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Would you like a bsg style reboot of Star trek?

No warp drive, no transporter, no Vulcans (including no Spock), no Data, no Klingons... might make a perfectly decent show, but it wouldn't be Star Trek.

Warp drive remains but with respected limits.

Transponder are out

Data is not magic, it's possible

Vulcans and klingon remain, but as inhabitants of colonies of human who has evolved peculiar feaures
 
I loved Moore's response to this very question, if he were to reboot Star Trek the way he did BSG. His response was that there are just some things that are quintessential Star Trek, so a successful reboot would have to incorporate them. Phasers are at the heart of Trek; lasers were not key to BSG, so they could change that into bullets.

While a reboot that goes into more basic and fundamental themes of Trek would be fun to watch, there are just some staples and tropes that can't be eliminated. However, determining those staples and tropes has always been a point of debate among Trekkies. Imo, we need, in no particular order, phasers, warp drive, torpedoes, Horatio Hornblower in Space, space exploration, crew diversity, forehead aliens (though there's always room for imaginative, horrific, or just plain complex aliens), and social commentary in the form of analogy.

I could use less time travel and technobabble-as-conflict-resolution, though.
 
I was disappointed by 2009 reboot of star trek because i hoped it was an opportunity to put off the most naif part of star trek. Unfortunately the reboot highlight the part of star trek i don't like.

I'd like tp see a reboot of star trek like the reboot of BSG:

-no alien
-no superweapons
-no magic technology (transponder,replicator,universal translator)
-no particle of the week
-with more internal coherence
-no time travel
ecc

and you?
How would it still be "Star Trek" without these elements? No strange new worlds, no new life and new civilization?

Warp drive is pretty magical, so no FTL travel?

What do you mean "more internal coherence"? For group a shows and films produced in a time that spans nearly five decades and by several different people its coherence, either by accident or design, is rather amazing.

1- see above

2- yes, but it is necessarry for the show

3-I mean a warp scale respected; for example

1) How is that Star Trek? As someone said, that sounds like Firefly. Plus the alien cultures are part of what sets Star Trek apart.

2) But the other "magical" no magic technologies are not?

3) Which warp scale? Most shows, even BSG move at the speed of plot.

USS Firefly said:
I can be wrong but I believe BSG was a real reboot and Star Trek not, Star Trek was a time travel movie were they are not going back to the 24th century.
So they had some rules to follow
You would be wrong.
Star Trek was a reboot. The time travel was an excuse to change things. (a reboot) The focus was clearly on the 23rd Century.

While BSG was a reboot it also stuck to the basic concepts of the original. Human-Cylon war. Colonies destroyed. Ragtag fleet fleeing the Cylons looking for a lost Colony called Earth. It's tone was different, much darker with less "likable" characters. That's what sets it apart from the original.
 
Another thing:

no turbolift.

Really, they have no sense, they are just a wwaste of space.

Maybe they can have some sense in a ship like Ent-D with a sauder section of 460 m, but just to connect stratetic point of the ship (bridge, engineering, officer quarters, shuttle bay)
Do they take up more space than stairs? Because that would be the alternative. They're probably quicker that stairs, ladders and winding corridors. So, yeah they make sense.

Data is not magic, it's possible
Androids are "magic". You know what's even more "magical" Androids/robots/AIs that are indistinguishable from humans
 
Do they take up more space than stairs? Because that would be the alternative. They're probably quicker that stairs, ladders and winding corridors. So, yeah they make sense.

No, they have non sense, esoecially for that I see in deckplans on internet, they are just a waste of space

Data is not magic, it's possible
Androids are "magic". You know what's even more "magical" Androids/robots/AIs that are indistinguishable from humans[/QUOTE]

data is plausible, we already have some robots who can looks human
Jules+blog.jpg
 
Do they take up more space than stairs? Because that would be the alternative. They're probably quicker that stairs, ladders and winding corridors. So, yeah they make sense.

