News Exclusive: Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer

[Tomalak]

One of the things that made The West Wing work was how it resonated with real world politics. In a science fiction setting of the future, the way in which this can happen is fundamentally different.

I get it that TWW+ST is an elevator pitch, but I there has to be more to it on a fundamental level, since the ideas don't naturally fuse. It might still be workable, but it would require top-level writing.

I think it's possible to do a political show within a sci-fi/fantasy setting - some of the best parts of Game of Thrones reflect this, for example.

But yes, you need the writing to be on point. If it's not, you get some of the worst parts of Game of Thrones.

 

[DSS]

I think a 'West Wing' type of Star Trek could work, but I would set it post Picard series. You could have one of the founding members of the federation threatening to pull out of the federation. Let's say andorians just to make it interesting. You could also have something akin to the 'Typhon Pact' where a number of species who are anti-federation have joined together and are making inroads with federation member planets and increasing their influence across the alpha quadrant.

It would in a way mirror what's happening in the world today with American threats to pull out of NATO and the Russian/Chinese/North Korean/India becoming closer.

The federation being more bloated and burecratic over time, as it's membership increases and it's resources stretched even more thinly to cover more space, sees more and more member worlds becoming disgruntled.

Later in the series I would then introduce a spin off series where the exploration takes place in one of the Milky Way dwarf galaxies say the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The federation, in order to keep it's members sated and the stocks of dilthium decreasing, sends an exploratory battalion to the LMC to look for and mine dilthium. The spin off series would take place across a few different ships, but mainly the new mining space station setup in the LMC.

It would ask questions of the 'federation' as it expands into a new galaxy. Is it really a federation or an empire in all but name? The 'Typhon Pact' would also send a battalion of their own to try to also mime for dilthium as well. Trying to undercut and outmanoeuvr the federation with the worlds of the LMC.

Then I'd have the battalion accidently awaken the in stasis Iconians. Who arent pleased when they discover what has happened to their empire of old and how this 'federation' has taken over and must now be stopped....

 

[The Wormhole]

I think a 'West Wing' type of Star Trek could work, but I would set it post Picard series. You could have one of the founding members of the federation threatening to pull out of the federation. Let's say andorians just to make it interesting. You could also have something akin to the 'Typhon Pact' where a number of species who are anti-federation have joined together and are making inroads with federation member planets and increasing their influence across the alpha quadrant.

It would in a way mirror what's happening in the world today with American threats to pull out of NATO and the Russian/Chinese/North Korean/India becoming closer.

The federation being more bloated and burecratic over time, as it's membership increases and it's resources stretched even more thinly to cover more space, sees more and more member worlds becoming disgruntled.

Aside from the NATO thing, all that is what Disco did with the Federation in the aftermath of the Burn.