First of all, I'm new to this board and this is my first post - and it's going to be a long one. I'm from Germany and my English is far from perfect, so I apologize if some of this might sound funny for native speakers.
Well, after this little introduction, what's this all about? It's about a very old idea of mine I had back in the 90s - and although it might have fit better in the "Future of Trek-forum" then, I figured it would better be placed in the "Fan Fiction-forum" now. If I'm wrong, feel free to remove this topic.
Basically, this was an idea about a trek that never was and - due to the events shown in DS9 and especially Voyager, which are to be considered canon - will not be possible anymore. Nevertheless, I rediscovered this idea while going through very old papers I found at the bottom of my cupboard - and I still think it would have made a nice addition to the franchise.
But before I get to the point of telling you what my idea actually was, you have to take into account a few things: I developed it in the middle of the 90's - Voyager was just premiering in Germany and I wasn't a very regular viewer of DS9 back then. I had even missed some of TNG, and was catching up through daily reruns - well, I was 12 or 13, you know...
Therefore, some of the characters I came up with were kind of fanboyish or just very flat rehashs from established trek-characters. And as a matter of fact, the Borg were still a menacing collective back then, no Borg Queen in sight!
But still, here we go:
It is the year 2430. It's been 30 years since the Borg have overrun large parts of the Alpha Quadrant. Romulus has been assimilated (as you might remember, the Borg were supposed to be the ones who destroyed some Outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone in TNGs "The Neutral Zone"), so are most of the Romulan Star Empire and parts of the Klingon Empire and the Ferengi Alliance. In fact, the proud Romulans have become a scattered people, while the Klingons and Ferengi have joined the Federation. After high initial losses, the Federation managed to establish a defense perimeter and reached a stalemate with the Borg. They aren't progressing any further, but are still attacking from time to time. Maybe they just stopped because they had a different front to fight.
Because of the constant threat of being assimilated into the Borg Collective, the series would be much darker. I mean. the Federation is in a permanent state of war. Therefore Starfleet has become more militaristic (they have infantry-units on their ships to fight possible Borg-intruders) and their could have been an arc about a Starfleet conspiracy trying to overthrow the civilian government and establish a military one.
The focus of the series would have been the Crew of the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-F, a Defender-Class heavy battlecruiser. The Defender-Class was especially designed to withstand the Borg. The bridge crew consists of the following people:
Captain John Peter Morris, Human
Commander Gorna, Ferengi (XO, he joined Starfleet after the Borg took Ferenginar)
Lt. Cmdr. Datafive (and here it becomes really fanboyish: He was supposed to be an offspring Data built after finishing his service for Starfleet - Science Officer)
Lt. Cmdr. Dr. Jock McKenzie (sounds like a McCoy-clone, and well, I think you're right, Chief Medical Officer)
Lt. Cmdr. Ellen Finch (chief engineer, I alway imagined her being blonde)
Lt. Cedric Stone (human, from a martian colony, chief of security, also commands the ships marines)
Lt. Taurien (maybe a half vulcan/half romulan - some Romulans might have gone back to Vulcan after the fall of their homeworld, chief tactical officer)
Lt. Thomas Anderson (human, chief navigator - well, Voyager just started back then, so this is kind of a Tom Paris-clone, I guess)
An yet unnamed Andorian Chief of Operations officer (they names I came up with didn't sound Andorian at all)
Beyond this basic outline, I also came up with some storylines, and if you are interested - and if I have the time - I can post these as well. But for now, I leave you with one question:
Would this concept have made a good addition to the Star Trek franchise? Would you have liked to see this instead of what we got? Don't get me wrong: overall, I liked most of what we got, but I think this would have been a very different and interesting approach - but I'm biased, it's my idea.
What do you think?
Well, after this little introduction, what's this all about? It's about a very old idea of mine I had back in the 90s - and although it might have fit better in the "Future of Trek-forum" then, I figured it would better be placed in the "Fan Fiction-forum" now. If I'm wrong, feel free to remove this topic.
Basically, this was an idea about a trek that never was and - due to the events shown in DS9 and especially Voyager, which are to be considered canon - will not be possible anymore. Nevertheless, I rediscovered this idea while going through very old papers I found at the bottom of my cupboard - and I still think it would have made a nice addition to the franchise.
But before I get to the point of telling you what my idea actually was, you have to take into account a few things: I developed it in the middle of the 90's - Voyager was just premiering in Germany and I wasn't a very regular viewer of DS9 back then. I had even missed some of TNG, and was catching up through daily reruns - well, I was 12 or 13, you know...
Therefore, some of the characters I came up with were kind of fanboyish or just very flat rehashs from established trek-characters. And as a matter of fact, the Borg were still a menacing collective back then, no Borg Queen in sight!But still, here we go:
It is the year 2430. It's been 30 years since the Borg have overrun large parts of the Alpha Quadrant. Romulus has been assimilated (as you might remember, the Borg were supposed to be the ones who destroyed some Outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone in TNGs "The Neutral Zone"), so are most of the Romulan Star Empire and parts of the Klingon Empire and the Ferengi Alliance. In fact, the proud Romulans have become a scattered people, while the Klingons and Ferengi have joined the Federation. After high initial losses, the Federation managed to establish a defense perimeter and reached a stalemate with the Borg. They aren't progressing any further, but are still attacking from time to time. Maybe they just stopped because they had a different front to fight.
Because of the constant threat of being assimilated into the Borg Collective, the series would be much darker. I mean. the Federation is in a permanent state of war. Therefore Starfleet has become more militaristic (they have infantry-units on their ships to fight possible Borg-intruders) and their could have been an arc about a Starfleet conspiracy trying to overthrow the civilian government and establish a military one.
The focus of the series would have been the Crew of the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-F, a Defender-Class heavy battlecruiser. The Defender-Class was especially designed to withstand the Borg. The bridge crew consists of the following people:
Captain John Peter Morris, Human
Commander Gorna, Ferengi (XO, he joined Starfleet after the Borg took Ferenginar)
Lt. Cmdr. Datafive (and here it becomes really fanboyish: He was supposed to be an offspring Data built after finishing his service for Starfleet - Science Officer)
Lt. Cmdr. Dr. Jock McKenzie (sounds like a McCoy-clone, and well, I think you're right, Chief Medical Officer)
Lt. Cmdr. Ellen Finch (chief engineer, I alway imagined her being blonde)
Lt. Cedric Stone (human, from a martian colony, chief of security, also commands the ships marines)
Lt. Taurien (maybe a half vulcan/half romulan - some Romulans might have gone back to Vulcan after the fall of their homeworld, chief tactical officer)
Lt. Thomas Anderson (human, chief navigator - well, Voyager just started back then, so this is kind of a Tom Paris-clone, I guess)
An yet unnamed Andorian Chief of Operations officer (they names I came up with didn't sound Andorian at all)
Beyond this basic outline, I also came up with some storylines, and if you are interested - and if I have the time - I can post these as well. But for now, I leave you with one question:
Would this concept have made a good addition to the Star Trek franchise? Would you have liked to see this instead of what we got? Don't get me wrong: overall, I liked most of what we got, but I think this would have been a very different and interesting approach - but I'm biased, it's my idea.
What do you think?
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