"S.T.: Temporal Cold War"

[hellsgate]

As Mahler5 asked, wouldn't it be cool to see a Temporal Cold War story a-la "Enterprise Squared".

A collection of kids, ranging in age from their tweens to young adulthood are set off on an adventure of a lifetime by a larger authority (sometime after 2379) to prevent a disaster.

Or they independently take upon themselves to initiate a series of 'trial & error' style alternative timelines, to find one that evades a collapse of The Federation / Starfleet by The Fury, The Borg, The Hur'q, Terra Prime, Section 31, The Dominion or perhaps someone from within the Alpha Quadrant Alliance?

I could see kids jettisoned in escape pods from the U.S.S. Premonition during a pivotal struggle.

 

[JNG]

Smacks of fanfic

 

[hellsgate]

Of course it smacks of fan-fic, as it would make for an enjoyable read on a lazy sunday with nothing better on TV. Secondly, I'd love to see a new Trekified "teen titans" with its own far-better-developed 'Wesley'-style character as the group's de-facto leader.

 

[INACTIVESamusAranX]

Oh for Shatner's sake.

 

[Starhawk]

Please no. The Temporal Cold War, IMHO, killed Enterprise series.

 

[hellsgate]

I'm not saying it would be a TV series, but an amusing fan fic idea.

 

[blockaderunner]

I'm not saying it would be a TV series, but an amusing fan fic idea.

Then you should have explained that in your first post. It pretty much looked like you were pushing for something filmed, especially when you said that it would be cool to "see" certain things. You can't see much in written fiction. Unless its in the mind's eye. If that's the case, then you should have said something to the effect that "it would be cool to read about...." and describe your scene. Just admit that you tested the waters and tried to propose your pet project for Series VI and once the sharks smelled blood and closed in, you backpedaled and tried to revise your original position that your idea is more suited for the little read fanfic realm and not the more widely viewed filmed arena. Honesty is the best policy.

 

[hellsgate]

Blockade Runner: Understood. I'll make it so. Ok, as the guy said, it would be awesomely cool to read about a small clutch of kids sent back from a point in time after "Nemesis", (likely from the U.S.S. Premonition,) in a borderline-futile attempt to avert the loss of their ship, the entire Federation and/or Starfleet.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

How about if the story was done without kids?

I'm not saying it would be a TV series, but an amusing fan fic idea.

Wrong forum.

A time travel TV series would be difficult to pull off well. The Beebs tried to do it by cheating - withholding key elements like who are the antagonists, what are their goals, and what are the rules of the game - because revealing a lot would require extremely careful writing for it all to make sense and that was probably more effort than they were willing to put into it.

You don't need to explain all the rules immediately, but you have to reveal enough that the audience doesn't start to suspect you just don't have a coherent story at all, and you're trying to hide it.

Lost has embarked on what appears to be a kind of temporal cold war plotline, at least for part of the story. It might serve as a test case for the way to do these kinds of stories right: how to dole out just enough info to keep it interesting and suspenseful and not make the audience rebel.

 

[hellsgate]

Temis: You're quite correct. If there were ~alot~ of back & forth time travel involved. A lot of coordination between timelines, enemies & heroes. I'm thinking of a one-way, winner-take-all story. The "kids" are sent back with no idea of what went wrong in the first place, & no way to get back. The vehicle was an ~escape pod~, not a Relativity or Aeon-Class ship. All they can do is lay low & avoid the few jerks that made life difficult for them in the first go-around & try to make things right based on prior life experience. They have to trust someone & they have only a fundamental grasp of 2360's-to-2380's Starfleet Life to help them make the next few decisions.

 

[blaXXer]

God, that sounds AWFUL.

 

[sidious618]

The Temporal Cold War was an absolutely fantastic idea, terribly executed. Not to mention that they did, essentially, nothing with it.

 

[blockaderunner]

The Temporal Cold War was an absolutely fantastic idea...

Huh? How was it absolutely fantastic? How would it have been any different from Voyagers or Time Tunnel or Quantum Leap or 7 Days or any time travel series that involved with fixing up the timeline?

It would have ended up not with just Space Nazis, but Space Confederates or space Commies or Space Moors or any group on the losing side of history that gets a boost form some alien interloper.

 

[hellsgate]

Sidious & blockaderunner: That's where I ~WOULDN'T~ go. The point of the story is to correct one very specific point in the kids' future-history, not re-write/re-boot an entire era. The Temporal Prime Directive would still be in effect & as members of Starfleet/United Federation of Planets they must avoid contaminating the timeline beyond the absolutely-necessary to protect their own existence, and anyone else's. They know the Relativity or the Premonition would be sent to stop them from doing any kind of significant damage & they're half-hoping that'll be enough to get them back home. But the only question then is how they'll get the Relativity or Premonition's attention up-time without endangering themselves in the past or alerting enemy factions to their position?