This concept came to me the other day - it's a bit mixed at the moment, but I thought it was worthwhile posting:
It is the future ...
Starfleet returned to its exploratory roots after the end of the Dominion War and the fall of the Romulan Empire. Vast swathes of previously unexplored territory in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants have now been charted and a whole new generation of Starfleet officer, one which wasn't even born at the time of the Dominion War, are at the forefront of that exploration.
But with peace can come complacency. The United Federation of Planets believes itself secure and cannot comprehend a threat to its security so when a threat emerges, they are wholly unprepared to face it.
USS Enterprise NCC 1701 G is surveying a distant planet when it takes onboard data from an alien computer to analyse. A simple act that causes a chain of events - for in the data is a self-perpetuating program that transits into the ships mainframe, activating the replicators to emit a powerful airborn toxin that kills within seconds of inhalation and then the subspace network to perpetuate itself on every ship or station that is attached to the network and has a replicator.
Within an hour, ninety eight percent of the population of known space is dead with a few enclaves remaining on frontier worlds without replicators, shuttles without replicators and some crewmen in workpods and EVA suits.
The 47 passengers of a single passenger shuttle in Sector 001 is saved because at the time the virus strikes, her replicators are down after malfunctioning the previous day. The crew of 5 and her 42 passengers are unknowingly destined to become the last hope for a galaxy that has just collapsed -
In orbit of Earth, a prototype spaceship, the USS Calcutta NCC 80008 sits in drydock with several technicians working on her exterior hull wondering why their comm-links have just gone dead. When a passenger shuttle approaches the planet, the technicians are quick to open communications.
A passenger on the shuttle is a junior Starfleet officer, Lieutenant John Cameron, who was en-route to the planet Earth to join the crew of the Calcutta, now that junior officer is the most senior crewmember of the Calcutta left alive and the vessels nominal commander.
He must forge a true crew from a group consisting of mostly civilians and technicians, people who never expected to be manning a spaceship and never expected to be fighting for their lives.
Aided by the slender female commander of the passenger shuttle and the rugged senior-most technician, Cameron boards the Calcutta, sabotages the replicator system and exposes the ship to space by opening all of her airlocks.
With the ship prepared, this rag-tag bunch of survivors begin their journey to find others who have survived the cataclysm, find out how and why the cataclysm occured and face the truth that everyone they knew and loved may well be dead and their destinys may well lie where no one has gone before.
It is the future ...
Starfleet returned to its exploratory roots after the end of the Dominion War and the fall of the Romulan Empire. Vast swathes of previously unexplored territory in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants have now been charted and a whole new generation of Starfleet officer, one which wasn't even born at the time of the Dominion War, are at the forefront of that exploration.
But with peace can come complacency. The United Federation of Planets believes itself secure and cannot comprehend a threat to its security so when a threat emerges, they are wholly unprepared to face it.
USS Enterprise NCC 1701 G is surveying a distant planet when it takes onboard data from an alien computer to analyse. A simple act that causes a chain of events - for in the data is a self-perpetuating program that transits into the ships mainframe, activating the replicators to emit a powerful airborn toxin that kills within seconds of inhalation and then the subspace network to perpetuate itself on every ship or station that is attached to the network and has a replicator.
Within an hour, ninety eight percent of the population of known space is dead with a few enclaves remaining on frontier worlds without replicators, shuttles without replicators and some crewmen in workpods and EVA suits.
The 47 passengers of a single passenger shuttle in Sector 001 is saved because at the time the virus strikes, her replicators are down after malfunctioning the previous day. The crew of 5 and her 42 passengers are unknowingly destined to become the last hope for a galaxy that has just collapsed -
In orbit of Earth, a prototype spaceship, the USS Calcutta NCC 80008 sits in drydock with several technicians working on her exterior hull wondering why their comm-links have just gone dead. When a passenger shuttle approaches the planet, the technicians are quick to open communications.
A passenger on the shuttle is a junior Starfleet officer, Lieutenant John Cameron, who was en-route to the planet Earth to join the crew of the Calcutta, now that junior officer is the most senior crewmember of the Calcutta left alive and the vessels nominal commander.
He must forge a true crew from a group consisting of mostly civilians and technicians, people who never expected to be manning a spaceship and never expected to be fighting for their lives.
Aided by the slender female commander of the passenger shuttle and the rugged senior-most technician, Cameron boards the Calcutta, sabotages the replicator system and exposes the ship to space by opening all of her airlocks.
With the ship prepared, this rag-tag bunch of survivors begin their journey to find others who have survived the cataclysm, find out how and why the cataclysm occured and face the truth that everyone they knew and loved may well be dead and their destinys may well lie where no one has gone before.
At long last, a high-concept that WORKS!
