The era of the next series

[Lord Garth]

^ I agree. With the right premise, the right execution, and the right team, the setting doesn't matter. It's just a backdrop.

BUT my preferences are in the following order:

Prime 25th
New 23rd
New 24th

I'm not interested in revisting the Prime Timeline unless it's an unfamiliar time period where we don't know what happens next and it doesn't lead into something else that was already produced (nothing before ENT or filling the gaps in between ENT, TOS, and TNG). I'm in the Move Forward Camp. Otherwise, I'm happy if they stick with the New Timeline.

 

[MacLeod]

Setting is just one aspect of the show, Characterisation is more important. As well as good stories.

Good stories stand the test of time, all the best production values in the world can't make a bad story into a good story. People are more willing to overlook slight problems in production standard if ther story and characters are right.

 

[Eno]

I enjoyed reading the various perspectives. Personally I would like to see vision from the studio, or courage. So often tired formulas are regurgitated due to fear. Fear of losing $. But when it comes to Trek there is a ready audience....so the fear shown by studios comes across, to me at least, as gutless.

I want something new. Surprise me Trek! I am ready to support you. I miss Trek on tv.

The future as a time frame would be great, how's 500 years beyond Voyager? Anything is possible.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I would say just after the events of VOY, maybe start between then and Nemesis.

Talk of jumping the the 25th+ century really doesn't interest me.

 

[Darrell Pitt]

Personally, I'd like to see some sort of new direction for a future Trek series. When they did Voyager it was basically Lost in Space/Star Trek. They could probably do a Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek version. e.g. some enormous cataclysm that disrupts warp drive across the galaxy - except for one starship that travels from system to system sharing a new tech that will reunite the Federation.

Okay, call Simon and Shuster. I think I'm onto something!

 

[Darrell Pitt]

Do we HAVE to do something related to the series that already have existed? Can't we do something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT?

I like your thinking. What sort of show did you have in mind?

 

[C.E. Evans]

Personally, I'd like to see some sort of new direction for a future Trek series. When they did Voyager it was basically Lost in Space/Star Trek. They could probably do a Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek version. e.g. some enormous cataclysm that disrupts warp drive across the galaxy - except for one starship that travels from system to system sharing a new tech that will reunite the Federation.

Okay, call Simon and Shuster. I think I'm onto something!

Sorry, but about a million other people have come up with this idea or something similar to it. An idea about something that disrupted warp drive across a broken Federation was even toyed about very briefly by CBS as an idea for a new web cartoon for startrek.com.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Final_Frontier

Quite a few people seem to want a post-apocalyptic Star Trek in which the Federation has fallen/about to collapse and the future is rather bleak...

 

[Sindatur]

Eh, take another stab at a Voyager premise, except this time, instead of Delta Quadrant, go all the way to another Galaxy, that would be just as freeing from the "continuity weight around the shows neck" as NuTrek alternate timeline is. It could be a fresh start, and you could go anywhere and bring in endless new races. Being another Galaxy, they'd have to accept never going home, and settling down somewhere and making new friends, allies and enemies. Maybe have several ships get propelled there, to make a more interesting/larger colony, and multiple ships to fight/explore with. Give the Federation a real prescence in the new Galaxy

 

[anh165]

Eh, take another stab at a Voyager premise, except this time, instead of Delta Quadrant, go all the way to another Galaxy, that would be just as freeing from the "continuity weight around the shows neck" as NuTrek alternate timeline is. It could be a fresh start, and you could go anywhere and bring in endless new races. Being another Galaxy, they'd have to accept never going home, and settling down somewhere and making new friends, allies and enemies. Maybe have several ships get propelled there, to make a more interesting/larger colony, and multiple ships to fight/explore with. Give the Federation a real prescence in the new Galaxy

Bad idea, because interesting episodes of exploration and the challenges to our understanding of life and the universe isn't what modern Star Trek fans look for.

