Thinking about the antagonists that appeared week-to-week from the Original Series you see a lot of patterns emerge. The big one is just how many god-like super advanced non-corporeal aliens their are in the Universe. And it seemed that one thing they all had in common was thay looked down on humans as primitive but 'with potential.' Now with the reboot (yes it is a reboot) they have an opportunity to re-incorporate or re-imagine these creatures into a greater, more dangerous universe for the Enterprise to live in.
What I liked about the Narada from Star Trek XI was how completly out-gunned everyone was in dealing with it. The premise would be to recapture that sense of world ending terror without resorting to time-travel again to do find a good/formidable villain.
As a for instance, what if the Metrons from Arena weren't trying to teach Kirk and the Gorn a valuable lesson about compassion and non-violence by pitting them against each other? What if they interfered with these lesser aliens just for "shits and giiggles?" Violence and killing being the only things that interest them anymore these God-like aliens use their advanced technology to turn the galaxy into their own personal sand box.
What if the reason the Organians (the energy beings who single handedly put an end to the Klingon/Federation war) were never seen or heard from again not because they lost interest in our species or left our "plain of existence" but because they were actually at war with or keeping out something far far worse than anything our universe had ever seen before? Or for that matter the First Federation doing the same?
Imagine a whole swarm of Doomsday Machines moving through the Galaxy eating everything in their path.
What I'm proposing is definitely similar to the Vorlons and Shadows from Babyloin 5 but maybe not on that scale. In the same way that the Enterpise may defend a pre-industrial species from exploitation by, for instance, Klingons or Cardassians, the ancient aliens like the Organians or the Preservers protect younger races from larger and older threats we couldn't handle on our own.
What I liked about the Narada from Star Trek XI was how completly out-gunned everyone was in dealing with it. The premise would be to recapture that sense of world ending terror without resorting to time-travel again to do find a good/formidable villain.
As a for instance, what if the Metrons from Arena weren't trying to teach Kirk and the Gorn a valuable lesson about compassion and non-violence by pitting them against each other? What if they interfered with these lesser aliens just for "shits and giiggles?" Violence and killing being the only things that interest them anymore these God-like aliens use their advanced technology to turn the galaxy into their own personal sand box.
What if the reason the Organians (the energy beings who single handedly put an end to the Klingon/Federation war) were never seen or heard from again not because they lost interest in our species or left our "plain of existence" but because they were actually at war with or keeping out something far far worse than anything our universe had ever seen before? Or for that matter the First Federation doing the same?
Imagine a whole swarm of Doomsday Machines moving through the Galaxy eating everything in their path.
What I'm proposing is definitely similar to the Vorlons and Shadows from Babyloin 5 but maybe not on that scale. In the same way that the Enterpise may defend a pre-industrial species from exploitation by, for instance, Klingons or Cardassians, the ancient aliens like the Organians or the Preservers protect younger races from larger and older threats we couldn't handle on our own.
