Spoilers Where should Star Trek go next?

Discussion in 'Future of Trek' started by mattman8907, Feb 28, 2023.

  1. MikHutch

    MikHutch Fleet Captain Captain

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    It's one of my issues with TOS looking back on it. Few races are actually properly examined

    Later series, even the questionable ENT and DISC, do a better job
     
  2. Bekk Ishy Z

    Bekk Ishy Z Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Anyone ever considered a non-Starfleet show? Maybe something down-and-dirty like Firefly?
     
  3. MikHutch

    MikHutch Fleet Captain Captain

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    A show about civilians on an alien colony
     
  4. HotRod

    HotRod Commodore Commodore

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    Didn't we kinda get this with the first season of Picard?
     
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  5. fireproof78

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    I wouldn't go "down and dirty" but I would definitely do something akin to Firefly but in reverse. Whedon envisoned it as a show about "planets the Enterprise would skip." I would take it and do reverse of this concept, with planets that the Federation has already been and now supports, but with a civilian vs. Starfleet in charge.

    Yes, it would be a little bit more rugged, in that they are on the edge of explored space, relying on hard work much more than perhaps other colonies would. And show them exploring the different facets of the new world.
     
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  6. KennyMadison

    KennyMadison Lieutenant Junior Grade Red Shirt

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    Not to be controversial, but I think the next Star Trek show should go to space.
     
  7. FredH

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    I would want the next show to be a 32nd- or early 33rd-century series — ideally, Star Trek 3200, primarily following the era’s Starship Enterprise on exploring new worlds of the week — but also dealing with repercussions of what we’ve already seen about the era.

    For instance, we’ve already seen that there are human (and presumably other) worlds fighting the “V’draysh”. Why? Especially if, from what we’ve seen, the Federation does still appear to be the good guys?

    How about this: The Burn devastated everyone, not just the Federation. So a common belief built up over the decades among much of the rest of the galaxy—fed by disinformation from the Federation’s enemies, and then by constant continuing insistence by local planetary cultures that had absorbed it as The Truth—that the aging Federation intentionally caused the Burn, to weaken everybody else, and was only accidentally caught by its own miscalculated strike.

    It’s nonsense, of course. But half of known space now “knows” it, and Federation members who object that it just isn’t true are often either dismissed as liars and propagandists, or told that of course you’d say that, you’ve been culturally brainwashed…

    So a lot of worlds, often but not solely Emerald Chain remnants, fight on against the “imperialist, colonizing” V’draysh, citing their crushing of local insurgencies on Ni’Var and elsewhere as evidence of Federation perfidy. (Fact is, though well-meaning and aspirationist, the Federation in this era is necessarily harder-edged than it was in the sepia-toned golden age of the 24th century.)

    So despite having plenty of allies, the Federation also has to work against this widespread, common, false view of it as potential oppressors. Drama!
     
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  8. MikHutch

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    I'd like to see if the Burn affected the Dominion
     
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  9. Scrooge Magoo

    Scrooge Magoo Fleet Admiral Premium Member

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    They got ointment for that.
     
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  10. FredH

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    Also — much as I (as opposed to much of the fandom) like Section 31 as a story-generating element, we really do need to have the story of how it was ultimately either brought down or thoroughly and permanently reformed. It’d be nice if the S31 movie turned out to be that. For Starfleet to remain the moral exemplar it’s usually played as, it really does need to renounce its War Crimes Division, and to have that happen in the early 25th century.
     
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  11. MikHutch

    MikHutch Fleet Captain Captain

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    Yeah section 31 needs to be excised
     
  12. Bekk Ishy Z

    Bekk Ishy Z Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    There's always going to be a super-secret investigatory body. At least for the conspiracy theorist writers. Just look at PsiCorp from Babylon 5.
     
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  13. MikHutch

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    Ironically I feel the shroud technology the jem Hadar used make more sense for secret agents
     
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  14. FredH

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    Oh sure, and they shouldn’t lose that. They’ll probably always need a dirty-tricks department, or even possibly an if-all-else-fails assassination department. But not a full-on secret Gestapo, medical experiments, etc.
     
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  15. SantaEddie74

    SantaEddie74 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Well, if the Founders would learn how to cook and bake properly...
     
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  16. MikHutch

    MikHutch Fleet Captain Captain

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    Tbf they don't need to eat
     
  17. Bekk Ishy Z

    Bekk Ishy Z Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    What if they did need to eat, and what they consumed was other shapeshifters? :barf2:
    Shapeshifter 1: Where's Bob? I haven't sensed him in days!
    Shapeshifter 2: :whistle:
     
  18. Yule Cat

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    I'd like to see Trek continue on from DISCO and stay in the far future. Let's start making new explorations! I think the end of Season 4 set that up well.
     
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  19. MikHutch

    MikHutch Fleet Captain Captain

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    I wouldn't be opposed to it
     
  20. FredH

    FredH Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    …they wouldn’t look so undercooked! Har har har
     
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