What they actually want is yet another bland multi-raced crew speaking in dubious accents in a 'hi-tech' shovel-shaped vessel tussling with omnipotent forces such as the borg.

 

[Darrell Pitt]

Personally, I'd like to see some sort of new direction for a future Trek series. When they did Voyager it was basically Lost in Space/Star Trek. They could probably do a Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek version. e.g. some enormous cataclysm that disrupts warp drive across the galaxy - except for one starship that travels from system to system sharing a new tech that will reunite the Federation.

Okay, call Simon and Shuster. I think I'm onto something!

Sorry, but about a million other people have come up with this idea or something similar to it. An idea about something that disrupted warp drive across a broken Federation was even toyed about very briefly by CBS as an idea for a new web cartoon for startrek.com.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Final_Frontier

Quite a few people seem to want a post-apocalyptic Star Trek in which the Federation has fallen/about to collapse and the future is rather bleak...

I suppose that shows there's some call for it then. This is why Star Trek had to be rebooted - because it was reduced to just doing the same old, same old.

Personally, I couldn't get into Enterprise because we already knew what the future would hold. The new Abrams movie means that all bets are off. It really is a new frontier.

Until Janeway turns up from an alternate history, in which case...

 

[DAYoung]

The next series should take place beyond VOyager, in a magical time of good actors and tight scripting.

 

[Skellington]

So, a Quark / Weyoun sitcom then?

 

[DAYoung]

You know, I'd watch a series dedicated to Shran.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

The next series should take place beyond VOyager, in a magical time of good actors and tight scripting.

I would love continuity for the series. For example, not having the magical toadstool Janeway sat on and wished for new shuttles. Good solid backstories for the characters and having continuing plot elements and storylines throughout a series or long story arch (like on DS9).

You know, I'd watch a series dedicated to Shran.

I would love an Andorian in the next series, which also solidly establishes the four sexes aspect from the novels.

 

[DAYoung]

I would love continuity for the series. For example, not having the magical toadstool Janeway sat on and wished for new shuttles. Good solid backstories for the characters and having continuing plot elements and storylines throughout a series or long story arch (like on DS9).

Yes. I want Trek with TOS's curiosity and adventure; TNG's moral integrity, strong characters and monologues; DS9's friction and arcs (but not the spiritual Bajoran crap), and ENTERPRISE's arcs and...er...chief engineer.

I would love an Andorian in the next series, which also solidly establishes the four sexes aspect from the novels.

I recently read Synthesis, and noticed this 'four sexes' stuff. (I'd forgotten the TNG reference completely.) Fascinating. The Titan Andorian is a good character, if a little thin (figuratively speaking).

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

ENTERPRISE's...er...chief engineer.

Here! Here! I second that. Get Connor Trinneer in to play Captain Charles Tucker IX

I recently read Synthesis, and noticed this 'four sexes' stuff. (I'd forgotten the TNG reference completely.) Fascinating. The Titan Andorian is a good character, if a little thin (figuratively speaking).

I love the four sex notion (I always use it in my fanfic) as it automatically makes them different from other races and introduces a new aspect of their society and culture that would be worth exploring.

 

[Darrell Pitt]

The next series should take place beyond VOyager, in a magical time of good actors and tight scripting.

I'm not sure that much magic exists in the universe. We might have to clone someone.

 

[DAYoung]

The next series should take place beyond Voyager, in a magical time of good actors and tight scripting.

I'm not sure that much magic exists in the universe. We might have to clone someone.

As long as it doesn't involve replicating Neelix.

 

[Darrell Pitt]

The next series should take place beyond Voyager, in a magical time of good actors and tight scripting.

I'm not sure that much magic exists in the universe. We might have to clone someone.

As long as it doesn't involve replicating Neelix.

True. Although this time he could end up as a rat or something.

 

[DAYoung]

I'm not sure that much magic exists in the universe. We might have to clone someone.

As long as it doesn't involve replicating Neelix.

True. Although this time he could end up as a rat or something.

Officer thinking, Lieutenant.