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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OnToMars: [QB] I agree that names are rather unimportant. The only ones I've come up with are the main characters and the president. I've only done these because they are plays on other names, mostly of people I've known. [*]Benjamin Stewart: I've already explained [*]His wife is Melissa - a girl I was madly in love with for 10 days and madly love sick over for several months thereafter. [*]Peter Young is a combination of the two astronauts that I admire most - Charles "Pete" Conrad and John Young. [*]Arkady Burkavich is a comination of Arkady Bogdanov from the "Mars Trilogy" and a high school class mate of mine whose last name is Burke. Both are very philosophically active thinkers, which is a major element of Arkady Burkavich's character. I'm not sure whether Burkavich is an actual Russian name, but eventually I will find the closest sounding actual name. [*]Samantha Ross is named after the girl I took to the Junior Prom. Its a very long story that I won't get into, but she was a bit of a wild girl and really my first major crush. the first names are the same and Ross is a simplified derivative of her last name; Rohaus. She of course, is the temptation to Stewart (who is...SLIGHTLY...based upon myself). Ross is also going to be the looker of the crew. [*]I've recently decided that I'll need another major character, the Chief Science Officer, though I haven't done anything concenring his character make-up besides his name; Eugene Schmitt, which is a combo of Eugene Cernan and Jack Schmitt, the Apollo 17 astronauts to walk on the moon. Jack Schmitt being the first and so far only scientist to walk on the moon. The only reason I did the names was because I like to give names of characters some personal meaning where ever possible. Gene Schmitt I'm not attached to at all and could very easily change. Here's a further posting of everything else I've written so far: Benjamin Stewart - Mission Commander One of the first explorers of Mars, Stewart was the second person to set foot on the planet, being the pilot on Ares I. As such, he enjoyed the celebrity status of that crew comparable to that of the Original 7. After returning from that mission approximately twelve years ago, he became the head of the Martian Exploration Office, where he has served up until the events of the pilot. Originally a naval aviator. With Ares VIII he becomes the first man in history to travel to Mars twice. Though this is another thing that he will be remembered for in the history books, he does not seem affected by it at all. Peter Young - Executive Officer Originally one of the many candidates for the spot of Mission Commander for Ares VIII, though he was not specifically aware of it (though it was obvious he was in the running). He is an astronaut of seven yeas experience. Typical personality of a former fighter pilot - self confident though mellowed by several years of experience, still quite ambitious though. All around, a very likable person. A younger version of Benjamin Stewart - or in other words Benjamin Stewart is like Peter Young though more tempered by time and experience. Younger version of Stewart. Slightly more brash. He is approximately the same age as Stewart was during Ares I. When Young reaches Stewart’s age as of Ares VIII, Mars will be substantially colonized. Young is the generation bridge between NASA Mars and colony Mars. Dr. Samantha Ross - Chief Medical Officer A brilliant biochemist/medical doctor. Very much like Dr. Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation. There is a playful flirtation between Ross and Stewart, but Stewart is deeply devoted to his wife. Arkady Burkavick - Chief Engineer The Russian Chief Engineer. Part of the new generation of Russians who have not lived under the yoke of communism and instead under the yoke of capitalism. Rather disdainful of all politics, though he holds his own off-the-wall but logical theories of them. Janice Hancock - NASA Administrator A woman who is constantly in a struggle to appease politicians and international partners while at the same time trying to further space exploration. She has a lot of integrity but she is constantly forced to compromise what she would like to do to make politicians and international partners happy. Similar in elements to Dr. Cary Weaver from ER, though not as malevolent as she is at times. Focus of Show The focus of the show is not about any outlandish and traditional science fiction stories (i.e. aliens from outer space or anything similarly outrageous). The primary focus of the show is upon three things: 1. The characters - How people (these twenty four specifically) interact in a hostile, isolated, and confined environment. Furthermore, the effects of space exploration upon the psyche of those who do it and the rest of the world in general. This is without a doubt the most important element of the show, and this must be interesting to viewers. 2. The science - In the most effective blend between laymen and accurate terms possible, describing major questions and objects of research to be discovered using humans on Mars. The science must take a secondary role to the character and human element. The most unrealistic element enters in at this point. Which is that all the major discoveries that could be made on Mars will be made, either one way or another on Ares VIII. The advancements of previous Mars missions cannot be ignored, but they should be exposed only to further the specific situation of Ares VIII. Otherwise, the general implication of the series will be that nothing much was accomplished on previous missions. The most important thing to be done with these is to exposition science in the human interaction. 