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Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ideas

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Like the title, I just want to ask you all to give us your idea to save Startrek from it's extinction. You can tell us everything you like. But please, you must understand that this post is brainstorming post, not just tell your expect from the next Startrek. So please, give your thought to create new Startrek that not only make old fans love to watch it to 7 seasons, but bring in new fans too (hopefully foreign fans too)

To start this session, I will give you my ideas. but first, forgive me for my lack english capability :

I want to create a new startrek called Startrek : Federation. It is a story that start shortly after the end of Dominion War, where Alpha Quardrant condition become very critical, and political situation in Federation become hot and hotter in every minutes. This condition doesn't consider as serious treat before. But after one by one members of Federation call off their membership and prefer to stand alone in the quadrant, the power of Federation colaps. And right wing extrimist start to raise in power in Federation.

Before everybody know about it, the extrimist successed in their attempt to rule the Starfleet and Federation. Thus declare state of emergency to all federation teritory and send force to give all "rebels" lesson that they will remember forever.

Meanwhile in Betazed, Captain Jeanluc Picard had success in his attempt to keep Betazed's membership in Federation, and plan to go to Vulcan and Andorian to make sure that they will not abandon their membership as well. But after hearing about Starfleet plan to attack the "rebel" or ex-member, he change his plot to earth.

In earth, Vice Admiral Janeaway is forced to retire after her openly protest to the admiral for his unbelieveable decission to attack rebels. She believe that hold negotiation with them will give Federation more benefit rather than attack them with force. So, when she know about Picard, she come to meet him in secret and ask his help to overthrown the extrimist power in Federation.

In other side of the Galaxy, Sisko who joined with Prophet come to an unknown planet in Gamma Quardrant. There, he met a person who he can't believe in his life to find. The legendary James T. Kirk.

At first, Sisko doesn't know that the man who he meet is not the actual James T Kirk who have died in Nexus. But later he know that James T. Kirk who he know is no other than a successful a clone who crated by romulan in order to get benefit from Kirk's capability as captain. And this Kirk was a successful project although his whereabout is always keep secret by Romulan. The reason Kirk come to Gamma Quadrant is because he was part of Romulan - Cardassia fleet who attack Gamma Quadrant in DS9 season 3.

So, the two captains look their way to back to Alpha Quadrant. But when they able to go home, the thing that they found is only civil war that happen in Federation space between Picard - Janeaway fleet versus the extrimist loyalist.

Picard - Janeaway fleet is few in number. They are consist of USS. Enterprise, USS Voyager, USS Titan, several Betazed and Vulcan's starship, and others ex-members who believe in Picard's influence and leadership.

When Sisko and Kirk join with the rebel, Picard invite them to join the cause. With Kirk and Sisko join the cause, the power and spirit of Rebel raise, thus gaining the momentum in War. But when Picard plan to choose Kirk as their leader in the alliance, Sisko know about the truth of Kirk. So, he protest and do everything he can to make the election fail. This make their feel each other ( who have become worst after Wolf 359 become worse and worse again ). Instead of choosing Kirk, Sisko declare that he support Picard as the leader of the alliance. As the old man is the reason why lots of people join their cause. At last, people choose Picard as their leader instead of Kirk ( clone Kirk ). Thus they succeed in their attempt to overthrown the extrimist.

After that Picard is elected as the president of Federation, Janeaway as the head of Starfleet Command, and Sisko command Chief of Security in Federation. While Kirk get his chance to continue his legacy as the captain of Enterprise F, the newest Enterprise in Federation.

What do you think ???
 
According to the last reliable reports I got my brain is heavily armed, effectively barricaded and increasingly desperate. Any attempt to storm it is likely to result in serious injuries at the least. So I'll pass on this.
 
I have a foolproof plan to save Star trek:

Do nothing.

It's already had most of its coffin nails hammered down, any new Trek project will be the final nail.
 
I used to hammer down coffin nails at the rate of three packs a day. Neither that nor drinking a fifth of scotch a day nor trying to shag anything in a skirt made me into Gene Roddenberry any more than dancing in front of the mirror in her underwear turned Joan Cusack into Madonna.
 
Wow. "Post-Dominion war," "Fall of the Federation" and "Omigod, Kirk's back!", all in one concept. I thought the point was to brainstorm and come up with something new.

Look, you want new? Step 1: IGNORE CANON! Start with a clean sheet of paper and rework the concept of Trek. Don't just tack stuff on to the dead body.
 
