It's not just a long shot, it's a super long almost impossible shot! If you even get a foot in the door (good luck with no agent and no experience) you need something that's not TNG 2 with a bit of DS9 thrown in, that's everyone's idea, where's the hook? You need something new, something interesting, something that immediately makes them think "I want to know more!", the Enterprise F having adventures in the aftermath of the Dominion War is not that.
Yep, I was expecting someone to come along and say something like that.
Even if it is a TNG 2 style concept (I've already thought about some unique qualities. I don't share absolutely everything here after all.), that's not necessarily a bad thing. I argued my point with a producer recently, that Hollywood is too busy trying to make everything "modern" and "edgy", and full of "unique twists", and it hasn't worked out the best for them. TNG in and of itself was, in essence, TOS 2, just in what was modern times for them, with a better budget and far better team working on it all around. It still took the core concepts of TOS, and how the show played out for the most part, but improved upon it.
Sure, it can't be a cookie-cutter clone, but that's the beauty of Star Trek; you literally have an entire universe of possibilities, with a new adventure always around the corner! It's basing off a formula that works, but still twisting things around just enough to make it unique. Sometimes those formulas are the best thing to go back to, just because of the fact that they worked.
As the producer said to me, in essence it's about this: "It’s just knowing why something works, having the content be unique, having a great script that does two things; proves your talent as a writer, and illustrates those intangible character relations and story elements that have proven to work time and again in series like MASH, FRASIER, etc. Building a career as a writer, finding enough success to be in a position of influence and access, and having the right project at the right time is what that path is about."
I feel if that original formula, that lightning in a bottle, can be caught again, then there's a chance. Where each series is truly unique is in the ship, the crew, and the adventures. It's about using the original formula, but branching out to unexplored areas to keep the adventure going, to help feed that "what happens next?!" feeling.
I think as it is, people DO want to know more, even without the series in existence as more than a concept yet. Time and again I keep seeing people say that they want a new series that expands on the future, not another milk run of the past.
Indeed, I'll try to have some "unique" traits to help with grabbing an executive's attention, but I feel what I need for my main selling points. One thing is certain though, there are people who want to see what happens next, and they need to focus on the people; not how to milk the franchise dry just for the sake of money, expecting people to just mindlessly watch and fork over the money because they slap something together.
While I probably went on for quite a while there, and heck I may not have changed your mind or even fully made sense due to my frequently awful capabilities of communicating my thoughts, but I'll start to wrap this up at what the producer last quoted me.
"”You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” – Wayne Gretsky""
So even if it doesn't seem highly likely, or there may be things that go against me, I'm gonna try my best to see this through. Even though I won't explain why, I have confidence that this has a chance. It's a passion for me, and one of the things that's made me the absolute happiest in an otherwise relatively boring and unenjoyable life, and even if it fails, at least I can say I tried to achieve something, and then start all over again until I succeed.
I may not be an insider, I may not have experience, but I do have a gift, and I want to make people happy. That should be what counts in the end.
