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Describe YOUR new Star Trek series.

Apologies for redundancy. I posted this elsewhere, but it seems more appropriate here:

Here's an idea for a series that could tell a complete story in a short run:

A starship is destroyed in some disaster, leaving the only survivors in a shuttlepod lightyears from anywhere. With pitiful resources, they have to improvise and make their way to a distant communication beacon....
(If the series does well, then in the final ep they reach the beacon and find it destroyed. Tune in next season!)

The good thing about this format is it gives a sense of danger and difficulty without having to be a dystopia. The ship and crew is small, keeping the budget down.

The journey would take weeks or months. They could still encounter all sorts of species and phenomena, but not having the power of a starship would make them handle situations quite differently. e.g.

Suppose a Klingon cruiser decides they are space junk to use for target practice? How would they talk/trick their way out of that?

Or if Ferenghi or Orions tractored the shuttlepod and took it to some combination chop shop and slave trader? They can't beam people in and out, and they can't win in a fire fight. So...

What would they have to do as their supplies ran out? Apart from the usual self-sacrifice, they might need to consider prostitution (for trade) or cannibalism.

Stellar phenomena which wouldn't affect the Enterprise except for some shakey-cam could have devastating effects on a shuttlepod. The crew might suffer radiation poisoning, adding another ticking clock to their mission. Or the hull could be severely compromised, so now our crew is wearing EV suits and travelling with one side of the ship in tatters.

(^ Just some examples off the top of my head.)
 
Maybe it has some resemblance to the original idea of Voyager, but not to the execution. The crew would be tiny, they wouldn't be centuries from home, there would be no reset button but rather a drastic and steadily deteriorating situation.
 
New version Star Trek TOS.

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Michael Weatherly as Captain James T. Kirk
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Pauley Perrette as Commander Spock.... I'll explain...
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Gary Sinise as Dr. Leonard McCoy
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Karl Urban as Lt Commander Gary Mitchell

Continued...
 
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Kerry Washington as Lt Uhura
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Ed Westwick as Captain Genghis Sulu
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Aml Ameen as Commander Scott
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Isaac Hempstead Wright as Ens Checkov
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John Cho as Lt. Hikaru Sulu
 
Explanation about Vulcan subculture for every male born there is a female counterpart. When Spock the man is killed in the upcoming movie, his counterpart (if she, always opposite gender btw has opportunity to be in possession of his katra) can take over his functional roles as if she were him all along. It's a Vulcan tights issue, an embarrassment to the Vulcan image most want you to see since the counter culture are not as prone to emotionless logic. With Ms Perrette's triumphs in the past to go on, she should bring an interesting twist to the character.
 
Star Trek: The Adventures of Captain Sulu

In the early twenty-fourth century, the face of the galaxy changed drastically with the monumental signing of the Khitomer Accords, the catastrophic Tomed Incident, and second isolation period of the Romulan Empire.

At the forefront of Starfleet is Captain Demora Sulu (played by Ming-Na Wen), commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise-B, leading her crew through the murky waters and into a brighter future...
 
played by Ming-Na Wen
Loved her in Eureka, although that is the only thing I recall seeing her in. The actress is in her early fifties, are we going for more of Picard and less of a Kirk here?

Considering what's come before, would a first season Kirk be a better fit for Demora Sulu, than a post third season Picard?

:)
 
Good question. I'd see her leaning more towards Kirk, with an adventurers spirit (which began with the stories her father used to tell her) and an ends-justify-the-means mentality at times, but it has been reigned in and tempered by age and experience.

I love her in everything she's done. She also has such a great voice that is put across such depth, feeling and sincerity, she would definitely have moments when she'd embody Picard's 'elder statesperson' and solve things with words over violence.

She'd be a stepping stone between the two.
 
When Spock the man is killed in the upcoming movie, his counterpart (if she, always opposite gender btw has opportunity to be in possession of his katra) can take over his functional roles as if she were him all along.
I wonder if that could be made to work with a fraternal twin sister (if he has a older half brother, why not a twin sister?), Vulcan multiple births are telepathically joined in the womb and experience a link thoughout their lives. She would recieve a partial "copy" of Spock's katra when he dies, but wouldn't have the difficulties encountered by Doctor McCoy. More a download of his knowledge and skills, almost none his personality and life experiences. It wouldn't be like Dax.

With Ms Perrette's triumphs in the past to go on, she should bring an interesting twist to the character.
Perrette would bring with her large numbers of NCIS viewers, at least for the first several episodes. Some certainly would stay, and this would boost the new shows initial ratings.

