What is your idea for a space station series?
Another space station show?
- Thread starter Admiral Jean-Luc Picard
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As I wrote earlier, maybe something that's in orbit of a new colony.
I'm just tired of mystery box story telling, where we spend a whole season discovering some very unsatisfying revelation about some mystery I already don't care about.
I didn't see anything in your post that amounted to an idea, it's easy to knit pick an actual idea when you haven't presented anything of the sort. Critiques are valued if you can put something on the table for the idea can be improved upon. Would you like to expand on your tidbits of this new colony besides criticizing what others in this thread who gave some thoughts and investment in their own plots?
I can recount our conversation for you:
Me: I'd be up for another space station show, as long as it isn't a mystery box series like Picard and Dsicovery, because I'm tired of them.
You (quoting me, so I assume you spoke to me directly): But what about this mystery box idea?
Me: I'm not interested in it because I'm tired of the mystery box
How did you expect me to respond when I had already stated that I'm not interested in *yet another* Star Trek series that spends all season on a mystery? Or did you think your idea alone was so brilliant that it would make me rethink my position?
As to ideas I stated two in my original post:
And
Of course those are under-baked ideas, I just wrote what came to my mind when respond to a thread about another space station show.
What you are carelessly referring to some members ideas, including mine, as "Mystery box" are LOGLINES, a short synopsis of the story's plot which concludes with a hook. This thread is not here to unspool every nuance of the story just a taste and you wouldn't or couldn't possibly know how the revelation would be, so what you don't care about does not constitute what I have written or any other who had. Blindly thinking it would conclude like established work is downright wrong, especially when you haven't given anything interesting to give you a taste of your own medicine.
Mystery and sf, especially hard sf, are closely related.
When I think of SF, Star Trek comes in somewhere just before Lost In Space on the Hardness Scale.
If you want to blow a casket over this yet again, then that's your deal (also OMG, a person on the internet doesn't find a one sentence idea I shat out in a couple minutes engaging. My life is over. You really showed me.). I only said I wouldn't like a show that's built on a (kinda cliche sounding) plot twist and a series/season-long exploration on:
If we immediately learn how the station ended up there and the rest of the show is about something else than "how did this space station show up here?" then alright. If the whole show is about "how did this space station end up here???" thenI probably wouldn't like the show. As I said I already don't care how it ended up there.
There's a difference between a show that has mysteries and a show/season that is all about a single mystery and pretends to give the audience clues towards a conclusion the show runners themselves aren't sure about yet. The latter one is called a mystery box, popularized by Lost. And I'm not a fan of it.
Occasionally. "Problem solving" is not equivalent to genre mystery.
What about
that space station mentioned on Discovery? You know, the one that was cut off since The Burn and has been running its own "mini-Federation" by its own rules in its corner of the galaxy? The re-integration of that station and area of space into the New Federation could be a compelling story. Starfleet folks who have been doing their own thing by their own rules for several generations and are now brought back into the fold. And, how their local trading partners are going to take that. Could be compelling.
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^^Sorry about that. Seems like an eternity since Discovery was on so I didn't even think about spoilers.
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