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If you were producing a Sci-fi TV show, what would you do?
hawkwing43
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Forget what was done before, you don't get to use it. This is a FRESH START SHOW. No Star Trek, NO STAR WARS, nothing old. This will be NEW.
So given a blank check to do whatever new.................
What type of show would you make?
So given a blank check to do whatever new.................
What type of show would you make?
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You can have a sea quest type show, just not Sea quest.
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That's not the name, that's the concept. As Trek was 'Wagon Train to the stars,' the new show could be pitched as, "CSI in outer space." It would feature a plausible technology identifiable as of our own making, a consistent believable culture with perhaps branch cultures in cooperation or competition, aliens lacking in super powers humans do not possess, and mysteries which can be solved by an astute observer, but which most viewers will figure out only after the fact.
"It can't be done!"
Larry Niven's Gil Hamilton shorts say otherwise, as does the great Asimov's R. Daneel Olivaw/Elijah Bailey. In fact, the movie I, Robot, (vaguely related to the anthology of the same name, with traces of Asimov's work blended into the plot,) is an example of this style of story.
Star Trek, with an already established technology and culture, would be a perfect match for this concept. I am currently writing fanfic based in this idea, and the only real issue I have so far is that, given Trek's less than realistic technology, it would be difficult to rewrite my current tales into a new universe. However, if you ever see a show called "Star Trek: Federation Space," about a Federation Marshall flitting about the Federation solving crimes, capturing fugitives, and unraveling mysteries, you'll know where the idea came from!
Of course, if I'm wrong and you can pull off what I can't, I'll enjoy reading the fanfictions!
(Thought: the Federation includes lots of human colonies and it's not clear that they all have the same level of mod cons as Earth itself, so that would leave open the possibility of setting some cases on colonies that have different levels of tech, e.g. it could be stated that something couldn't have been done with a replicator as this place doesn't have the power supplies to run a replicator, even if somebody brought one. In fact that would allow you to change the range of technology available every episode if you liked, allowing more possible plots.)
If I were making a science fiction series, I'd probably set it on Earth (space travel may or may not be a thing, but our heroes aren't space travelling); I get kind of lonely with Star Trek stuff, not being able to draw on the world I'm used to, and see what it does face to face with strange things. That's what I love about Doctor Who; not just aliens-versus-scientists-spies-and-spacemen, but aliens versus schoolteachers, aliens on a train (OK it's a space train, but only nominally!), aliens in mediaeval England; things that make you go "oh God they're HERE!". I think Americans have it easier, because large chunks of Starfleet do seem to be at least culturally American, and that makes sense because America is big and also tends to export its culture rampantly everywhere. England exists only in England.
They came in a sublight generational ship headed towards Earth, a planet their probes found to be habitable, but they didn't know there was a sapient species already living there.
Tension rises when we make first contact, and members of both militaries launch an attack, in the end Earth uses nuclear weapons to destroy the alien ship, but escape pods and evac ships reach Earth, the human race meets aliens face to face for the first time and the usual happens, hate groups, bigotry, but the opposite as well, 10 years later, some countries give citizenship to alien refugees, which enrages hate groups even more, an alien supremacy terrorist movement appears, they believe humans don't deserve the planet and begin killing humans and planting bombs, racial tension is at its high.
The show begins here, a "police investigation and political intrigue" show.
Another show I would like:
Year 2075, the world is at the brink of collapse, overpopulation, resource scarcity and a war that's been raging all over the planet for 13 years, mankind's last hope lies in Iceland, over the last 35 years Iceland became the seat of the Horizon Gateway project, the objective is to create an artificial wormhole leading to a habitable planet discovered 50 years ago.
For that purpose a massive particle accelerator was built around Iceland, and using the massive geothermal energy extracted straight from the planet's core it's been creating and storing antimatter over the past 10 years to power the wormhole generator.
the activation is a success, but the celebrations are short lived as all warring factions now focus their attention on what was before considered a waste of time, as everyone tries to seize control over the island, nuclear bombs fall, and the project's scientists, workers and private security mercenaries are forced to evacuate through a soon to be collapsed wormhole into the unknown.
Little did they know that the planet they arrived at was not the one they expected, that new planet used to be connected to Earth by natural wormholes in the past, and that's where legends came from, the Tower of Babel, Atlantis, ancient mythology, it didn't happen on Earth.
Now the new and the old collide as survivors from a war are plunged into a new one, a war for survival.
Magic, gods, mythological creatures, two warring empires and humanity's last survivors caught in the middle, their superior technology gives them an edge, but that won't last forever, and alliances will have to be made if humanity is to survive.
