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SPOOFE: I guess my idea has some problems. Still, we desperately need to get rid of the replicators and end the Utopic society crap. And the transporters have become a plot-eating monster, and really need to go as well. I’m sure that a suitable explanation could be contrived.

And while we’re at it, I’d bring back organized religion. DS9 tried to do it, but Voyager brushed it aside again. Roddenberry’s dead now, so he won’t mind a Catholic character or a Muslim or a fundamentalist Baptist on board :wink:

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How about the continuing adventures of the Federation Time Patrol? Based a century or more farther in the future then we have gone before, the Patrol tries to preserve the timeline they’re pretty sure is the real, right, correct timeline (or is it?).

Also, I liked the bit in DS9 where we learn that Bashir’s parents had him illegally enhanced, and he’s had to hide this all his life, for fear of being kicked out of Star Fleet, having his medical licence revoked, etc. Suddenly, we learned that there was a hated, stigmtized minority group among the Earth-humans of the Federation. People who have to live in fear that their lives will be ruined if their secret is exposed.

I think in DS9 it may have been stated that Bashir was highly unusual in that he had not gone insane. In my series, yes, some enhanced people go nuts (so enhanced people have to worry if they’re sane or not), but there’s a lot more sane ones then the Earth govt officials think. They just stay closeted, as Bashir did. Some of them use their powers for good, while trying not to give themselves away. Some just look out for number one; try to achive riches and power without giving themselves away. The use-our-powers-for-good types try to find others of their kind, for company, and to work together. Hard to do, though, as everyone’s passing as normal.

The other species, Federation and otherwise, are mystified; don’t understand why the enhanced are oppressed. I think it’s supposed to be a legacy of the terrible trama of the Eugenics Wars; fear that the enhanced will try to take over. If that wasn’t established in DS9, I’ll establish it in my series.

Oh, and in any Trek series I create, there will be gay men, lesbians, and bi people around, who will be accepted as being just as normal as straight people. Same-sex marriage will be legal, accepted, taken for granted. And people who feel that they were really meant to be the other sex will be able to switch genders easily, and be fully functional as the other gender. This will be seen as a normal, routine thing that some people choose to do. Change your mind? No problem! Switching back is also easy. I think I’ll have a colony world where the in thing to do is spend some time as the other sex, just for the experience, to broaden one’s horizens.

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Next week, in avery special episode…

> kid in the family learns that his or her new best friend (whom we’ve never seen before and will never see again)…

> is either being beaten or sexually abused by his or her father, uncle, teacher, youth group leader, or (if a girl) her boyfriend…

> everything will be resolved by the end of the episode: problem solved; happy ending; everyone learns a valuable lesson.

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Oops. How did this get here? It was meant for the create-a-sitcom thread.

But maybe this is an idea-- Star Trek: The Sitcom! Bumbling husband/father, wacky neighbor who raids the family’s replicator, etc.

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Ah, you mean Star Trek: Empire.

A whole series based on that evil alternate universe would certainly be amusing. Put it on cable, too, for explicit sex, violence and language.

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YES!

:dubious:

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But then the question is, which timeframe do you want it set ing?At the height of their power circa the TOS years, during the fall of Terra, or during the current Klingon and Cardassian oppression?

By the way, the Rommies got shafted. Again. I swear, they’re the Travis of the Trek aliens.

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I hated almost everything about DS-9 but especially the alternate universe with Kira freak in charge of crap. So, no alts during Voyager/DS-9 era.

Now, during the TOS era, that would be cool. But, we would have to change some of the characters. Just like our fave good guys were shown to have dark sides, the baddies in power of the alt Trek should have redeeming qualities. In fact, like Spock, there should be some that will actively work for the good of others, even some within the Empire (Like Sydney in Alias).

Wesley could finally reach his full potential as a snivling sycophant. 7 would be an awesome dominatrix. T’Pol could be a blood thirsty bi-polar bikini model.

Hoshi would be the power behind the throne of Kirk.

Of course, none of the old actors from TOS would be used, but their characters would be.

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If there’s any life left in the old franchise after Enterprise, my guess would be that they’ll try something along these lines. They could actually use it as a neat way to address some of the greater or lesser continuity problems that have become embedded in the canon, as well as a way to weasel in some of the conflicting material from the novels, which could be treated as competing timelines.

Okay, my pitch: Star Trek: Rivers of Time. The series revolves around a baffled Zefrem Cochrane, plucked from the timestream and rejuvenated to the prime of life. He has been selected as an agent of the Federation’s timefleet, based on his near-supernatural grasp of spacetime-manipulation that enabled him to construct Earth’s first warp drive and indirectly establish the Federation. He is gradually persuaded that his home timeline is in jeopardy of destruction, and is assigned to the flagship of the Timefleet, the Heraclitus, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike. The first officer is an enigmatic man known only as Flint. Their missions take them through the history of the ST universe and multiple parallel dimensions. Eventually we learn that the multiple timelines were all created accidentally by General Trelane, who just wanted to know how history would have turned out if Klingons didn’t have those unsightly bumps on their heads. Either that or McCoy accidentally left his tricorder inside the Guardian of Forever. Okay, I haven’t worked out all the details yet.

