Possible new Star Trek series?

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2004-05-19 03:26pm

Please, please say that this report is fake! How could such a fragmented galaxy get unified in less than two hundered years? Oh, I forgot the obvious answer, the Federation have converted the Borg! Imagine a Borg ship making contact with an Alpha, Beta, Gamma or Delta society: "We are the Borg used by the Federation. We will add you to our socialist experiment. You will be subject to a counselor. Resistance is futile."

No seriously, it will turn into a technobabble wankfest: "Look. The Enterprise-Z is going at supermultitranswarp 8! And look at that new multitronic, bio holodeck, the temporal transporter and all those other stuff that goes haywire! Not even in this century does the technology work! And look, there's the newly improved Data 2000, commander of the Enterprise."
Oh, brother.

Why can't somebody just fire Berman, and hire some people who understands Trek?

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2004-05-19 07:48pm

I see nothing good coming of this.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-05-19 07:54pm

If B&B really do take a back seat on this project, then we could have something to look forwards to. Braga really has to go, haven't Paramount realised he's shit yet?

I like the initial premise, that an extra galactical threat? causes the 'major powers' to unite- it could prove for some good internal conflict stories, etc - but it is hardly plausible (mind you, neither is trek, eh?), and as the swede two places above me points out, we'll probably just get a load of new bollocks tech/ideas/treknobabble.

Really need a real team of writers to come in, composed of people who have a passion for the real ideals of Star Trek, people with good scientific knowledge, people who look back at what has already been done and ensure continuity etc- but that won't be happening- more than likely Braga will wank all over his script paper and let his ideas be formed from that.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-05-19 11:02pm

I prefer the premise to that of Voyager and Ent. However I sincerely doubt anything good will ever come out of B&B.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-05-20 12:08am

Jon wrote:If B&B really do take a back seat on this project, then we could have something to look forwards to. Braga really has to go, haven't Paramount realised he's shit yet?

I like the initial premise, that an extra galactical threat? causes the 'major powers' to unite- it could prove for some good internal conflict stories, etc - but it is hardly plausible (mind you, neither is trek, eh?), and as the swede two places above me points out, we'll probably just get a load of new bollocks tech/ideas/treknobabble.

Really need a real team of writers to come in, composed of people who have a passion for the real ideals of Star Trek, people with good scientific knowledge, people who look back at what has already been done and ensure continuity etc- but that won't be happening- more than likely Braga will wank all over his script paper and let his ideas be formed from that.

This is why hated VGR as time went on. The premise was good and I liked that they would literally be traveling where no oner had gone before in the Delta Quadrant - no more Alpha Quadrant races or politics. But come the end of the series, and we're faced with so many apperances by Borg, Romulans, Klingons, Ferengi, and Starfleet in this alien environment that I just got sick of it.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2004-05-20 06:24pm

JME2 wrote: This is why hated VGR as time went on. The premise was good and I liked that they would literally be traveling where no oner had gone before in the Delta Quadrant - no more Alpha Quadrant races or politics. But come the end of the series, and we're faced with so many apperances by Borg, Romulans, Klingons, Ferengi, and Starfleet in this alien environment that I just got sick of it.

Not to mention that in this virtually unexplored quadrant, how many stupid ass holodeck episodes did we have to suffer with?

The holodeck angle for an episode was done to death in TNG.

Enola Straight · Post by **Enola Straight** » 2004-05-21 12:11pm

What kind of tech are we looking at?

Transwarp / Quantum Slipstream drive
Phase cloak / chameleon device
subspace transporters to "beam lightyears away"
zero-point energy warp core - using the phenomena used in quantum torps
The ability to "decend" into subspace and conduct "submarine" warfare
Quantum resolution replicators to create replacement body parts
using nav deflector as main gun

Here's some for ya

A combadge which projects a holographic virtual viewscreen in front of the crewmember

holographic contact lenses with an interface to the universal translator to provide realtime translation of text

Personal shields

Wired_Grenadier · Post by **Wired_Grenadier** » 2004-05-21 06:19pm

You guys do realize that this was a hoax...?

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-05-23 01:18pm

Wired_Grenadier wrote:You guys do realize that this was a hoax...?

lol That pretty much killed the conversation...

Wired_Grenadier · Post by **Wired_Grenadier** » 2004-05-23 03:52pm

Heh. We're going at lengths on that topic over at SB.com, but then the guy originally posting it revealed it was just a hoax as the source of the article he posted didn't exist.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-05-23 05:28pm

Mange the Swede wrote:How could such a fragmented galaxy get unified in less than two hundered years?

Compare Europe sixty years a go to Europe today.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-05-24 04:11am

Wired_Grenadier wrote:You guys do realize that this was a hoax...?

