My Idea For A New Trek Show

[Scifipulse]

Have been doing a lot of thinking over the last two years about Star Trek and why Enterprise could never really do its job fully as a prequel series.

 

My feeling is Star Trek over the years has become to much of a formula, i.e you have a Captain a First Officer and an Engineer and the rest of the crew can hang. One of the major set backs about Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise was the fact that many of the lessor characters were not really payed to much attention too from the writers. Where as in Star Trek: TNG and Star Trek DS9 all characters got a fair shake of the stick. Look at Worf for example, in TNG he started off as a small character and was built on over the course of time, and it was never to the detriment of Picard or any of the other leads. In Fact TNG and DS9 were the only Star Trek shows that really focused on all the characters. Where as how many fans of Enterprise can say that they really know say Travis Maywheather or how many Voyager fans can truly say they now Ensign Kim. Both were just poorly written characters and were just there most of the time for the ride.

 

Likes of Garak, Geordie, Rom and Nog from their respective shows you cannot say that about.

 

My idea for a trek show would eliminate the need from one cast servicing the entire run. It would also cost a tad less.

 

My thoughts are why not start from the beginning, have one character throughout it all. An agent from Aegis maybe, like Gary 7. Have this agent like a narrator explaining earts history from the 1990s up until the launch of the NX - 01.

 

Show through the use of new characters as well as characters already mentioned in trek lore such as Colonal Green all that pre history that we never got to see. Show how Khan came to power and wound up being sent to space in the botney bay, yet was such a well kept secret that we the public never actually knew about it. Star the the series in the 1990's and have it set in a different time period each week, show us what happened during the 3rd world war. How did the paradise Districts come about who made the decisions.

 

Basically have an anthology show using a differnt peice of Star Treks past each week to show fans how it all came into being. No space ships, no bumpy foreheads of the week, just humanitys struggle to find its feet and evolve to the point where it can go out there into space.

 

Just an idea. probably not a great one but hey we have this great big back story which has never been explained properly and it could be done for far less money than a new space based series would cost.

[piepie]

Yeah, this is how I feel what the next show should be like. I was thinking a collection of short stories with different casts with a tale in each era - the 1990's Genetics War, the capitalism chaos from that DS9 2 parter. WW3, The genome cleansing Nazi era, the Phoenix. I think it would be great, even as a curio - like the animatrix to the Matrix trilogy.

[BitKeeper]

i think that they should just put there 1960s technobrain to work and think of a new mindbursting, i have to cut school to watch it(link the the 80s), kind of show!

[deathshead]

Great idea. Not sure it would get made into a series, although I do seem to remember some audio books told the stories of Gary Seven, the eugentics wars, and early warp travel. They'll probably want to do series in trek's future rather than its past. Maybe they could instead have a series of TV movies or a mini-series. They could use these to build up the interest for next series in the Franchise.

[Scifipulse]

Great idea. Not sure it would get made into a series' date=' although I do seem to remember some audio books told the stories of Gary Seven, the eugentics wars, and early warp travel. They'll probably want to do series in trek's future rather than its past. Maybe they could instead have a series of TV movies or a mini-series. They could use these to build up the interest for next series in the Franchise.[/quote']

 

Well the whole reason that Enterprise kind of wouldn't fly was partly to do with the temporal cold war. They had opportunity to utilise Shran a lot more than they did, they messed the Vulcans up, we never met a tellorite to late on, and the Tholians were only ever featured once. They got to carried away by having a new Alien every week where they had countless aliens from the original series era that had not been explored.

 

If they go to Treks future, sure we will have the high end technology and all but the danger is, if a new show comes along in say 5 years time and it is set in treks future it will likely fall into the same trap as the Enterprise did, if they do not get a decent producer in like Coto who understands what Star Treks actually means to the fans.

 

I personally think an Anthology Prequel series is the way to go. Call it Star Trek: Genesis or something, different cast of characters each week. Hell we could even have the odd episode that looks at what the Andorians were like in the 1980s, can you imagine it Blue skinned folks with big hair and loads of Hair Spray and over the top shoulder pads. Am joking of course but it would be interesting to have an episode on Earth in the 90s during the eugenics wars, perhaps have Monalban do a voice over narrating key points in the history.

 

And next week we could like hop over the Qu'onos in the same time period, perhaps see some sort of uprising in the empire as veiwed through the eyes of Kahless looking down from Stovakore or better still have a whole hour slot showing the legand of Kahless taking advantage of all that work.

 

Another episode on Vulcan showing Surak and his people, and how the less rational vulcans left on their odysse to head for romulus.

 

The show has a rich history which has never been tapped into on the small screen.

[negger]

If there IS a chance for another Star Trek show the producers should rather focus on a broader audience than they did with ENT.

 

I mean for a trekkie/trekker its no problem to understand what it means when e.g. the warp core breaches etc. but for a newbie..?

During ENT I enjoyed getting to know all the not-so-advanced-technology but this is only because I know what is still to come in the "future" like in TNG/VOY/DS9!

 

To make a long speech short: More introductory stuff means more viewers means more popularity --- prevents from ENT-like fate of the show

 

I read somewhere in the forum something about the everyday in the Starfleet Academy I think this could be a good approach (imo)

[BitKeeper]

first of all, i think they "should" have another series, because they said they are not going to :(