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I'm starting to get antsy. Usually there's a new Star Trek TV series coming or going or generally fogging up the airwaves. And here there isn't right now.
"Star Trek Babies", maybe?
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I'm not sure yet the time is ripe for another Trek series (that'll do well), but I wish it were. The rebooted novels, pretty much the only thing left exploring the Prime timeline, have introduced some amazing stories and ideas that could be integrated into a new post-Nemesis series. Ideally, it could start as a miniseries based on the Destiny novel trilogy, which would serve to give a (good) send-off to the TNG cast and set the stage for a new series following a new ship and crew in the Typhon Pact era of the Alpha/Beta Quadrants.
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According to Wikipedia, there are now 726 episodes of the various Star Trek series. So they could get a series started with a new ship and crew, fly off to a new fictional region of space, but quickly find that they're exploring story-space where many have gone before.
It would take brilliant writers to give us an exciting, new Trek series, and in television, brilliance tends to be for niche audiences. Maybe if AMC or HBO were to do it in a daring way, you'd have something, but I don't think that will happen. And if it did, a LOT of the franchise's existing fans would hate it.
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IMO, they don't even need to go and find a new fictional region of space. The late 24th-century Federation and its neighboring Empires, Hegemonies, Coalitions, Assemblies and whatnot make up a massive region of space and contains a lot of potential for new stories. There are alien species that have barely been explored (Tholian, Breen, Gorn), not explored at all (Tzenkethi) or criminally underused in intelligent stories of late (Romulan).
You're right that we'd need great writers with equally great ideas to make a new series, but I think it's probably possible to pull off without resorting to cable (none of those channels would probably ever want Trek anyway, and I doubt CBS would ever give it up). Manny Coto did a great job with the final season of Enterprise, and there are some great writers working on the current series of Trek novels (I found it hard to believe myself at first, given the low quality of most Trek novels from the 90s).
I doubt a new Trek series will happen for quite some time, whatever form it ends up taking, but it's nice to dream.
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Maybe they could re-boot the same way they did Battlestar Galactica: add a lot of dirt, nudity and blue lighting.
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The milk from this particular cow started to run out in NEXT GENERATION season six, though DEEP SPACE NINE and VOYAGER had some legit episodes.
STAR TREK began to suffer from having explored its universe too much, and a lot of the mystery got lost, especially with all the generic species, dominions, etc.
To do worthwhile TREK will require fleshing out concepts going back to the original series that can support a movie-length treatment (think BREAD AND CIRCUSES, and A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR) and doing retro-faithful widescreen movies that capture the look and feel of the original series.
To be frank, after the facile J.J. treatment, only that kind of hardcore commitment could win me back.
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Oct 24, 2014 - 3:07 PM
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Octoberman
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The milk from this particular cow started to run out in NEXT GENERATION season six, though DEEP SPACE NINE and VOYAGER had some legit episodes.
STAR TREK began to suffer from having explored its universe too much, and a lot of the mystery got lost, especially with all the generic species, dominions, etc.
To do worthwhile TREK will require fleshing out concepts going back to the original series that can support a movie-length treatment (think BREAD AND CIRCUSES, and A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR) and doing retro-faithful widescreen movies that capture the look and feel of the original series.
To be frank, after the facile J.J. treatment, only that kind of hardcore commitment could win me back.
This could have come from my keyboard (except that I think TNG Season 7 had some good moments occasionally).
But sometimes, I confess, I get antsy too.
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If they've run out of ideas, maybe they could do like they did for "The Odd Couple" and do other versions:
Female Star Trek
Black Star Trek
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An all singing and dancing Star Trek, with a gay love story between first officer and captain.
Sure to be a hit!
Sorry, but the Abrams/Kurtzman/Orci triumvirate didn't want to make it too autobiographical. Only an incestuous triangle of bad scripting, plotting, and directing could have given us stillborn TREK the likes of which we'll probably be suffering for the next decade.
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Maybe PBS and the NY Met could do the scrapped opera version that Goldsmith had proposed.
If he didn't write music, maybe they could just cannibalize the umpteen series' music.
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