I’d like to see a Klingon-centered series. It’d be set not too long after Star Trek VI. The empire is in tatters, but the Klingons have begun to rebuild and have made peace with their former Federation Enemies.
One sign of peace is the officer exchange program, in which our point of view character, a brash Terran Lieutenient, is sent to serve aboard a Bird of Prey (as punisment, after pissing off an admiral). He seems incredibly unsuited to the task, but as the series progresses he and the Klingons learn to respect one another, and our human becomes more Klingon-Like. It’d have a vaguely “Dances With Wolves” feel. The first season’s climax would come when he uncovers a Starfleet plot against the empire, and he’s forced to choose between his two loyalties.
Besides not being about human, for once, it’d also not be about the commanding officer. These are both so bold so as to ensure this series never gets made.
Well, Sulu as an admiral, perhaps commanding a task force of Excelsior-class ships trying to pacify what’s left of the Klingon Empire. The captains of the various ships can be the younger stars of the show, with enough interpersonal conflict between them and how they run their various commands.
Show what happened just after a trek encounter we all know. Jump thru all the series and movies for different PsOV.
Like, what happened when Oxmyx finds McCoy’s communicator?
The famine and plagues and wars that follow Kirk’s computer destroying on various worlds.
Follow Picard’s exGF to her next Star Fleet assignment where she dies a horrible death when a flame shield fails.
See the Klingons come back and totally whoop ass on those miners who T’Pol taught to creatively fall down.
See Janeway’s and Paris’ salamander children get assimilated by the Borg.
Follow the collapse of the Bandi economy as losing FarPoint causes a total crash.
Peer in on the whales as they plot their ultimate revenge on the species who caused (past tense) their extinction. ((I have a photgraphic memory, I see words))
That’s interesting, but doing follow-up stories would require royalty payments to the writers who created the various characters, planets and premises from past episodes. Considering some of this material is almost forty years old, it’d be a major headache.
I think a sit-com about Sarek and Amanda’s courtship and early marriage would be cool. (Maybe this was when she was a wacky-redhead and she was always wanting to get into his emissarial business but he logically didn’t want her to so with her equally wacky changeling friend Ethel of Seven they create situations to work their way in.)
AKA T’Au? (or whatever)…man, she is HOT! She turns me on like nothing I’ve ever seen in ST…anybody know if she has landed another gig…but she won’t be the same, without those sexy Vulcan ears!
Ahhh I see it all. The ancestors of Kirk, McCoy and Scotty are the main charecters in a wagon train heading out west. In the first episode they encounter Qwai Chang Cain who as we learn later, is the ancestor of Spock’s Mom.
They travel accross the west as Kirk’s ancestor bangs all the woman of various ethnic backgrounds just before he saves them and moves on. McCoy’s ancestor is an alcoholic doctor who is constantly annoyed by Cains Buddhist philosophy.
" It’s Jim’s life Cain, just kick all their asses stop thsi inner peace crap"
Scotty is the creative blacksmith. He keeps the wagons repaired while improving the design so they can go faster. Of course Sometimes there’s the threat of the horses dropping dead. “I canna push em any harda capn.”
They encounter the ancestors of other Trek charecters or their symbolic equivilent.
Dam…I think I’m a genius.
Well, my favorite episode of Star Trek Voyager was “Living Witness”, so some variant of it would be awesome for the new series. Favorite sound bite was Janeway’s: “When diplomacy fails, there’s only one alternative: violence.”
We set it in the Mirror Universe—but leaving out most of what DS9 did to it. The Earth Empire is still alive and kicking.
How about, for the fun of it, making some more changes to the other races, too. Have the Klingons, instead of being bushido-Vikings, are more hedonistic and life-enjoying. (Not to say they’re wimpy, or anything. Think “Cyrano de Bergerac”) Tribbles could be employed as a devastating bioweapon.
It can focus on one crew, or be a cross-time anthology, or a bit of both. And no need to go to absurd plot twists when needing to fire an actor—just have someone murder their character to get a promotion.
There’d be a good time using plots, themes, and ‘morals’ to stories that would give Roddenberry and Janeway fits. Backwater planet kidnaps a crewmember for accidentally violating one of their insane laws? “Welcome to ‘prejudicial terraforming-ville.’ Population: you!” >:D
