Hmm. Maybe… just maybe… this could be a good idea. More than a passing resemblance to “Battlestar Galactica,” which is hardly surprising, given BSG’s recent popularity. What do you think?
I’m with one of the posters - make it a Sulu-era piece, with adult content, no children or talking animals etc. What’s the point in setting it further ahead and still calling it Trek?
I like the proposed storyline, but I don’t care for the art style. I see elements of Babylon 5–one major arc for the series, and a mysterious alien in an encounter suit, of Kosh 
Elements of BSG–darker, grittier universe, ass kicking security troops. A familiar Trekverse, as it might evolve from what has gone before…
I’d check this out if it ever happens.
This makes NO sense to me. It makes less sense than the complaints about Enterprise being a prequel.
It’s not like the entire franchise up to this point has been set in the same time period.
Anyway, I like all aspects of this proposal - the jump forward, the visual design (The uniforms are GORGEOUS), the status quo of the Federation. The characters seem a little flat, so far, but that’ll presumably work out as the series progresses, if it ever does get made.
The complaints that Trek is all about optimism, so this ‘dark’ take is a bad thing, amuse me…
The ‘optimistic’ sterile utopia that TNG tried to present early on is pretty much unique among Trek. TOS and late DS9 - the two best Trek series so far - were optimism in the face of a universe that wasn’t perfect. The Federation was beset by enemies without - the Klingons and Romulans, or the Dominion and Cardassians - and enemies within the Federation. Kirk and Sisko regularly got a little bit dirty. And that’s WHY they were the best Trek series. AND the most optimistic, IMO.
‘We’ll solve all our problems’ isn’t optimistic, it’s silly and naive. ‘We’ll still have problems - they’ll probably multiply, in fact - but we’re humans and we’ll face them just fine’…now THAT is optimism. The premise of this series is perfectly in line with the philosophy of the best of Trek, IMO.
I have to chime in and agree with Tengu, sort of.
Even in TNG, a lot of the best storylines involved character-driven interpersonal conflicts and qualms about how to deal with situations.
I really, really, like the synopsis given on the site the OP linked to. I really hope this gets made, provided they don’t a.) dumb it down, “you know, for kids” and b.) don’t let it turn into a dark, dystopian angst-fest, like so many series often do ever since the early 90’s.
Darkening things up to add drama and move away from the “we’ll fix this with technobabble, now, back to our discussion of shakespeare/classic literature/gilbert & sullivan…” is a great idea, but try not to let it get out of hand.
Here’s hoping…
I love this part:
Yes, so obvious. I hated when those Omega particles got unleashed last week and make warp travel between here and Vulvan impossible. Ruined my fuickin’ day.
Best. Typo. EVER.
Well, worst-case scenario, we can just declare it non-canon. (It’s been a good strategy since…well, either the Ford or Reagan administration, depending on your point of view.)
On the other hand, I’m not put at ease very much by their stated views of wanting to keep paralels with “real world” topics, then noting that the at-odds-with-the-dashing-captain First Officer is a quote-unquote “stay the course” type character. I just get the feeling that their idea of “relevance” is going to be little more than thinly disguised bashing of “The Man.”
I don’t like the animation style, but the premise strikes me as a good one. Real Trek is about going out there and doing things, not touchy feely, let’s all be nice to one another, that TNG and Voyager seemed to become obsessed with at times.
I’m concerned that putting it further ahead just invites more technobabble solutions and forgotten technobabble solutions (i.e. we solved a problem by tying in the holographic emitters to the deflector dish using a pulson beam in episode #3, but duuuuuuuuhhhh for some reason it never occurred to us to try it again when it would have come in handy in episode #7).
I’m also not keen on the mystery behind the Omega particle attack (yet another ridiculous plot device) since it gets back into Xindi territory. And warp travel is now limited? That means absolutely nothing since the speed of warp travel was never firmly established and changed to meet the dramatic needs of the plot of any given episode.
Well, and there’s the inevitable cameos by Data and Voyager’s Doctor to not look forward to…
Huh? Data is dead.
Sure, he is. Just like Spock was. If some loopy means of resurrecting the character wasn’t feasible, it’d be Brent Spiner playing some other Soong-related 'droid, i.e. if it walks like Data and talks like Data and quacks like Data… it’s Data.
Not if it’s Lore…
If I remember correctly, an Imega particle explosion would not allow warp travel within several parsects of the sub-space tear. Meaning the only way around it is sumb light travel.
The speed of warp is not really important for this to be an effective way to cut off a secton of space. Its a valid plot device. Basicly a region of space that could be cross at warp factor X, (lets say its 3 light years) in 15 minutes, now would take 3 years at maximum impulse. Its not an uncrossibile region of space, just impossible to do so in any useful amount of time. If placed correctly you could force shipping lanes near dangerous enemy controled areas, or choke points that scream for ambushes. Its an idea I like, and pretty low on the technobable if you ask me.
The only thing that really matters to me is that the stories be well conceived and written. Almost anything else can be forgiven in the presence of quality writing.