# What new Star Trek show do YOU want?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 15, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668 "2018-08-15T17:26:07Z")
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/1 "2018-08-15T17:26:07Z")
So io9 has a story today about seven potential new Star Trek shows they’d like to see on CBS All Access.
> **[7 Star Trek Shows We'd Love to See From CBS All Access](https://gizmodo.com/7-star-trek-shows-wed-love-to-see-from-cbs-all-access-1828232768)**
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> Star Trek: Discovery has been a huge success for CBS, which means that, after years of letting the TV side of the franchise lie low, suddenly the network wants more Star Trek. As in, “fetch me Sir Patrick Stewart, so help me god” and “let’s make CBS...
Realizing that’s just speculation and wish fulfillment it’s still a worthy question. Which would you prefer? Or do you have your own idea?
Me? I’d like to see an anthology show. Maybe 2-3 episode arcs where we jump all over the Star Trek universe. Show us Star Fleet. Show us what happened to those renegade Borg. Show us life as a fixit man on some out of the way colony. But a show that allows a bit more worldbuilding and filling out, perhaps with an overarching storyline, would be good fun.
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### Author:  [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/2 "2018-08-15T18:39:05Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> I’d like to see an anthology show. Maybe 2-3 episode arcs where we jump all over the Star Trek universe…
I agree with this but not for two or three episodes at a time. I want full twelve to twenty four episode season long arcs covering massive, _Game of Thrones_ worthy epics. Maybe do one year of _Starfleet: Corps of Engineers_. Next year we could have a full season of _Starfleet: JAG_ or whatever. Each season would feature a new cast with all new characters in a new setting with a single, self-contained, epic adventure set within he shared **TREK** universe. (Although I’ve never seen the show, I’m told this is basically the same format that _American Horror Story_ used.)
Another option I’ve heard is to place it in the post-DS9 mirror universe. Lets see the founding of a fledgling Federation surrounded by the remnants of their former oppressors.
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### Author:  [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/3 "2018-08-15T18:45:09Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> So io9 has a story today about seven potential new Star Trek shows they’d like to see on CBS All Access.
>
> [7 Star Trek Shows We'd Love to See From CBS All Access](https://io9.gizmodo.com/7-star-trek-shows-wed-love-to-see-from-cbs-all-access-1828232768)
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> Realizing that’s just speculation and wish fulfillment it’s still a worthy question. Which would you prefer? Or do you have your own idea?
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> Me? I’d like to see an anthology show. Maybe 2-3 episode arcs where we jump all over the Star Trek universe. Show us Star Fleet. Show us what happened to those renegade Borg. Show us life as a fixit man on some out of the way colony. But a show that allows a bit more worldbuilding and filling out, perhaps with an overarching storyline, would be good fun.
Yes, bring back the Borg!
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### Author:  [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/4 "2018-08-15T18:50:12Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#):
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> Yes, bring back the Borg!
The Borg are wonderful, terrifying antagonists. The Borg _Queen_ makes me loathe TREK and weep for the memory of Gene Roddenberry.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/5 "2018-08-15T19:04:42Z")
I always wanted a “History Channel” anthology - The romulan wars, etc -
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/6 "2018-08-15T19:33:30Z")
I second an Anthology show with multiple episode arcs that then change to new times and settings (even universes). I know it would be expensive since they would have to create new sets every time but I would think that today’s tech makes it doable.
Otherwise I really just want Star Trek back: a series about a Federation Starship filled with interesting characters exploring space.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/7 "2018-08-15T19:37:00Z")
Anything but _Discovery_. Or anything associated with it.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/8 "2018-08-15T19:47:28Z")
I’ve always wanted a series like the one we got a glimpse of in the first pilot: the early days of NCC-1707, right after she was launched, with either Robert T April or Christopher Pike in command (or maybe both—the former, Captain; the latter, First Officer) doing stories with a _ **Forbidden Planet** _-type feeling.
Dorothy Fontana wrote a novel like this (one of the few I can stand reading) with Pike in command, and Spock and Scott as junior officers.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/9 "2018-08-15T19:59:49Z")
I need a sequel to Deep Space Nine.
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### Author:  [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/10 "2018-08-15T20:05:50Z")
Stark Trek: The Wire or DS9: Breaking Bad
We always see the Eloi, I want to see the Trek Morlocks. I like the idea of the utopia, but I want to see the necks stepped on, the innocent collateral damage it took to get there. And which must still exist.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/11 "2018-08-15T21:08:16Z")
_Anything_ that’s not another fucking prequel or reboot.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/12 "2018-08-15T21:16:49Z")
CSI: Risa.
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### Author:  [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/13 "2018-08-15T21:21:31Z")
And give me more Data!
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/14 "2018-08-15T21:30:50Z")
> [@ivylass](#):
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> I need a sequel to Deep Space Nine.
Keeping Up With The Cardassians?
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/15 "2018-08-15T21:33:31Z")
A non-Enterprise oriented series, set in the ST:TOS Era.
There was more than one ship, in Starfleet.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/16 "2018-08-15T21:34:18Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> _Anything_ that’s not another fucking prequel or reboot.
Oh My God! I watched that “new” movie (okay, I’m 10 years late to the party, sue me!) and Damn! if it wasn’t the 2nd worst movie I’ve ever seen!
Kirk was a punk-ass, Spock had more emotions than a teen-age girl…
You know, I don’t want to think about it. Ever again.
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/17 "2018-08-15T21:58:36Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#):
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> I agree with this but not for two or three episodes at a time. I want full twelve to twenty four episode season long arcs covering massive, _Game of Thrones_ worthy epics. Maybe do one year of _Starfleet: Corps of Engineers_. Next year we could have a full season of _Starfleet: JAG_ or whatever. Each season would feature a new cast with all new characters in a new setting with a single, self-contained, epic adventure set within he shared **TREK** universe. (Although I’ve never seen the show, I’m told this is basically the same format that _American Horror Story_ used.)
I like that idea!
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### Author:  [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/18 "2018-08-15T23:54:00Z")
I think they should do a story about the early days of Star Fleet, where you see Earth people first encountering the various species in space around us, getting to know the Vulcans, the Andorrians, the Tellarites, etc., explaining the origins of the war with the Klingons and talking about the war with the Romulans…
No, I mean a REAL show that does that; not some stupid excuse for one that promises it and then manages to screw it up big time… :mad:
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/19 "2018-08-16T05:55:01Z")
> [@Quimby](#):
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> Otherwise I really just want Star Trek back: a series about a Federation Starship filled with interesting characters exploring space.
Ditto. And no wars. Wars are a cheap way of generating plot ideas. Exploring strange new worlds takes more work, but is a lot better.
One of the smaller ships, like the ones Kirk was on during his early years, finding new places and dealing with the kinds of problems from from TOS would be great.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2018, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-new-star-trek-show-do-you-want/819668/20 "2018-08-16T06:45:06Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> CSI: Risa.
I think the new Picard show should basically be _Murder She Transmitted Over The Subspace Communication Relay_.
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