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Ditto. In fact, I started reading Calvin and Hobbes when I started working in the Children's Library.. just to prepare me. And believe it or not, it's actually HELPED.
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I don't even know what they could do for a 5th series. We've already seen 3 starship series and 1 based off a space station.
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I really don't see any problem with doing another ship or station. A series set during the formative days of the Federation has a lot of potential if done right--although I don't think that Paramount is capable of doing this correctly. There's also the period between ST6 and TNG--an Excelsior series has potential, although there would be problems with the actors getting along in years. An Ent-B series could cover much of the same ground as an Excel series, and I'd love to have an Enterprise on the small screen again. However, I just don't see this working as well.
Kosh: The problem with Nimoy is that he and Paramount aren't exactly best of pals. (Actually, I guess this would be more of "another problem with Paramount" than "the problem with Nimoy.")
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That's too bad. I wouldn't mind seeing Nimoy take a position as a producer/director. He's utterly familiar with the series and the basic Trek philosophy, plus he's a damn good director!
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I agree that there is nothing inherently wrong with either a ship show or a station show or with any particular time period.
Personally, since I'm a TOS-head, I'd prefer to see a ship show set in the early days of the Federation (pre-TOS). Or how about a show based on the surface of a planet? How about a rapid reaction force among outer Federation Territories (like Gunsmoke in Space)? How about something involving the Starfleet Marine Corps baseball team? How about a show set in the Klingon Empire? How about a show about civilians? Who knows?
AS far as style, I'd also like the show to emphasize just a few core characters rather than diluting the focus on the entire senior staff. No holographic characters: that's been done. Make all the characters adults: no one who needs to be babysat or who misses his mother. Rather than the beige hotel decor of the EntD, I'd like to see a brighter, more stylized palette as on TOS. Of course, less techobabble, psychobabble, and gadgetry: these date the show very quickly. The show needs to be vigorous. It needs to be well-written: spend the money and hire some good writers from SF literature or even comics. Get rid of all B stories.
The foremost problem is in the execution. Is Paramount willing to spend enough time on developing this show correctly while avoid political infighting and back-stabbing? Can they abandon the ideas and methods that have grown stale since the start of TNG? I don't think so. Star Trek has become just another product, which they admit by calling it "the Franchise." They'll probably just choose one producing faction and rush a show onto the air to overlap with the end of Voyager. Of course, we'll watch because it's still called Star Trek.
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I still say an Indiana Jones of Trek would be a very interesting direction to take the franchise. How many of us really enjoyed Picard's interest archeology of ancient cultures. The series obviously wouldn't have the scope of a lone ship in the delta quadrant, but with fewer characters the writers could avoid a majority of the inconsistencies. Of course Starfleet would play a large role in the series in general by either coming to the rescue of our hero, or by hampering him. Our hero could be an outcast of sorts in the Federation circles of Archeology, and not always have the ideals that are commonly associate with trek. His ship would be the ugliest thing in the galaxy, but his pride and joy. Anythoughts
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I myself think that an archeology series ould get a little boring, but a lone person or small crew all alone in the alpha qudrantdoes seem like a very good idea. Maybe sometype of combined romulan/klingon/federation crew that was so tired of the squabaling of the AQ powers that they left together to explore space on their own?
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It certainly does have a lot of possibilities. Maybe it could explore the mythologies and "supernatural" things that that go on in the Galaxy. Maybe the Nova Class could play a significant role.
Unfortunatly, this show would quickly be given your label "The Indiana Jones of Star trek" and the creators and Paramount would never go for it.
Honestly, I think an Ent B series has a whole lot of potential. You've got Federation expansion issues, pure science and exploration, the kick a$$ red uniforms and Excelsior refit model. There would be no obligation to use Captain Harriman or any of the other crew seen in Generations. Plus, since some future history has already been established there would be loose guidelines to work within. We could even see the creation of some of the older ships from the TNG era.
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