1st Hi guys did you miss me? lol All I can say is, may kids killed my old account, and I have not been active in STO for a bit now. What happened? They ran up a 300 plus bill on me, and to fix it I had to kill my account. BIG WOOP! All that hard work gone, oh well. One of these days I will get back into the captain's chair.
Anyway, when I was over at SyFy I ran into something interesting. It's a pitch for a new TV Trek Show, but it was turned down. The Script was from Bryan Singer, and it was titled Star Trek: Federation.
IThe Pitch mainly went like this:
Earth's Humans have become "fat and happy" but this has led to complacency where humans are "giving up exploration for incremental colonization and focusing more on the rightness of their own cultural view over all others"
Many younger members of the UFP have left, eschewing this "human-centric" Federation
Vulcans have been disengaging from the Federation and have reunified with the Romulans, spending most of the last 3 centuries focused on creating a new "joined society" overseen by two "quasi-religious clerics who rule according to logic and what is best for their unified peoples, combining Romulan Machiavellian politics with Vulcan logic.
Bajorans have withdrawn from the Federation to become insular in order to focus on their religion and communing with the Prophets. Bajor is now "like a planet sized Tibet", handing over all temporal concerns to the Ferengi
The Klingons have undergone a "massive reformation" moving away from their Viking-like brawling to become a "civilization of warrior mystics" akin to the Tang Dynasty), now flying "sleek" and "serene" ships and while they maintain diplomacy with the Federation they have returned to expanding the Empire via conquest
The Cardassians have transformed into a "society of artists and philosophers" who now "walk the path" and are now dedicated to a philosophy with "the view of the galaxy as a place created solely to test the faithful."
The Ferengi are no longer a "joke" but have become "quite powerful". Equality for females (including a female Nagus) is "the only concession they have made to progress" and with "the Greater Federation's cashless society as a restriction, the Ferengi Alliance is now able to shine in its full capitalist glory." The Ferengi are also making big bucks marketing the Bajoran religion around the galaxy, including pilgrimages to the Bajoran Wormhole.
Starfleet has been reduced to a "mere peace-keeping force" protecting fringe worlds from aliens and from fighting each other, with starships are old and spread out too thin.
Star Trek: Federation would have also featured a brand-new, powerful and totally ruthless alien menace called "The Scourge" and would have featured an "incident" involving a Federation ship, the U.S.S. Sojourn, which would have jump-started the proposed series.
Lieutenant Commander Alexander Kirk is the only survivor of the "Sojourner Incident," as it's come to be known in the press. And he has no clear memory of the events themselves. Attempts to "help" him remember cause him to become irrational and violent. All he has is images of carnage and death and a hidden malevolent presence lurking behind it all. When called before his superiors, he paints a picture of the enemy that is scarcely believed and which, if true, might tip the already fracturing Federation Alliance into true collapse.
Well liked it in some parts, but the idea of the Federation being a shadow of it's former self I didn't like. Maybe if he pitched that part differently, it would have sold them. Oh well, anyone have a different idea?
To read more about this, follow the link.
http://trekmovie.com/2011/04/16/exclusive-details-excerpts-from-star-trek-federation-series-proposal/