New Trek series

[fractalsphere]

Sometime in the 29th or 30th centuries. Think of the Voyager episode Relativity.

It's 500 years after ST, DS9, Voyager - the Federation can comprise the whole quadrant or even more (up to half) of the Galaxy, with more Federation in the Gamma Quadrant through the wormhole. The Borg are still around, but there's an uneasy ceasefire with them - they also control a significant portion of the galaxy - other species and alliances are the unknowns in this series.

Slipstream drive can be used, but it should be limited to use of a few thousand LY at a jump (to make the galaxy a fairly big place still).


Also, there is now serious consideration of making the journey or communicating with other galaxies nearby.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I'd set it ten years after Nemesis. However, I think direction of the show is more important than era, and I'd go, regardless of era, for something like The Twilight Zone or Lost.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I think nBSG should come to Earth and find the 25th century federation .

LOL...

I would like to see a TREK show take place in the year 1286 A.D

Rob
Canary

 

[CorporalClegg]

Hard to say. I always wanted a Pike series or Enterprise-C series but with the new movie coming out, I'm not so sure.

I think a E-C series would be great. They could do something a little different with it like the finale becomes the pilot.

We all know how the show will end so like write the pilot as the end and then "set-up" the show via a series of flashbacks.

 

[Mrdjh]

Definately AFTER Voyager, no prequel!!!!....
Or even a show from an alien perspective...Romulans , Bajoran, Cardassian or even Klingon...get their point of view of events...their attitudes towards the Federation etc...
And DEFINATELY NOT a teen... Starfleet Academy kinda Melrose/90210-esque show..hehehe

 

[Quark]

50-70 years after DS9/TNG/VOY etc.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

I'd like to see a new take on the Enterprise era, taking full advantage of what the premise had to offer. In other words, real problems with technology and conflicts between races.

I'm simply not interested in going beyond the TNG era, simply because Trek writers seem incapable of creating real conflict and have an era where magic-like tech exists.

 

[Scout101]

20-30 years post-NEM would be fine.

 

[hellsgate]

Scout: I agree. It begins several years ahead at the end of an Officer's career. The series essentially chronicles how that officer ended up where he is, at his retirement party.

 

[GrumpyHillbilly]

I would like to see it pick up where Enterprise left off. And bring back Scott!(Yes, I was a quantum leap fan too!

 

[C.E. Evans]

No more prequels. Never again. Let the movies go where everyone and their momma has gone before if they must...

I'd like to see 25th-Century, circa 2460, with the Enterprise-H and a mix of new and old aliens and lots of stuff we haven't seen before.

 

[TEH BABA]

Why not a show that's on hbo or showtime and takes advantage of it. I sometim

 

[Garrovick]

A mix of Enterprise and the new movie.

Call it Star Trek: The Reboot do over.

 

[gunnermac]

A few years after Nem.
Perhaps following a group of settelers mixed of all kinda' races going to some place new looking for a new start. Kinda like a cowboy theme placed in space.

 

[roguephoenix]

well if the movie turns out well, any new tv series will use that canon to launch. this movie is serving as a reboot whether or not the makers want to admit it. hence, there will be no more shows based on the current universe we all know. any trek series will start from the new movie's universe and take it from there. that being said, as long as the new movie series is going well, they will hold off on any tv series... or set it far enough into the future of that movie universe that the movies won't interefere with the history that tv show will be creating or they will tread lightly.

 

[prometheuspan]

I'd like to see a new take on the Enterprise era, taking full advantage of what the premise had to offer. In other words, real problems with technology and conflicts between races.

I'm simply not interested in going beyond the TNG era, simply because Trek writers seem incapable of creating real conflict and have an era where magic-like tech exists.

yes, reading this all this is what i think 2. I'd love to see trek in the future
200 years from picard- but what would the drama consist of?

They already had trouble with that in TNG. I'm sorry but theres really only
one good era to have and really only one obvious missing premise to be explored. A TOS era secret missions or top secret "mission impossible"
team. Preferably with several small ships instead of one large one, and with
a much larger variety of species and aliens.