What do you think, sirs?

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:dubious:

You win.

I honestly can’t think of anything better. (All the other ideas are great, don’t get me wrong.)

All Hail Terrifel

:dubious:

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:eek:

Don’t be makin’ fun of DS9! Those’re almost Pit worthy words! If you’d said anything about the Romulans in addition to disparaging the gods of Trek that was the cast of DS9, I’d’ve been forced to flame you to cinders! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Oh great. Star Trek is dying due to total internal inconsistency, and NOW you want to make a Trek show where inconsistency is par for the course? We should be trying to RAISE Star Trek’s quality standards, people, not simply going with the bottom-of-the-barrel standards that Berman & Braga have established!

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Quality, schmality, SPOOFE! Here at the New Trek, inconsistency is job 1!

That gives me a great idea; I’d create two series (sequentially) - the first would develop my Trekkerverse into a complex, involved timeline, but one that was clear and comprehensible, with no conitnuity errors to speak of. I’d have a whole armload of staffpeople working solely on timeline development.
THEN, in the second series, I’d shoot it all to hell, throw all the rules out the window, knock the timeline on its ass, and confuse the living bejeezus out of my audience.

Oh, wait, I think that’s already been done…

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Aesiron, you incredible schmutz. How could anything that sits still be interesting? :dubious:

d&r

Actually, I just couldn’t get into to DS-9 on a regular basis. Sure, they had some good shows, and I made sure I watched the reruns of the ones that those lesser boards raved over. (I’m so glad I finally found The Dope) But, whenever I just tuned in, I was usually disappointed. I asked a friend of mine at Paramount why did DS-9 suck so much after having such a great premeir show? She said there were major budget problems and quite a bit of internal staff conflict. (She worked in continuity and contributed to writing at times)

Now, to the Romulans.

Trek really missed the ball here. They could’ve been the Nazi Space People™, instead, they get the same haircuts, now have eyebrow ridges, and needed a lisping earth boy to lead them (through the vampires known as Remans) to any chance at intergalactic greatness. Remember, these are supposed to be the guys that almost wiped out StarFleet even though they didn’t yet have warp! Quite a bunch of fighters, right? And then, when they did develop warp, they did it with artificial singularities. The Ultimat Weapon™!! Think about it. Remote pilot, or robot pilot, an artificial singularity ship into the heart of your enemy’s sun… No more enemy home system, what with their sun now being a black hole.

But, alas! No such Great Enemy™ ever survives in the Trek universe.

Go ahead, Pit me for blasphemy! I deserve it. Having been a Trekker for 34 years. :dubious:

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Star Trek: Geeks

The Iotians from that “Piece of the Action” episode show up on DS9. Their culture demands they wear old-Trek uniforms and have an encyclopedic knowledge of TOS-Trek, including how transtators work.

Naturally, no-one takes them seriously.

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Hm… I would pit you but I have the courage of a Ferengi and the flaming abilities of a Pakled. Besides that, you redeemed yourself by admitting to the badassosity of the Rihannsu so you’re just fine in my book. :smiley:

By the way, did you know that the Romulans were originally intended to be the main nemeses of the Federation but 'cause the pointed ears cost so much, they went with the vaseline slathered Klingons instead? Hmph. What could’ve been. . .

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Hm… I would pit you but I have the courage of a Ferengi and the flaming abilities of a Pakled. Besides that, you redeemed yourself by admitting to the badassosity of the Rihannsu so you’re just fine in my book. :smiley:

By the way, did you know that the Romulans were originally intended to be the main nemeses of the Federation but 'cause the pointed ears cost so much, they went with the vaseline slathered Klingons instead? Hmph. What could’ve been. . .

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Hm… I would pit you but I have the courage of a Ferengi and the flaming abilities of a Pakled. Besides that, you redeemed yourself by admitting to the badassosity of the Rihannsu so you’re just fine in my book. :smiley:

By the way, did you know that the Romulans were originally intended to be the main nemeses of the Federation but 'cause the pointed ears cost so much, they went with the vaseline slathered Klingons instead? Hmph. What could’ve been. . .

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Hm… I would pit you but I have the courage of a Ferengi and the flaming abilities of a Pakled. Besides that, you redeemed yourself by admitting to the badassosity of the Rihannsu so you’re just fine in my book. :smiley:

By the way, did you know that the Romulans were originally intended to be the main nemeses of the Federation but 'cause the pointed ears cost so much, they went with the vaseline slathered Klingons instead? Hmph. What could’ve been. . .

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What the hell? How did I manage a triple post spanning thirty minutes?! I’m so embarassed. :o