RobertScorpio
Pariah
And when I say 'reboot' I mean...well...instead of rebooting your computer? Taking it outside having a big-rig truck run it over seven million times...that kind of reboot..
here is my totally new STAR TREK
The TV show would depict events happening only fifty years in our future. It would center around man's first manned mission to mars. the one they are actually planning now...
The crew would go up there to mars and build a basic base that they will in turn have to live in for 18 months until coming home...
The first several episodes would introduce us to the crew before they even leave. Setting up the backstories as to who and what they are...but you get the picture. The crew of that ship will no doubt be multi-national, just like TOS was, in terms of humanity.
Captain Kirk. His family has been growing crops in Iowa for over a hundred years. But this son, James, became one of NASA's most decorated pilot/shuttle commanders. He will be in command of the mission.
Doctor McCoy. Also an American. His ability to think fast on his feet in medical emergencies is what the Mars program likes the most about him. He isn't the smartest Doctor..just the best.
Sulu...The Chinese pilot of the vessel.
Chekov. The Russian Navigtor.
Scott. The engineer who happens to hail from scotland.
Uhura; the communications officer who comes from Kenya or whatever.
And S.P.O.C.K. It is the the A.I. computer that will sheppard their journey. It also has a unique program that allows it to converse logic arguments with the captain, but also accept the human's arguments as well.
The first season of the show will be set-up. The midway point of season one will be the actual launch.
The remaining first season will deal with the six month flight to mars. And will end with them arriving at the space platform that is in orbit of mars. They will enter the lander and head to mars for the next part of their mission; landing on mars and building the space lab with the supplies that were sent ahead of them.
The show would not have any sentient alien life forms at all. No more bumpy headed aliens of the week. Just real science problems. Oh, they may find plant life, dangerous bacteria, things like that…but no Klingons or Vulcans. This really means; more part of our real world.
There is nothing wrong with those kinds of Treks, meaning what has come before, but this show would strive for more realism. And since the mission to mars will soon become something in our near future, this show would hopefully inspire a new generation of youth to perhaps want to be part of that undertaking.
I know it sounds pedestrian. I know it seems small in scale. But I think a more hands on approach, a show that the viewers actually think could happen, and soon, would be very successful.
So why call it Star Trek? Very simple You could use those iconic names; Kirk-Spock, but in a totally new way.
And, I would even go so far as to say this. After season three, and the Mars plots have been used, you could start the fourth season twenty years later. Advances in technology have made it possible to travel to the closest star. A new crew (Picard, Riker D.A.T.A) would staff that vessel…And maybe they might, once they get there, find some kind of sentient life. But that life would have to be something other than pirate like Klingons and walking computer zombies.
That is my total “NUKE STAR TREK” idea. Yes, it is very drastic. And yes, most of the current fan-base would never go for it. But if done with care and with the over riding goal of being depicted as ‘just beyond our finger tips’ in terms of the science in the stories, I think I could work. It would obviously be the end of STAR TREK as we have known it for over 40 years.
Where would the morality plays come in, which are so much apart of Roddenberry’s creation? The writers would find a way to deal with our issues. But I think the formula of watching bumpy headed aliens deal with issues that we face, but cloaked behind strange planet names and slightly different looking humanoids, has reached a point of saturation. Over 600 hours of that kind of story telling has been created. It would take you five weeks, non-stop, to watch all of them.
Okay…I will put on my bullet proof vest, and try my best to dodge the objects that will soon be thrown my way.
Okay, there is my NUKE TREK idea. Lets say JJ's TREK crashes and burns. I don't think it will, but what if it does. And say that in about 10 years Paramount hired you to bring Star Trek back...what would you do? What would be your strategy to give TREK a new life. You have read mine...what would be yours?
here is my totally new STAR TREK
The TV show would depict events happening only fifty years in our future. It would center around man's first manned mission to mars. the one they are actually planning now...
The crew would go up there to mars and build a basic base that they will in turn have to live in for 18 months until coming home...
The first several episodes would introduce us to the crew before they even leave. Setting up the backstories as to who and what they are...but you get the picture. The crew of that ship will no doubt be multi-national, just like TOS was, in terms of humanity.
Captain Kirk. His family has been growing crops in Iowa for over a hundred years. But this son, James, became one of NASA's most decorated pilot/shuttle commanders. He will be in command of the mission.
Doctor McCoy. Also an American. His ability to think fast on his feet in medical emergencies is what the Mars program likes the most about him. He isn't the smartest Doctor..just the best.
Sulu...The Chinese pilot of the vessel.
Chekov. The Russian Navigtor.
Scott. The engineer who happens to hail from scotland.
Uhura; the communications officer who comes from Kenya or whatever.
And S.P.O.C.K. It is the the A.I. computer that will sheppard their journey. It also has a unique program that allows it to converse logic arguments with the captain, but also accept the human's arguments as well.
The first season of the show will be set-up. The midway point of season one will be the actual launch.
The remaining first season will deal with the six month flight to mars. And will end with them arriving at the space platform that is in orbit of mars. They will enter the lander and head to mars for the next part of their mission; landing on mars and building the space lab with the supplies that were sent ahead of them.
The show would not have any sentient alien life forms at all. No more bumpy headed aliens of the week. Just real science problems. Oh, they may find plant life, dangerous bacteria, things like that…but no Klingons or Vulcans. This really means; more part of our real world.
There is nothing wrong with those kinds of Treks, meaning what has come before, but this show would strive for more realism. And since the mission to mars will soon become something in our near future, this show would hopefully inspire a new generation of youth to perhaps want to be part of that undertaking.
I know it sounds pedestrian. I know it seems small in scale. But I think a more hands on approach, a show that the viewers actually think could happen, and soon, would be very successful.
So why call it Star Trek? Very simple You could use those iconic names; Kirk-Spock, but in a totally new way.
And, I would even go so far as to say this. After season three, and the Mars plots have been used, you could start the fourth season twenty years later. Advances in technology have made it possible to travel to the closest star. A new crew (Picard, Riker D.A.T.A) would staff that vessel…And maybe they might, once they get there, find some kind of sentient life. But that life would have to be something other than pirate like Klingons and walking computer zombies.
That is my total “NUKE STAR TREK” idea. Yes, it is very drastic. And yes, most of the current fan-base would never go for it. But if done with care and with the over riding goal of being depicted as ‘just beyond our finger tips’ in terms of the science in the stories, I think I could work. It would obviously be the end of STAR TREK as we have known it for over 40 years.
Where would the morality plays come in, which are so much apart of Roddenberry’s creation? The writers would find a way to deal with our issues. But I think the formula of watching bumpy headed aliens deal with issues that we face, but cloaked behind strange planet names and slightly different looking humanoids, has reached a point of saturation. Over 600 hours of that kind of story telling has been created. It would take you five weeks, non-stop, to watch all of them.
Okay…I will put on my bullet proof vest, and try my best to dodge the objects that will soon be thrown my way.
Okay, there is my NUKE TREK idea. Lets say JJ's TREK crashes and burns. I don't think it will, but what if it does. And say that in about 10 years Paramount hired you to bring Star Trek back...what would you do? What would be your strategy to give TREK a new life. You have read mine...what would be yours?