Really ?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-05-24 04:16am

Yes. As he said, the person who originally posted it revealed that the article he got it from doesn't exist.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-05-24 04:21am

Hey, I'll go for it just to make the damn versus debate interesting again.

hewhocaves · Post by **hewhocaves** » 2004-05-27 03:52pm

Directions:

drive (or walk) to the nearest hardware store.
Purchase 1 (one) ball-peen hammer.
drive (or walk) home.
Go to your bedroom, close the drapes, sit on the edge of the bed.
Grasp the ball peen hammer with both hands, firmly.
waaaiiit for it.

Smash in your cerebral cortex. This will render B&B from further infecting your precious mind with their horrible excrement.

(PS for the nimrod "America's Funniest Home Video" segment of the population. Don't actually do this. This is a metaphor. MET-A-FORE. It's something you would have learned about had you stayed in school past grade 3. If i have to put a disclaimer in, you're damn certain it's going to be an insulting one.)

The Trouble with 'Enterprise' (heh.. that could be an episode title to another series...) was not that it was shoved into the past, but the two letters (and the squiggly above the number '7') were 'writing' it. And as an English graduate, to use the word 'writing' in this context is incredibly painful. If you can't find enough story ideas in the pre-federation days, you're damn sure as hell not going to find them in the 26th Century. Yst filling in back-story to TOS should take up four seasons nad lead you right into the Five Year War. No, instead we get 'Daniels' and 'Gooshie' (wait.. must keep Scott Bakula vehicles seperate... so hard... like trying to determine when Kevin Costner is actually acting) playing higgeldy-piggeldy with the time line.

Now, granted, this started as a hoax, but by now B&B have READ this thread and are actively pitching this idea to Paramount, but with a few changes, of course. (Lesbian Klingon first officer, Porthos as captain: Hey Cap'n... what do you think of the away team's chances? Porthos: Ruff! Yeah, I think it's gonna be pretty rough too.) These were the kids in grammer school who always had to go to the nurse's office cause of a bleeding scab. Why? Cause they couldn't not touch it, that's why.

Jeez, At least Doctor Who is coming back. That's *supposed* to have time travel.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2004-05-30 01:50pm

I personally was hoping that the next Trek series would take another leap forard in time a few hundred years in much the same way that TNG did from TOS. I would have loved to see something set in the 29th century with the Time ships we have seen in a couple of Voyeger eps.

there is potential in that to explore storys that havn't really been done in Star trek before.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-05-30 07:22pm

Hades wrote:I personally was hoping that the next Trek series would take another leap forard in time a few hundred years in much the same way that TNG did from TOS. I would have loved to see something set in the 29th century with the Time ships we have seen in a couple of Voyeger eps.

there is potential in that to explore storys that havn't really been done in Star trek before.

Yeah a series based on travel through time, instead of just space- imagine the adventures, you could have the enterprise-z being attacked in 1940's california by P-51 Mustangs, aliens infiltrating earths past and posing as Nazi's! Trek writers would have an entire new domain to explore.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-05-31 03:15am

Star Trek episodes where the heroes travell back to the past has been enternaiting. For example the episode where Voyger gets back to 1996 or the DS9 episode set on the TOS Enterprise has been great. If well written a Time Travel based trek would work well.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2004-05-31 05:25am

As long as they paid close attention to continuity of course. Wouln't want things to get any more messed up.

They would also have a larger Galexy to explore, I would imagin that by this time the delta and Gammer quadrents would be easily reachable without any wormholes or carrier waves by wierd alian creatures.

Not all theime travel would have to be on earth either. I can imagin some interesting episodes where we get to go to various points in a planets history either chaseing a bad guy through time, solving some kind of mystery or studying the evolving culture.

Then there wold also be the opertunity to cross-over and involve the Temperol cold war mentioned in Enterprise. Perhaps the mysterious figure we only see in siluet is in fact from the 29th century.

Super-Gagme · Post by **Super-Gagme** » 2004-05-31 07:16am

Jon wrote:
Hades wrote:I personally was hoping that the next Trek series would take another leap forard in time a few hundred years in much the same way that TNG did from TOS. I would have loved to see something set in the 29th century with the Time ships we have seen in a couple of Voyeger eps.

there is potential in that to explore storys that havn't really been done in Star trek before.
Yeah a series based on travel through time, instead of just space- imagine the adventures, you could have the enterprise-z being attacked in 1940's california by P-51 Mustangs, aliens infiltrating earths past and posing as Nazi's! Trek writers would have an entire new domain to explore.

Time Traveling Space Nazis, my god man! Gold mine! Someone should tell B&B!

spazkitten · Post by **spazkitten** » 2004-06-07 02:46pm

Dahak wrote:I still would've liked a serieshaving Romulans or another race as the main focus. We've seen plenty of the federation already...

*monica geller pitch* I KNOooww!! exactly how you feel.

I feel like I'm getting Federation burnout too.

In Nemesis, Shinzon's background sounded like it would make a decent film. I don't know about a series though. I think it's time to retire all series, for atleast another 20 years.