Star Trek: Dawn Of The Commonwealth Of Empires

[All Seeing Eye]

Romulus has been destroyed by the Hobus supernova and the Romulan Empire is in anarchy. Not just Romulus was destroyed, several other Romulan major colonies were wiped out during the devastation and a large portion of the Romulan ship building capability has been annihilated.
The remainder of the Romulan military begin efforts to ferry refugees to colonies further out and ferry supplies between planets, but morale is at an all time low and most of the Empire is at odds deciding on the next and best course of action.
The Federation has begun immediate deployment of ships and aid to help the Romulans, unfortunately due to a break down in communication within the Romulan Military and within the Empire many Romulans mistake the Federation aid ships as an attack by the Federation prompting fire fights between Romulan and Federation ships.
The Klingons thirsty for battle and eyeing this as an opportunity to attack the Romulan Empire are successfully being kept at bay by Federation diplomatic power and falsified intelligence documents purporting that the Romulans are still in a strong position to defend Romulan space, a report that is in fact false and the complete opposite of the truth, that the Romulan Empire is in turmoil and on the verge of collapse.
Many planets subjugated by Romulus have begun successful uprisings against the Romulans, many of which have begun communicating with the Federation requesting assistance and some requesting immediate membership of the Federation in the hopes of gaining Federation protection against Romulan reprisals.

On the far side of the Beta Quadrant however the plan to attack Romulan space is already set to take place. For months a cabal of Empires have been building ships and weapons, deploying ships to pre-attack locations sitting and waiting for the death of Romulus. This cabal of 6 Empires call themselves the Commonwealth of Empires. Individually no match for the Romulans or Klingons or Federation but together a powerful force to be reckoned with.
Only the Romulans have information about these 6 small Empires but knew nothing of their alliance. Neither the Klingons nor the Federation know of their existence.

Now as the Romulan Empire falls the Commonwealth of Empires launch their attack.

Will the Federation or Klingons go to war with the Commonwealth of Empires or stand by and allow them to conquer Romulan territory? Will the Klingons want in on the action and try to take as much of Romulan territory as they can? How will this affect the Federation/Klingon Alliance? Will the Federation try to protect the recently freed planets by granting them membership?

Watch the series to find out.

Do you like this future Trek idea?

 

[Kemaiku]

You "leave" TNZ giving us some peace for once just to go back to posting this shit?

 

[Dukhat]

You "leave" TNZ giving us some peace for once just to go back to posting this shit?

The thing is, it doesn't really matter what he or anyone else writes here. It won't have a chance in hell of ever being made, so he can write all the pointless space battles he wants, it won't make a bit of difference.

 

[Lindley]

You "leave" TNZ giving us some peace for once just to go back to posting this shit?

None of that, thank you.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I don't get the need for insulting the original poster...the idea reminds me of the concept of The Typhon Pact just on a larger scale.

 

[Kemaiku]

You "leave" TNZ giving us some peace for once just to go back to posting this shit?

The thing is, it doesn't really matter what he or anyone else writes here. It won't have a chance in hell of ever being made, so he can write all the pointless space battles he wants, it won't make a bit of difference.

I know, the only chance of seeing Trek back on television legitimately is going to be the new Abramsverse, if it turns out to be the Enterprise or just some other crew within the same continuity is up in the air, but there you go.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

UPDATE:

The Commonwealth unlike most other empires bought a lot of their technology and weapons from other races, most notably the Ferengi. One of the other methods for the Commonwealth to obtain advanced technology was hijacking the ships of other species, a number of Romulan, Klingon and Federation ships just to name a few that have gone missing and never found were in fact captured by the Commonwealth. Their ships were ripped apart and back engineered and on some occasions ship components were directly implanted onto other vessels and used to hijack further ships.

Eventually through these types of tactics and the purchasing of other technology, blueprints and information the Empires of the Commonwealth were able to design advanced ships of their own and manufacture products, weapons and components.
The Commonwealth stayed out of the lime light, keeping themselves to themselves, secretive. During the Dominion war they simply watched as the superpowers got weaker and weaker all the while they got stronger and stronger, building ships, starbases and weapons platforms and fortifying their homeworlds and colonies.

By the time the Dominion war was over and Romulus destroyed by the Hobus star the Klingons and Federation were extremely weakened and the Romulan Empire was on the verge of collapse. Even the Cardassians were nothing more than an echo of their former self.

The Commonwealth was now strong enough to take it's place as the new dominant superpower and to show that dominance they would conquer vast swathes of Romulan space.