If I had a blank check I would bring the series I made years ago using a game called The Movies to the small screen. It was called " Red Squad" YES I know DS9 has a Red Squad, but my series is completely different.
Overview: Its 125 years from now, Earth is a paradise with Lots of crime and punishment. The " Earth Police Force" is tasked with keeping the planet safe. Essentially its a global police force that extends all the way down to the mega cities that everyone lives in. At some point in the past Earths warring factions created giant Mechs to fight for territory ( Yes, Robot Jox ) Once the wars ended the Mechs were put in storage and not given a second thought.
One day Earths Perimeter Defense System detects several Alien craft heading towards the planet. The craft hover over one of the Mega Cities and " beam" down a huge creature that begins destroying everything. This is when Red Squad comes in. They are the elite of all the Squad teams. 6 members, 3 male, 3 female. Lead by a woman of incredible intelligence and cunning. While Earths normal defenses are useless against this creature, they do have one weapon left. The mech.
While this story DOES seem like a Power Rangers ripoff,, it was only the first two episodes that involved aliens and monsters. The next 8 episodes are all about stopping world War 4. Has double crossing, triple crossing, political intrigue, everything I personally would LOVE in a new scifi show... and of course Giant Robots fighting to the death!
I completed 9 episodes of the series, and started working on the 10th but the program I was using just got too out of date.
On a side note, if was handed a blank check and told to make a TV show first thing I would do is make season 3 of Jericho! I know that breaks the rules,, but Jericho is a GREAT show and I will NEVER forgive CBS for canceling it the way they did!!!
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Hell yeah, that and Eureka, both were great series.
Agreed on Eureka. But at least Eureka had a PROPER'ish ending. They wrapped up the show pretty well. Jericho was left WIDE OPEN even though two endings were made for the final episode. One for if they had been renewed, and the one that aired was supposed to be a proper closing. Well, it wasn't.
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This would allow for de facto time travel, without any physical time travel.
It stands for Deep Insertion Recon Team. An idea that's been knocking around my head for sometime. It follows a convicted criminal who is given a dirt contract to redeem himself, which amounts to an illegal assassination black ops type thing. As the story progresses it turns out into an internal struggle between the blood heirs of the dystopian intergalactic empire the story is set in, and the corrupt government who want to stay in complete control.
I would watch that! When its turned into a Feature Film who would play the main character? This idea sounds like either a Vin Diesel or Gerard Butler type character, although I bet Chris Hemsworth would be great in this setting.
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I'm fully supporting those two ideas. Firefly was great, but way too short. I never really understood why they cancelled it so early. SGU was also very good and promising, but it ended almost like Firefly with one season more. It should had at least five seasons like Atlantis (the best SG series for me) which was also ended somewhat too quickly.
Now onto some more original (?) ideas:
1. Freelancer - I hope that at least most of you hear have heard of/played this great game with epic storyline. In case you haven't give it a shot. That game is definitely a material for TV show.
2. Back To The Future - Or at least something like it with time-travel, lots of humor and action of course. Flying car (or train perhaps
3. Dead Space - While I think it is better suited for movies, it might be good for a TV show too. Certainly much better than Walking Dead and even The Strain, because it is happening in space (on starships, massive space stations and planets as well) and it is way more scary and nasty too
4. Resident Evil - I'm sure that most of you know for this great gaming franchise (and/or somewhat less good movies), and if it would be done properly (according to first 3 games, and maybe 4th as well) that could easily wipe the floor with Walking Dead and other such shows. If for nothing else, than for a certain fact that it wouldn't be only about zombies, but about different other animal/plant mutations as well. And don't forget the mighty Nemesis
5. Vigilante/Mad Max - something oriented mostly towards vehicular combat set in current day/close future and/or post apocalyptic setting. That would be certainly lots of fun and never-ending action. Everyone would watch it probably.
6. Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars - those who haven't hear of it/played it, this game has some pretty decent storyline set in a close post-apocalyptic future in which most of the Earth's surface is covered by an alien crystal known as tiberium. There are no existing countries, but two global superpowers fighting for domination all over the planet and they are exploiting tiberium as resource for their power-plants, weapons and general funding as well. Those superpowers are called Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and The Brotherhood of NOD (or shorter NOD). They are at first waging war among themselves only, until the aliens known as SCRIN arrive on the planet and start harassing both GDI and NOD by their more advanced weapons in order to seize control of planet and all of tiberium. If that hasn't convinced you enough to think that it would make a great Sci-Fi show, you can always google more about it.
