Star Trek:Keeler

[Shaka Zulu]

Put simply, this is a new show about a medical ship, the Antares-class U.S.S. Keeler and it's missions helping people across the Federation whenever and wherever a calamity happens.

Concept based upon/inspired by these pictures:

Have I got a great idea for a show, or not?

 

[The Doctor]

Not, I'd say.

The airwaves are choked with medical procedurals and I don't think that the gimmick of a Star Trek setting would either add to the appeal of the show or draw many viewers.

 

[Borgminister]

Dang it, I read Star Trek:Keebler.

 

[The Doctor]

Dang it, I read Star Trek:Keebler.

I'd watch a series about space elves making cookies.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Dang it, I read Star Trek:Keebler.

You must be hungry.

 

[Sindatur]

Dang it, I read Star Trek:Keebler.

The Space Rangers are competing with The Girl Scouts for Cookie Sales.

 

[T'Girl]

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[USS Triumphant]

Dang it, I read Star Trek:Keebler.

I'd watch a series about space elves making cookies.

They're called "Romulans", and they'd appreciate it if you would stop with the slurs.

 

[Shik]

I thought this was going to be a proposal about an alternate series set in the "Edith lived" timeline & I was prepared to lay waste to existence. Praise Cthulhu I don't have to, because it's exhausting.

But call me when you've worked out how to do SFCIS.

 

[T'Girl]

If not a medical ship, but instead a "pure" science ship, then maybe. Being employed for the occasional medical problem would be an option.

Be interesting to have a ship that was basically not combat capable, and the Captain would not have the option of shooting his way out of any situation. Combine this with a production and writing staff who deliberately didn't place the ship in that situation to start with.

Less James Kirk, more Jacques Cousteau.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Dang it, I read Star Trek:Keebler.

I read it as Star Trek: Keenser. I thought "hey, that's pretty neat as a series idea!"

 

[Drone]

How about a mission that truly does honor to its namesake by focusing on social work writ large on whatever "benighted" civilizations they come across? Sort of a kindlier, gentler version of the London Missionary Society and the like. Hmm, problems right off the bat with the Prime Directive.

Wait, how about this instead. They work in a structure that doesn't have the Prime Directive to worry about. We'll just refer to it as the "ISS Keeler: Renegades of the Empire"! Doing good in a galaxy cursed by the depredations of the Terrans! Hell, I'm not sure but I think my enthusiasm for this is already waning.

NO!!

 

[BigJake]

I don't see why everyone's so negative. I quite like the idea: alien biology, space-borne plagues, temporal viruses, sentient epidemics and just plain old emergency search and rescue in the widest possible range of environments would give such a show plentiful and varied adventuring to do without having to be too military (or too violent) and without having to repeat hoary old Trek plots. If it were executed on a big enough canvas to justify the SF setting I'd watch the &!*% out of it.

Would love to see the pictures, though.

 

[Dukhat]

^But if you're only doing the show because you want to ride on the coattails of the tons of other NCIS-type shows already out there, then what's the point? It'd be just another on-topic show in a long string of them, only in the future on a ship.

If the popular thing these days were tons of professional wrestling shows, would you want to create a Trek show based on professional wrestling, just because that's what's popular?

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I don't see why everyone's so negative. I quite like the idea: alien biology, space-borne plagues, temporal viruses, sentient epidemics and just plain old emergency search and rescue in the widest possible range of environments would give such a show plentiful and varied adventuring to do without having to be too military (or too violent) and without having to repeat hoary old Trek plots. If it were executed on a big enough canvas to justify the SF setting I'd watch the &!*% out of it.

Would love to see the pictures, though.

^But if you're only doing the show because you want to ride on the coattails of the tons of other NCIS-type shows already out there, then what's the point? It'd be just another on-topic show in a long string of them, only in the future on a ship.

I'm not sure what NCIS you're watching but they deal with criminal activity relating to the Navy, not diseases and medical emergencies.

If the popular thing these days were tons of professional wrestling shows, would you want to create a Trek show based on professional wrestling, just because that's what's popular?

VOY did that already, so box ticked.

Personally, I'd watch "Keeler". It would be an interesting new look at life in Trek. In TOS-era would be fun, they would be a little more "frontier medicine" rather than how easy TNG seemed to have it at times.

That being said, if it was set after the Dominion War, they would have plenty to do with dozens of worlds needing help, having too much work to do and not enough time to do it.

 

[Dukhat]

I'm not sure what NCIS you're watching but they deal with criminal activity relating to the Navy, not diseases and medical emergencies.

I was responding based on The Stig's post about medical procedurals, and mistakenly attributed them to NCIS.

VOY did that already, so box ticked.

They only did it for one episode. I was referring to an entire series based on it.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Put simply, this U.S.S. Keeler idea is not spaceworthy.

 

[BigJake]

^But if you're only doing the show because you want to ride on the coattails of the tons of other [medical procedural] shows already out there, then what's the point?

The medical procedural is evergreen. It's been thriving on television for ages. So I doubt it would really come off as an example of trying to follow a trend. (There was a period when there was a glut of medical procedurals on television, but that has mostly passed.)

But I completely agree it couldn't just be a by-the-numbers medical procedural in Trek drag. There would have to be some real SF going on in the problems and situations the crew encounters, or it would be just another medical drama with a gimmick painted on.

would you want to create a Trek show based on professional wrestling

* sighs *

Would I. But that dream is not to be...

 

[Jonny]

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Same here.

I don't see why everyone's so negative. I quite like the idea: alien biology, space-borne plagues, temporal viruses, sentient epidemics and just plain old emergency search and rescue in the widest possible range of environments would give such a show plentiful and varied adventuring to do without having to be too military (or too violent) and without having to repeat hoary old Trek plots. If it were executed on a big enough canvas to justify the SF setting I'd watch the &!*% out of it.

Would love to see the pictures, though.

Yeah I don't hate the idea either I'd give it a chance as well, if it was rubbish than I always have the option to not watch it again.

 

[surak-toc]

I am very interested in this idea, may need a bit expanding but yeah I would watch it