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idea for a new star trek series
deaftravis05
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I believe we should do a Terran star trek universe series. It can be a series that starts after the Empress takes Earth and we see how history unfolds there. Once that arc is done, we can move forward to Spock redoing the Terran Empire and eventually his fall as the Klingons and Cardassians gang up and wipe Earth out... Then we can look after the capture of Worf and its fallout.
Thoughts? Their 'mirror' parts can make an appearance post Worf... to give us some humour
Thoughts? Their 'mirror' parts can make an appearance post Worf... to give us some humour
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NCIStrek has been proposed, which would be interesting, as would a miniseries following the corps of engineers. Another idea I've heard is a series where we follow a couple of people from their first day in the academy all the way through their careers, sort of like how scrubs followed JD, Turk and Elliot from their time in med school through to their first couple of years as doctors.
That, or a redux of voyager with Mr Moore given creative control!
but an NCIS trek would... be able to give insights in the political and social life of the average Federation citizen... I would do this... post Voyager... starting with the team going over Voyager's ... less than ethical actions to get home.
I'm pretty sure Starfleet is aware of everything after they managed to establish contact with Voyager. She did have reports stacked up for when they got home. And although some things may have been less than ethical... sometimes rules have to be bent in a survival situation.
Doesn't excuse the writers for being so inconsistant however. Voyager was alright, but I do admit that sometimes they just couldn't make up their minds. Too many Chefs in the Kitchen I guess.
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At least Janeway HAD hair for a hairstyle. Picard was pretty much bald and Sisko WENT bald.
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Oh that raises a possibility of a star trek series in which they do a variety of hypothetical situations. The holodeck they have plays out those ideas... for example, they could run a scenario in which Janeway didn't destroy the network.
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no... nothing... like that...
we need to see how the society is, how different things are. What you want... has been done to death
Kirk was bald the whole time! And had a man girdle!
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Well, that's just idea from the book I'm working on. And trust me, most of the people would watch it since there would be lots of action and a decent storyline with new alien species and even another galaxy in the mix. That idea just can't go wrong, no matter if it was done already. If it ain't broke, don't fix it
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The word "cliche" comes to mind.
bingo. been done to death
It could show them as raw recruits at the beginning and end with them as veteran soldiers
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
That's true... while some things can't be messed with, you can still do a story...
soldiers assigned to the fleet, you'd see them doing hit and runs, repel boarders, even prepare for the Second Battle of Deep Space Nine and end with them beaming down on Cardassia. You still got your war story and Ben Avery isn't too old to do camos
They could always go for a reality show of Star Trek... like Modern Family. Scripted but from a reality viewpoint.
There are many different possibilities to see the society without having to do it from the deck of a starship. It can be pirates, it can be people who aren't sworn to be good.
Hast thou not felt ashamed of thy words and deeds
Hast thou not lacked vigor
Hast thou exerted all possible efforts
Hast thou not become slothful
I also feel that, given the prohibitive costs of building actual shipboard sets, scouting for outdoor locations to represent alien planets or even digital set extensions for a live-action series, perhaps one should consider the alternative approach of simply licensing the IP from CBS and doing the new series in an animated format.
or... CGI?
If done right, it could be amazing
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Depends on the level of visual style of the characters - some of the CGI fan films / fan art done using Poser, for instance, are dangerously close to or are trapped in uncanny valley territory.
An idea I'm entertaining for my own fanon is Japanese-style animation instead, which would cost less than a CGI series. Many Trek fans, particularly Westerners, would view this suggestion with extreme revulsion, and I suspect this to be rooted in the preconception that "cartoons are immature" and that anything associated with immaturity is a sign of weakness.
Contrary to popular misconception, it is definitely possible to depict serious themes and characterizations in Japanese animation. Examples include:
- Flag, a series about a war journalist attached to a United Nations peacekeeping task force in a fictional central Asian third-world country. As the story develops, the audience will realize that the entire war and the peacekeeping operation is a sham, for propaganda purposes.
- Yamato 2199, the remake of Space Battleship Yamato / Star Blazers. One episode I'd like the point out as being very Trek-like involves an enemy droid which awakens, slowly gains sentience and attempts to befreind the humans on the ship, but due to a series of misunderstands, ends up being shot to pieces in the end.
And apparently Western animation has been overtaken by even worse styles, featuring odd, angular constructions to supposedly organic beings. CGI animation, however (not the "fan-made" stuff, but what's being produced by actual professionals in the field), is looking really good lately - to the point that SyFy has been in preproduction of an adaptation of Larry Niven's Ringworld, something possible only with CGI. (One of the major characters is a Pierson's puppeteer, a three-legged life form with two flat, brainless heads atop long, sinuous, snakelike necks. The heads serve as hands, as well as having one eye each; the brain is located in a bony hump between the necks. Another is a kzin, which does not look like a Caitian or a Ferasan - the tail is supposed to be hairless, and the ears are furless things that can unfold like a parasol, or fold up tightly to cover the earholes. They run about eight feet tall, with a barrel chest that holds a latticelike rib structure. You're not getting either of those with a guy in a suit.)
On the gripping hand, good animation is expensive too; the only reasons to go with animation is either because you're trying to make a Saturday-morning-quality cartoon, or because you want to use drastically nonhumanoid characters. If you're just going with Trek's standard rubber-forehead humans, animation is an unnecessary expense.
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and kirk just had a tribble on his head lol