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The exploration of that huge Dyson sphere they found on TNG would also provide material for a whole series, but if they did it right now someone would say they're rippping off Stargate: Atlantis...
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I think a change from the "classic" Trek formula is much needed in the next series. The whole "lone starship crew exploring space" has been done to death over the decades following TOS. Much of TNG, whole seasons of VGR and even some of ENT were terribly boring because of the alien-of-the-week factor, and because there are only so many dramatic scenarios that can be played out in the course of such missions before episodes start feeling like retreads of previous ones.
DS9 dared to part from this formula at its onset, to (IMO) excellent results. As a matter of fact, the only parts of DS9 (again, IMO) that weren't good were the early episodes where they were exploring the Gamma Quadrant and meeting aliens-of-the-week. Fortunately, that sort of just went away after a while, making room for more interesting things.
TPTB: Please note that I am NOT saying I want any future series to be a copy of DS9!!
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After the dreadful wrap-up of DS9 in season 7, most of VOY, and the attempt to capture the climate of fear zeitgeist in seasons 2 and 3 of ENT, I reckon there is only one possible solution.
Get in touch with Krenim and make SERIES? Currently, this seems (apart from the very late start with bits from ENT's 4th season - eg IaMD, & the Klingon forehead conundrum) to be the only thing remotely original or entertaining with the Trek label slapped on it.
But I'm new here, so I'll be quiet.
Bring on the Braxton!
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In response to the colony builders / settlers idea put forward there is a series of novels called New Earth that deals with a similar idea, its based in the Kirk era between TMP and TWOK, possibly part of its post refit 5 year mission.
I think it has a strong base for a series, although it might reek of Battlestar Galactica ripping.
Myself i'd go for a timeframe of between TMP and TWOK and a single starship exploration again, sorry its not a more original idea. Although i do like the colonisation notion.
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I've been thinking about the colonization idea and I agree it has merit/potential.
Perhaps the idea could be expanded to be colonization/establishing a new starbase.
If you remember from TOS, the starbses were on planets, not just some orbiting space station. Perhaps a colony of 50,000 could be on the planet with Starfleet personell there to run a new starbase. In orbit could be a couple of ship drydocks and a small station to transfer people between the drydocks and the surface.
More stories would have to be character driven than action oriented, however, there could be plots revolving around exploring the new planet and whatever starships arrive to make use of the starbase facility.
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Whatever it is, empathy, telepathy and ESP should be completely left the fuck out.
Nothing's as annoying as Troi "getting a feeling" from an image on a viewscreen of a person millions of kilometers away.
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I would argue that any time Archer started grandstanding or Neelix said anything or The Traveller self-projected were all more annoying that Troi's 'I'm sensing...the total obvious.' (Was that Galaxy Quest where they break it to the one character that she never had special powers?) As far as I'm concerned read Niven's Kzin for how to do telepathy right.
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Unless the telepath has some extra physical organ that can sense another brain's electrical impulses and translate them into thoughts (and you'd still have a huuuge cultural/species/language barrier to overcome) I dont think it's remotely possible.
Much less from millions of KM distance.
For a universe chock full of (semi) plausale technobabble, telepathy is conviently glossed over. Even warpdrive seems far more plausable.
Thank god DS9 (with all it's Duex Ex machina moments) never stuck in a telepath.
Only the ol' Vulcan Mind-Meld seemed sorta possible- with physical contact and it being risky (unfortunately blown right into hoo-doo katra mysticism and worse- interogation technique by the end of the TOS movies).
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Unless the telepath has some extra physical organ that can sense another brain's electrical impulses and translate them into thoughts (and you'd still have a huuuge cultural/species/language barrier to overcome) I dont think it's remotely possible.
Much less from millions of KM distance.
For a universe chock full of (semi) plausale technobabble, telepathy is conviently glossed over. Even warpdrive seems far more plausable.
Thank god DS9 (with all it's Duex Ex machina moments) never stuck in a telepath.
Only the ol' Vulcan Mind-Meld seemed sorta possible- with physical contact and it being risky (unfortunately blown right into hoo-doo katra mysticism and worse- interogation technique by the end of the TOS movies).
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quote:Originally posted by Pensive's Wetness:
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Unless the telepath has some extra physical organ that can sense another brain's electrical impulses and translate them into thoughts (and you'd still have a huuuge cultural/species/language barrier to overcome) I dont think it's remotely possible.
Much less from millions of KM distance.
For a universe chock full of (semi) plausale technobabble, telepathy is conviently glossed over. Even warpdrive seems far more plausable.
Thank god DS9 (with all it's Duex Ex machina moments) never stuck in a telepath.
Only the ol' Vulcan Mind-Meld seemed sorta possible- with physical contact and it being risky (unfortunately blown right into hoo-doo katra mysticism and worse- interogation technique by the end of the TOS movies).
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Everybody has their own Captain Kirk figure that they want to be, in some cases, literaly.
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I wanted to be Rom- for his marital privledges, of course.
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