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It is 2015 - Paramount Pictures, happy with the returns for the opening of Star Trek XIII, the 3rd in the "reimagined" series of films with Matt Damon as Captain Kirk, and eager to celebrate the franchise's 50th Anniversary, are contemplating a 6th "Star Trek" series for a syndicated run to begin in September 2006.
You've secured the opportunity to pitch a "Star Trek" television-series idea to "the powers that be" at Paramount (none of whom were at Paramount when "Enterprise" was canceled). This is also a job interview - if successful, you will be hired as the show runner in addition to its creator.
Along with the invitation, Paramount sends you some notes about what the "Star Trek Series Six" hiring committee is looking for in the pitches it is presented.
1. Paramount is looking for a show with the classic "Kirk/Spock/McCoy" dynamic: they're looking for three to four series leads, with three to four supporting cast members (no more than seven regular cast members). Who would these characters be and how are they important to the show and unique from the other "Trek" series?
2. Paramount is open to any and all setting ideas. Starship, starbase, planetside. Pre-TOS, post-TNG, everything is fair game (although some people have confidentially whispered that Paramount wouldn't mind a setting that would allow for crossovers from other Trek series) with the understanding that the characters are affiliated with Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets (and/or their precursors or successors). What is your setting and how is it unique from the other series?
3. Paramount is interested in pursuing some of the features of recent television shows that they view as successful: the long-arcs and ongoing mysteries of "Heroes" and "Lost" are an element they would like reflected in a new "Star Trek" series, and as such, would like a general overview for how you, as the show runner, would develop the series over its first two seasons with this in mind. Warning: Paramount isn't opposed to the occasional episode which revists plotlines from previous shows, but it wants the show to stand on its own in terms of storytelling.
4. In addition, Paramount would like a "new" race to serve as principal antagonists, if and when they should appear -- the studio would like to keep away from the Borg, the Klingons, the Romulans, the Cardassians, etc., as much as possible -- so as to further distinguish the series. Who and what are this new race, and why are they in conflict with our characters?
Well? Have at it!
(PS - for the purposes of this Topic, I am the Paramount Pictures' "Powers That Be.")
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Screw this - why give the fuckers any of our good ideas for the future - or conversely stop them having a good show cause half of their ideas were already fleshed out on the internet.
Sorry for being so... terse.
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I'll pass. No one wants to see 'Die Hard' meets 'Queer as Folk & The L Word' in Star Trek.
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"A Ferengin a Bolian and a Breen walk into a bar..."
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I pitched my story before about an admiral who survives Wolf 359 and ends up having a shuttlecraft accident a la 'Rascals' and having to deal with new Starfleet officers out of the academy onboard the Prometheus.
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Give him Krenims number. I'd like to see Series ? on the screen.
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I'd kind of like to see something that focuses on the Temporal Enforcement Agency (or whatever it's called; too buried in term papers to remember). It would def. run the risk of becoming a Who-clone, though...
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In brief, for those who're curious, here's mine:
In the late 24th to early 25th Century, aboard the science-vessel USS GRISSOM, Commander Connor Macy and his crew conduct deep-surveys of solar-systems, spending up to a year to do the indepth work of scientific discovery.
STAR TREK: GRISSOM is a show geared towards character-study and interaction. While the show won't shy away from explosive shoot-outs on occasion, the show's purpose is to explore the Federation cultural dynamic (and some could argue "cultural divide") with a main cast featuring two humans and five aliens.
When it does come time to fire up the phasers and shields, Commander Macy's crew knows they have to use their brains and out-think their enemy (in this case, the TZENKETHI), since their tiny Nova-Class-like ship boasts limited defensive capabilities.
CMD CONNOR MACY is the ship's commander (addressed as "captain" by his crew, an honorific title referencing his position). He doesn't know much about science-missions, having spent most of his career fighting Federation adversaries. But he's in command of the GRISSOM because Starfleet wants a combat-experienced commander to balance out the ship's limited defenses, particularly given its first season assignment researching a solar system close to the Tzenkethi border.
LCMD SIPAR, DSc - Sipar wears a multitude of hats aboard the Grissom: He's the Mission Commander, the Lead Science Officer, and the Executive Officer aboard the GRISSOM. He's an experienced and well qualified scientist who isn't above "tooting his own horn" and considers himself -- not as a Vulcan, but as a scientist -- the best qualified officer aboard the ship. Sometimes, he doesn't understand that being the mission commander does not make him the ship commander, putting him in conflict with Macy.
In addition, our cast includes a Xindi-Sloth Operations Manager, LT (JG) HAAILST; an enlisted Andorian chief of security (who spent much of his career in the Andor Military Service before requesting a lateral transfer to Starfleet), GOSVAR; a Caitian Flight Manager who is able to provide a more sympathetic viewpoint towards the Tzenkethi, ENS MRAWLU; a Bajoran-Cardassian hybrid Chief Engineer torn between loyalty to what he considers his home (Bajor) and a pull towards his ancestral people (Cardassia), LT (JG) HADAAR; and a human Chief Medical Officer, Dr. KYLEI eager to explore the galaxy.
The show will be set along the Tzenkethi border during its first season. The fiercly xenophobic Tzenkethi have been testing the waters for new incursions into Federation space, sure to provide tense moments for the GRISSOM crew.
In terms of other "Big" Star Trek races which might appear:
The Klingon Empire eventually collapsed after the expendatures of the Dominion War. A Klingon renaissance is under way, and the society is moving from a warrior-culture to an artistic and peaceful one. There are, of course, sub-cultures, some of which retain their Old Warrior Ways.
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