Star Trek General Discussion

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Do a actual Eugenics war series.

Do not. Leave it vague and hard to pin down. This is like the Horus Heresy in Warhammer. Those books were terrific for a while but now that they're done
they've taken away so much mystique that characters and events had by expanding on them. Instead of giving future writers something they could continue to tease and use as a literary jumping off point, it has all been codified and established even going so far as to undo old stories.


Currently, they can keep it vague and #### with it to change points as necessary to keep it ahead of our modern times as to keep the real-world feel.

Once you do a show or story, you're locked in. Where as if you use the actual shows to take snap shots you can keep it moving around.

[Shazam]

I think the main issue is that doing another starship series set after TNG is next to impossible because they've run out of ideas. Doesn't help that the Federation is next to impossible to stop. Even the adapt-o-zombies lost to them.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Doesn't help that the Federation is next to impossible to stop. Even the adapt-o-zombies lost to them.

I think that's part of the issue with how people look at Star Trek now. The Federation in open conflict is okay. It's a fun thing to poke and prod around. That isn't what the Federation was supposed to be. It was supposed to be about finding peace. What make's Star Trek is that not everything is supposed to be about conflict. It should be about the Universe as a whole. Science. Anomalies. Political intrigue between allies and enemies. TNG had the Klingons as allies who no longer wanted or could no longer go toe-to-toe with the Federation and still managed to find ways to make them and their goings on interesting without making it as simple as the Federation vs The Empire. Even at the height of the Dominion War, DS9 was still cycling in science or intrigue.


The issue isn't that they've run out of ideas. The issue is they are focused on one type of story and it doesn't work for what Star Trek is about.

[direwolf]

After Picard, I was kinda hoping for a good old fashioned exploration/adventure type series following Captain Seven of Nine and her crew. There seemed to be a lot of potential there, but I guess that idea never took off.

[Ashartus]

I think whatever it is shouldn't be a prequel or tied to Discovery.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

I think whatever it is shouldn't be a prequel or tied to Discovery.

Yes. This.

New ship, new crew, new stories.

[SutterBrother]

Grab a child and start re-watching.

My 11 year old and I just hit season 3 of TNG and it's solid gold. He has such impending doom about the Borg...

As to what they should to with the franchise, I have a crazy idea.

Assemble a cast of 7 main characters. Put them on a ship. Have the ship explore the galaxy over a 26 episode season, mostly stand alone episodes perhaps with a couple short arcs. Run it for 5 years, see how it feels, if good do 2 more, then a major motion picture, and an open world video game.

Hire a show runner who has watched Star Trek at some point, and writers who aren't stupid.

All current Trek fans will give it a shot. The consistency will probably bring in new fans.

(dare to dream)

[KTrain]

If they're laser focused on making a movie, they're making a mistake.

I love the movies (even the Kelvin ones) but they only work because the primary audience had hundreds of hours of history to familiarize themselves with the characters they're seeing on the big screen.

[CaptainCrunch]

Right now, I would rather Trek goes on hiatus for a good chunk of time after Brave New World Ends. Let it rest,


Do a Mass Effect Series instead.

[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Right now, I would rather Trek goes on hiatus for a good chunk of time after Brave New World Ends. Let it rest,


Do a Mass Effect Series instead.

That didn't work the last time. The beauty of Star Trek (vs mass Effect) is that it isn't about war... well isn't supposed to be about war.

Sigh. I guess after TNG it pretty much was always about war, wasn't it?

[Fuzz]

First they need to do a timeline reset that erases Discovery and everything from the reboot trash.


Then they can pop in a few hundred years after TNG with a fairly blank slate and try not to ever go back to meddling with #### in the past. Time travel episodes are fine, but the alternate timeline/universe stuff is so weak. Stay away. Tell some good stories without all the baggage. This shouldn't be that hard.