What races do you want to see in the next series main cast?
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Depends on the time/universe.
If its a straight-up sequel to our regular universe I'd like to see the main crew include a Cardassian, an Orion, and an Andorian.
I'd also love to see a recurring or attached Romulan.
If we're talking JJverse, I think they should get as much milage out of TOS era races as possible.
If its a straight-up sequel to our regular universe I'd like to see the main crew include a Cardassian, an Orion, and an Andorian.
I'd also love to see a recurring or attached Romulan.
If we're talking JJverse, I think they should get as much milage out of TOS era races as possible.
i'd like to see someone who is 3 or more specieis combined, and NOT always saying "My human half says THIS, but my **** half demands that i do ****".
I've Simmed on a few ships where there were characters with about five or six alien heritages, and it just got to be very annoying.
I'd say keep mixed breeds to two species, but they don't always have to be half-human.
I would like to see an alien race with three boobs and speaking Esperanto.
Then they could say e.g.:
"My Klingon half tells me to kill you where you stand, while my Vulcan side says you should 'live long and prosper'"
Excellent discussions. Great suggestions.
There are a plethora of Terran races to use and have been noted in Star Trek. For example Hindu Festival of Lights (TNG "Data's Day"), the South Pacific Islander dancer (or was he Hawaiin?) at Jadzia's 'hen's night' (DS9 "You are cordially invited") and Tibetan Lamas.
Perhaps someone can count forward and see what number reincarnation the Dalai Lama will be in the 24th Century and he/she can be on the Enterprise as a counsellor? Only fitting since the current 14th DL is a fan of Star Trek.
I agree with an earlier post regarding a variety of body types, notably 'little person' (or various names thereof).
I'd like to see an ugly person and not a 'Hollywood-ugly' person - but we cannot forget the Eugenics wars or can we?
Please no Australians. I'm Australian and the accent is cringe-worthy (especially if its fake, note reference to Meryl Streep in "Evil Angels" / "Cry in the dark"). I'd prefer a South African.
In terms of alien species: Bolian. I love them. And co-husbands would be great sci-fi way to have gays. And if you Americans are so confused on how to do 'gay' watch the new series' of Dr Who and Torchwood. It's not that hard (no pun intended). And yes, they have to be men as 'the lesbian' is too easy on the eye for too many people (no offence to women). If you want to push the boundaries have two men kiss.
I'm excited about a post-Nemesis series (hopefully ignoring the whole Romulus is engulfed by a supernova and Spock goes back in time story line).
While I'd love to see more about Changelings and the Breen I think the success of Shran in Ent indicates an opportunity to see more Andorians.
And how about an exploration of the Tholians. Why are so many people having meetings with a Tholian Ambassador?
We've seen a ship full of Vulcans, why not other single species ships? The Bolians would need good plumbing apparently.
Is it time (so to speak) to expand on Temporal Investigations (DS9 "Trials and Tribble-ations) and Temporal Mechanics (VOY "Endgame")?
There are a plethora of Terran races to use and have been noted in Star Trek. For example Hindu Festival of Lights (TNG "Data's Day"), the South Pacific Islander dancer (or was he Hawaiin?) at Jadzia's 'hen's night' (DS9 "You are cordially invited") and Tibetan Lamas.
Perhaps someone can count forward and see what number reincarnation the Dalai Lama will be in the 24th Century and he/she can be on the Enterprise as a counsellor? Only fitting since the current 14th DL is a fan of Star Trek.
I agree with an earlier post regarding a variety of body types, notably 'little person' (or various names thereof).
I'd like to see an ugly person and not a 'Hollywood-ugly' person - but we cannot forget the Eugenics wars or can we?
Please no Australians. I'm Australian and the accent is cringe-worthy (especially if its fake, note reference to Meryl Streep in "Evil Angels" / "Cry in the dark"). I'd prefer a South African.
In terms of alien species: Bolian. I love them. And co-husbands would be great sci-fi way to have gays. And if you Americans are so confused on how to do 'gay' watch the new series' of Dr Who and Torchwood. It's not that hard (no pun intended). And yes, they have to be men as 'the lesbian' is too easy on the eye for too many people (no offence to women). If you want to push the boundaries have two men kiss.
I'm excited about a post-Nemesis series (hopefully ignoring the whole Romulus is engulfed by a supernova and Spock goes back in time story line).
While I'd love to see more about Changelings and the Breen I think the success of Shran in Ent indicates an opportunity to see more Andorians.
And how about an exploration of the Tholians. Why are so many people having meetings with a Tholian Ambassador?
We've seen a ship full of Vulcans, why not other single species ships? The Bolians would need good plumbing apparently.
Is it time (so to speak) to expand on Temporal Investigations (DS9 "Trials and Tribble-ations) and Temporal Mechanics (VOY "Endgame")?
For the main cast?
All humans, with the exception of one alien.
All humans, with the exception of one alien.
More diversity of accents would be nice in-general. I'm British (more precisely, a Scot) and I can't stand the thing where all humans sound like Americans. It just seems artificial and presumptuous.
The idea of somebody who actually believes in God, particularly if he/she were a scientist, might be genuinely interesting if written in an intelligent, sensitive way and there was none of this "silly supersitions" thing that Roddenberry was so keen on, after-all, the Bajoran religion was well handled I thought and they were really rather devout.
