing series. That's where it'd work best. If it were some sort of dream sequence like Sisko had in DS9 where he thought he was a science fiction writer, or maybe if Q orchestrated all of it. I wouldn't go see it at a theater unless Kevin Costner was playing Kirk. And he had gills.

 

[Maestro]

I think the idea is completely bizarre. And I happen to really like it.

 

[Broccoli]

So, they'd be sailors on some sort of sea quest...

 

[Gaith]

I think the idea is completely bizarre. And I happen to really like it.

Thanks! Obviously, it wouldn't be Star Trek proper, in the same way that Voyager isn't The Odyssey (which is probably where this idea came from, anyhow). But I still think it could be cool. And there'd be damned little (if any) treknobabble!

 

[Sabataage]

I like this idea. I'd go so far as make this planet and its "natural phenomena" be like the galactic equivelent of the Bermuda Triangle. The reason the Klingons , Humans, Vulcans, etc. are stuck there is because their ships got drawn in too close and crash landed. The same field that sucked them in (like a tractor beam) prevents them from using their adavnced technology on the surface-- either to call for help or build a means of escape. All resaerch and recuse vessels looking for them suffer th same fate making the entire system a forbidden zone.

 

[Gaith]

Nah - it'd have to be a clean break/reinterpretation, IMO from/of the Trek 'verse.