Is Bryan Fuller right? A series in the Kirk era, but not on the E?

[M'Sharak]

gastrof, ...

Were these post made before or after I read your reminder?

As I stated, this was made just after the reminder in the other thread, so these posts by you would have been made before.

Also, as said the other day, I've never seen any rule on this or any other message board that said multiple replies must be posted together. "I didn't know there was any such rule."

Really, this is the very first time in all the time I've been a member here that a mod has said something like this to me, let alone calling it "spamming".

Could you please tell me where the policy is posted, so I can be aware of how things are actually worded?

Thanks.

I quoted it in the other thread, but here it is again:

Spamming can even just be posting too much - as a general rule, don't post more than two or three threads in a forum within a reasonable length of time. Do not post more than twice in a row in the same thread. If you need to answer more than one person in the thread, please use the quote function.

It has been part of the board rules for at least as long as I've been here, which is almost as long as you have. (Yes, I know those are old. They're working on getting the revised version up in a sidebar link, but that section isn't likely to change much.) I'm not issuing a warning here -- just pointing it out, so that you are aware of it. One of our other members has recently had... a bit of trouble with getting carried away making multiple posts, and we'd just as soon it didn't become widespread.

 

[Eric Cheung]

I think that the universe is exapansive enough to allow for all kinds of series premises--it all serves as context for any show someone would want to do.

The universe is...but are the fans?

If it's a good show that's marketed well I don't see why not.

 

[T'Cal]

Leave TOS to the big screen with its focus on the three main characters. That works well in movies. TNG did only so-so at the theatre because it was designed to showcase its ensamble cast, which works much better on TV.

I want another series distanced in time from STXI and any of its sequels. I would prefer a Titan series (even an animated one) but that seems unlikely. If not, I would prefer one set well after NEM in which the technology is sparsely available and/or often unreliable. This could be because the ship is heavily damaged or out of date due to a sustained war.

^ Actually it's ironic. The TOS movies tended to be serialized ensemble pieces where TOS, the show, was an episodic show that focused on the main three. The TNG movies were stand alone films that focused on Picard and Data while the show was slightly more arc-driven and egalitarian with regard to the treatment of its characters.

The reason for the change in format for the movies was probably because the TNG films took place at the same time as shows made concurrently with the films. So, if the TNG movies were to be as serialized as the TOS films, they'd either have to lag behind DS9 and VOY in terms of the timeline or they'd have to cover more story time in the course of the film.

Of course Insurrection was really the only one to do any commentary on the state of the galaxy at the time of the film. It's a film drowning in mediocrity, but what saves it in my mind is that it's a portrait of its time, in that the Enterprise has grown world-weary and cynical as the diplomatic force in wartime--but I digress.

INS has been called the most episode-like. I have to agree but for positive reasons. While Picard and Data are the main characters, the others have a good amount of screen time and it's not forced, except for Worf. The more I watch INS, the more I like it. It has few if any big flaws. I would have to say the complete opposite about GEN, though.

 

[Longinus]

In theory I would love TOS era show, preferably with different crew and ship. Or it could be the first five year mission of U.S.S. Enterprise under the command of Robert April. However, in practice I would probably end up hating it. It is my favourite era, and it would be awesome to see more adventures set on that period, but I'm quite convinced that it would turn out to be a horrible raping of canon and merciless recycling of plots.

24th century show about Titan and Riker could be a safer choice, though I'm not sure how they could make it different enough from TNG. I have no interest going further to the future than that, TNG era tech is already problematically advanced.

 

[Trevacious]

Would we really want this?

Seems to me if we know Kirk and Spock are "out there" somewhere nearby, but we're not being allowed to see them, it sort of stinks.

That's easy, just make the show you're pitching so damn good that nobody's ever gonna CARE where the Enterprise crew is while they're watching This show. It's a Big Universe. There's plenty of room for a new set of characters to have their own corner of it to engage around in and never come near a crossover and never miss not having one.

 

[EnsignSoonToDie]

I'm new here, so I don't know if this has been suggested before, but what about a civilian show? Not every ship out in space is necessarily Starfleet, and it might be an interesting viewpoint to look at the Federation and the galaxy in general more from the viewpoint of, say, an early Kasidy Yates. Not that they'd just be a cargo ship; surely you don't have to be officially involved with the military organization of a political body to be an explorer, boldy going on your own. It might be more accessible to new viewers, too, and have a lot more leeway when it comes to dealing with canon, no matter the century it's set in.

 

[Maxillius]

Pop over to the fan fiction section and you'll see a couple series that would be great for TV. The three at the top of my list are David Falkayne's "Southerland" series, featuring Captain Elizabeth Shelby, Gibraltar's "Gibraltar" series, featuring a 90-year-old Connie doing clean-up duty after the Dominion War, and TheLoneRedshirt's "Tales of the Bluefin", featuring the Starfleet Border Service and the 70-year-old cutter USS Bluefin.

All series aren't like any Trek that's been on any screen. Gibraltar and Bluefin show a dirtier harsher side of the 24th century, like DS9 intended but much MUCH less boring. Southerland might have to be shown in pay-per-view though. Some scenes get pretty graphic. Two words: Shelby and Jadzia Dax. Who *wouldn't* want to see that??