3. The technology - Along the level of the science. There will be certain stories that revolve around technological elements of Mars exploration. But as with the science element, these must belong to human dialogue, interaction, and motives. The machines of the series should serve as tools for the furtherance of the human plot. Writers must be careful about deus ex machina. Certainly technology plays a central role to the future and Mars exploration in particular. Certainly advanced technology is involved in every facet of an astronaut’s stay on Mars. But a writer must take care as to not have the astronauts be rescued in the last five minutes of the show by some miraculous application of their equipment (Star Trek: Voyager comes to mind as the worst offender). Technology, above all, is an ends to a means, with the ultimate destination always being humans and the astronauts themselves. Timeline 2007: International Space Station is completed. 2010: United States begins development for the Ares Project. 2014: Two shuttle missions are launched, which use their External Tanks as structures for constructing space stations a la Skylab. The potential of the technology is not fully explored. 2015: Benjamin Stewart is selected for the Astronaut Corps. 2017: The International Space Station is sold to private investors. 2018: The orbiter fleet (Columbia, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour) is retired. 2020: The International Space Station reenters the atmosphere and burns up. Benjamin Stewart and the rest of the Ares I crew is selected. 2021: Ares I is launched using a Mars Direct similar style mission with six crewmembers. The mission commander is James Calhoun. The pilot is Benjamin Stewart. They are the first and second people to set foot on the Martian surface, respectively. 2023: Ares I returns to Earth. While his crewmembers retire from NASA, Stewart enters NASA management, while retaining his active astronaut status. In short time, he becomes the Director of Mars Exploration, overseeing all manned exploration of the Red Planet. 2027: A research station is constructed on the moon, using duplicate hardware from the Ares program. 2023-2027: Ares II, III, IV are all launched and carried out, each with six person crews. 2029-2036: Ares V, VI, VII are carried out, each with twenty-four crewmembers. These missions utilize a Crew Transfer Vehicle whose sole purpose is to transport astronauts from Earth to Mars and vice versa. 2036: (Pilot) Four astronauts on Ares VII are lost in a massive dust storm and are never heard from again, and their remains are never found. If public and government opinion turn against NASA, the expansion of Mars exploration and settlement will be severely hindered. In order to prevent this, NASA assigns Stewart to be mission commander of Ares VIII. If this mission experiences any significant difficulties or any crewmembers are lost, Mars exploration will surely be set back decades. Ares VIII launches, and the series begins. 2039: Following the successful completion of Ares VIII, the Mars base is further expanded into sixty-people with a permanent crew. The Mars Society, in partnership with NASDA, establishes a civilian run base. 2040: The Space Force is created as a branch of the Armed Forces, and is placed under the Department of Transportation. The operations of the base are transferred to it. The Space Force attempts to impose a police force on the civilian run station, which resists. Pilot Outline �Opens with Stewart at home. �Stewart and Hancock speak. Exposition of events of Ares VII and relationship between Hancock and Stewart. �Press Conference/Congressional Hearing (probably Congressional hearing). Exposition of danger of cancellation. �News Program. Exposition of NASA’s answer. �Stewart comes home to pack and leave. Exposition of devotion to wife. �Training base. Exposition of other main characters. Exposition of boredom and possible physical dangers (through sims). Crewmember cracks under pressure, action of him breaking down and being removed. Builds tension about future possibility. �Stewart and main characters meet in Houston. �Last days on Earth at Kennedy. Contrasting life of Earth and desolation of Mars. �Launch day. Builds tension with foreshadowing of Apollo like launch. Anti-climax with an SSTO launch reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Quick cut to: �Journey out. Showcase of typical boredom associated with long duration space flight. Action sequences of major systems failure and the beginning of a relationship between two crewmembers and of a depressed crewmember (scaled up version of Astrotel transfer system – likely using STS External Tanks). �Landing day. Building tension with exposition of how hard it is to land on Mars. Depicted with style as if it were momentous first landing. Accomplishment of each time is showcased. Last shot, extreme pan out of landing site and heroes on the landscape of Mars. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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