I'd watch it.
"Star Trek:Admiralty"
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So it would be the most realistic Trek series?
So far as spaceships and “pew pew” would allow. 
Except we've never met these people before, so (nearly) all their stories are new to us.
Prodigy is doing that now with Admiral Janeway.
All the shows are doing it, except the "admiral" is the captain.
I don’t think “Admiral” is actually a very exciting job. They seem to be primarily paper pushers (or, ok, padd pushers?). Certainly in the TOS movie era being promoted to Admiral was made to seem like a fate worse than death.
I would be interested in a West Wing type political-thriller Trek show, but given how badly received DS9’s early political shows were with the wider audience, and the general dumbing down of a lot of TV, I don’t think it will ever happen.
I would be interested in a West Wing type political-thriller Trek show, but given how badly received DS9’s early political shows were with the wider audience, and the general dumbing down of a lot of TV, I don’t think it will ever happen.
Conceptually speaking, I agree. However...
Unless they had Aaron Sorkin West Wing-level writers doing treatments for such a show, it would probably suck. WW had an amazing ability to capture the idealism of politics without getting mired in the zealotry (and, sadly, the reality) of said-politics. I'm not a lefty by any stretch, but I loved that show and watched it from start to finish. It was brilliant and thought provoking and it never painted anyone to the right of Chairman Mao as a fascist, as is often the wont of today's media IRL, while still having the main people (true to character) expressing their displeasure at "the other side", but still willing to compromise. They even made some really good one-liners about it, such as Josh (Bradley Whitford) speaking of Republican Speaker Walken (John Goodman) as "being against waiting periods for grenade launchers". LOVED that line! The writers would really need to be on top of their game at ALL times to bring the rain and I don't know if anyone would have it in them to keep up such a pace.
WW truly was a once-in-a-generation show. We'll probably never see its like again.
Unless they had Aaron Sorkin West Wing-level writers doing treatments for such a show, it would probably suck. WW had an amazing ability to capture the idealism of politics without getting mired in the zealotry (and, sadly, the reality) of said-politics. I'm not a lefty by any stretch, but I loved that show and watched it from start to finish. It was brilliant and thought provoking and it never painted anyone to the right of Chairman Mao as a fascist, as is often the wont of today's media IRL, while still having the main people (true to character) expressing their displeasure at "the other side", but still willing to compromise. They even made some really good one-liners about it, such as Josh (Bradley Whitford) speaking of Republican Speaker Walken (John Goodman) as "being against waiting periods for grenade launchers". LOVED that line! The writers would really need to be on top of their game at ALL times to bring the rain and I don't know if anyone would have it in them to keep up such a pace.
WW truly was a once-in-a-generation show. We'll probably never see its like again.
It's a good idea.
If the show lifted directly from Blue Bloods and they were all from one family though, this I how i'd imagine it would go...
- The admiral - the family patriarch or matriarch - with his/her inner circle at work. Maybe they are stationed at a Starbase on a far away colony, or they are stationed on Earth.
- The older sibling is a commodore that’s head of Starfleet Security, married to someone at Starfleet medical and has kids with them, and has a revolving door of adjutants
- The middle sibling in the Starfleet JAG Corps raising an only child who want to be a Starfleet officer
- The younger sibling who is a middle decker serving on a starship, and falls for a lower decker
- Another sibling that died in duty as captain and had a long lost child with someone from their days at the Academy
- The retired admiral, the admiral's father or mother, who served in Starfleet many decades ago
Now with the added twists of that admiral is taking down badmirals within Starfleet while having regular therapy sessions with a Dr Melfi-type character, and occasionally butting head with both the Chief of Staff of Starfleet and the UFP President. That might be very interesting to watch.
Absolutely. Given how often TNG, DS9, and even TOS trotted out the "evil admiral of the week" trope, something's got to counterbalance that to restore Starfleet in a way that makes trotting out the evil one again to be genuinely credible again.
VOY was lucky in that they were so far out... unless you consider Janeway herself based on the contingent of fandom that keeps saying "Why was she promoted when she should be in the brig?"
The problem is that it will be expensive, as you will need more than one star ship bridge (I forget the English word for this) to shoot. Usually they need only build 1 ship bridge and the corridor for the shooting. But with this, they have build several. Unless they make it animated.
They could reuse the same sets to represent multiple starships. Not exactly a radical concept, as indeed the animated Lower Decks does this in that all California and Parliament class ships have the same interiors and even the Luna class Titan has similar interiors, just altered to Sovereign class livery. For a live action precedent, Picard used the same sets for the bridges of the Stargazer, Titan A, and Enterprise F (though in that case it was slightly modified).
Actually, I don't even understand your comment about having to build "several corridors." Trek of yesterday used the same set for Starfleet corridors all the way from TMP in 1979 to the end of Voyager in 2001. So there's absolutely no reason why a show set on multiple ships would need more than one set for their corridors.
Actually, I don't even understand your comment about having to build "several corridors." Trek of yesterday used the same set for Starfleet corridors all the way from TMP in 1979 to the end of Voyager in 2001. So there's absolutely no reason why a show set on multiple ships would need more than one set for their corridors.
Just found this Thread, and I do like the idea!
Like @Nerys Myk suggested, do it a la West Wing-ish.
Could be good!?
Like @Nerys Myk suggested, do it a la West Wing-ish.
Could be good!?
LD may well be doing it as a joke (it's a way of poking fun at Trek's penchant for reusing sets).
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Do we really need a show about bureaucrats sitting in conference rooms and offices and experiencing fictional drama that is either
- so removed from modern sensibilities as to be unrelatable
- or so blatantly based on real world global politics as to be uncomfortable?
The only thing more boring than suits around an office table is a crime/legal show.
We’ve seen Picard and Starfleet get castrated in a post-captain-era show. I don’t need that again.
- so removed from modern sensibilities as to be unrelatable
- or so blatantly based on real world global politics as to be uncomfortable?
The only thing more boring than suits around an office table is a crime/legal show.
We’ve seen Picard and Starfleet get castrated in a post-captain-era show. I don’t need that again.
What an odd thing to say.
Well, and not only that, but lets get rid of the stupid bad admiral trope and actually show a flag officer who is good at their job, who cares about the people under their command and weighs the decisions with each steps, rather than what we usually see which is flag officers snapping out orders for seemingly no good reason and our leads go "That's stupid."
It's an opportunity to do "Upper Decks" and show leadership in a positive light.
A lot of my ideas tend to trend that way when it comes to Trek, even when I am trying to theoretically keep it within or under budget.
I imagined it to be DS9 all over again – command center, crew quarters, and promenade for the starbase set that could be used to represent multiple starbases. Then a starship bridge, corridors, and maybe a mess hall and crew quarters and could be redressed to represent other ships when necessary (they redressed a lot of the Ent-D set for the Ent-A and the Excelsior) . And one or two sets for planet of the week.
A bigger version of DS9.
But I'm curious, what is the admiral role in Starfleet actually?
- Are they politicians? Diplomats? Or are they the commander of an armada?
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