Spoilers Where should Star Trek go next?

[Verteron]

How about an intergalactic colonisation story?

Let's put our heroes on a huge Federation colony ship that leaves the Galaxy, headed for Andromeda, or similar. The trip will take hundreds of years even at warp so everyone gets put in to stasis for the duration.

They'll arrive in the 27th century but with their 25th century level tech, and no way to contact home, we won't hear from the Federation back in the Milky Way at all.

Since we are in the era of CGI - and in-universe, with no Precusors to seed this new galaxy with humanoid life millions of years ago, there will be no humanoid aliens, and no M class worlds. Maybe the Universal translators won't work on creatures from an entirely different galaxy. There'll be a whole new environment of weird planets and anomalies to explore, and new species to meet. Friends and enemies to make while trying to build a new life for themselves.

Perhaps each season could be a 50 year time jump with a new generation.

Let's have an El-Aurian around to provide some continuity over the centuries we cover!

 

[Vger23]

Section 31 / Starfleet Intelligence could be good. Maybe an anthology show with some episodes featuring Phillipa and Tyler, and others featuring Worf and Raffi.

I like the idea of a Starfleet Academy show, mainly because it would be so different.

I like a Titan show with Shaw and company...but it would need to have a different hook than "adventure of the week" (LD and SNW already have that). I'm not into Seven as a captain, but I'd watch her and Shaw duke it out every week for sure.

I think with the direction streaming seems to be going, I don't know that we'll see too many big-budget "risks" being taken again with Trek, unfortunately. It seems like first movies basically died (unless it's superheroes or Star Wars), and now streaming is dying as well. And, of course, the first shows to be taken off streaming are the motion-picture quality epics like Star Trek.

 

[Nombrecomun]

I would disregard all the 'Legacy' stuff. Paramount needs new audiences to jump in for Star Trek. Audiences who haven't watched the previous shows and are unfamiliar with those characters.

To me, that's been Discovery and even SNW to a certain degree(up until they shoehorned Kirk in there). Especially the former. A casual viewer could pick these up with no knowledge of previous shows and understand what is happening. Whether they liked it or not had to do with whether the show was good, not in knowing 50 years of the franchise.

As for SNW, sure, we knew the characters of Pike and Uhura for example but there really wasn't that much about them in visual media. I love how this show has fleshed out both a lot more. I totally get the argument about Spock and 'legacy' characters but imo Peck is doing a fantastic job in providing more of a personal view of this icon rather than just the genius/cerebral interpretation.

I do agree with your point. It is important to keep things fresh and new.

 

[Nombrecomun]

I think it should die. I think it's time for Hollywood to consider creating a new sci-fi franchise.

I wouldn't say die but I would like for them to produce less. Less quantity, more quality. Some of the shows have been liked by fans. Others haven't. The same for Disney Star Wars.

I have no idea if nuTrek is reaching outside of fandom in any significant amount...if any.

 

[Soong-type Android]

What about a series dealing with the return of Benjamin Sisko? Presuming of course Avery Brooks would be willing to return to the role.

 

[Verteron]

What about a series dealing with the return of Benjamin Sisko? Presuming of course Avery Brooks would be willing to return to the role.

Brooks retired from screen acting over 20 years ago and is now a tenured teacher of acting at Rutgers. He does stage work and releases music but I've gathered he has no interest in returning to the small (or big) screen. I respect his choices but sadly for us, I doubt we'll ever see Sisko return unless he's recast.

 

[fireproof78]

What about a series dealing with the return of Benjamin Sisko? Presuming of course Avery Brooks would be willing to return to the role.

As @Verteron notes this seems extremely unlikely. I would be shocked in to silence if he returned to the role of Sisko.

I doubt we'll ever see Sisko return unless he's recast.

Yes, but would fans accept that?

 

[SalyutBuran]

Like I said in a previous thread, there are rumors of Terry wanting a 'Next Next Generation' series set in the 25th century. Whether Paramount goes for it is TBD.

I would assume Jack Crusher is our spinoff character to lead it. Pic S3 is basically a launching pad for him.

They could set the series a decade or so after the events of Picard S3, where Speelers is playing a Jack Crusher in his mid-30s, to line up with the actor's age. Potentially a Starfleet officer by then.

The 25th Century just has so much untapped story potential to be mined. The groundwork set up by 90s Trek is really rich to launch new stories from.

Yeah I donno, I mean it's CBS they can find a way to severely screw this up.

But season 3 seems like a perfect vehicle. Keep the new captain jackoff, Jack Crusher, LaForge, "Commander Hansen". Have Jothathan franks as a supporting Admiral like an Admiral Ross type. Troi you can make a make character or background character but you need to have her for the sake of legacy. Micheal Dorn should be something likle a guinan character. Doesn't need to be in every episode but they should routinely be on the ship.

