Is It Time for a Bold New Star Trek Paradigm?

[tharpdevenport]

Then that becomes the great paradox. Being lazy unifies us yet we are too lazy to unify and also too lazy to decode the paradox and probably too lazy to realise a paradox had even occurred in the first place.

Sorry, feeling too lazy to read all of that.

;-)

 

[The Wormhole]

A bold new paradigm didn't work out so well for the Daleks.

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[Nerys Myk]

A bold new paradigm didn't work out so well for the Daleks.

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Security, Command. Medical. Science. Command. Dalek Trek.

 

[The Wormhole]

You have two listed as Command. I'm guessing you meant Engineering instead for one of those Commands?

 

[Nerys Myk]

You have two listed as Command. I'm guessing you meant Engineering instead for one of those Commands?

The yellow one on the right is the second command Dalek. TOS Colors forever!

 

[Annorax849]

This was called Star Trek: Voyager.

There's no difference between the premise of setting a show "in unexplored space," "The Delta Quadrant," or "another galaxy." None.

Depends on what they're doing. They could be Spore Jumping to a totally new area episode-to-episode, meaning there would be no continuing species whatsoever. Or the opposite, just staying in a single (distant) location the whole time, basically becoming a weird mix of DS9 and Voyager.

Also extragalactic races should be more alien given no Progenitors, but that wouldn't really go against your point. Plus they might not even adhere to that.

 

[XCV330]

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these ideas aren't bold enough. we need ideas that are really BOLD

 

[Nerys Myk]

Depends on what they're doing. They could be Spore Jumping to a totally new area episode-to-episode, meaning there would be no continuing species whatsoever. Or the opposite, just staying in a single (distant) location the whole time, basically becoming a weird mix of DS9 and Voyager.

Also extragalactic races should be more alien given no Progenitors, but that wouldn't really go against your point. Plus they might not even adhere to that.

But they would more than likely be telling the same stories. "More alien" is a matter of technology and budget. You can write the most non-human alien ever but it still has to be affordable.

 

[BillJ]

Instead, Roddenberry made the bold choice to push the timeline forward. He chose a bald Captain and to put a Klingon on the bridge. He decided to rethink the tone, and build something that could stand on its own — which is exactly why TNG felt like a gamble.

Well, Roddenberry, Gerrold, Fontana. Gerrold and Fontana (plus one other, IIRC) sued for co-creator credit on TNG and it was settled before going to arbitration. With Roddenberry getting the credit and the others getting cash.

 

[Danja]

"More alien" is a matter of technology and budget. You can write the most non-human alien ever but it still has to be affordable.

Species 8472 blew the CGI budget.

The yellow one on the right is the second command Dalek. TOS Colors forever!

What is the white one?

 

[fireproof78]

What is the white one?

Cadet.

 

[The Wormhole]

What is the white one?

Medical

 

[Danja]

Cadet.

Medical

You two discuss this amongst yourselves!

 

[The Wormhole]

You two discuss this amongst yourselves!

I'm following the pattern Myk established in his post:

Security, Command. Medical. Science. Command. Dalek Trek.

Medical is listed third, the white Dalek is third in that lineup, therefore...

 

[Annorax849]

But they would more than likely be telling the same stories.

Sure, but almost anything (besides maybe a radical genre change) can be broken down and seen as the same type of stories on some level. Probably one of the bigger variables we can consider is serial vs episodic.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm following the pattern Myk established in his post:

Medical is listed third, the white Dalek is third in that lineup, therefore...

Might have slipped some DISCO in there.

 

[Ovation]

Then that becomes the great paradox. Being lazy unifies us yet we are too lazy to unify and also too lazy to decode the paradox and probably too lazy to realise a paradox had even occurred in the first place.

Illogical. Illogical. Norman, coordinate…