ENOUGH! We saw it the first time! 
Oh, look! Aesiron is caught in a temporal causality loop… 
Yeah, luckily after the fifth time my shuttle blew up, I started getting this really strong feeling of deja vu and so I rerouted my transporter through my warp core and tied them to my sensors, which were tuned to scan for eddies in the space time continuum and when I found what I was looking for, I fired a phased polaron beam at a fissure in subspace somehow causing the loop to unravel and snapping me back to reality…
Terrifel, I love your plan!
Aesiron, your explanation of your triple-post is great!
So, did anyone like my idea for a series about the cruelly oppressed, closeted, enhanced people?
Aesiron, that was a quadruple! You’re getting console-punchy (a dangerous condition that often befalls tired Bridge officers).
Technobabble fixes everything. Ain’t it wunnerful?
Maybe he got cloned in a transporter accident.
“Eddie’s in the space time continuum…”
???
What the hell is he doing there?
That’s what we need!
A Trek series in the style of Douglas Adams!
Terrifel’s idea was paralleled in Q-Squared , where we learn Trelane was being “mentored” by Q (the original.)
I like a lot of the ideas here. So much so that I think the salvation of the whole Star Trek continuum should be an anthology-based concept, like Tales of the Federation, where stories from all eras are told by a future narrator. The captain of the Timeship could be the host. Stories about all phases of the Federation could fill in the gaps in continuity; a good team of writers is key.
Example stories:
-The story of Zefrem Cochrane’s life and disappearance
-One of the TOS cast going through Starfleet Academy; possibly the Gary Mitchell/Kirk/Carol Marcus story
-Stories from another TOS starship
-what happened between TOS and TNG
-Stories of the Maquis
-Whatever happened to? stories about the many concept worlds, like the Magna Romans, the Iotians, Landru’s people, the tribes from “A Private Little War”, and others
Some of the produces and crew are working on the Twilight Zone, so this shouldn’t be alien to them.
What do you think?
YES!!! That’s excellent…
Great idea, Steelerphan.
Great idea, Steelerphan.
Great idea, Steelerphan.
Great idea, Steelerphan.
Still in a time loop?
I’d like to see something set during the Dominion War and focusing on Federation ground troops. Maybe it follows a platoon through several campaigns, the defense of Betazed, etc.
Jean Luc wakes up next to Bob Newhart and says" I had the strangest dream. I was the Captain of a starship…"etc,etc
I thought it was a superkeen idea, and a topic that cries out to be revisited, though maybe a bit dark to base an entire series around. If the Federation comes off as looking too jerky, it may put off a lot of Trek fans. Still, the idea of enhanced humans as an oppressed minority is now canon, and an aversion to genetic augmentation actually does make a twisted sort of sense, viewed in the context of the Eugenics Wars. I’ve wondered the same thing about the curious absence of psychic humans in the Trek series. Are they also viewed with fear, and forced to live in secrecy?
Oh and Hazel, I also thought your idea about gender-switching as an option (maybe using the transporter?) would be a neat addition. It’s kind of strange that the various new series haven’t at least taken a stab at the idea yet. We’ve seen just about everything else…crewmembers turned into old people, children, dogs, salamanders, little white polyhedrons… Why the curious omission?* Of course, you’ve got the Trill from DS9, but they don’t really count, since neither symbiont nor host actually changes gender.
*I’m deliberately excluding Turnabout Intruder, as I think we can all agree that the episode was too stupid for words.
There! Are! Four! Posts!!!
bombarding Aesiron with anti-chroniton particles
Star Fleet Academy might be a good show. I know Berman was opposed to doing “Space 90210” (and for once I agree). But a show about the young cadets going through their ?four years? of training would be interesting. In the manner of Kobayashi Maru, we could put the cadets in training situations similar to some of the old episodes (that sucked) and say, “now, what do you do?” and play out some of the alternate endings that we’ve always pondered. With occasional guest stars from the series to spice things up, field trips that go wrong, and the whole universe to play in… And every couple of years, you could cycle the less popular cast members.
And my own personal favorite idea (but then be warned, I like military science fiction), Star Fleet Marines. Picture a series of adventures of the less friendly side of the Federation. No, not the Section 31 Black Ops, but more like Tom Clancy meets David Drake. I can see the adventures of a team of people, similar in manner and style to the military team in Aliens, but with the underlying Star Fleet mentality, being sent to the nastier parts of the universe to rescue diplomats, civilians, starships and anyone in trouble (and effect the occasional regime change). And maybe they’d have power armor . And I would write the series in such a way that we might actually kill off main actors in some he episodes (without a lot of Tonight – a very special episode … crap. These would be people who spent a lot of time out at the “sharp end” where they have only themselves to depend on, and sometimes they wouldn’t always make it back.
Yes, I did. But I would like to see it as a recurring plot point in a regular series. Like the Lone Gunmen were in X-Files.
B&B could’ve mixed up a slew of *DS-9, TNG, * & Voyager crossovers, but they either didn’t have the balls for it or the writing talent. The way they almost derailed Enterprise tells me they couldn’t have pulled it off, period. That’s why I cooked up this fictitious OP.
We are Trek! B&B are no longer Trek. I say we take it from them. By force, if neccesary.
Escalitor! Attack!
I just hope somebody actually goes through with it.