I'd like to see the blanks filled in between ENT and TOS, as well as between the end of the TOS/TMP era and the beginning of TNG.
Other than that, something like NCIS but based in trek would be nifty. Or hows about something like scrubs, following a newbie or two through their career as an officer, though not as a comedy like scrubs.
Something that might be interesting is something focused on the crew of a smallish ship. Not the command staff, but the crew. Basically, the senior staff would be treated as recurring characters and they would be a force of nature that the regular characters had to work around.
New Enterprise based series
not a prequel, no worded theme song...
A new Enterprise series would be great if they explored and interacted with new places every week. The single quest to save earth bored me. And then the the time travel thing, AGAIN. Gag.
Scott Bakula is a decent actor, but he didn't make a particularly charismatic starship captain.
I haven't been impressed with the casting of any of the shows since TNG. Chris Pine is energetic in the movies, but those characters are written like snotty little rich kids hanging out in a bar. Starfleet is a paramilitary organization and the interpersonal relationships and dialog should take that into account.
The problem with a prequel series, as ENT showed us, is that your storytelling possibilities become limited. There's just so much canon yet to come that you're not allowed to violate - for instance, given the militaristic nature of Andorian society in ENT, and the cartoonish stubbornness of their Vulcans, the discovery of the spy facility at P'jem should have led to armed conflict between the two, Archer or no. But since that wasn't part of Trek history, it couldn't happen. Instead, the story had to be given a frankly unsatisfactory sudden conclusion, so as not to blow canon.
That's part of why the recent movies were reboots, too. So much has been tacked clumsily onto the canon by VOY and the last few movies - the ludicrously overpowered Scimitar, the Planet of Youth (oh, but its power must be reserved for the few, not investigated to improve geriatric technology for the entire galaxy!), the Borg Queen for heaven's sake - that storytelling becomes almost infinitely easier if one simply divests oneself of all that. (And then Orci and Kurtzman began tacking things back on just as clumsily, if not more so, but I don't want to go on another rant about them just now.)
A new series, in order to avoid all this, should be a) set in the Prime universe (so as to avoid having to have too much "establishing the universe" going on), and b) set in the future of that universe, so the stories aren't limited by the way everything has to come out in the end.
Id like to see exploration beyond the milky way galexy and maybe species not created by The ancient humanoids or indirectly created like some races indirectly created by earth. hell id be happy with a star trek series that tells the stories of the older and mostly extinct advanced civilizations (Tkon Empire) or perhaps including the Iconian's
Yeah, a series that focuses on exploring the history would be nice. Especially since Star Trek is littered with "ancient race of the week" episodes.
The problem with a prequel series, as ENT showed us, is that your storytelling possibilities become limited. There's just so much canon yet to come that you're not allowed to violate - for instance, given the militaristic nature of Andorian society in ENT, and the cartoonish stubbornness of their Vulcans, the discovery of the spy facility at P'jem should have led to armed conflict between the two, Archer or no. But since that wasn't part of Trek history, it couldn't happen. Instead, the story had to be given a frankly unsatisfactory sudden conclusion, so as not to blow canon.
Well, it did have a nice battle scene with an Andorian Fleet fighting a Vulcan Fleet.... just not a long conflict.
30 years after DS9/Voyager, things have changed and there are new threats and some old to deal with. We could do with skipping out the Fed/Klingon war and some of the overly militarized aspects of STO though.
Why not a series just about section 31? It would have the action and edgy themes that younger generations would enjoy and have creative freedom to explore "Darker" themes. Also it could take place in TOS, ENT, and TNG,DS9 timeframes. It would be a totally different type of Trek as Section 31 is really a mystery so the possibilities are endless.
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Other than that, something like NCIS but based in trek would be nifty. Or hows about something like scrubs, following a newbie or two through their career as an officer, though not as a comedy like scrubs.
Something that might be interesting is something focused on the crew of a smallish ship. Not the command staff, but the crew. Basically, the senior staff would be treated as recurring characters and they would be a force of nature that the regular characters had to work around.
A new Enterprise series would be great if they explored and interacted with new places every week. The single quest to save earth bored me. And then the the time travel thing, AGAIN. Gag.
Scott Bakula is a decent actor, but he didn't make a particularly charismatic starship captain.
I haven't been impressed with the casting of any of the shows since TNG. Chris Pine is energetic in the movies, but those characters are written like snotty little rich kids hanging out in a bar. Starfleet is a paramilitary organization and the interpersonal relationships and dialog should take that into account.
That's part of why the recent movies were reboots, too. So much has been tacked clumsily onto the canon by VOY and the last few movies - the ludicrously overpowered Scimitar, the Planet of Youth (oh, but its power must be reserved for the few, not investigated to improve geriatric technology for the entire galaxy!), the Borg Queen for heaven's sake - that storytelling becomes almost infinitely easier if one simply divests oneself of all that. (And then Orci and Kurtzman began tacking things back on just as clumsily, if not more so, but I don't want to go on another rant about them just now.)
A new series, in order to avoid all this, should be a) set in the Prime universe (so as to avoid having to have too much "establishing the universe" going on), and b) set in the future of that universe, so the stories aren't limited by the way everything has to come out in the end.
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30 years after DS9/Voyager, things have changed and there are new threats and some old to deal with. We could do with skipping out the Fed/Klingon war and some of the overly militarized aspects of STO though.