 

[Scout101]

Other than being a war flick, where's the drama/what's the purpose?

It's the Typhon Pact by another name, or using stuff already on screen, another Dominion War. How does buying stolen tech from the Ferengi (behind the Alpha Quadrant curve) and stealing things from the AQ powers themselves, make the tech better than the Fed/Klingon/Romulan tech? If anything, wouldn't it be a bit behind, or equal at best?

I'm just not sure I see the point to the series, or why you'd want to watch. Is it more than just another Dominion War?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

It's the Typhon Pact by another name,

Well I'm going to have to look into that because before this thread I'd never even heard of it before.

Edit: I'd say that it's nothing like it. The Typhon pact actually has the Romulans a major part of it, it also encompasses several well known empires. I'm talking about brining in 6 new species and have very diverse and different histories and cultures to the races we're familiar with.

How does buying stolen tech from the Ferengi (behind the Alpha Quadrant curve) and stealing things from the AQ powers themselves, make the tech better than the Fed/Klingon/Romulan tech? If anything, wouldn't it be a bit behind, or equal at best?

It would be equal, I never said their tech was better or more powerful than the Feds or Klingons.

Other than being a war flick, where's the drama/what's the purpose?

I'm just not sure I see the point to the series, or why you'd want to watch. Is it more than just another Dominion War?

It's opening up the local Trekverse to a new power and influence, allowing for a lot of new storytelling. The Feds and Klingons wont necessarily be warring with the Commonwealth. But the now known existence of the commonwealth can open the door to many stories and ideas.

The Romulans also don't necessarily have to be wiped out or totally conquered. The Romulan Empire in the end will survive but will be much smaller and weaker leading the possibility and opportunity of having the Romulan Empire join the Federation.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

Who's in this Commonwealth?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Who's in this Commonwealth?

5 or 6 (not sure yet) Minor Empires located on the other side of Romulan space, an area of space unknown about to the Feds and Klingons but explored by the Romulans.
I'm still currently working on the bio for each species but will post it when I've finished it.

Just as a type of spoiler for one of the main plots, it turns out the Commonwealth was responsible for the Hobus star going supernova.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Other than being a war flick, where's the drama/what's the purpose?

Bingo.

Don't give us a lot of interchangeable battle shit. If you're going to mention "Romulan," then it's your job to finally give the Romulans a distinct and important persona within the Trek framework, like TOS/TNG did with Klingons and DS9 with Cardies. Write that story, and if you can pull it off by doing all battle shit, or no battle shit, more power to you. It would be a worthwhile accomplishment.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Other than being a war flick, where's the drama/what's the purpose?

Bingo.

Don't give us a lot of interchangeable battle shit. If you're going to mention "Romulan," then it's your job to finally give the Romulans a distinct and important persona within the Trek framework, like TOS/TNG did with Klingons and DS9 with Cardies.

Well that stands to reason. If the Romulans are going to be a main focus we'll be seeing a lot of them and learning more about them. We'll also be learning a lot about the Commonwealth and each member species and why they formed and especially why they're so hostile to the Romulans.

 

[Scout101]

Rather than just being a continuation of the current setup, though, what's the hook? What draws people in to make them watch this? IS it a war show? Political manueverings? Anyone doing any exploring of strange new worlds? See where this is going?

You've described an opening scene easily enough, but what's the draw? Where's the series GOING? Can't just say that "this is what would happen after Hobus blew up", because then you're starting with a lower viewership and heading down. Gotta give it SOMETHING that draws people in and makes them give a shit about the show, preferably without making them already be familiar with previous shows/movies. I see a book description, maybe a miniseries, but not a series yet. No drama, no goal to this yet. It's still either Dominion War or Articles of the Federation so far, and we've already done both of those...

 

[Maestro]

An interesting, but quite undeveloped concept. There is something, however, of great interest here... what's on the other side of the Romulan Empire? We don't know. And I think Tachy does give us a plausible concept of what might happen if the Empire was thrown into choas.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

LITTLE BACK STORY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

The Commonwealth comprises 6 average Empires, these Empires are:

The Alexian Empire.
The Mordack Empire.
The United Federated Territories of Maxalon.
The Delson Union
The Thordon Republic
The Abelandi Collective

