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Sell your Series VI idea in a paragraph...

Section 31

I thought about this the whole time I was at work.

Star Trek: Section 31 or just Section 31

It is sort of like a cross between the premise of Alias, the moral grey areas, politics, plot and character arcs, and writing of DS9 and the cheap titillation of Enterprise.

The main story starts 1 year after the end of the Dominion War, when our S31 agent is recruited into the organisation.

This part is basically a short synopsis of her backstory:

She (no name yet, kind of looks like Amy Acker) was a Starfleet Intelligence operative, say a Lieutenant or Lt. Commander, working and living on Betazed with her lover (man or woman, don't really care). Anyway, Betazed is invaded by the Dominion, her lover is killed, and she is imprisoned. She escapes and starts up a resistance cell that commits an important piece of sabotage that allows the Feds to liberate the planet. She is offered counseling for her prison ordeal (more of that will be brought up later in the series) and is referred to someone who turns out to be Sloan and they become friends; he's sort of grooming her to become an agent without her picking up on it, as she did some pretty damn awesome shit. After the end of the war, she ends up working on Admiral Ross's ship and later is recruited into S31 by some other higher up agent in the organisation - Sloan is, of course, dead.

Anyway, in the pilot, she does her first mission and finds out that Betazed's invasion was set up by S31 for some important strategic gains during the war. So she's royally pissed off and wants to take down S31, but is still working for them so she can destroy them from the inside. Admiral Ross helps her along the way. She basically does assignments for S31 while trying to gather information and partially sabotage them without getting busted by them, since S31 are the masters of JUST AS PLANNED.

Garak, Bashir, Koval from DS9's "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" and a female Romulan operative in tight black leather appear as recurring characters. The TNG crew and Quark make cameos in the pilot.

I'm thinking our protagonist is a charming, happy-go-lucky character, with a sly wit, well hidden guile and cunning and some bottled up rage and PTSD that manifests itself every time we need a character development scene. Also, bisexual.

It's a series about grey area politics, characters, intrigue, espionage and deus ex machina-like plans put in motion by Alpha Quadrant superpowers. And maybe the occasional neuropressure scene with the Bellerophon's female Vulcan masseuse.
 
Star Trek: Kitomer Accords

Series VI in a paragraph?

Well, that's easy. Set the series after the events of Star Trek VI. And call it Star Trek: Kitomer. It would focus on the newly formed friendship and alliance with the Klingons and the looming war with the Romulans. Go back to the classsic movie-era ships and red tunic/black pants uniforms. Set the series on one of the big Mushroom Federation space stations orbiting Kitomer. And for external excursions, have one or two main ships, probably the Excelsior, and perhaps a Lexington class command ship. Basically take ship designs from the old PC game "Klingon Academy" which ironically took place after Star Trek VI. *DUH!*
 
Re: Star Trek: Kitomer Accords

^^^I like it.

Unlike a good number of other folks who replied, you kept to the creative restraints of the exercise.

If a new Trek series can't be summed up in a paragraph, it's premise relies far too much on established lore and is thus already in danger of being passed on.

Of course, no one's making any new Trek series now, and I doubt anyone will be for a good while. At least until after Trek XI's performance is gauged.

That said, there are a lot of great ideas here. Too bad we can't all get a series locked in, and then all write for it...

\S/
 
Re: Star Trek: Kitomer Accords

Superman said:
^^^I like it.

Unlike a good number of other folks who replied, you kept to the creative restraints of the exercise.

If a new Trek series can't be summed up in a paragraph, it's premise relies far too much on established lore and is thus already in danger of being passed on.

Of course, no one's making any new Trek series now, and I doubt anyone will be for a good while. At least until after Trek XI's performance is gauged.

That said, there are a lot of great ideas here. Too bad we can't all get a series locked in, and then all write for it...

\S/

I've been pushing that idea for quite some time. With today's level of CG, they could do an awesome rendition of TM-era ships and Sf/x. And the thing that I would get away from is that this series would not include any previous characters. Oh, maybe perhaps Michael Dorn as some "Worf" decendant, but that's about it. And possibly a prior Vulcan and/or Romulan, but the new show, if based in that time period would need a whole new cast. The trouble is that every actor that played characters in that era (including Trek VII: Generations) are too old now to reprise their roles. Even Alan Ruck is too old now.
 
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