After Enterprise?

Cafe Society
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I realize we’re only into the second season (I think, I haven’t paid any attention) of Enterprise, but since the tradition has been to have the last season of the old series overlap with the first season of the new, Brannon and Braga (or whatever their names are) must be planning on some new horror to inflict upon us. The question is: What? What could they be planning and how is it possible that it could be worse than what they’re currently serving us?

I’m thinking that they’ll completely redo the formula they’ve currently been using (i.e. a bunch of humans with one character struggling with what it means to be human or not) and completely flip it so that we’ll have a show which centers around a human on a ship manned mostly by Klingons (who’ll turn out to be the biggest wimps since Woody Allen and get their asses kicked by every alien that comes along).

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Well, there’s always the “Starfleet Academy” concept that was kicking around before they settled on “Enterprise.” The idea of a show composed primarily of Wesley Crusher clones, though, gives one pause (and the heebiejeebies).

Hey, how about “AfterVoyager”, the story of our least favorite characters from ST:VGR, only now they all take place on Earth? :slight_smile:

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Well, if they do the Academy show overlapping the story line of Enterprise, then the cadets would be closer to Kirk/Spock’s era than STNG, so they wouldn’t necessarily be wunderkind.

They could do a war series about any of several wars coming up with the Klingons and Romulans. Lots of explosions.

Plus, there’s another Enterprise to be built before we get to TOS.

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We’re only going into the second season. Doesn’t that mean we have years before the next series?

Or did I miss a memo?

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a good plot would be for the emerging powers of the Alpha quadrant to forge out their borders and influence in blood and develop the concept of the federation.

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Captain Sulu of the Excelsior

Of all the original cast, I think George Takei would be the most open to a new show, and they could have lots of cool stories about the Federation at the turn of the 24th century. Maybe they could reconcile the Praxis disaster of Undiscovered Country, which was supposed to give the Klingon empire “50 years to live”, with the alive-and-well Empire on Next Generation.

The setting of the show would be perfect for our times, much as the original series was for the sixties. A superpower (the Federation) had defined itself as defending against another superpower (the Klingons). The Klingon government has (temporarily) collapsed, leaving a major power vaccuum and forcing the Federation to rethink its role in the galaxy.

First episode: a violent fanatical faction of a minor power (the Orions, possibly) attacks a major Federation civilian target, possibly a city on Earth itself. Starfleet’s reaction? They’d like to destroy the enemy, but they’re scattered and elusive, and hiding among civilian populations. It won’t be a clean war like they had trained for against the Klingons.

Throw in the mysterious Romulans as a metaphor for the Chinese, and you have a sci-fi series based on post-1991 Pax Americana. Drop a few references to the “new century” and portray Sulu as commanding this hugely powerful ship (like a 20th-century aircraft carrier) but often held back by politics. But when he cuts loose, he cuts loose big.

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How about a series on the Voyager crew? Here’s my idea.

Possible spoilers…

They return home and all is well… for about three weeks.

Then, the crew experiences sickness and die off one by one. When the Voyagers expire, their corpses turn into metallic jelly. Backtracking, they figure out it must have something to do with the Demon class planet they previously visited. Searching the logs, they deduce that one of their encounters, a scrambled distress signal that arrived too late, was in fact the Voyager.

But if that Voyager decomposed, why are they decomposing also? Because the Voyager copies had visited a second Demon class planet, creating a second set of duplicates, which reached Earth.

The actual Voyager crew got assimilated by the Borg and sent back in time to harass Earth as V-Ger. The End.

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A prequel to the prequel! I want to see what happened during World War 3!!!

[sub]Of course, it wouldn’t really be a Star Trek anymore, but who cares at this point?[/sub]

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I’d have preferred… voyager gets home, but then Earth explodes in a firery cataclsm of death! Voyager is impaled by the Washington monument, and crashes on the moon. Only the Doctor, Seven, and Harry live to see Species 8472 land to probe through the wreckage. they catch harry and kill him painfully as audiences cheer. And then the doctor’d batteries die, so only seven remains. As Species 8472 closes in, she wakes up! It was all a dream!! But what is that in the Borg Chamber next to her? Harry’s disembodied head!!!

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I always thought it would be fun to do a movie about the aftermath of the Dominion war, focusing on the Federation and Klingon occupation/peacekeeping forces on Cardassia. It’d show more cooperation among the troops on the ground-Klingons start using Phasers, Starfleet troops start wearing modified Klingon body armor for protection against knife-wielding Cardassians in food riots.

At least in THIS idea’s favor, not many scenes could be filmed in than damned “rocky-tunnel” set they use for every other episode. God, I hate that set…

Ranchoth

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Tars: how about Voyager gets home and finds the Earth is ruled by damn dirty apes!!

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The apes promptly beat the Voyager crew the death with clubs. 7 is the only one left. (See Tars Tarkas’s ending)

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It is 327 years after Voyager returned. The entire Alpha quadrant has been taken over by sentient, carnivorous camels. A team of them are piloting the Enterprise Z. All the humanoid life forms have been eaten by the camels except a small group of renegades led by a courageous Ferengi named Quint (played by Joe Piscopo). The captain of the Enterprise, a camel named Moody (George Clooney) has sworn to hunt down Quint’s rebels.

