Best time period for a new Star Trek series

[M-Red]

25th century of the original timeline. Long enough after everything else so that there would essentially be a blank slate, but still connected to the Trekverse in a significant way.

this. A story set in the mid-25th C. (~2440-2460) would be the best option...it gives you all the benefits of the rich history while allowing you to largely avoid the canonical quagmire of all the earlier eras (TNG-era and 'prequel' eras) in the Prime Timeline.


With the JJverse, they'd never get all the cast to do a small screen series, which is probably a good thing. And it would be self-defeating to try and swing a TV series in the JJverse if it wasn't about Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise -- that's the whole point.


When Trek goes back to TV, hopefully the powers-that-be will decide that its time for the franchise to boldly go forward again....and that means to the 25th century in the original timeline.


<crosses fingers>

 

[M-Red]

here's an article that's a few years old now discussing the idea of a 26th Century animated series -- while this idea obviously must have stalled and they're not doing it, the concept shows people are thinking in the right direction.





Alexander Chase, Captain of the USS Enterprise.

The as-yet-unnamed animated series would be set 150 years after the events of the most-recent film Star Trek: Nemesis and the exploits of the Star Trek: The Next Generation characters. The series would also take a new and darker approach than any of the past Trek series. In the year 2528, the Federation would be very different than the one that Trekker have seen in the past. They’re still recovering from a devastating war with the Romulans some six decades before. Half of the Federation was cut off from the other during the war which allowed for the Klingon world to be overtaken, the Andorian world to be destroyed and the Vulcans left the Federation alliance completely.

http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/star-trek-cbs-considers-a-new-animated-series/


while they obviously wouldn't have to go through with this specific idea...the general direction of it sounds good...at least to me

 

[Dukhat]

Really, I got tired of the whole prequel gig loooong before Enterprise and Trek XI came out. I want them to continue the original timeline post-VOY, maybe with a hip, new Enterprise (cough NOVA CLASS cough hack retch cough cough)

Why would you want the new Enterprise to be a little tiny science vessel?

Cuz it's a cool-looking tiny little science vessel. You just don't understand these things

Oh, I understand just fine However, any new Enterprise that's designed is going to be a capital ship, not a dinky science vessel, no matter how cool it looks.

 

[FredH]

What I'd like to see, though it'll never happen:

A new series set in the Prime timeline's 26th century, featuring that era's starship Enterprise in the traditional manner, simply titled Star Trek. There would never be any spinoffs or movies; the show would be ongoing, with characters (and possibly the ship) gradually being swapped out for new ones every few years, assuming the show lasted.

Meanwhile, the Abramsverse films would continue, in whatever direction they like. But the two series would never be integrated; when Chris Pine & co. move on, we'd see Kirk & co. also being swapped out for new characters on the nu1701 over time.

 

[timelord1010]

I agree with FredH, I think a TV show should stay away from Abrams universe. A TV show set in that alternate universe might hurt the movies in the same way Trek was overdone a few years ago. I like the idea of the crew being promoted and moving on over time, like the TV show ER. When that show went off the air hardly none of the original cast was left and it was a nearly all new "crew".

I would also like to see the future and go to the 26th century. You could always do a time travel show and go back to the unexplored time periods such as the romulan war or the Enterprise-C time period.

 

[psCargile]

What would make me sit down and watch Star Trek is if it were set far enough into the future of the last TNG movie that the galactic political powers were different with new alliances and new enemies, a greater control over time travel (without becoming Quantum Leap), with the transwarp and the slipstream drives, and explorations of deeper parts of the galaxy. I'd prefer to forge ahead into something new than piddle around in the familiar settings of the older shows, especially "prequels" where you know what is to be eventually.

 

[Myasishchev]

here's an article that's a few years old now discussing the idea of a 26th Century animated series -- while this idea obviously must have stalled and they're not doing it, the concept shows people are thinking in the right direction.





Alexander Chase, Captain of the USS Enterprise.

You know, that's a damned good looking uniform.

WASP captain (well, probably white Anglo-Saxon atheist, since it's Trek) is a little predictable.

A bleak future for sure but hope comes in the form of officers like Captain Alexander Chase and his crew of the Enterprise. This Enterprise is a bit out-of-date and is a leftover “Bismark Class” heavy cruiser from the Romulan War, a start contrast to the ships we’ve known.This Enterprise is assigned to merely patrol the Neutral Zone’s border. Captain Chase, well aware of the proud Enterprise legacy, isn’t satisfied with that and wants to “seek out new life and explore strange new worlds.” Half of the human and alien crew agree while the other half want to do as they’re told.

Wait, he wants to mutiny... for the purpose of dicking around in space? I hope the other half would have killed him by the end of the first episode.

 

[Lynx]

In the 24th century, shortly after the events in "Nemesis". It should be about a new ship and new crew but there could be opportunities to have some of the old favorite characters from TNG, DS9 and VOY to show up in one episode or another.

