Even with replicators there would still be intellectual property wouldn't it? You could design something and take ownership of its distribution so that even with a replicator you have to buy the rights or software program to replicate it. Restaurant chains would make special recipes for food or drinks that only their replicators have the required program to produce. Holosuite programs, books ... I guess that won't generate a large enough capitalist market though.
So what would you like CBS to do with a new Star Trek TV show?
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Holosuite programs ought to be quite profitable. Remember how Quarks eyes would go glassy every time he mentioned 'Vulcan Love Slave'?
I'm curious about that program myself. How kinky do Vulcans get? What will they/won't they do? Can any Human handle them or would I have ot be in really good shape to survive the experience?
No.
Why not?
That would be waaaaaaay better than the idiotic ideas for Cat-people and Dolphin crew members I've seen tossed around on here.
Those ideas suck too, especially when they were tried in TAS (Cat people) and SeaQuest (Dolphins).
Mixing Star Wars and Star Trek is idiotic fan-wonk and it doesn't work. Those two universes don't mesh together.
I don't think there should be another ST series for at least ten years. Let the movies have their due for now, and when enough time has passed, then make a series.
When they do, I'll like to see a Starfleet Academy series set right here on Earth, no-tights-no-flights style at first. I think it should be set around the time of the Enterprise-B, and after a four-year run of the cadets at the Academy, the format changes slightly and the cadets can go to different ships. There could be two or three on the E-B, but this would be lower ranks stuff with only guest appearances by the command crew for away missions and the like.
When they do, I'll like to see a Starfleet Academy series set right here on Earth, no-tights-no-flights style at first. I think it should be set around the time of the Enterprise-B, and after a four-year run of the cadets at the Academy, the format changes slightly and the cadets can go to different ships. There could be two or three on the E-B, but this would be lower ranks stuff with only guest appearances by the command crew for away missions and the like.
If I were to do a new Star Trek series, I'd say make it Kirk's first 5-year mission, in the real Trek universe, not the JJ-verse. Go ahead and changes some things on the ship, use Vektor or deg3D's ships as a basis, and make some moderate updates to the bridge and sets - more detail and an engineering with an actual warp core. Use the same actors as in the movie, have Vulcan still be there (i.e. - it doesn't get blown up), and give us a good look at Captain Robert April and Captain Pike, and have some links to Enterprise if for nothing else but tying that series into the original series. I'd bring more Klingons, Romulans, Gorn, etc., if only for when they advance the story, and instead of space hippies, I'd use socialist/fascist radicals who believe in absolute control and eugenics, if only because hippies are bit out of fashion, and it could also tie in to Khan. I'd also avoid the Spock/Uhura thing from the movie.
RobertScorpio
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If they ever handed out "BEST POST" in a thread awards....this one would win. Great post Brother Benny..
Rob
That sounds incredibly boring. Academy? You know what most people do there? Study. I don't think most people can stomach a teen soap opera. Also the job of the low ranked people is incredibly boring. Who wants to see a guy clean plasma manifolds?
What happens if the ship is attacked? We're not going to see anything because only the senior staff have the full details.
RobertScorpio
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All good points..
The only thing they could do that would generate any kind of buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz would be an adult themed show on SHOWTIME or HBO. Other than that, Star Trek TV just isn't going to work again for along time...
Rob
Oh dear, you seem to have forgotten that the new movie has killed any chance of any future live-action Trek taking place in the prime-universe. Unless you're referring to the nu-Enterprise-B, in which case that's a rather arbitrary time-period.
Shazam, we're talking about a TV series here, not a new film. There is no reason why Captain Harriman's Enterprise could not feature on a television show, considering the two are now run by separate studios. Paramount Pictures deals with the films and CBS/Paramount deals with the TV side of things.
Alternatively, we could have a Star Trek spin-off. Roddenberry couldn't get Assignment: Earth off the ground in the sixties, but with today's technology it would work really well. Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln or even totally different characters preventing WW3...
Alternatively, we could have a Star Trek spin-off. Roddenberry couldn't get Assignment: Earth off the ground in the sixties, but with today's technology it would work really well. Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln or even totally different characters preventing WW3...
RobertScorpio
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I have always said that a GARY SEVEN show would work now...now that the TREK timeline, even in the past, has been changed.
Greg Cox should be hired to write a GARY SEVEN show because he has experience in this kind of TREK concept...
Rob
I really liked that episode of Trek and could easily see Gary Seven done as a series, start one season on earth today or the 60's, have the season finale involve the new crew somehow, then for season two they could also take inspiration from the books and bring in the involvement of Khan. Gary Seven could be a lot of fun but only if done correctly, it could easily be executed in a terrible way too.
I don't think we need to have any Star Trek in it at all. The concept works well on its own, an alien race tries to help humanity save itself through taking people and breeding strength and intelligence into them and providing them with a strong moral compass. Once you start adding trek into it, you mix it up needlessly. die hard fans would know it was trek, but no one else needs to--therefore no complaining about it being not trek.
You obviously are forgetting all those "no new Trek for ten years" posts after ENT got cancelled. It hasn't been ten years yet, so why hasn't Star Trek XI crashed and burned and ruined the franchise through "overexposure" like our resident Cassandras warned?
Face it people all this "Trek must go away for X years" is just nonsense. There is always a market for good stuff, and no time limits apply.
However, I'm open-minded about the Academy idea.
Then the series would deal mainly with the portion of the curriculum that takes place in space, with cadets on training missions.
