Your wish list for a new series
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I want a Horta-Tribble lesbian encounter.
Afterwards, fried tribble and drinks for everyone!
To get back to a little seriousness, many years ago I made an outline for a new Trek show that I posted on some boards (maybe even this one, can't remember). It began like this:
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Time period: The beginning of the 23rd century.
Setting: The Federation starship USS Hibernia is dispatched to a distant border province to the "south" of the galaxy, facing the outer spiral arms. Its main mission is to explore and observe the mostly uncharted space beyond. Their homebase is a colony/starbase on a planet that is also the seat for the resident Federation Governor General, who is the Hibernia Captain's immediate superior. I'm thinking we don't get to see Earth here, except maybe when the Governor General or the Federation Envoy is visiting.
Ship: The USS Hibernia is a Starfleet cruiser with a crew complement of 220 and four shuttles, two smaller ones and two medium sized. The interiors look like a cross between the NX-01 and the not so colourful version of the early NCC-1701.
Uniforms: Modelled to resemble the ones worn on The Cage/Where No Man Has Gone Before, albeit with a more elaborate rank insignia and accessories (like jackets).
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Then I go one and list some ideas for crew members and recurring story arcs...
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Time period: The beginning of the 23rd century.
Setting: The Federation starship USS Hibernia is dispatched to a distant border province to the "south" of the galaxy, facing the outer spiral arms. Its main mission is to explore and observe the mostly uncharted space beyond. Their homebase is a colony/starbase on a planet that is also the seat for the resident Federation Governor General, who is the Hibernia Captain's immediate superior. I'm thinking we don't get to see Earth here, except maybe when the Governor General or the Federation Envoy is visiting.
Ship: The USS Hibernia is a Starfleet cruiser with a crew complement of 220 and four shuttles, two smaller ones and two medium sized. The interiors look like a cross between the NX-01 and the not so colourful version of the early NCC-1701.
Uniforms: Modelled to resemble the ones worn on The Cage/Where No Man Has Gone Before, albeit with a more elaborate rank insignia and accessories (like jackets).
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Then I go one and list some ideas for crew members and recurring story arcs...
Don't know about having a starship captain with a civilian politician as their direct superior.
Is the ship going to have a "political officer" too?
Nah, it's more like a civilian oversight of the military, not a direct chain-of-command issue. It could have been worded better, but I did this many years ago.
Now that I think about it, that colony planet would also have a starbase commander (a Commodore or Rear Admiral) that would be the immediate superior.
I want it to be a little bit harder science. I don't want every planet they beem down to to be m-class where everybody speaks English.
There's so many bizarre planets and moons out there with mind blowing real natural anomalies. Star Trek has never really taken this angle, and it's something that could be done to freshen up the franchise.
There's so many bizarre planets and moons out there with mind blowing real natural anomalies. Star Trek has never really taken this angle, and it's something that could be done to freshen up the franchise.
At some point, I want the captain of the Discovery to call the leader of the planet they're in orbit of, and be told that the leader isn't going to be running to the communicator simply because a ship captain want the leader to drop everything and have a conversation with him.
Beat me to it.No aliens or gays on the crew.
Female crew members should be in subservient roles and be wearing mini skirts, or be partially nude if they are hot.
Everyone is a white male, with the exception of the proud Native American who is the second in command and makes pithy statements about the environment.
Episodic shows only, and no one remembers anything about their past, so no canon violations. Don't want no frickkin canon violations.
Paradoxically, I think part of the selling point of DS9 was precisely that he was superficially/physically 'the black guy'
But later the writers & Brooks did bring in more cultural aspects to Sisko. Arguably because they had more confidence once audiences had accepted him.
But that was the 90s. I think/hope casting and representation would be more progressive now.
I have many hopes for the new show, not just in the area of casting. None of these hopes involve anything in the area of being "progressive."
May I ask why? I'm just curious why you wouldn't want a new Star Trek series to be progressive. Maybe we have varying definitions of “progressiveness”, but I can't think of anything new – be it music albums, books, politicians etc. – that I wouldn't want to be progressive.
Me neither. I'm more interested in thrilling escapist adventures in space than being hit by moral allegories and made to "think". I watch trek to escape the headline news, not have it follow me into my entertainment.