:)
 
The egotism of humanity, believing that we are the be all and end all.

Not to be rude or incline on that who egotism that humanity is known for but as far as The United Federation of Planets is concerned, the Earth falling to a powerful force is indeed the END ALL BE ALL for the Federation.

Like T-Girl mentioned above, the Federation is essentially the clothspin that holds all the core worlds and systems aligned as it was depicted in the first 150 years of the Federation that it was Earth that was chosen to be the massive port for Military opperations for the new aligned government for all it's people's (from even a contextual point of view this makes sense since according to Enterprise Starfleet was the massive military organization that existed before the Federation existed).

What was the main form of military or military-like organization in the United Federation of Planets even all the way to the end of the Dominion War and beyond?

STARFLEET.

Starfleet still is home to many of ships, troop deployment facilities, along with Mars it is the largest base of Starfleet ever. Since Mars and Earth are right next door to each other it makes sense that maybe Mars would go first.

Remember despite Starfleet being a military organization for Alpha Quadrant species, it still isn't that large and if the Dominion attacked it head on with no trouble and an entire fleet it could be taken down with ease with 4/5 of the ships of the fleet being destroyed.
 
1. Star Trek: Titan, the Animated Series. Could use the original cast or sound-alikes for Riker and Troi. Could easily handle the diverse cast of characters without breaking a poor actor's heart with endless butt-in-makeup-chair. Could easily avoid the worry about cheap and cheesy CGI. Could be made for 1/5 the budget of a TNG episode. Could easily handle the one thing Trek on TV or film has never been able to really pull off, namely the sheer possibilities of the universe.

2. Star Trek: Early Years, the Animated Series. Noticing a trend? All the same money saving perks as above. Only this series would feature the crew of another Federation ship in the early days of the Federation. Those awkward times when the militaries are still integrating, when ships and systems and command structures are wildly diverse but expected to conform to one unified ethos. Heavy focus on the Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites getting used to working together long-term in confined spaces. Could definitely draw on the cast of ENT for voice actors and characters. Seeing Shran as the security chief or the captain of a Fed ship would be amazing.

3. Star Trek: Future Something, the Animated Series. Again with the money saving animation. Put this one 100 years into the future of TNG, just as TNG was set 100 years into the future of TOS. New species, new planets, new threats... you get the idea.

My ideal new Trek series? These. Right there.
 
^ If it was for broadcast, it could be dicey dealing with ratings and network interference. But Marvel and DC have both shown that straight-to-retail animation is commercially viable. And as I understand it, a short anime series can be produced for as little as $1 million. I'm sure there would enough interested Trek fans to cover that. And as animation is considered a specialist market, Paramount wouldn't have to be paranoid about "diluting the brand".
 
1. Star Trek: Titan, the Animated Series. Could use the original cast or sound-alikes for Riker and Troi. Could easily handle the diverse cast of characters without breaking a poor actor's heart with endless butt-in-makeup-chair. Could easily avoid the worry about cheap and cheesy CGI. Could be made for 1/5 the budget of a TNG episode. Could easily handle the one thing Trek on TV or film has never been able to really pull off, namely the sheer possibilities of the universe.
Other than the Trois I'd like to see an all-original cast, rather than the one in the books, to offer greater flexibility, though just as (if not more) diverse.

2. Star Trek: Early Years, the Animated Series. Noticing a trend? All the same money saving perks as above. Only this series would feature the crew of another Federation ship in the early days of the Federation. Those awkward times when the militaries are still integrating, when ships and systems and command structures are wildly diverse but expected to conform to one unified ethos. Heavy focus on the Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites getting used to working together long-term in confined spaces. Could definitely draw on the cast of ENT for voice actors and characters. Seeing Shran as the security chief or the captain of a Fed ship would be amazing.
In my mind, this is what ENT should have been, they really missed a trick there. Especially in the aftermath of the Romulan Wars, it would be a time of great change for all the races involved. Plus Shran as Captain would be great to see! It could also retcon TATV, which is probably the best thing they could do to ENT.

3. Star Trek: Future Something, the Animated Series. Again with the money saving animation. Put this one 100 years into the future of TNG, just as TNG was set 100 years into the future of TOS. New species, new planets, new threats... you get the idea.
This would allow the greatest freedom for the creatives behind it, they get to invent lots of history and how things have changed over the decades. I would say however, avoid basing it on the Enterprise if at all possible and definitely have humans in the minority.
 
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