Buffy the Klingon Slayer.
I’d watch.
A series with groups of Klingon, Romulan, Starfleet characters and a Firefly ripoff, maybe some former Maquis.
Alternate episodes with each group. Have some crossover between groups.
Kill a major character now and then.
^:)^
Oh, yeah, that was another possibility: a Maquis campaign.
Too bad they all died.
Not really, they were all so annoying I was kind of pulling for the Cardassians. . .
I’ve always liked the idea of a Star Trek show done like the Outer Limit. Stories take up 2-5 episodes and then we get to see new ones develop. If one becomes a fan favourite they can always go back and make more episodes of it. If they screw up the timeline, they can easily do a time travel episode and correct the mistake. Simple and backhanded in true Star Trek fashion.
We could see the origins of the Borg, excerpts from the Eugenics war, Romulan spy campaigns, what old characters from other series are doing, captains messing up royal and losing their ships etc etc. Possibilities are pretty much endless.
It’ll never happen, but I’d like to see a series (possibly animated) based on Peter David’s Star Trek: New Frontier setup. With David supervising, natch.
Granted, you’d have to tone down the wild sex a bit (poor Burgoyne! 
), but you could just suggest it…
Strascysnky isn’t exactly exiled to the island of comic book drones. Marvel and DC have, for the last several years, agressively pursued the services of Hollywood (and fairly big-name SF/genre publishing) writers to strengthen their titles. JMS is no more slumming on Spider-Man than Joss Whedon is on X-Men or Andrew Vachss is on Batman. And with the current deluge of comic book characters onscreen, I really don’t think a side career in the funnybooks is quite the career-ender it was 30 years ago.
Consider the careers of some of these comic-book pros:
Jules Feiffer
Howard Chaykin
Michael Uslan
Terry Gilliam
Frank Miller
Didja know John Cleese is writing an upcoming Superman title? And Steve Gerber has a TNG episode on his resume?
That’s what Torres was wailing to Chakotay, but some could have survived. I don’t think it’s canon that they are all dead. Who was the guy who tricked Sisko into saving some? Anyway, it would be poetic license to have enough Maquis survivors to form a Firefly like crew.
Ditto on that recommendation. I pick that book up and re-read it every few years.
Ditto on this too. That starship explosion was awesome to watch. I haven’t really seen much to compare to it.
Great, now I’m imagining Superman applying for a grant from the Ministry Of Funny Walks.
Maybe a Bizarro/Python sketch:
“This parrot am alive.”
Oooohh, me too! One of the things I love about this series is that all the characters have flaws and vulnerabilities, some of which drive the serious plotlines and others of which are used to great comedic effect. You’re left thinking that just about everyone on the Excaliber is earnest about their mission but also out of their gourds half the time. I’m always good for at least a few out-loud chuckles while I’m reading; I would love to see it onscreen.
The Star Trek: Firefly idea combined with cplant’s idea of throwing together a cast of Romulans, Klingons, humans, etc is a kick ass idea. I’d love to see that.
**Wearia **'s Twilight Zone anthology type show is always good as well.
And New Frontier is the best Trek ever. EVER. Peter David is God. I’d donate half my yearly salary to see an NF TV show.
Okay, maybe not. But it’s better than all five TV shows rolled into one and multiplied by a billion and I would really like to see it.
I would like to see a Star Trek set a couple hundred years after DS9, where the Federation has collapsed, as have the Romulan and Klingon Empires, and life is a struggle, and all the clear lines that had previously demarked the Trek Universe are gone, replaced by a sort of frontiersmanship that is far more rough and tumble. You could set it on the Enterprise, an old Federation starship used by a crew that is attempting to prevent the “dying of the light,” so to speak, by rekindling the Federation.
There’d need to be some sort of cataclysm to wreck the entire galaxy, but that’s just a notion off the top of my head. I want something where people get dirty, people argue and the good guys don’t always win. Something darker and sharper than DS9. With continuing story arcs and none of this episodic crap.
Never gonna happen.
Already has: Andromeda.
I only read one. I couldn’t buy some bronze age guy becoming educated enough to command a starship.
I was going to say just that. I think they’ve done all they can with the Federation universe as it is. The only way to get something really fresh out of it is to break it.
Well, spectrum was looking for something with long story arcs, but Andromeda has explicitly moved toward a crisis-of-the-week mode of storytelling (Kevin Sorbo et. al. wanted people to be able to start following the show without being intimidated by a huge backstory).
For a second, I thought you meant Larry David, and I was confused.
Koh’Stanza: The replicator hates me!
Spockfeld: [Raises eyebrow] The replicator hates you?
Koh’Stanza: It won’t give me any soup! It’s because I’m a Klingon! I know it!
Counselor Benes: Maybe it’s a Nazi replicator.
Spockfeld: Perhaps it comes from an alternate Earth, where the Nazi replicators won World War II.
But you buy Archer in the same role?