# A (possible) 6th Trek series.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636 "2003-07-19T21:08:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/41 "2003-07-21T20:48:14Z")
I really did seriously mean my first post. No remake of TOS. Ever. Other ideas that heve come before in Trek threads are entirely welcome. Except any all alien crew. I don’t want to see a whole series of nothing but Feklar lovin’ Klingons or ever changing brow treatments Rommies. A few special interests eps, sure, but not an alien main focus. **Linus** ’ idea of _McHale’s Star Trek_ isn’t bad, but I like the anthology approach that various Dopers have suggested before. An _Outer Limits_ style show would allow for so much good TV. Think of the ideas that could make it to screen if they didn’t all have to follow an extremely narrow focus writer’ guide. Just keep the main parts of the Trek universe in place and stay within canon. Just think of the possiblities! An explanation of who/what the Tholian assembly actually is. Thasians gone bad. The fifth replicant. Wesley/ Traveller slash. the twenty years of really wild action alluded to prior to TOS. The 50 or so years of some action, some really boring shit just prior to TNG. The adventures of Sulu, McCoy, Scotty, et al post TUD. And then the possibilities of adding new races, people, events. The Eugenics Wars, for crying out loud! Plenty to keep Paramount busy while it still matches up with the needs of the franchise. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/42 "2003-07-21T20:57:08Z")
And the nice thing about an anthology series that would work now where it wouldn’t work before is that the Trek milieu is almost universally known. We’re familiar with transporters, phasers, holodecks, hyposprays, the Federation, the various Quadrants of the galaxy, the aliens, and everything else. A consistent storyline wouldn’t have to be sustained to help foster familiarity with the Trekiverse. I’d read at one point that Roddenberry originally had the idea to do an anthology but vetoed it because of the familiarity factor. No such problem now. I still say wait a while, though. You realize that there hasn’t been a significant stretch of time without a new Trek for 15 years now? Give it a rest, let fandom cool down a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/43 "2003-07-21T21:11:42Z")
Still too risky. Too edgy. Nope, nope, gotta stay “where no man has gone before,” to mangle a metaphor. Although I still agree with you; it’d be cool. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/44 "2003-07-21T21:52:27Z")
How about a Star Trek-based comedy? (hold those Voyager remarks, please :D) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/45 "2003-07-21T22:13:18Z")
> [@](#): > > **How about a Star Trek-based comedy?** _Troi’s Company_? _Shatner and Son_? _Crusher Country_? _Bjo and the Bones_? (obscure Trekdom injoke, please forgive) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/46 "2003-07-21T22:23:36Z")
“My Mother, the Shuttlecraft” “Starship Improvement” “Leave It to Wesley” (no wait, that was most of TNG 😃 ) “W_O_R\*F” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/47 "2003-07-21T23:25:15Z")
_Everybody Loves Neelix_ _The Squire of Gothos_ starring Kevin James _Redshirts_ (like Scrubs) _Galaxy’s Wildest Federation Security Force Videos_ _Tuvok &T’Pol_ -a Vulcan Will & Grace, with Malcolm and Hoshi as the rest of the cast ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/48 "2003-07-22T01:05:43Z")
_Q Controls the Universe_ Dang, I miss Andy Richter. ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/49 "2003-07-22T01:13:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diceman \* > They would spend a lot of time dealing with pirates, rebellious planets, and even **rouge** elements within the Federation government and Starfleet. …by applying liberal amounts of mascara…😉 Sorry, couldn’t resist… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/50 "2003-07-22T01:15:20Z")
Priscilla, Queen of the Spaceways… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/51 "2003-07-22T01:30:22Z")
_The Adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow In Space_ ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/52 "2003-07-22T02:02:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*_The Adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow In Space_ \*\* AARRRRRR! Now _there’s_ a sequel, mateeeeey! I trust that you are internally functioning within normal parameters these days? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/53 "2003-07-22T02:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vivalostwages \* > \*\* > > I trust that you are internally functioning within normal parameters these days? \*\* Pretty much. My forklift type strength is back. It’s my personal life that’s a mess now. My ex is back, I went out with her this weekend, and I went out with K the next evening. [Captain Jack Sparrow swagger] BUT! I did get to sing with a live band again. (2 songs! really) And, I may have a new truck. None of these things are related, but my cousin and I did date at one time. Did I say too much? [any one of three women slaps me] _ **SLAP!!!** _ I may have deserved that… [/CJSs] ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/54 "2003-07-22T13:23:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ray Walker \* > \*\*Sounds like a stupid idea to me. I’d rather see something set in the early 25th century. \*\* “Budda-budda-budda… engage!” ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/55 "2003-07-22T17:43:02Z")
_The Borgs of Hazzard_, naturally. “Just-a good ol’ bots never meanin’ no harm beats all you ever saw been in trouble with Picard since the day they was born…” Can’t you see P. Stewart as Starfleet Captain Boss Hogg? And Dwight Schultz as Commander Roscoe P. Coletrane? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/56 "2003-07-22T18:00:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Star Trek: The Borg vs. Batman Batman wins if he’s prepared. Aaargh. I cannot believe I just posted that. Forgive me. Its not funny anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/57 "2003-07-22T19:20:12Z")
I don’t understand why with all the money the Trek series has brought in over the years…they can’t get decent make-up and effects. Stargate SG-1 and Farscape were both capable of displaying believeable and entertaining SFX, with probably a more modest budget. A new Trek series could do with aliens that don’t sport the forehead rodges. And, as most other Trek fans agree, the old guard should go. It needs and infusion of new blood. Perhaps a less than vanilla caste would be in order. Maybe the self-righteousness coul be turned down. I like the idea of a “darkages” type series, gives a little more humanity to it’s characters. Another suggestion might be to hire writers with a darker background.Take the guy who wrote “From Hell” and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and have him pen a few episodes that make the viewers cringe a bit. Solicite the help of established Sci-fi writers for a fresher perspective. most importantly, make the new series take place after already established story lines…so as to not get up the dander of fan-boys who gripe about continuity. Lastly…court new audiances. The ones who have seen TOS ad nauseum and know the length of Data’s android penis, will probably continue watching…the objective is to bring in new viewers. P.S. Many of these suggestions are ones I have already seen in other articles…so the ideas have been floating around forever. For a new Trek series to be successful…I think the major move would be to rid themselves of the gatekeepers of Trek for good. I think those two have fallen asleep at the helm long enough. ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/58 "2003-07-22T20:10:46Z")
**More Trekcoms** … _I Dream of Janeway_ _The Real McCoy_ _Everybody Loves Riker_ _The Courtship of Odo’s Founders_ Let’s not forget… _Malcolm in the Middle_ If he’s in the middle of Hoshi and T’Pol (or Archer and Trip, if that’s your flavor), it could also be porn! And the crossover show that’s bound to show up, Seven & T’Pol star in… _Bosom Buddies_ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/59 "2003-07-22T20:18:23Z")
Let’s not forget other TV genres Reality: _Survivor: Rura Penthe_ Gameshow: _What’s My Species?_ Bloopers: _Federation’s Funniest Universal Translator Screw Ups_ MTV: _The Breen World_ ---
**Author:** ![Ray\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ray\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ray_Walker)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636/60 "2003-07-22T23:32:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by smiling bandit \* > \*\*Batman wins if he’s prepared. > > Aaargh. I cannot believe I just posted that. Forgive me. Its not funny anymore. \*\* What if the Borg are prepared too? What then?? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-possible-6th-trek-series/189636.md?page=4)