7. The Thing - I'm sure most of you heard for this brilliant Carpenters SF/horror movie from 80's and it's very good prequel from 2011 with hot Mary Elizabeth Winstead. hile somewhat similar to Dead Space it is still different and it would be happening on Earth only. Would humanity be able to fight off such aggressive and extremely resilient alien(s). They are worse than the one from movie Alien and it's sequels which is very formidable in it's own right. It would be most certainly great show and it should have been already a thing (well, The Thing to be exact
8. Call of Cthulhu - I think Lovecraft would agree with me on this one, as it would make a great horror show. And those aliens Y'nathlei (I think that's how they are called) seem very interesting and could be extremely helpful to humanity in fighting off dangerous creatures like mighty Cthulhu and it's minions. It would happen on Earth and maybe some Y'nathlei's planet(s). Oh and no need to mention that it would happen deep under the sea too like in that Cthulhu's underwater city where it's nightmarish residents live.
9. Starcraft - I'm sure most of you here know about and have played it, or at least heard of it. One of the best RTS games ever that is revolving around wars between Terrans (humans), Prottos (high-tech aliens) and Zerg (nasty aggressive nightmarish aliens relying on huge numbers and some nasty bio-weapons too). I don't doubt even one bit that it would make a great TV show. And it has a nice soundtrack too (Zerg, shotgun and me is a great song).
10. Metro 2033/2034/2035 - Another great post-apocalyptic SF story with horror elements. It is set inside Moscow metro system and Moscow itself devastated by nuclear war. There are only about 40 000 people left that are living inside metro systems and fighting for survival against one another and horrible mutants from the surface. And to make things even better, or should I say worse for residents of metro, there are some unusual happenings too in which most often people get missing or simply die for no reason other than some powerful supernatural forces. Apparently their is movie being made based on Metro 2033, but such setting could be easily done for TV show too and would be great no doubt. Until they (may) do something like that, we can always play the game Metro 2033 and it's sequel Last Light.
And now onto my very own idea:
I would create a show set in the distant future (at least several hundred years from now), in which civilization is already exploring space and have colonized (and it is still colonizing) various planets in space. However, there is a great dis-balance between poor and rich people, all the way to the point in which some planets are populated only by extremely poor people with severe setbacks on all spheres of life and high crime rate; and on the other hand there are planets populated by rich people only enjoying all possible benefits in their life with no crime and other problems. There are also a planets where are both poor and rich too. Here and there is the middle class citizens too, but there is not nearly as many them as there is poor ones. All that dis-balance is caused by a handful of most powerful people and large corporations that don't care about the rest of humanity, but only about themselves. However, on one of those poor planets is being born a man who will change that all using various tactics from diplomacy to outright conflicts with corporations and those people in power. His biggest problem are special corporate police forces and even their own armies.
Show would involve lots of action, space battles, ground combat, deceptions, spying..., almost everything, including bad and good aliens which are either helping main hero or trying to subdue him. I think that would make for an excellent show. What about you?
And how do like the ideas from above?
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Thanks. One day I might actually summon the effort to try and write something.
I never thought of who would play the part if it came to the silver screen. But I'm thinking more along the lines of Michael Fassbender or Tom Hiddleston. The idea was that they were imprisoned for treachery, but essentially innocent. Even so, mainly due to the nature of the environment everyone survives in, everyone would have a cruel streak about them.
Never heard of it until you mentioned it, I guess I'll go watch it.
I agree. Defiance was a great shows indeed. It's third season is epic! Too bad TRIBBLE cancelled it. At least it had decent finale unlike some other shows like SG Universe for example. On the other hand, good thing is that they renewed Dark Matter and Killjoys for 2nd season which seem as a very promising Sci-fi shows so far.
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I would say no (in terms of getting it to work) I haven't (and won't) watch Fury Road, because I view it as nothing other than someone recycling his old work, rather than coming up with new projects. But with regard to the original movies (and in my opinion only One and Two are worth discussing/watching) what I felt was the strongest element, was Max's transition from husband/father/ police officer, to solitary drifter. In a two-handed performance, it was clean, clear and punchy. In an ongoing series, I think it would either happen too quickly (which would then lead to too much 'Three' nonsense) or happen so slowly, that it would feel drawn out. Now the actual stories themselves, yes, they could absolutely be transposed into a space setting (including the Trek Verse) but again, not necessarily enough material to stretch to enough episodes for a series of several seasons (IMHO)
It's really good, and that's exactly the thing I had in mind when I wrote my idea (maybe a bit darker/dystopian), looks like I've got beaten by several years.
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OOH! here's another one, a series that explores what Waterworld was talking about when it depicted people as terrified of mutant humans.
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