Star Trek Law. Star Trek Med. Star Trek Fire.
See you in court
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I've been thinking about that. Part of me thinks it could work whine another part says no. What makes a show Star Trek? Is simply putting a story in that setting with the uniforms, aliens, and treknobabble enough? Could you literally do "A Few Good Men" as Star Trek?
Back in the 90s they did a show called "Mercy Point." It was a scifi ER or Chicago Med. Flopped. Didn't even last the entire season.
Substitute "Rescue Team" for Fire.
Yes. Trek has never shied away from scrubbing the serial numbers off a contemporary drama and painting over with "Star Trek."
"Twelve Logical Vulcans".
But how well has it done so? Insurrection was at one point in production described as being based on "Hear of Darkness". It ended up being far from "Apocalypse Now."
On the other hand, SNW just gave us both "Alien" and "Enemy Mine" (which was a remake of "Robinson Crusoe on Mars"). Those were not terrible.
Aye, there's the rub.
“Son, we live in a Federation that has neutral zones —unseen, unspoken—and those zones have to be guarded by people who will never be acknowledged. Who’s going to do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I carry a responsibility you could never begin to fathom. You weep for T'Spagio, and you curse Section 31 in the shadows. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That T'Spagio's death, while tragic, probably preserved entire worlds. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, safeguards the Federation.
You don’t want the truth because, deep down, in places you don’t talk about in your tidy Starfleet reports, you want me in that zone. You need me in that zone. We use words like duty, protocol, and security. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent protecting a civilization that pretends it’s outgrown such things. You use them as a punchline.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to someone who rises and sleeps under the blanket of safety that I provide, and then questions the means by which I provide it. I’d prefer you simply said ‘thank you’ and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a phaser and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to.”
You don’t want the truth because, deep down, in places you don’t talk about in your tidy Starfleet reports, you want me in that zone. You need me in that zone. We use words like duty, protocol, and security. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent protecting a civilization that pretends it’s outgrown such things. You use them as a punchline.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to someone who rises and sleeps under the blanket of safety that I provide, and then questions the means by which I provide it. I’d prefer you simply said ‘thank you’ and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a phaser and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to.”
I don't even want to think how Star Trek Fire would work out... At least the first two are conceptually viable, but if Starships are on fire, you're either being fired on or it's time to bail.
And whoops, there go some red shirts.
Here are some sexy shirtless firemen to distract people from thinking...I don't even want to think how Star Trek Fire would work out... At least the first two are conceptually viable, but if Starships are on fire, you're either being fired on or it's time to bail.
Oh, I wasn't even thinking of the fireteams. I was thinking more about the fire itself...
I wouldn't call Enemy Mine a remake of Robinson Crusoe on Mars. The stories are quite different. The Martian (2015) is also about an astronaut marooned on Mars, but I don't consider it a remake of RCOM.
I don't even want to think how Star Trek Fire would work out... At least the first two are conceptually viable, but if Starships are on fire, you're either being fired on or it's time to bail.
Each week the hero ship responds to a distress call. Sometimes it's a ship that was attacked and on fire, next it's a colony that was attacked by a space entity, the following week it's a planet being bombed by meteorites.
USS Rampart out of Space Station K-51
"Enemy Mine" also bears a debt to Hell in the Pacific, a 1968 war movie about an American and a Japanese soldier stranded together during World War II . . . .
The trouble is Star Trek's desire to depict the Federation as Perfect. Perfection is rarely attained anywhere, and if it were it would not make for good drama. At least, the adaptation of the Few Good Men speech doesn't really work for Starfleet. (Maybe it would for Section 31.)
That's more the fault of TNG, and of VOY to a degree.
DS9 certainly showed some of the cracks of the Federation... and so does TOS. Certainly with how humans are portrayed in TOS, at least. It's another reason why DS9 was the best spinoff in the franchise and the truest to the spirit of it.
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