Before the Romulan border extended as far as their Empires they regularly competed with each other for resources and territory, alliances were forged and broken a multitude of times as each Empire tried to gain the most power. Very little changed until the Romulan expansion came. The Romulan Empire being blocked on two fronts with the Federation and Klingon Neutral Zones began expanding the opposite direction. As the Romulans began to lay claim to resource rich and precious planets and territory the 6 Empires began to realise that the Romulans were a major threat.
In 2363 the Romulan senate authorised the invasion of The Thordon Republic. They put up a brave fight and managed to slow down the Romulan invasion. The Thordon Republic was able to persuade The Alexian Empire and The Mordack Empire to join forces with them when the Romulans began to fortify positions near to their territories.
In 2364 the 6 Empires agreed to a meeting for peace negotiations and a temporary military alliance to push back the Romulan invasion.
The talks were successful and a temporary alliance was created, the Romulans were now hitting a brick wall and realised the war would be more costly than they anticipated. They further fortified their positions and dug in deciding to build a stronger foothold for a much larger future war.
For the many years that followed the 6 Empires learnt to put aside differences and worked together to counter Romulan aggression.
As the 6 Empires grew closer and closer together they signed new treaties and agreements. In 2369 they created the Commonwealth, one of the main aims and goals of the Commonwealth was the destruction of the Romulan Empire.

For years the Romulan Empire had given them bloody nose after bloody nose, falling back to their fortified positions and then coming back for another round.
The Commonwealth created a special taskforce whose soul purpose was the acquisition of technology, ships and weaponry that could be used to hit back at the Romulans.

The taskforce quickly devised plans to hijack ships and steal technology. Over the years the technology, sophistication and power of the Commonwealth grew quickly and the Romulans found it more and more difficult to launch attacks.
Following the destruction of many Romulan ships the Romulan Empire offered a ceasefire and turned it's attention to the otherside of their Empire.

Since that time the Commonwealth has been growing and getting stronger ready to take their revenge.

 

[Training]

Wow that is really crap. No offence op.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Wow that is really crap. No offence op.

None taken.

 

[Training]

Wow that is really crap. No offence op.

None taken.

You know what. Since you took it so nice. I'll be more constructive.

The problem I have is that you focus all of your story on the whole Romulan Crisis. The fact is that Romulan Empire if you think about it logically is an empire. It has giant borders to protect and the vast majority of the population wouldn't even live in Romulus. If one Solar System (a really stupid piece) gets destroyed. It would not end the Empire just weaken it. The Bulk of the military,civilian and the political leaders would survive along with the infrastructure. All of this Romulan Empire falling down is just Soap storyline from the Books.


Ignoring that. You also have to remember you can't have an entire series on one storyline. It gets boring quickly. Since I'm assuming would be the general Trek idea of 1 captain,his Crew and his Ship/Station. They would have to get involved in other things.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

The problem I have is that you focus all of your story on the whole Romulan Crisis. The fact is that Romulan Empire if you think about it logically is an empire. It has giant borders to protect and the vast majority of the population wouldn't even live in Romulus. If one Solar System (a really stupid piece) gets destroyed. It would not end the Empire just weaken it. The Bulk of the military,civilian and the political leaders would survive along with the infrastructure. All of this Romulan Empire falling down is just Soap storyline from the Books.

I'd have to disagree with you there. Not just Romulus is gone but as I already mentioned a lot of other major colonies. The Hobus supernova was devastating to far more than just the Romulus system.
The Empire was pretty much run from Romulus and the Military run under the command of the senate and praetor which was, you guessed it, on Romulus.
With Romulus gone and no Empire running government to speak of what will happen to the Empire? It will fall into chaos, who is in charge? who will command the military? Will certain factions of the Empire and factions of the Military vie for control?

There are a lot of factors involved that can make the stories interesting and there is no doubt in my mind that the Romulan Empire will be in such chaos that it will devolve into a minor Empire.

When I think about the Romulan Empire the way I see it is you have Romulus at it's heart with the earliest colonies near Romulus with the larger populations and larger industry and ship building. Any colonies beyond that which escaped the nova would be smaller, more focused on resource mining and many of the planet on the Empires outskirts would likely be subjugated worlds with non Romulan populations which would, in the event of Empire collapse fight for independence.

I wanna point out that the series wont be entirely Romulan focused, it will also be Commonwealth focused, learning a lot about them and their history and motivations. I plan on the Commonwealth and the 6 species it comprises being a very interesting. Far more interesting than the Cardassians and Bajorans were on DS9.

The ship of the series will be a Federation starship initially sent to help the Romulans and then sent to Commonwealth space. It's other missions will be to explore the areas beyond Romulan space.

There are a multitude of story options that don't involve the Romulans OR the Commonwealth but they cannot be ignored, they are just as important as the Cardassians, Bajorans and the Dominion were to DS9.