The Very Specific Reboot Star Trek Needs

[Ray Hardgrit]

Thing is, you do that too much and it’s not really Star Trek anymore — you do need both the “naval” element and the “visiting strange worlds” element (even if you’re largely stuck on a space station). (You can certainly do that in the Star Trek universe, it’s just that the feel would be that of a different subgenre.)

That said, it would have been fine to indicate that, sure, the Solar System is teeming with orbital colonies and such, even if our stories mostly leave all those behind the same way we leave Earth behind.

Yeah, I agree with this. I wanted to have my cake and eat it.

 

[1001001]

Nobody gets paid to produce something they don't care about.

Exactly.

Every time someone says "They don't care" or "The writers are lazy" or some other nonsense, I tend to scroll on by after that.

They can do stuff you don't like. They may take chances that don't pay off, or write characters that don't resonate. They can have plots that aren't interesting to you...All of that is fair.

No one who is employed on a multi-million dollar network show is "lazy" or "doesn't care." It's ridiculous.

 

[XCV330]

Who holds the rights to Forbidden Planet? You could make a series set in that universe, we know very little about the rest of the galaxy.

I think the pre-1986 MGM movies are owned by Warner Bros so that should be part of the Paramount merger. Amazon didn't buy the entire back catalog.

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[UssGlenn]

I think the pre-1986 MGM movies are owned by Warner Bros so that should be part of the Paramount merger. Amazon didn't buy the entire back catalog.

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I googled it after I asked, looks like WB started working on a remake in 2024, so that's presumably still active.

 

[Tim Walker]

Eh. Space Trek, then. Instead of hundreds of star systems with improbably humanoid aliens and weird yet relatable cultures, it’s hundreds of O’Neill cylinder colonies, asteroid settlements and colonized-centuries-ago Kuiper Belt dwarf planets with human-descended populations and by-now-weird yet relatable cultures. Should work fine.

Wouldn't be Star Trek, but could be an interesting future.

There is the concept of using engineered space habitats as nature preserves. Come to think fit, there was a short story in which dinosaurs were housed in an O'Neill style cylinder. Sort of like Jurassic Park in outer space.

There is the concept of microplanets. Mini-Earths.

 

[MurphyCooper]

Wouldn't be Star Trek, but could be an interesting future.

There is the concept of using engineered space habitats as nature preserves. Come to think fit, there was a short story in which dinosaurs were housed in an O'Neill style cylinder. Sort of like Jurassic Park in outer space.

There is the concept of microplanets. Mini-Earths.

There was this Star Trek concept I heard of, I can't find any documentation of it - but it is set on a apocalyptic Earth where the planet froze over, a few centuries later, the Enterprise is launched as a submarine to contact other surviving cultures that remained underground, the Enterprise would be an "American" vessel.

 

[Steve Roby]

Sounds like Magna 1, but that wasn't Star Trek, just another unproduced Roddenberry concept.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I think the pre-1986 MGM movies are owned by Warner Bros so that should be part of the Paramount merger. Amazon didn't buy the entire back catalog.

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Excellent...

 

[camdudetenger2018]

i still would want a reboot set in a new star trek universe

 

[Nerys Myk]

i still would want a reboot set in a new star trek universe

2009 called and would like a word.

 

[FederationHistorian]

It's just spread too thin at this point - some people just want TOS or TNG again, some people want some as-yet-indescribable new direction, some people want it serialised, some people want it fully episodic, some people want more Behr/Moore "war is hell, except is also just Vietnam with lasers, so respect the troops" stuff, some people want more Braga "what if there was, like, a time warp, and that's pretty much it" stuff, etc. Some people want character drama, some people want pure high-concept sci-fi adventure, other people want some kind of prestige political thing, and everything in between.

So...they want Star Trek then. Since a single series could cover all of that if TPTB wanted the show to.