# Ideas for a new Star Trek series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055 "2012-04-07T02:45:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/1 "2012-04-07T02:45:47Z")
If you are just going to fuss about how bad Voyager or the new movie was, or how good B5 or Star Wars are, please post elsewhere. I’d like to see a conflict with minor characters interacting. They could be killed off with impunity, giving some interest. Perhaps the Federation war with the Klingons or Cardassians, or the Maquis. Each episode would feature a particular species; humans one week, then Cardassians, Romulans, Klingons, the Maquis. For example, a Maquis crew a’la Firefly, could steal something from the Romulans, have to sneak past Federation ships, and deliver their cargo to the Klingons. What are your ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/2 "2012-04-07T04:31:13Z")
For some reason I suddenly had this image of a bunch of Borg chasing some Federation redshirts in circles. In stop motion. To Yakkity Sax. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/3 "2012-04-07T05:01:26Z")
**Real Housewives of StarFleet** \*\*Survivor: Rura Penthe Cardassian Idol\*\* And, once again, I will raise the flag for panda: **Red Shirt Diaries** ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/4 "2012-04-07T05:03:09Z")
I’d like to see Captain Sulu’s adventures on the _Excelsior_, with a new actor as Sulu…maybe a cameo with Takei as Sulu’s father in the pilot… ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/5 "2012-04-07T07:04:14Z")
As long as there’s a hot babe in a skin-tight bodysuit, I’ll watch! (T’pol!..droool…Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01…droool) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/6 "2012-04-07T07:15:16Z")
Animated series. Aimed at kids. Let the people who do MLP:FIM do it. They are obviously Trek fans and are very good at what they do. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/7 "2012-04-07T08:16:01Z")
> [@Rich\_Mann](#): > > As long as there’s a hot babe in a skin-tight bodysuit, I’ll watch! > > (T’pol!..droool…Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01…droool) An all female crew. Star Fleet Ladies Auxiliary in Space. Group showers. Pillow fights on the holodeck. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/8 "2012-04-07T09:09:04Z")
Voyager retold with no pulled punches, a desperate tale of survival and compromise every day. I want a Janeway who must muddle through morally dubious situations, I want to see the hard decisions and rationalizing. And if the finale can involve harsh judgement by Starfleet and a screaming rebuttel by the captain and crew all the better. ---
**Author:** ![Dominimus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@Dominimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dominimus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/9 "2012-04-07T09:09:33Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Animated series. Aimed at kids. Let the people who do MLP:FIM do it. They are obviously Trek fans and are very good at what they do. [I believe that’s been done before](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Animated_Series), though with what degree of success is debatable. I’m working my way through them now, actually. Gives you a _real_ appreciation for the regular shows. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/10 "2012-04-07T10:01:19Z")
Star Trek: Academy ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/11 "2012-04-07T10:51:15Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > Star Trek: Academy I suggested that many years ago and was laughed at as no one wanted to see “Grange Hill in Space” Um, okaay, not _quite_ what I had in mind… My other thought would be to follow on from Star Trek First Contact, and see what happened in the Trekverse before Archer and co. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/12 "2012-04-07T10:56:23Z")
> [@Corcaigh](#): > > I suggested that many years ago and was laughed at as no one wanted to see “Grange Hill in Space” I can’t think of a single episode in any of the series that I’ve watched, which includes scenes at the Academy, that weren’t amazingly lame. Even DS9 still presented it as the land of annoying boyscouts who (for stupid plot reasons) are always doing at least one unethical, yet boring thing. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/13 "2012-04-07T11:53:06Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I’d like to see Captain Sulu’s adventures on the _Excelsior_, with a new actor as Sulu…maybe a cameo with Takei as Sulu’s father in the pilot… Doesn’t Sulu have a daughter? Why not her as Captain? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/14 "2012-04-07T11:58:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Doesn’t Sulu have a daughter? Why not her as Captain? Because Sulu himself was the captain of the _Excelsior_ according to cannon. I want to see his story after leaving Kirk and the _Enterprise_. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/15 "2012-04-07T12:52:19Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I can’t think of a single episode in any of the series that I’ve watched, which includes scenes at the Academy, that weren’t amazingly lame. Even DS9 still presented it as the land of annoying boyscouts who (for stupid plot reasons) are always doing at least one unethical, yet boring thing. yeah but, except for that one episode in TNG when Wesley and his friends cover up killing one of their other friends, how many times is it talked about, or scenes are set there? Out of all the series, from TOS to Enterprise? Not a whole lot. And it can’t be all “annoying boyscouts” that go to the academy. There’s bound be a truckload of assholes and racists there too. Sorry, speciesist (is that a word?). Even in an utopian future like Star Trek, surely there would be. And what I was thinking was that while the main cast would be cadets, a lot of the supporting characters would be non-starfleet Federation citizens, and a lot of action taking place outside of the academy. In bars and pool halls and movie theaters and restaurants. All kinds of stuff, showing the little dramas of everyday life. How all the cool space opera stuff, galactic wars etc. that the Enterprise gets up affect regular citizens back on Earth. That was my idea at least. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/16 "2012-04-07T12:53:42Z")
I’d like to see a series focused on one of the alien races instead of the boring, predictable human Federation and their highfalutin boy scout morals. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/17 "2012-04-07T14:06:45Z")
I’d like to see _Enterprise_ as it should have been done, in which the war with the Romulans starts by the fourth episode at the latest. No, make that the third. Oh yeah, and how about the Prime Directive’s origin making sense this time? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/18 "2012-04-07T14:26:05Z")
> [@Dominimus](#): > > [I believe that’s been done before](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Animated_Series), though with what degree of success is debatable. I’m working my way through them now, actually. Gives you a _real_ appreciation for the regular shows. I should have said a new animated series. I have the complete animated series on dvd. How about “Welcome Back Spock”. Spock returns to the academy to teach as the level of recruits are so bad and the academy has seen better days. You still get Hotsie Totsie. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/19 "2012-04-07T15:29:37Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’d like to see a series focused on one of the alien races instead of the boring, predictable human Federation and their highfalutin boy scout morals. Seconded. I was thinking specifically of a series that focused on when the Cardassians first occupied Bajor. Lots of drama to be had there. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055/20 "2012-04-07T15:56:36Z")
I’d still like to see a series set entirely in the Mirror Universe. They can take the two-book series “Dark Passions” as a jumping-off point. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-for-a-new-star-trek-series/618055.md?page=2)