Where should Star Trek go next if going forward?

[Nyotarules]

I, too, wonder what was behind the façade of the ideal society of 24th century TNG. No need to work, free food on demand from the replicators, sin city in the holodecks, etc. Sounds decadent. And with all that free time, what about societal complacency?

Also, what is the saying about idle hands? It is a recipe for mischief and criminal activity. And since they are still human in the 24th century, wouldn't they still have their share of megalomaniacs, rabble-rousers, would-be tyrants, con artists, and trouble makers? How did TNG solve all these issues?[/QUOTE]

Miles O'Brien in TNG was sent on a mission to infiltrate the Orion syndicate, he did not seem surprise to find a human in the gang. The humans who live on frontier planets might be less spoilt than the ones living in the Sol system or core on Federation planets.

 

[Matthew Raymond]

They all wanna be their own separate universes, don't they?

Why not just do that? We have the "Mirror Mirror" universe. We had that episode where Worf kept moving from one quantum reality to another. Why not just have a Star Trek show in a different universe, but still in the same multiverse? That's how comic books handle it.

Just look at the Spider-Verse. Every Spiderman comic, cartoon and movie all exist in one big multiverse. DC is also similar. That's how they Supergirl and the Flash could be in the same show. In fact, if you consider the Amalgam Comics to be canon, then the Marvel and DC multiverses are just the same, larger multiverse. (Which isn't hard to believe, since Fastforward (a.k.a. "Buried Alien") is really obviously the Flash.) Wait, there have been a number of crossover comics over the years. Star Trek and the X-Men, Star Trek and Doctor Who, Alien vs. Predator. And even Gravity Falls and Rick and Morty are in the same multiverse. Oh my gosh, everything's in one big, huge multiverse!!!

 

[fireproof78]

Why not just do that? We have the "Mirror Mirror" universe. We had that episode where Worf kept moving from one quantum reality to another. Why not just have a Star Trek show in a different universe, but still in the same multiverse? That's how comic books handle it.

It would make life a lot easier.

 

[Valenti]

Did GR have a pilot where a family visited a different post apocalyptic alternate reality every episode. Oh, great internet, tell me what show I am thinking about.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

In my own Writers Technical Rule-Book for my new set of Star Trek Franchises:
The new show would start in:
2501.01.01, Beginning of the 26th Century
It would be ~122 years from the events of Star Trek Nemesis and I would be set in a Universe / Quantum Reality where Spock didn't fail to save the Romulans from the Super Nova that would've affected Romulus.

In fact, he succeeded and changed history in my Quantum Reality.

Ergo things changed greatly in that 122 years time span.

 

[fireproof78]

In my own Writers Technical Rule-Book for my new set of Star Trek Franchises:
The new show would start in:
2501.01.01, Beginning of the 26th Century
It would be ~122 years from the events of Star Trek Nemesis and I would be set in a Universe / Quantum Reality where Spock didn't fail to save the Romulans from the Super Nova that would've affected Romulus.

In fact, he succeeded and changed history in my Quantum Reality.

Ergo things changed greatly in that 122 years time span.

Is Nero in Starfleet now, since he was so impressed with Spock's efforts to save his home?

 

[Nyotarules]

Is Nero in Starfleet now, since he was so impressed with Spock's efforts to save his home?

Admiral Nero would be the Head of Starfleet

 

[fireproof78]

Admiral Nero would be the Head of Starfleet

I'm in.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Is Nero in Starfleet now, since he was so impressed with Spock's efforts to save his home?

Nero would be just a normal person and not angry at Spock for screwing up. He would've continued to be a miner and not hate Spock / Vulcans which would've helped with the integration of Romulans into the Federation by my timeline.

Cardassians, Romulans, & Klingons are all fully integrated part of the UFP in my timeline by 2501.01.01

We'll have new aliens / villains to work with.

 

[fireproof78]

Nero would be just a normal person and not angry at Spock for screwing up. He would've continued to be a miner and not hate Spock / Vulcans which would've helped with the integration of Romulans into the Federation by my timeline.

Why not join Starfleet?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Why not join Starfleet?

By the time Nero teleported to the past in the Kelvin Timeline, he was a middle aged man (30's-40's in human terms).

By the time the Romulans would Join the Federation in my timeline he would be the equivalent of being a human 50's-60's years old.

He's too old to join Starfleet, and he's lived his profession as a Miner, no reason to change when he's busy putting food on the table.

 

[Matthew Raymond]

I think the next Star Trek should be a sequel to Toy Story, where a bunch of TOS action figures and their starship playset are launched into space in a Falcon Heavy as a publicity stunt by Elon Musk, accidentally end up in a wormhole, and travel the universe seeking out new toys and new civilizations.

 

[fireproof78]

By the time Nero teleported to the past in the Kelvin Timeline, he was a middle aged man (30's-40's in human terms).

By the time the Romulans would Join the Federation in my timeline he would be the equivalent of being a human 50's-60's years old.

He's too old to join Starfleet, and he's lived his profession as a Miner, no reason to change when he's busy putting food on the table.

Fair enough.