I want a series set in the 2280s (Wrath of Khan). Ship is a workhorse Miranda, hardly a gallant assignment, posted on the Klingon border for routine patrol. The main thematic thrust is the Federation's utopian ideals and policies in conflict with a hostile alien power constantly bent on subverting and/or destroying it.
Being the time before Star Trek 6 it can show us how we got there and what it was like for practical federation members to enforce the lofty ideas of the remote and altruistic Federation Council, for better or for worse. Last gasp of frontier life before it becomes settled by the pre-TNG period. The disappearance of the last wild frontier as Federation captains are instructed to be more placid in the face of increasing hostility. Clash of the old way of doing things (draw phasers) vs the "proper" way (negotiating to the point of amassing casualties). Though pessimistic, occasional episodes are chipped in where it IS better to turn the other cheek and perhaps the enemy, in spite of all the saber rattling, might also be tired of the war tension as well.
The captain is an experienced man who has had his share of fighting Klingons. While he doesn't hate them, he's realistic about what to expect from them and pessimistic that they would change. His executive officer is a squeaky new transfer from the capital areas who fully believes in the Federation's mission of holding hands and being peaceful. Discorse between both serves as one main thrust of exploring the theme, and both of them grow to recognize the other's ideals, but not fully compromise on their own.
I want a series set in the 2280s (Wrath of Khan). Ship is a workhorse Miranda, hardly a gallant assignment, posted on the Klingon border for routine patrol. The main thematic thrust is the Federation's utopian ideals and policies in conflict with a hostile alien power constantly bent on subverting and/or destroying it.
Being the time before Star Trek 6 it can show us how we got there and what it was like for practical federation members to enforce the lofty ideas of the remote and altruistic Federation Council, for better or for worse. Last gasp of frontier life before it becomes settled by the pre-TNG period. The disappearance of the last wild frontier as Federation captains are instructed to be more placid in the face of increasing hostility. Clash of the old way of doing things (draw phasers) vs the "proper" way (negotiating to the point of amassing casualties). Though pessimistic, occasional episodes are chipped in where it IS better to turn the other cheek and perhaps the enemy, in spite of all the saber rattling, might also be tired of the war tension as well.
The captain is an experienced man who has had his share of fighting Klingons. While he doesn't hate them, he's realistic about what to expect from them and pessimistic that they would change. His executive officer is a squeaky new transfer from the capital areas who fully believes in the Federation's mission of holding hands and being peaceful. Discorse between both serves as one main thrust of exploring the theme, and both of them grow to recognize the other's ideals, but not fully compromise on their own.
You mean the ones that look like ,pigs?
This is a tough one. Given the amount of episodes, movies and novels, are there many original stories worth telling? I don't envy the team behind Discovery, but I wish them the best of luck.
I'd like to see an emphasis on exploration. Shorter, more focused seasons made if of multiple episode story arcs would be nice. As for time period? That's tough. I want it to respect what's come before, but don't know what would be best for being free to do their own thing. The easy choice would be post DS9, but maybe sometime between TUC and TNG would be fun so long as the writers could resist using the Borg and others.
I'd like to see an emphasis on exploration. Shorter, more focused seasons made if of multiple episode story arcs would be nice. As for time period? That's tough. I want it to respect what's come before, but don't know what would be best for being free to do their own thing. The easy choice would be post DS9, but maybe sometime between TUC and TNG would be fun so long as the writers could resist using the Borg and others.
Implementation of General Order 24.
Cue argument on the Miranda in my idea. The population below is being ravaged by a biogenic plague that absorbs individuals into its collective mass, but the science officer detects that it is developing sentience. The Captain wants to nuke it to prevent the spread of the biomass to other star systems and save the rest of the population. The first officer thinks this is the emergence of a new life form and perhaps could be persuaded to stop with Science. Ultimately the life-form proves to just be as malicious and hungry as feared, consuming all life, leading to General Order 24. Captain reflects that if they acted sooner, millions would have been saved.
That would cause the "Starfleet isn't military" crowd to have conniptions. I welcome it.Implementation of General Order 24.
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