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I think that something just after Nemesis would be good. You could deal with the ongoing occupation of Cardassia, tensions with the Romulans, and maybe a mission to the Gamma Quadrant to occupy a season or two.

Besides, they've got the best uniforms and gadgets at that time, so why ruin a good thing?

Then again, as long as the characters are well-written and the technobabble is kept to a minimum, I'd watch pretty much anything.
 
2379 + Beyond.

A (yet-to-be-named) Legacy-Class starship (NOT the U.S.S. Voyager-A or the U.S.S. Enterprise-F,) & its' Captain/Crew. This ship features a far more blended crew (Arexians, Tellarites, Cardassian and Bajoran Civilian Delegates, Andorians, Ferengii, Binars, Trill, Caitians, Tzinkethi, etc.) that haven't been as visible for a while in 'Trek'. Especially now, with the advances made over the last few decades since Classic Trek in hollywood creature magic ("Farscape" being a good example,) and CGI.

"Star Trek: The Continuing Mission"
"These Are The Journeys...."

Starfleet has returned to its original purpose of pure exploration. The Borg have been silenced. The Klingons are content to bicker among themselves for control of The High Council and argue over the back fence with their immediate neighbors over routine trade disputes. The Tholians and other more nomadic, clandestine species such as The Gorn, Romulans, and Tzinkethi have decided to maintain an eyebrow-raising, unusually-discrete distance.
 
Ah the 22nd Century, we hardly knew yeah. My first instinct is for Enterprise's era to finish what it started. The Birth of the Federation. The Romulan Wars. I'm still entrenched, intent on seeing that piece of Trek's history.

But I've been watching a whole lot of classic westerns lately and I think setting a Star Trek series closer to First Contact could finally produce a proper space cowboy epic. Pioneers in a wild, lawless and untamed frontier. Explaining how Zefram Cochrane got the title "of Alpha Centauri" and how he spent his final days. Humanity openly defying Vulcan guidance, setting up it's first colonies and encountering our closest neighbour's inhabitants - an impossibly ancient race nearing extinction.

I guess I'm a contrary fan at heart. While most want to press on further and further into the future, it's the past I'm interested in... just not the rose tinted "back to TOS" agenda Paramount seems intent on specialising in. The received wisdom is that going backwards is wrong but I couldn't disagree more. Gene Roddenberry's creation of utopia was a thing of joy in the Sixties but I've always been more interested in how we got there and the sacrifices humankind had to make.
 
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Star Trek: Spot

The animated adventures of Data's cat, Spot, and his zany animal friends. Someone please shoot me for just writing that.
 
Romulan War epic would be awesome. It might prove difficult though because Feds(or was it USPA?) and Roms never actually saw each other til "Balance of Terror."
 
I'd like to see post-Dominion War or a real attempt at the Birth of the Federation premise but if Trek XI is a hit, I'd be perfectly happy with that set of characters and era being transferred to the small screen. Even if they can't lure the stars back to TV, there could be a new set of characters with the Big Guys being guest stars.
 
I think they should go into the future...20 years after Nemesis sounds good, but if they're really daring, they'd go beyond that...like around 3000.

Or they could also do a show from the point of view of a Romulan ship. Maybe it's just me, but I always thought that the Romulans were pretty cool.
I could see this at pretty much any given time, like around the Tomed Incident of 2311, the Khitomer Massacre of 2346 or around the time the Borg destroyed the Federation and Romulan outposts in the TNG episode "The Neutral Zone".
It could also take place after Nemesis. Let's say Federation-Romulan relations are getting better and as a sighn of good faith they take a Human on board of one of their ships.
All of those time periods could not only be used in order to explore the Romulan view of the Federation and the Klingons, but there would also be enough room to explore parts of the Beta quadrant never seen before. I mean during the time when the Romulans went into isolation regarding the Federation, they most likely had their hands full on the other side of their Empire.

The Romulan-Federation war sounds good (from any perspective), but the fact that they couldn't ever see each other would take some of the fun away (no boarding of an enemy ship etc.)
 
If a new Star Trek series is announced, what era would you prefer it to be set in.

I vote for a year or two post DS9/Voyager/Nemesis era. The current time period's to damn interesting to turn our backs on. And yes, I agree with the "best uniforms" comment. ;)

Incidentally, is it just me, or would anyone else like to see animated adaptions of some of the novels released as direct-to-dvd movies? I'm thinking computer animation, like Beowulf. I'd especially love to see the DS9 Relaunch done like that. Put that out and make it official Star Trek film canon.
 
Ah the 22nd Century, we hardly knew yeah. My first instinct is for Enterprise's era to finish what it started. The Birth of the Federation. The Romulan Wars. I'm still entrenched, intent on seeing that piece of Trek's history.

But I've been watching a whole lot of classic westerns lately and I think setting a Star Trek series closer to First Contact could finally produce a proper space cowboy epic. Pioneers in a wild, lawless and untamed frontier. Explaining how Zefram Cochrane got the title "of Alpha Centauri" and how he spent his final days. Humanity openly defying Vulcan guidance, setting up it's first colonies and encountering our closest neighbour's inhabitants - an impossibly ancient race nearing extinction.

I guess I'm a contrary fan at heart. While most want to press on further and further into the future, it's the past I'm interested in... just not the rose tinted "back to TOS" agenda Paramount seems intent on specialising in. The received wisdom is that going backwards is wrong but I couldn't disagree more. Gene Roddenberry's creation of utopia was a thing of joy in the Sixties but I've always been more interested in how we got there and the sacrifices humankind had to make.


I want to see this also. Star Trek with that kind of frontier-feeling you get from Firefly, plus all the unfulfilled promises from Enterprise and everything leading up to Pike.

I don't have much interest in the Lost Era to be honest, the films and the glimpses in the TNG/DS9/VOY are enough for me. I'd like to see a post NEM/VOY series, not too far into the future though. I'm picky :p If they did a series in this time frame, it's comforting to know that Picard, Riker, Kira and Janeway are still out there somewhere...

Then again, leaving that comfort zone might be what the franchise needs...
 
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