If I stormed my brain, the end result would probably be a mishmash of obscure sources.

How do you feel about a series about Wagner's half-Romulan descendant, Encolpius Wagner, producing the Bayreuth Festival, but his day job is an temporal explorer, using a miniature Iconian gateway to visit Topkapi Palace and aid a race of serpentine aliens in stealing the Sultan's turbans to be enshrined as sacred relics of a faux religion on a planet of sentient blueberries.

Besides me, who the hell would watch that?
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

Start with a clean sheet of paper and rework the concept of Trek.

If you want a whole new concept, why stick with the Star Trek name?
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

Dude, I also came up with a TV series idea called Star Trek: Federation. It analyzes the politics of the Federation and the over-arching plot of the series is a civil war. Basically when push comes to shove, the Federation isn't the innocent, peaceful place it seems to be: it has an underbelly that keeps things looking that way. We got a glimpse of it in Section 31, but the biggest issue is one of economics and resources.

It's meant to parallel our issues today, as all good sci-fi should: working conditions, illegal labor, exporting production, depleted resources and the need for expansion, fuel costs, etc. In particular, a belt of star systems is at the crux of the matter because they hold the greatest stores of dilithium in the Federation, but they also have some suspect working conditions and cultural differences. They were glossed over by Federation officials due to resource demands. See where I'm going with this?

Anyways, the show would be set on the Enterprise, which is considered a diplomatic vessel due to the influence of its former captain, though there are plenty of opportunities for exploration too. I came up with characters and everything, but this post is long enough already.
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

Admiral2 said:
Wow. "Post-Dominion war," "Fall of the Federation" and "Omigod, Kirk's back!", all in one concept. I thought the point was to brainstorm and come up with something new.

Look, you want new? Step 1: IGNORE CANON! Start with a clean sheet of paper and rework the concept of Trek. Don't just tack stuff on to the dead body.

I'd love to accumulate any ideas you all come up with, at my Fic Anthology. Or, go ahead & discuss your ideas here:

"Starbase Avenger"
(The newest supporting group of the "Star Trek: Hell's-Gate" universe.)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbavenger_669
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

Also, last thing I'll mention about my idea for a series is that civil war occurs, and it's a huge mess, but then a race you've only vaguely heard of in prior series comes into the picture and things get REAL interesting.

Replying to another post: I think ignoring canon would be a very bad idea. May as well create a whole new sci-fi series with a different universe and different names.
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

North Pole-aris said:
...any more than dancing in front of the mirror in her underwear turned Joan Cusack into Madonna.

In which film did this occur?
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

Frosty the Vorta said:
Start with a clean sheet of paper and rework the concept of Trek.

If you want a whole new concept, why stick with the Star Trek name?

Every once in awhile "old things" need a fresh feel to them. In the end Trek is whatever Paramount sticks the label "Star Trek" on. Lets be fair Trek has been reworked before TNG, and DS9 are two cases of this within a scale of degrees. There's nothing wrong with being more radical about it either.

Sticking the same mold is part of Trek's issues of blandness lately.

*Remembers thinking like Temis where it concerned BSG, admits he was wrong.

Sharr
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

Let's get started on writing something & develop less focus on taking this thread off-topic. Let's develop an anthology of stimulating adventures with bodice-ripping heroes & romance, fist-fights, a Federation break-down, or moral dilemmas about Starfleet Officers conducting strikes on General Populations in order to get to an insidious threat, stranding struggling vessels the way Archer did in the Delphic Expanse.

If we can't do that, then I feel I have no other choice than to ask the mods to lock this thread.
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

hellsgate said:
Let's get started on writing something & develop less focus on taking this thread off-topic.
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If we can't do that, then I feel I have no other choice than to ask the mods to lock this thread.
A bit of advice, hellsgate... TrekBBS is sort of like Greyhound Bus Lines: Leave the modding to us.

Oh, and stop pimping your stories and websites in here. Next time gets you a warning.
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

That gives me a franchise saving idea!!

Star Trek: Pimp My Starship!!
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

If the new movie is successful wouldn't we be looking at a new TOS TV series?
 
Re: Let save Startrek by storming our brain and get new ide

I guess it depends on what direction Paramount wants to go. I could see them waiting until after the second or third movie in this new sequence, to see if the audience builds or diminishes before approving another TV show.
 
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