Meanwhile the Borg arrive from Delta Quadrant. After three hundred years they have concluded that Perfection lies in fine baking. They specialize in rumballs and chocolate dipped macaroons, but their food is so awful that they generally have to destroy half of a planet before anyone will consent to eat it. “Resistance is futile. You will be fed.”

While the camels fight the Borg Quint decides to slip into the wormhole near Bajor to see if the Prophets will help the remaining humanoids. The Sisko sends them back to Bajor for the Orb of Defenestration, but they are eaten by the new residents of the planet, sentient, carnivorous, lima beans.

All of this happens in the teaser of the first pilot. The rest of the first seasons consists of the camels playing chain saw mah jongg on the holodeck.

Star Trek: The Sentient, Carnivorous Camel Generation, coming to a tv near you.

And watch it, Paramount. Everyone knows I thought of it first.

Fifteen Iguana

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Since Enterprise is about the birth of the Federation, I think the next show should be about its end.

It’s a few years after Voyager. A new ship, not the Enterprise, is testing a new warp drive that uses some form of temporal folding to travel vast distances. But the test goes wrong, and the ship is transported more than a century into… THE FUTURE!

The crew finds themselves in a Federation that has become decadent and corrupt. A fierce, almost genocidal war with Vulcan secessionists has left the Federation stagnant and teetering, many of their most impressive scientific advances (many of which are held in the the new ship’s computer banks) have been lost. Many Federation worlds are in a state of barely suppressed revolt. And they were the winners. Vulcan is a radioactive cinder, former Vulcan colonies are little more than prison camps, and the remaining free Vulcans have abandoned logic in favor of a berserker rage as the ragged remains of their fleet prey on Federation shipping lines. The Klingon Empire has found new strength in the sale of weapons to any side that has the gold-plated latinum. The Romulans have once again turned inward and sealed their borders to all outsiders.

At first, Our Heroes try and find a way to go back in time and prevent all this from happening, but gradually they are forced to realize that there is no one event that they could alter that would change history. It’s like trying to find the exact butterfly to step on in China that would prevent a hurricane in Mexico. Ultimatly, they decide to stay in the future, and try to fight the Federation and restore peace and prosperity to the Alpha Quadrant. Along the way, they find the last Enterprise, stolen decades ago by the renegade Admiral Data, who has downloaded his own personality into the ship’s computers, and serves as the flagship of the resistance.

That’s what I think ought to happen in the next Star Trek show. As for what I think will really happen, it’s probably not too different for Fifteen Iguana’s idea.

(Actually, I think giving George Takai his own show is the best idea I’ve seen here.)

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I’d support a Sulu cartoon!!

The show about the ending of the Federation has to include Hari Seldon and a Federation Foundation! (sorry, am reading that series finally right now!)

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Here’s an idea for a Star Trek show:

-The first season depicts a series of strange wormholes opening up at various points in the alpha quadrant. From these wormholes come massive ships, at least a mile long and triangularly shaped. They carry weaponry and shields thousands of times more powerful than the greatest Starfleet vessel, and are capable of laying waste to entire worlds in less than fifteen minutes. These fleets of ships - led by a dark-clothed individual with breathing problems and spooky mystical powers - quickly decimate the entire Alpha, Beta, and Gamma quadrants (but have a little bit of trouble exterminating the Borg in the Delta quadrant).

-Season 2 depicts the now victorious fleet of conquerors setting up what they call their “Imperial Colony”, consolidating power and forcing all the various races in the Milky Way to become unified. These “Imperials” then begin pouring their highly advanced technology and far greater industrial capacity into the galaxy’s infrastructure, accelerating its advancement by millenia.

-Season 3 shows how an uprising - a “rebellion”, if you will - breeds among the populace. Given that this new super-advanced technology has now been spread throughout the galaxy and is available to all, there is no longer such a great technological discrepancy between the previous MW inhabitants and the new suppressors.

-Season 4-6 shows how this rebellion grows, finally carving out a small niche for itself, becoming a legitimate power in the galaxy, combining MW and Imperial technology to create superships. This war would put the crap in DS9 to shame, of course. This new government begins to fight a conventional war against their oppressors.

-Season 7 shows how this new government - let’s call it the “Union” - begins to vanquish their once-mighty conquerors. Equipped with equal technology, and fighting with the strength and resolve of those seeking to liberate their homes, they ultimately push back the Imperial invaders to the very wormholes that caused this whole mess. In a final, confrontational battle against an 11-mile long dagger-shaped ship and its escort ships, the Union discovers that the Imperials were constructing a gigantic, spherical space station. Barely a skeletal structure, this station is ultimately brought back through the wormhole to prevent it from being destroyed. Just as they depart, the Union picks up transmissions that mention someplace called “Endor” and how they want to “complete the Death Star (whatever that is) to eradicate the Rebellion”.

Puzzled, but nonplussed, by this intercepted transmission, the Union pools its resources to close all the offending wormholes, thus ending the Imperial scourge in their galaxy, forever.

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A wise man once said “I’m gonna dip my balls in it!”

Sorry. Way off topic.

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Klingon High Council

Done Soprano’s style. Oh yeah!

Season 2- massive fight with the Romulans. Mmmm Fleet Battles.

:wink:

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Star Trek: GEN III

The Federation has explored the entire Milky Way with transwarp/quantum slipstream drive, and is now going to explore other galaxies with new artificial wormhole technology.

Seven years pass…

Series finale: incorporation of the United Federation of Galaxies.