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Here is it.
A Star Trek Series focusing on the average StarFleet person (like the guy/girl that has to muck out the toilets). Each season, it would choose a different location and tie it in with the overall workings of the fleet (missions/threats/etc). It could have some more humorous characters, and feature the occasional hunk and hottie. We could call it:
Space Office
I know how those cracks might develop: class warfare between colonists and homeworlders. Throughout the franchise, we occasionally saw hints that life in the colonies wasn’t nearly as nice as life back on Earth. In our new series, we could expand on this: while a small number of people might volunteer to leave Earth and colonize some remote space rock, most colonists left under less-than-totally-voluntary circumstances. Punative tax structures, repressive laws targetting various classes of “undesirables,” and that sort of thing.
And it’s not just Earth: Vulcans, Orions, Xindi, most Federation members do this sort of thing. A few don’t, but they’re the exception, not the rule. Life in a Federation colony varies from OK (but not as nice as the homeworld) to absolutely slumlike. (New China and New India being examples of the latter, where rationing of food is the norm and people spend most of the day waiting in line for those rations.)
Meh, its pretty well established in the francise that the Federation is a post-scarcity society. “Class differences” don’t make much sense in that context.
I’m with Odesio, a dystopian Star Trek series isn’t really Star Trek.
Well said. Those of us who watched TOS from the beginning in 1966 remember how depressing the Vietnam/riot/assassination/segregation time was back then. Star Trek gave us a universe where we conquered all those woes. There are millions of dark dystopias out there - please leave the one exception alone. There are plenty of good stories about making hard choices from a position of idealism, we don’t need cynicism.
They have replicators. Anyone subject to food rationing would be doing it of their own free will (I remember a few shows where people decided to leave technology behind, that sort of thing).
Replicators require feedstock, energy and technical upkeep.
I’d assume energy is the serious issue there. They may get shipments of anti-matter from the Feds slower than they need due to local conditions.
Although, as I recall, on the ship there are conduits that speed charged matter to the replicator, I suppose those could get destroyed by a natural disaster, causing a moderate term food distribution problem.
I also agree that a dystopian Star Trek isn’t Star Trek, but it doesn’t have to be a dystopia for the Federation to start coming apart at the seams. You could still have a show about a horde that is slightly behind in tech, but still a threat. Many of the member planets of the Federation just don’t believe they’re a threat, or don’t want to believe because they’ve grown too fat and happy in their post scarcity society. They don’t want to send ships to fight these low tech barbarians. Their attitude has become “Not my problem. Besides, why is Earth telling us what to do anyway? Shit, do we even need Star Fleet anymore?”
So you end up with an outnumbered but technologically superior Star Fleet that has to prevent the vandals from sacking Rome and taking all that fatness and happiness away. Center the thing on a lone ship whose mission is to explore the horde’s loosely held space and gather intel, all the while knowing that most of the member planets won’t send ships in support because they are too content to see the threat and can’t even conceive of a life that isn’t post scarcity.
[Charleton Heston/] Replicator feedstock is made of PEOPLE! [/Charleton Heston]
Only if they file a class B Disposal of Remains request. Presumptive disposal of remains is to remand them to the family for cultural disposal. Note that Breen are allowed by Federation statute an exemption to the normal ban on sexual contact with deceased persons due to longstanding cultural traditions.
“Star Trek: Prison Planet” – set on the Federation prison/asylum where the very few incorrigibles who are beyond the contemporary capabilities of Federation science to cure. It functions as a laboratory, frequented by breakouts, assaults and murders. And, once in a while, an actual cure.
Well I could imagine idealogical disagreements with the Fed that are legit, remember Worf’s half brother falling in love with that woman from a pre warp world? Who is right there? Seems murky.
Cite? 
No, I don’t. Was that NG?
Breen religious programming is carried on a special subspace-channel that is Level 4 quantum encrypted.
Suffice to say, the Federation Defense Grid around Earth is only Level 3 encrypted. A Medusan navigator was accidentally exposed to a raw, un-encrypted feed for less than a second and was driven permanently insane. Thus, I cannot provide you a cite.
What?
It was on TNG, but I meant to say stepbrother not half:smack:
um… isn’t that what TOS was all about?
How about a sitcom? My Three Klingons, Seven of Nine – Where Are You?
[Groucho Marx] I’ve often been more involved than necessary with local females…[/Groucho Marx]
I completely agree and would add in some more mundane formulaic items:
A character whose personal growth trajectory asks us to question what it means to be human and whether or not being human is desirable. Spock seeking to suppress his human side, Data trying to become a real boy, 7 of 9 being raised by the Borg, The Doctor becoming more than a program, so on. Some twist on that theme.
The best of Trek was character driven.
In any case, a 2005 rendition of this theme: In that thread I had been able to come up with the idea of a sympathetic character trying to become an Augment as (s)he is, with good cause, disgusted with humanity, and trying to shed it to be able live alone in deep space. Or a character who appears human but who was raised by and is in all characteristics and temperament, very Klingon, albeit one rejected by Klingons due to appearance. Thus forced to live with humans. Hating the human form (s)he has and the humans around him/her.
Also there was the idea of a several ship mission to establish a beachhead in the gamma quadrant as the Dominion was fading, one Federation, one Cardassian, one Klingon. Shift perspectives often, perhaps each episode. Not quite trusting each other. Coming into contact with and caught in the middle of truly alien cultures again that are having old conflicts re-erupt as stability of oppression fades. Not really understanding the conflicts. But together developing new alliances. Perhaps Jem’hadar emerging as a newly independent drug rehabbed identity and trying to figure out what it should be.