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Is there anymore info on what this contemporary, no technobabble Trek is going to be about? And what does contemporary mean in Trek? The show isn't contemporary, it takes place 400 years in the future for crying out loud. I want to see something with a continuing story line, more like Star Wars or B5. It's what DS9 tried way too late to do.
Trek's biggest story flaw is that nobody thinks ahead and plans out how one season will effect another. So everything has a very isolated feel. Then when you want to go back and add something, you've got to deal with the fact that the two events were nevr really supposed to interact in the first place.
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Characters I'd like to see on a new show, just because:
An Andorian female (I just like women painted blue). Andorians are supposed to be very martial, so there's a possible security chief. Or a background tendency for another officer. (an agressive helmsman?)
A Kzin. (we have the computer technology, we can build him.) Another possible security head honcho. Even the Jem'Hadar would think twice about facing down a 8', 400# intelligent tiger with an attitude problem.
Klingon. Second in command, foil for the captain.
Romulan. Acting Ensign or Acting LtJg, only, cause we still don't trust the Romulans. Perhaps they did something unwise just after the end of the war. Acting as guide to area. Probably has secrets. Probably returns distrust.
Cardassian Science Officer? just because I liked the "vipers"
a few more human officers to round up the crew.
We need something truly new for the "alien" character, though. I dunno. A clone? Some race that only played a bit part before? A Horta?
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I think that a alien-yet-thinks-and-talks-and-looks-almost-100%-like-a-human is the necxt step. It may be something like Captain Calhoun, from the NF novel series. That's it! we should bring in Peter David to help!
Actually, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin might be kinda cool as co-creators of a Trek series.
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::Adds another to the list of Calvin & Hobbes fans::
How do they expect to make a show with no technobabble?!
::Plots to have Brannon Braga and his puppet Rick Berman shot from a cannon::
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Here are more rumors about series 5. A website called SF Crowsnest (http://207.201.173.29//sfnews/newse1199.htm) says that the Berman/Braga show involves a ship called USS Excellent (3x larger than EntD) that is helping a Federation-like alliance being invaded by a bunch of genetically enhanced barbarians (similar to the "Supermen" of the Eugenics war, but they won). Supposedly the captain will be an alien and Q will appear in the first episode.
Please take this with a big hunk o' salt.
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As for a wierd character, a CGI would seem to be the next step, but I shy away from it for some reason. We had a sentient mass of circuits as a main character, then we had a big glob of liquid as a main character, then we had someone who isn't even there as a main character. What's left, having the computer itself be alive?
Just a minute. A living ship? Anyone like the sound of that?
As for the Kzin, did they originate in Ringworld and spread into all other sci-fi from there, or did I miss something?
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Paramount bought the right to use Niven's Kzin in an episode or two of the animated series.
As far as a CGI character...thanks but no thanks. I have yet to see any such character I would want to watch on a regular basis. They either have no personality, or I want to throttle them repeatedly.
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A rumor about the new series (originally from SF Crowsnest) which I posted on the parallel series 5 thread says that they are thinking about making the captain (!) a CGI alien. However, a captain can't be a clown like Jar Jar Binks; he or she must interact believably and dramatically with the other characters. Also, I don't think you could produce that much CGI on a weekly basis. It would make filming much too difficult.
About the Kzin: Really? They actually bought them from Larry Niven? That's amazing. Has anyone heard of anything similar (except in comic book crossovers)?
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As far as I know, they negotiated rights to adapt one Kzin story for one episode of TAS. They did not, however, gain the rights to use the Kzin in perpetuity.
One of those cat-like people (Caitians?) wouldn't be difficult though.
There seem to be a few fans this might please. There is even a fan-fic comic featuring a Caitian, though it's not quite serious in tone: Haul Trek.
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