STAR TREK: INFINITY

[PDX Trek]

With all the emphasis on Trek XI, I thought it would be fun to throw out some more series ideas. Here's one that hit me in the shower:

Star Trek: Infinity

Setting: USS RELATIVITY

Captain Braxton and crew travel through time keeping history intact.

We see inportant moments in Star Trek history and history - from "before our sun burned hot in space" up to the 29th Century.

Possible Situations:
*Behind the scenes of established trek stories ala "Trials and Tibbleations".
*Moments when the odds were stacked against a Starship crew where they recieve a "lucky break" care of Relativity and her crew.
*Observation missions
*Setting things straight
*Minimizing temporal interference

Possible Guest Characters:
*Gary Seven & the Ageis
*Guardian of Forever
*Q
*Future Guy

Thoughts?

 

[Darth_Pazuzu]

I don't know...I think the only way a film like that could ever work would be if it was a satire. I think that could be an interesting idea for a series of novels or comics.

 

[SeamusShameless]

Sounds kind of like Dr. Who. But it could work as a Star Trek series. It'd be something new.

 

[Balthier the Great]

Why not just make it Gary Seven: Time Defender?

I think it would work better -- it would be less complicated. Hopefully Seven would be the anti-Jack Bauer.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I always thought a tv series based on Assignment: Earth would work. I'm sure if there was one some people would think it was a rip off of X-Files and Doctor Who.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I would love to see a Gary Seven series...

Admiral Young

 

[PDX Trek]

You know, I like the Gary Seven idea, in fact so did Gene Roddenberry as "Assingment Earth" was a kind of pilot for a new series about the adventures of Mr. Seven and Ms. Lincoln. (Oh and Isis, of course... sorry kitty)

I suppose you could have the occasional trip to the future or even a visit or two from characters from all 5 series.

 

[SeamusShameless]

The Eugenics Wars books by Greg Cox kick ass. They follow Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln in their dealings with the young Kahn from the mid-seventies to the mid-nineties. It's cool how he mixes in actual historical events from those periods and places the characters in the action.

 

[fudgefase]

They never really followed up "Conspiracy" (TNG) in any subsequent series. After all, the last we knew the "cratures" had just sent out a message home to let them know where Earth was, so it ended on a sinister note but was never tackled again.

 

[cardinal biggles]

^It was originally intended that the "Conspiracy" insectoids would be sort of 'advance scouts' for the Borg, who were foreshadowed in the Season 1 finale "The Neutral Zone," and we got to meet for real in "Q Who."

According to one of the novels in the DS9 Relaunch, the insectoids are genetically manipulated Trill.

 

[hellsgate]

I'd love to host "Star Trek: Infinity" at my anthology site for novice, unpolished writers.

http://www.geocities.com/trekwriter31/FanFic.html

 

[fudgefase]

What about the very under-used species 47... whatsit - the ones that could beat the Borg. They rocked!

 

[Cary L. Brown]

cardinal biggles said:^It was originally intended that the "Conspiracy" insectoids would be sort of 'advance scouts' for the Borg, who were foreshadowed in the Season 1 finale "The Neutral Zone," and we got to meet for real in "Q Who."

Is that true? That's the first time I've ever heard that one. I never got any clear indication of that... but that doesn't mean that people on the staff didn't originally intend that.

According to one of the novels in the DS9 Relaunch, the insectoids are genetically manipulated Trill.

Yeah... which sort of makes sense, but I got the impression from that novel (the DS9 relaunch novels are the last book series I actually ENJOYED and thus really followed) that they weren't "manipulated" so much as they were just an offshoot subspecies. Again, did I miss something there?

 

[blockaderunner]

cardinal biggles said:
^It was originally intended that the "Conspiracy" insectoids would be sort of 'advance scouts' for the Borg, who were foreshadowed in the Season 1 finale "The Neutral Zone," and we got to meet for real in "Q Who."

According to one of the novels in the DS9 Relaunch, the insectoids are genetically manipulated Trill.

I read that the Starfleet admirals in "Conspiracy" were originally supposed to act on their own, without any outside influence. But Roddenberry through his lawyer put the kibash on that idea, stating that it would have flown in the face of his "perfect humans" ideology he was pushing on TNG. Pretty dumb if you ask me.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Cary L. Brown said:

cardinal biggles said:^It was originally intended that the "Conspiracy" insectoids would be sort of 'advance scouts' for the Borg, who were foreshadowed in the Season 1 finale "The Neutral Zone," and we got to meet for real in "Q Who."

Is that true? That's the first time I've ever heard that one. I never got any clear indication of that... but that doesn't mean that people on the staff didn't originally intend that.

I found that tidbit over at Memory Alpha; they give their source as Larry Nemecek's TNG Companion. The Borg were supposed to be more insectoid-looking, suggesting a connection between them and the blue-gill parasites, but budgetary issues made them into humanoid cyborgs instead.

 

[hellsgate]

The Briori (The 47's) would be assimilated in moments as they destroyed the ships that abducted them & copied the alien technology. They'd be (maybe) at "Star Trek: Enterprise" (2150's level) treknology, if they were interested in space travel at all. Secondly, they'd be trying to establish their own "Starfleet" with surrounding political powers capable of manufacturing whatever was in Voyager's database. They might be capable of outrunning the Borg through the Vaadwaar underspace corridors.

 

[fudgefase]

No, not the 47's - the people, but the species **** cant remember the 4 digit number. The Borg couldn't assimilate them (there was an element of inter dimensional existance with them) - they were the ones that left the trail of destroyed Borg cubes behind them. Sorry about the mix up.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Species 8472?

 

[fudgefase]

Yes - I knew 47 was in it somewhere!!!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Cary L. Brown said:Yeah... which sort of makes sense, but I got the impression from that novel (the DS9 relaunch novels are the last book series I actually ENJOYED and thus really followed) that they weren't "manipulated" so much as they were just an offshoot subspecies. Again, did I miss something there?

There was a Trill colony called Kurl where a disease was killing off the symbionts. There was genetic engineering done to try and find a cure. The Conspiracy bugs were the result. They started going insane and the Trill military wiped out Kurl, but the bugs had already escaped and swore revenge.