Besides that, there are a lot of loose ends to follow up in the 24th century. Lots of opportunities for good stories.

 

[JarodRussell]

It's been 7-8 years since Nemesis, so... 2388 or something. From TNG to VOY and Nemesis, every Trek has been "real time". One year passed in Trek equaled one real year passed.

 

[Pauln6]

The TOS movie period would be best. The ships looked high tech but not as cheesy as the show (the TMP Enterprise has never been bettered), the technology wasn't so advanced that it overshadowed the story - the ship went wrong just because technology goes wrong sometimes, and you have dramatic military-style adventures before TNG made it a bit too sanitised.

I'd also want to see more adventures set with established races and federation members. Current thinking is that the conditions necessary to produce intelligent life are statistically likely to be so rare that there will be almost no other intelligent life out there, whereas Trek has literally hundreds of different species and class M planets. I'm sick of seeing alien allegory of the week. They should set a number of intelligent species, make them look and feel cool, and then use them - like Babylon 5 did.

 

[issreliant]

I would love to see a series about the earth-romulan war, or a series detailing the first years of the federation, like robert april on the first constitution class enterprise.

 

[Pauln6]

I'd like to see a mini series like Torchwood: Children of Earth telling one story really carefully and well rather than a full-blown series. Something set during the war (as opposed to the whole war) could be done really well. Either that or an indicent set during the Enterprise's second five year mission.

 

[zombieChan51]

I want to see something in the TOS time period, but in the Gamma Quadrant.

 

[Guardian Bob]

Post-Nero and dealing with that shift in power.

 

[arch101]

Set it 1000 years after the TNG era, at the end of the Federation. This is the only way to escape the limiting factors of cannon because it's far enough in the future for significant changes, deletions and additions. Think of stuff like a non-human-centric crew (now possible with modern special effects), not a single mention of that VERY old plot-crutch: Earth, marginalized Klingons (but present enough to remind us that this is Trek), wild stuff like Borg that have renounced technology, Vulcans that have embraced Romulanism, etc. There would have to be an Enterprise, however, since that is the foundation of all things Trek. Perhaps some kind of Foundation tack where a vary large Enterprise is transporting an entire community of Federation species to colonize worlds outside the borders of the collapsing Federation in order to preserve their way of life. It'll have to be something REALLY different like this or else it's just the same-old stuff.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Set it 1000 years after the TNG era, at the end of the Federation.

It'll have to be something REALLY different like this or else it's just the same-old stuff.

We are talking about a Trek TV series. No matter what time period, size ship, size crew it will be compared to the previous 5 Trek series.
I like the idea of how William Shatner described TOS. time period:"The Future"
2 video interview clips

interviews were taped just prior to Star Trek's NBC premiere in September 1966

the video:
Rare 1966 Video Interviews with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy On The Set

 

[PorthosShadow]

Post-Nemesis... right after or a few decades after, no matter... people like me with a hard-on for canon are satisfied and you can still do pretty much whatever you want.... except federation ships with odd numbers of nacelles.

I think Trek's long "history" is one of it's greatest assets. You don't have to drown in it and you don't have to piss in it either.

Yeah, I would like to see a Star Trek series set sometime after Nemesis mostly because we would have the ability get some kind of continuation of DS9

 

[Skywalker]

Mid-25th century if Primeverse, mid-23rd century if Abramsverse. The basic concept for that defunct animated series with Alexander Chase could easily work in a post-ST09 Primeverse, after a war between the Federation and the Romulans in, say, the 2390s. Maybe the Empire accuses the Federation of intentionally waiting for the supernova to destroy Romulus before finally acting, which they then use as casus belli, setting off a major war in which the Klingons eventually become embroiled, leading to the conquest of Qo'noS, the destruction of Andoria, and the Vulcans leaving the Federation. Fast forward sixty or seventy years, and off we go.

 

[PorthosShadow]

Mid-25th century if Primeverse, mid-23rd century if Abramsverse. The basic concept for that defunct animated series with Alexander Chase could easily work in a post-ST09 Primeverse, after a war between the Federation and the Romulans in, say, the 2390s. Maybe the Empire accuses the Federation of intentionally waiting for the supernova to destroy Romulus before finally acting, which they then use as casus belli, setting off a major war in which the Klingons eventually become embroiled, leading to the conquest of Qo'noS, the destruction of Andoria, and the Vulcans leaving the Federation. Fast forward sixty or seventy years, and off we go.

I remember reading something about that animated series not too long ago. I thought it was a neat concept but it sounded a little too much like Andromeda but I still think in the right hands it could work. Anyway, I think at this point we really need to see The Federation & Starfleet at a low point. Obviously neither are going to collapse but it would be nice to see them severly shaken.