I’m sure any new series, regardless of characters and setting, will feature holodecks and time travel a-plenty.
i’m thinking Nathan Fillion would make a good captain, say Gina Torres as his first officer, Jewel Staite as Chief Engineer etc.
With the level of medicine technology that we see displayed in TNG/Voyager, I would think that the physical aspects of drug addiction could be cured fairly quickly.
Borg: The Beginning. How did the first generation of people get to be Borgs?
I thought the Borg Queen in First Contact sorta shed some light on that: A race of humanoids, seeking perfection, begin to modify themselves with technological implants.
What more do you need than a show that actually does this?
One caveat: No frakken time travel!
In the Great Bird version, sure. I suggest going back to some of the story ideas that were more similar to Harlan Ellison’s early story treatments of the issue that led to the Guardian(s) of Forever being part of the plot.
:dubious: - “Fascinating.”
Amen, brother!
So - lets use it to the advantage -
Star Trek - History Channel - each week, episode(s) dealing with crucial events in federation history.
You could have mini-arcs devoted to the Romulan War - Cardassia’s overthrow of Bajor, etc and so on - set far enough in the future, you could revisit all of the erras thru ‘stock footage’ as well as new takes.
No particular set crew or ship - just ‘this day in history’ - the Eugenics wars, etc.
Clips from the series as historical footage.
I’d like a “lower decks” show too. One where we hardly see the senior officers, we never see the bridge, and the ship would frequently be under attack with no explanation why. And I’d make it a 1/2 hour sitcom.
… with a crewman named Kenny, who gets killed as part of an Away Team every week.
Hardly original, but if we’re going that way, he’d have to wear a red shirt of course.
I thought about this a long time ago. But then some dolt had to come up with Caprica, which kinda made me lose my craving for such a show.
This has been suggested earlier, but focus on the red shirts
Red Shirt Diaries
Separately, it would be interesting to do a procedural investigating cluster fucks, where a field team investigates the remnants of missions gone wrong. You could bounce between mission logs, reenactments and flashbacks.
Ensign Kirk and the cloud creature from Operation: Annihilate.
So what, other than being set in the Trekverse, is quintessentially Trek?
Humanism. The Feds are exploring the galaxy in order to contact new species, gain wisdom and to otherwise expand their horizons rather than for exploitation and greed. Optimism is another necessity. Even the darkest Trek (DS9) was pretty optimistic. The future is better. Poverty, racism and other social ills have been all but eliminated from human society. Heck, humans even get along well with a myriad of species even if those mean old Klingons won’t play ball (the Romulans keep cloaking it so I guess it isn’t their fault).
If you remove those two things then you essentially have something that is Trek in name only. It might make for a really cool show, but it isn’t Trek.
And for most of the life of the franchise, the Klingons WERE playing ball - showing the optimism again…even these terrifying enemies can be befriended in time. (A sentiment represented in TOS by Chekov.)
I’d like to see a completely lost starship, one that passes into a different dimension or universe. Cut off from the federation and running out of fuel and supplies, the race is on to find a habitable planet. When one is finally found, the entire crew is transported to the new Earth and the starship is abandoned. The settlers must then fight off and/or pacify the native inhabitants whilst creating a society geared toward re-creating space exploration.
For all I know it has been done already. I’ve only ever watched the original.