Star Trek:Dysonsphere

[RobertScorpio]

If the new show took place post-VOYAGER.

This show would take place inside the dysonsphere they found. The team is mutil-species/governmental. A joint expedition with Feds, Klings, Roms...whatever. Not a big group, but at least 100 or so.

Suddenly war breaks out between the major powers. The doors of the Dysonsphere closes and now there is no way in..or more importantly...no way out.

The natural tensions between the different races are always present. But, also, it appears as if there maybe sentient life forms already inside the dysonsphere. And they are...waking up..

The Dysonsphere, by the way, is immense. The size is utterly hard to imagine, but just go on the web and read about it. Very interesting concept.

So..that is my idea.

Star Trek: Dysonsphere
starring..
William Riker. He just happened to be visiting and is stuck along with the others.

Holodoc...oh heck, why not?

Martok? Why would he be there? Who knows. Maybe someone in his family was being assigned there. Anyway, he would be the highest ranking officer there. Could you imagine him trying to command 100 or so scientists? That alone would be fun to watch.

 

[Kaziarl]

hmm... Think it out a little more, but so far I like it. Although I think bringing both Martok and Riker in would be to much like trying to just use them to attract an audience, which tends to make writers forget about the actual story.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Didn't the Dyson Sphere get destroyed when the Star it surrounded went nutty? also i'd rather like the idea of something similar to Stargate Atlantis where they explore the Dyson sphere and come across strange technologies and maybe even an Iconian gateway.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Good point. I don't know if the sun exlpoded but it was emitting high radiation. If it did, maybe they find another. Any speices with the ability to make one might have made another one.

 

[Red Ranger]

An interesting idea. I guess because the Dyson Sphere we saw in "Relics" was destroyed, you'd have to set it on another Dysson Sphere. Also, it does sound a bit like a short-lived SF TV show called, "The Starlost" from back in the 1970s. I think they were in some huge construct with many different societies, too. -- RR

 

[Kaziarl]

That piques my interest Red, can you find more info about it?

plzkthxbai

 

[Red Ranger]

Kaziarl said:
That piques my interest Red, can you find more info about it?

plzkthxbai

Kaziarl:

Here is the IMDB.com entry on the series:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069638/

Keir Dullea, who starred in "2001: A Space Odyssey," was one of the leads, and the series was created by science fiction author and all-around curmudgeon Harlan Ellison. The main characters were exploring a giant starship with many different societies living in it.

RR

 

[RobertScorpio]

interesting. But I don't anyone outside you and the producers' family members saw this show. I think it could still be done in a TREk way.

 

[USS KG5]

Has anyone played the game Mass Effect? This idea reminds me a lot of the hidden plot that I will spoiler code if anyone is interested.

 

[hellsgate]

"Star Trek: Vonnegut"
"To Seek Out New Lives, New Civilizations"

August 12 2380
1430 hours
U.S.S. Vonnegut
Osiris-Class starship
Captain Morgan "Bulldog" Bateson, C.O.

It's been three weeks since we've left the furthest Romulan-occupied sector. The parsecs ahead are all a jumble of out-of-date starcharts from the Tzenkethi to the First Federation. The Diplomatic Corps have sent their apologies for only being able to send ahead the spottiest records but the war's still got some of the Ferengii & others out here insisting on playing their cards as close to the chest as possible for now.

There were two Norexan-Class, two Galor-Class & three Klalath-Class vessels dispatched on this expedition but our team-mates have decided to remain discreet about their presence. As soon as we left Romulan space, they all eventually decided it was best to run cloaked.

So far, I've learned about unusually busy chatter coming through some civilian transports' subspace radio scanners. There shouldn't be any signals coming from out here at all, except for an occasional signal being bounced back at them. I've ordered a course correction and slowed speed to warp three. We're going to go knock on somebody's door and introduce ourselves.

1545 Hours

Captains' Log, Stardate: Supplimental.

