What does the future hold? I wish I had a time machine.
Premise Is Irrelevant
- Thread starter FalTorPan
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Star Trek: The Boothby Adventures!
Ever think of trying your hand at writing screenplays? Throw a series bible in there and you could have a winner. Might not be able to sell to Trek but you could try original fiction. I've heard it's hard to sell pilots for series without prior experience but a movie of the week type production might be doable.
A good premise is better than a bad one, but I agree with the general philosophy that it's 95% in the execution.
DS9 had the worst premise (actually a premise that wandered all over the place) and was the best series. VOY had the best premise and was the worst series.
This stuff about how the 24th C is "tapped out" is bunk. A whole century, and a whole galaxy is "tapped out"? Ridiculous!
Even the much derided Starfleet Academy premise could work. It doesn't have to be 90210 in outer space with soap opera antics among hot twentysomethings and it doesn't have to stay in San Francisco. It could follow some mature but learning, serious young people into their first forays into space missions.
DS9 had the worst premise (actually a premise that wandered all over the place) and was the best series. VOY had the best premise and was the worst series.
This stuff about how the 24th C is "tapped out" is bunk. A whole century, and a whole galaxy is "tapped out"? Ridiculous!
Even the much derided Starfleet Academy premise could work. It doesn't have to be 90210 in outer space with soap opera antics among hot twentysomethings and it doesn't have to stay in San Francisco. It could follow some mature but learning, serious young people into their first forays into space missions.