No, they have non sense, esoecially for that I see in deckplans on internet, they are just a waste of space
You'll have to elaborate on that. What makes them a waste of space. Because increasing the ability to get from one area of the ship to another quickly would seem to make perfect sense.

Most deck plans are fan created. The ones we see in the show are pretty bare bones.

Data is not magic, it's possible
Androids are "magic". You know what's even more "magical" Androids/robots/AIs that are indistinguishable from humans

data is plausible, we already have some robots who can looks human
Jules+blog.jpg
Looks like a mannequin

Looking human is the "baby" step. A Data and especially a Six is far beyond anything we have right now.
 
Faria, I don't understand your problem with turbo lifts. Do you object to elevators in tall buildings?

And just because a robot looks remarkably human doesn't mean that it necessarily acts all that human. The external appearance is the easy part.
 
Faria, I don't understand your problem with turbo lifts. Do you object to elevators in tall buildings?

And just because a robot looks remarkably human doesn't mean that it necessarily acts all that human. The external appearance is the easy part.

1- my problem with turbolifts is that they go horizontally

2- the photo of the robot I post is of a robot able to imitate human facial expressions
 
Faria, I don't understand your problem with turbo lifts. Do you object to elevators in tall buildings?

And just because a robot looks remarkably human doesn't mean that it necessarily acts all that human. The external appearance is the easy part.

1- my problem with turbolifts is that they go horizontally

2- the photo of the robot I post is of a robot able to imitate human facial expressions

1) And that would be wrong why? Ever been to a large airport?

2) Still a far cry from a Data or a Six.
 
1) And that would be wrong why? Ever been to a large airport?

2) Still a far cry from a Data or a Six.

1- orizontal turbolift can have sense in a saucer of 460 m , but with non more than 4-6 "turbostop" for deck.

In a saucer of 126 or 140 metri they are just a waste of space

2- I said Data is plausible
 
1) And that would be wrong why? Ever been to a large airport?

2) Still a far cry from a Data or a Six.

1- orizontal turbolift can have sense in a saucer of 460 m , but with non more than 4-6 "turbostop" for deck.

In a saucer of 126 or 140 metri they are just a waste of space

2- I said Data is plausible

1) Why?

2) No, you said possible. Then changed to plausible. Even the plausibility is a bit iffy.
 
The turbolift moves both horizontally and vertically. If you've ever been in a building (or pair of connected buildings) where you had to take one elevator, walk down a hall, and then take a second elevator to get to where you were going, the turbolift would be very convenient and simple.
 
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Faria, I don't understand your problem with turbo lifts. Do you object to elevators in tall buildings?

And just because a robot looks remarkably human doesn't mean that it necessarily acts all that human. The external appearance is the easy part.

1- my problem with turbolifts is that they go horizontally
...and? That's a problem, why?

2- the photo of the robot I post is of a robot able to imitate human facial expressions
Yeah, pre-programmed into an unthinking computerized machine.

AI is decades off, yet.
 
Not a reboot, but YES, I'd love to see a dystopian Star Trek. Set it in the 25th Century following the supernova that destroys Romulus in the original timeline, and have the Federation fall. A small, ragtag fleet of Federation ships tries to survive...
 
The turbolift moves both horizontally and vertically. If you've ever been in a building (or pair of connected buildings) where you had to take one elevator, walk down a hall, and then take a second elevator to get to where you were going, the turbolift would be very convenient and simple.

NOo, because they'll be a waste of space and too complex to do

Look this deckplans :

Way too big image

Who's deck plans are these? Probably not Starfleets.

And this proves what? Why are they too complex. How is the space being "wasted".
nightwind1 said:
Yeah, pre-programmed into an unthinking computerized machine.

AI is decades off, yet.
Yes, but it is plausible
Yet somehow more plausible than a turbolift. :lol:

Why don't change Data with an autistic/asperger person?
Why?
 
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