We've discovered a massive artificial construct, spherical in nature, with several vessels flitting around it. Approximately eighteen ships at current count but that could change quickly.

The site's possibly Borg in origin. Our sensors are unable to ascertain any further details about its contents and general architecture due to the shell of the construct refracting our beams. The surrounding ships either can't or won't reply to our hails on all available frequencies. We've broadcast messages of peaceful contact in all Federation languages in our universal translator, including morse code just for good measure.

We're going to yellow alert.

http://www.furryconflict.com/tech/technopedia/klingon/starfleet/klalath.jpg

 

[Jack Bauer]

I wonder how many Dysonspheres are out there. I wish we had had an episode that dealt with another one and actually explored it more. You could get a season long arc out of it.

 

[Kaziarl]

At first thats what I thought thats what the sphere builders were doing. Atleast they kind of reminded me of the Dysonsphere. I kind of wonder if this was a construct of an older race that would place the younger races within so they could learn to get a long.

 

[USS KG5]

Jack Bauer said:
I wonder how many Dysonspheres are out there. I wish we had had an episode that dealt with another one and actually explored it more. You could get a season long arc out of it.

You would imagine not many - to construct one would require several million times the resources needed to build the whole of Starfleet - we are talking construction on an absolutely unbelieveable scale.

Of course the super advanced aliens involved probably would grow them using organic technology or similar but we would be talking a serious piece of real estate in anyone's books.

 

[Kaziarl]

Do you suppose temporal technology could be involved? We know two particles from different times can exist at the same time under certain conditions. The space time fracture that worf traveled to for example, although that was dimensional more then temporal I suppose. Something like that, where you take the material from different time periods or different dimensions, would make it some what easier. Especially since moving from one dimension to another is becoming easier, and it's not so much an accident anymore.

 

[Scout101]

Problem is, this concept seems to have been basically done already. Could even call it Star Trek: Ringworld. Just read the books. Hell, the Kzinti are even in it

 

[hellsgate]

I'd bring back the Sphere Builders from "Star Trek: Enterprise" and/or associate them with whiffs of the Pah Wraiths / Prophets of "Star Trek: DS9". Trillions of years ago, around the time of the Shatnerverse beings labelled "The Preservers" a series of incidents caused a building dissatisfaction with law & order as they understood it. Resulting in an ancient fracturing of philosophies, like the Vulcans & Romulans.

 

[AlxxlA]

Maybe a distant Dyson Sphere beams power to the Guardian of Forever.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Any race capable of building a Dyson Sphere like that seen in TNG is literally so advanced that its likely they evolved into Q like beings

 

[blockaderunner]

The problem with this is that it will eventually become yet another exploration show (instead of "planet of the week" it will be "different inner surface of the sphere week") riddled with Trekian cliches (alternate universes, time travel, the space gas that makes the crew act out of character, the god-like being that needs to taken down a peg, etc.). And heaven forbid if a showrunner tries to break out of Trek's limiting paramters in order to be innovative (You know, conceptually trying to "go forward" as opposed of the fan's literal definition of that term and have the setting in the 80th century or some other rediculous time setting), only to piss off the fans for not adhering to Roddenberry's "vision". Never mind that no one can agree on what his so called vision, outside of making a shitload of money and banging any cast member with a skirt, is. Sorry. I'll pass. Let's see what Abrams has in store.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

blockaderunner said:
Trekian cliches (alternate universes, time travel, the space gas that makes the crew act out of character, the god-like being that needs to taken down a peg, etc.).

You've hit the nail on the head, any writer who can write Trek episodes that don't have ANY of these 'cliches' in them will have an extremely successful and original Trek series. We need something new, even 'Enterprise' set in the 22nd century still had the same old Trek cliches such as beaming down to a planet and being affected by some kind of hallucinogenic drug. DS9 was the most successful Trek Series mainly IMO due to the Dominion War arc, it was something never seen before, fresh and unique even though the odd episode still had the same old cliches.
Trek needs completely new episodes with 100% original content, that's what will make the next successful Trek series.