How long can we forestall transwarp anyways? Eventually, if you have warp
then you are going to get transwarp and etc- the current theory sez in any case you'd have to leave the universe- so theres not that much difference
between popping up 10 light years distant or 1 million light years distant.

TNG lost the original shows depth, lost its whole focus of telling moral
or "makes you think" type stories. Take away the advances in digital art,
IE read the books- and any tos story makes the average TNG story look slow moving and contrived. I mean, they were so out of material that
they took the borg from being some Q nightmare to actually being the new focus bad guys. For instance.

According to rodenberry, 24th century folks shouldn't argue or have personality conflicts- and i agree. Lets face it, what it would look like in any kind of sensible reality would be a bit boring for television- once you have had warp for over a hundred years people are going to settle down and quit
having biases and get saner and quit having personality quirks like we think of them.

So, as fun as it might be to glimpse trek in the year 3000, I just don't think it would make for good drama, and like a lot of these newer trek series, I wonder if it would really end up being trek- or something not quite as good as trek.

In all cases, IMO the newer series wasted their own premises by sticking to predictable plots and standard fare hollywood formula.
hollywood formula is not trek formula and the difference seems to escape most people. The formula of trek works because even tho they are out in space and even tho they have warp- the technology just isn't quite perfect yet and so there are serious threats and problems and a sense that something could short out at any moment.
IE; as strange as it may sound, original treks working formula includes an actual sort of technological primitivity. thats part of the formula because from that derives all kinds of drama. TNG could never match that forumla because the technology was more advanced, more dependable, and the Enterprise D or E could be presumed to be more or less the big bully starship in almost all encounters- short of Q introduced plot aids like Borg,
or movie villains.

 

[carenrose]

I'd like to see anything from the 5th season of ENT on (of course, now that Trip's dead, what's the point ... ) ... or perhaps the Enterprise-C, that sounds interesting. There's a lot of possiblity with the time immediately post-Nemesis, as Romulus has basically no government, it's also still right after the Dominion War, the Borg (although I think they've been done to death) ...

I've been working on my own story idea that takes place about 45 years after Nemesis. The majority of the characters are born right after the events in Nemesis, with one of them being *directly* affected by what happens in NEM ...

Yeah. I can't think of what I was originally going to say past that ... :P

 

[Jono]

I would like to see it pick up where Enterprise left off. And bring back Scott!(Yes, I was a quantum leap fan too!

I also don't think it would be a terrible idea to pick up a few years after Enterprise with a fledging Federation. It would at least give us a chance to see what happened in the Romulan Wars through some flashbacks.

Plus I think it would be cool if after a few years they then do the overlap stategy with a series set post-Nemesis. You could do some great ties between the series and I don't mean one crew time travels to visit the other...well not just that. You can tie some mystery across time that both ships get involved in. Sort of like that the SW comics are doing with Vector.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Whatever the series, I just want a return to episodes that make me think. Not just think about how it fits into continuity or where the quantam flux is on the ship, but about issues, about possibilities. A future series also needs to make space dangerous and mysterious again. TOS and early TNG got this, but TNG started making space a bit mundane in the 3rd season (A sacrifice we had to make for the vastly improved writing).

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

I would set it 300 years after Voyager. The Federation would encompass a lot of the Milky Way, making it hard to keep the peace. The Borg would be driven out, back to what we would learn was their home galaxy (all Borg, perhaps Andromeda galaxy). There would be conflicts as the Federation begins exploring other galaxies.

Or, alternatively, there could be a BSG take, in that the Borg had assimilated most of the Milky Way, forcing the Federation to begin rebuilding in the Andromeda galaxy.

What would the standard for travel be? It seems a shame to toss aside the classic Warp drive scenes. What about Quantum Slipstream? Or Transwarp? Folding space, subspace, fluidic space, wormholes? Speaking of which, does Transwarp require conduits or what? Do these have to be built?