An Opportunity To Merge My Old Idea With NuTrek

[All Seeing Eye]

I once came up with an idea that the new Trek villain for a new series could be Humans. Not the Humans we know though, they would be offshoot Humans similar to the Romulans being offshoots of Vulcans.

These Humans would have been taken from Earth thousands of years before during the time of the ancient Egyptians or perhaps a little earlier and planted on a world far away.

These Humans developed themselves quite fast compared to on Earth, they for example never suffered the dark ages.

With a new Trek universe it's now possible in my eyes to introduce this new race. An offshoot Human deep space exploration vessel could be made contact with whereas in the original timeline it was missed and never seen.

These Humans however are not the benevolent kind we're used to in the Federation. They are much more like the Earth Humans of the Mirror Universe in the Terran Empire but far more ruthless.

These should be the next villains.

 

[O'Dib]

I like it, TOS did several similar episodes with planets inhabited by humans whose history took a turn slightly different than the Earth's. Or was it human-like aliens whose evolution mirrored ours in incredible detail? Either way, I wouldn't mind seeing Trek going back to stories like that. I think, however, that movies don't provide the time needed to develop a new villain race to a satisfying degree.

 

[caisson2delta]

In this universe, perhaps it could be the Iotians from the old series (I think that's who they were). The idea does sound promising. I would like the movie plots to get away from a solitary villain and it be more of a species/race thing. I think that holds more potential and has a very open ended feel to it. All the bad guy movies typically end the same way, just with different flash throughout the film.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

So, Star Trek's answer to the Jaffa?

Sure, why not. Stargate has had many interesting ideas that they've done nothing particularly inspiring with, and the Jaffa are certainly one of em.

 

[kes7]

I like this idea.

 

[hellsgate]

I could see this, but why depict them as "ruthless", "evil"? I could see this as a tie-in with ENT's discovery of Human slaves on a parallel Earth taken by the Skagarans.

They've survived, adapted (as did the Terra Nova expedition,) and recovered enough Skagaran technology to return to Earth using constellations and whatever flawed/conjectural information may have been recovered during the "revolution" or "underground railroad movement" that gradually developed. Skagarans that wanted Humans as partners/equals as a result of millenia/centuries of change and wanted to give them a chance to get home.

Some (alien) descendants of the original Slavers fought hard to prevent their public shaming (and possible Human retribution in case they made it home to Earth, regrouped & rearmed/resupplied,) but just like Barack Obama's election, 'hope' won the day.

The "off-shoot" Humans made their way out into the warp-capable community & encountered Starfleet.

Some Skagaran hardliners wanted the Humans to be tragically "lost" in the attempt, or, once outside their borders, considered "men/women/children without a country", stranded in space, diplomatically unwelcome to return or physically unable to.

Some Humans were worried that Earth may be over-run by aliens, much like the Slavers that took *them*, and that they may have-to re-take the planet with Skagaran weaponry for Human Freedom. Other Humans that have embraced Skagaran propaganda, may just want to take Earth for the Skagaran Government.