Racial diversity in the Captain's chair is probably logical (after all, putting a white American in the Captain's chair in Enterprise seemed like a step backwards) and most likely a man, it would be tough to have two things at once, both female and ethnic somehow. Either that or settle for a woman but who doesn't sound American, but that is still loaded with the problem that women often sound school-marmish when disciplining others, a problem Janeway had and women don't necessarily make the best action-heroes which if you want to "get back to exploration" is exactly what you want to do.
They seem to be into the idea of picking an enemy species and embedding them in the regular cast to explore them more and somehow bring them around. They did it with Klingons, Changelings, Ferengi, the Borg, is it too much to hope that they won't do that with Romulans, Cardassians, or lord help us, the Breen? If you are going down that route, why not pick a second-tier species, Bolians, Benzars, Tellarites, whomever, that we've seen but don't know that much about and run with that.
One thing I would like though is a relatively small group (smaller groups are easier to write for and to ensure everybody gets a reasonable amount to do) with clear, definable differences in personality, interests and talents from each other and what's gone before. I don't want repeats of the past but I also think that despite the fact that the Outsider commenting on humanity works very well as a whole, its been done to death with Spock, Data, Odo and Quark and Garak/Dukat/Female Changeling/Weyoun when they were there, the Doctor and Seven and T'Pol and Phlox and Soval/Shran when they were about all serving that role. We know we are illogical bunch, probably better to move on now 'cos its wearing thin as an idea.
The idea of somebody who actually believes in God, particularly if he/she were a scientist, might be genuinely interesting if written in an intelligent, sensitive way and there was none of this "silly supersitions" thing that Roddenberry was so keen on, after-all, the Bajoran religion was well handled I thought and they were really rather devout.
Racial diversity in the Captain's chair is probably logical (after all, putting a white American in the Captain's chair in Enterprise seemed like a step backwards) and most likely a man, it would be tough to have two things at once, both female and ethnic somehow. Either that or settle for a woman but who doesn't sound American, but that is still loaded with the problem that women often sound school-marmish when disciplining others, a problem Janeway had and women don't necessarily make the best action-heroes which if you want to "get back to exploration" is exactly what you want to do.
They seem to be into the idea of picking an enemy species and embedding them in the regular cast to explore them more and somehow bring them around. They did it with Klingons, Changelings, Ferengi, the Borg, is it too much to hope that they won't do that with Romulans, Cardassians, or lord help us, the Breen? If you are going down that route, why not pick a second-tier species, Bolians, Benzars, Tellarites, whomever, that we've seen but don't know that much about and run with that.
One thing I would like though is a relatively small group (smaller groups are easier to write for and to ensure everybody gets a reasonable amount to do) with clear, definable differences in personality, interests and talents from each other and what's gone before. I don't want repeats of the past but I also think that despite the fact that the Outsider commenting on humanity works very well as a whole, its been done to death with Spock, Data, Odo and Quark and Garak/Dukat/Female Changeling/Weyoun when they were there, the Doctor and Seven and T'Pol and Phlox and Soval/Shran when they were about all serving that role. We know we are illogical bunch, probably better to move on now 'cos its wearing thin as an idea.
Yeesh, this again. Star Trek an American TV show. You might as well complain that Doctor Who sounding British is "artificial and presumptuous."
I guess as far as races and nationalities go? Groups Star Trek hasn't had as main characters. There's never been someone from India or Brazil, off the top of my head, but anything that fits here... fits.
Well racial and national diversity within how the human race is portrayed in Star Trek is a practical issue, and it is a real problem in pretty much every space opera you'd care to name - by and large the series/film/novel/whatever will usually favour the nationality of the creator(s) and the usually dominant ethnicity of that nationality to boot.
Since this rarely reflects anything remotely like the actual demographics of the great planet Earth - humanity's a lot whiter and Americanish out in space in Star Trek and Babylon 5 then it is in reality - but it's at least something that Star Trek is conscious of.
Well racial and national diversity within how the human race is portrayed in Star Trek is a practical issue, and it is a real problem in pretty much every space opera you'd care to name - by and large the series/film/novel/whatever will usually favour the nationality of the creator(s) and the usually dominant ethnicity of that nationality to boot.
Since this rarely reflects anything remotely like the actual demographics of the great planet Earth - humanity's a lot whiter and Americanish out in space in Star Trek and Babylon 5 then it is in reality - but it's at least something that Star Trek is conscious of.
Why not all aliens, with the exception of one human?
You get the 'outsider', at least from the audiences point of view, and you don't have to worry about hunting high and low for all types of people. Let's be honest, in 200 years we will all probably be the same shade of ambiguously brown.
You get the 'outsider', at least from the audiences point of view, and you don't have to worry about hunting high and low for all types of people. Let's be honest, in 200 years we will all probably be the same shade of ambiguously brown.
The main crew (preferably on the Enterprise) consist of a: Vulcan, Cardassian, Andorian and Tellerite as well as humans- Possibly even Orion.
As for the enemies, I'd love to focus more on the Romulans and the Vulcan's struggle for reunification, Species 8472 or the Breen. It'd be interesting to track down either the Preservers or the Iconians and have more Gorn featured.
As for the enemies, I'd love to focus more on the Romulans and the Vulcan's struggle for reunification, Species 8472 or the Breen. It'd be interesting to track down either the Preservers or the Iconians and have more Gorn featured.
And here I was only going so far as wanting a Horta as ships councilor.
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