Concept for a new series

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

A show that goes back and forth between Academy and other postings, like one that follows various members of a family who are in Starfleet spread out across different places (think Blue Bloods in space) might work. So one teaches at the Academy, one serves on an outpost, one is on a ship somewhere, another is part of the diplomatic corps...

This different idea was originally posted in a thread asking about a Starfleet Academy series.

Wanted to know your thoughts about a series that would center around the various members of one family, all Starfleet officers/enlisted/their spouses, etc.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Sounds like a valid concept that would give the format a much-needed shaking up. Could get a lot of world-building out of a series that doesn't focus strictly on one ship or outpost.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Yeah. And you'd maybe see some more of civilian Earth, too.

 

[KennyB]

My initial reaction was NO......But after thinking on it a minute or two, it might be a good approach to the story telling. Simultaneous storylines set all across the galaxy. It works for Westoros.........

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

And with a family's legacy to draw it together. But hopefully more like Blue Bloods than what I've only heard about Game Of Thrones (would never, ever watch that show) in that at the end of the day, they all care about each other, even if they fight a bit along the way.

You could have tense relationships/estrangements, but nothing mirror-universe-y in the prime universe, please.

Too bad Star Trek:Legacy is already a video game name. Star Trek: Delta evokes the Delta Quadrant. I don't know what it'd be called.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Blue Bloods is ridiculously derivative, which is another word for safe, nonthreatening or comfortable. Yes, I know they're not literally synonyms, but regurgitating the same drenn over and over is guaranteeing the network a reliable, if ageing audience.

Game of Thrones requires three autonomous and distinct film/support crews (each with hundreds of people) roving the entire damn world.

The problem with a BONANZA like script is how do you divvy up the screen time if you have 4 or 5 stars on different ships/planets, who each need at least one entire sound stage to themselves and then 10 to 20 costars, featured actors and extras, as well as mentioned before multiple film crews, unless they are allowed to take a month to make an episode rather than a week.

Yes, this would make a good book, or maybe a mini series, but for a weekly Science fiction series it would just cost too much damn money.

You really should give Game of Thrones a try.

It starts of with an adorable little girl being given a puppy by her father.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

three autonomous and distinct film/support crews (each with hundreds of people) roving the entire damn world.

A soundstage can be employed in most cases for Trek as they've done in the past.

 

[Guy Gardener]

A sound stage looks like one place, or maybe two if you cut it in half.

If you want a large cast each separated by light years, you need either a lot of sound stages, or a lot of physical locations that can seem like it's the 23rd or 24th century.

I'm repeating myself.
A sound stage looks like one place, or maybe two if you cut it in half.

If you want a large cast each separated by light years, you need either a lot of sound stages, or a lot of physical locations that can seem like it's the 23rd or 24th century.

Blue Bloods works becaused thy can use New York, and most of the family live in the same house.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I'm not sure that's such a deal-breaker. TV is the art of illusion, you can do wonders with a little ingenuity. In the last season of Hell on Wheels, they split the focus between the competing railroads. For the main railroad towns, they used different parts of the same outdoor set...one side of the street was Truckee, California, the other was Laramie, Wyoming. Some of the buildings in the outdoor sets even had practical shooting interiors, so they didn't have to cut to a sound stage when they went indoors.

 

[Guy Gardener]

ED Wood.

 

[Tenacity]

A sound stage looks like one place, or maybe two if you cut it in half.

This would depend on the size of the studio, Having all the various locations in the same studio would be more a matter of logistics and scheduling, than physical separation.

The starship and the starbase might be separated by a common (fake) wall.

The show different story-line locations could record on different days, in fact the actors of each location segment might rarely even meet.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Regarding the storyline, it doesn't have to be all pudding and syrup. It would just show that family bonds can survive lightyears of distance.

 

[Atomic_Girl]

This different idea was originally posted in a thread asking about a Starfleet Academy series.

Wanted to know your thoughts about a series that would center around the various members of one family, all Starfleet officers/enlisted/their spouses, etc.

Sounds interesting

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The show different story-line locations could record on different days, in fact the actors of each location segment might rarely even meet.

But you'd want them to develop a camaraderie/familial chemistry for those moments they are together, so they'd have to hang out occasionally.

 

[Atomic_Girl]

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I saw part 1 of this and it was pretty good, but I think part 2 will be better! I am so thrilled to see original cast members from Star Trek!

 

[Guy Gardener]

The insidious blue female is jailbait from DS9 the Valiant.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

While we see the Rikers (Kyle, Will and Thomas - the father was a consultant), the Parises (Tom, Owen, and even the Yorktown commodore) the Janeways (Kathryn and her dad), having a multi-generational Starfleet family of siblings, uncles, aunts, parents hasn't been done much if at all.

 

[The Old Mixer]

You could also do a similar concept with something other than a family...say, a group of friends from the academy who stay in close touch.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Geordie, his mum and dad are all Starfleet.

Jack, Bev and Wesley.

Tom's grandfather was in Starfleet, and his great, grandmother was in Star Trek Beyond. His daughters Miral and Lynnis were both in Starfleet too.

The Dekkers, father and son were in TOS and the first movie.

Worfs adopted father was enlisted personel.

Sulu's daughter drove the Enterprise B.

 

[cultcross]

You could also do a similar concept with something other than a family...say, a group of friends from the academy who stay in close touch.

Or a group who served together during something traumatic, a 'brothers in arms' sort of thing, which allows for diversity in characters while keeping bonds between them and loyalties which could form part of the arc.