The part that makes me want to crew but they're a half decade or even a full decade too late. Their options are so limited because so many of the actors are past the age where they can believably be leads on a trek show.

 

[SalyutBuran]

Star Trek: Wagon Train To the Stars (Place holder title)
Make a show that is more literal to Roddenberry's pitch, which was built on the old Wagon Train series
Colony ship (Maybe more than one) on it's way to a world beyond the edge of Federation space. Civilian ship with a civilian crew. Stories arise from people in the "wagon train" who are seeking a new life or a new start and those they meet along the way. They might meet bandits/pirates, aliens, Starfleet patrols, traders and others who would also be story fodder. Not like Voyager trying to get home or Galactica fleeing the Cylons. These people want to be out there.

Absolutely not, and absolutely yes.

I don't think they need to be civilians just star fleet officers on Convoy Duty.

 

[SalyutBuran]

Wouldn't it be more expensive than our current Star Trek series has, as you'll need more actors, actress, more sets, etc?

Btw, is this what they call Star Trek Legacy that Matalas plan?

You have a real cheap in universe work around. It's called being in a uniformed service where everyone dresses the same and lives on the same style of vessel regardless of whether or not they're in the Alpha/Beta/Delta Quadrant.

The beautiful thing is you can even recycle on location shooting if you take a piece of silly putty and stick it to someone's forehead.

I think the best feature of an anthology series is total flexibility. Treat every episode of the first season like a episodic pilot. Get 8 writers, and get them to cast accordingly. Episodes that do well get extensions in the following season. You start with like 8 episodes, and ideally build up to something like 50 episodes a year.

Star Trek won't succeed until they start embracing the assembly line structure that was created by paramount in the 90s.

The only thing that needs to change are the actors and the writers. It's a great way of getting competitive writing.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Absolutely not, and absolutely yes.

I don't think they need to be civilians just star fleet officers on Convoy Duty.

Nah, keeping true to Wagon Train.

 

[fireproof78]

Nah, keeping true to Wagon Train.

Plus it would be nice to have that civilian perspective. Heck, I'd even borrow from Stargate Atlantis and have them use a "uniform" but still allow individual variation, or changes based upon the plot.

Single uinforms for all work is one of Trek's most tiresome cliches.

 

[XCV330]

I'll be in the minority but I'd like to see TAS reanimated with the original voice acting in place, but possibly revamped music and sound effects, at least improved. It would not be a terribly expensive project.

 

[Verteron]

Yes, but would fans accept that?

Probably not for another decade. Maybe sooner if they could get Brooks' blessing, but I doubt it.

 

[Gary Bitchell]

Honestly, it needs to quit beating a dead horse. It keeps repeating the same old stale repeats. Quit going to TNG and TOS. Move forward.

 

[O'Dib]

I had an idea that kind of bridges the need for a new galaxy to explore while allowing for Earth-centric Federation politicking. I feel it could fit somewhere in the timeline gap leading into Discovery's latter seasons.

The Machine-God civilization, having domesticated all the organics of its galaxy seeks a new challenge. Its scheme: Bubble up and switch out the locations of two sectors of space, one within Milky Way, one in its own. It targets the Federation because it measured concord to rival its own.

Half of Earth shifts into another galaxy, while the remaining half is joined to MaG's central core. A permanent wormhole makes sure the drama can be followed on both sides. Will contact with Starfleet help the abandoned flock deal with their Master's absence? Will that Master be welcomed in MW?

 

[Soong-type Android]

Honestly, it needs to quit beating a dead horse. It keeps repeating the same old stale repeats. Quit going to TNG and TOS. Move forward.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[FredH]

My thoughts exactly.

I would say, do both: the current round of P+ series has flourished by providing both familiarity (the 23rd/24th/early 25th centuries) and a new era (the 32nd). I’d continue that. Even if there are fewer shows, make sure to have one in the immediate post-Picard era and one in the still largely unexplored future-Discovery era (or later). Anything else is gravy.

 

[Tim Walker]

Deep Space Eleven. It's already been name-dropped in PIC and can use existing costumes, props, etc. Give it a small support starship for a little off-station variety, and a story could be told about an unknown corner of the Federation frontier perhaps.

There is a concept in which Starfleet meets the X-files. A team in a small ship investigates weird things.

The actual investigators might be guest stars, with the regular cast being crew of the ship. Something like Wagon Train in that respect, with stories (and drama) centered on the guest stars.

It occurs to me that an outpost might happen to be located near a Devils Triangle in space.

One class of ship I have become interested in-a Nova with four warp nacelles. Came across an image once, but have yet to find it again.

 

[Jedi Marso]

I'll be happy with whatever comes next. One thing I would love to see is a character that is an Australian.

Ironically, SNW had exactly that if they'd resisted the impulse to make Chapel a character and just let that actress run with her native accent and a fresh character with a blank-slate backstory to create.