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Jaresh: I think you've just recreated Sliders in the Trek universe. :-)
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It's certainly an intriguing idea. But how do we get it to last longer than five minutes? It seems to me that if the Borg can overcome the Federation, a single ship or group of ships is doomed.
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They probably wouldn't bother chasing down every last ship. They'd only assimilate it if they happened upon one and felt a bit bored.
But the Borg are perhaps too invincible a foe to be a recurring presence. It certainly means there'd be no "cackling villains" to steal scenes.
This is a mesh of Sliders/Star Trek/Battlestar and Andromeda.
A fifth series, realistically, cannot focus on a dismembered or destroyed Federation. Messes up the franchise too much. A cross-over character as a REGULAR would be a cop-out as well. I think series 5 should be stand-alone as TNG virtually was. A new time-frame would be nice, a new section of the galaxy too if possible. Voyager's Delta Quadrant only failed as an interesting theatre for drama because it was initially only full of (urgh!) Kazons.
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Oh, Montgomery... "A fifth series, realistically, cannot focus on a dismembered or destroyed Federation." Who ever said realism had to enter into the picture?
Crossover character as a regular is a cop-out? There was this great little show called Deep Space Nine that had a crossover character from Next Generation for several seasons... Or do you think that was a cop-out too?
What class of ship would be best as the central ship here, do y'all think? I thought perhaps something completely new and state-of-the-art, OR something old, brought back into service, like an upgraded Ambassador or a variant.
I think to make the constant Borg threat constantly interesting, perhaps allow them some "quantum leap" technology-wise that gave them the strength to send the Federation reeling (perhaps even assimilate Earth!), but then, over time, let the Federation (with some outside help, perhaps) develop a defense against them. Spend the last two or three seasons in an arc that has the Federation regrouping for an offensive to take back their space. (I don't think this keeps writers from introducing new bad guys at any point, by the way.)
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Further conceptual visualizations, submitted for your approval.. or amusement...
I was thinking about a ship that hadn't been seen, that would have been brand new at, say, the time Voyager's 7th season ends, but by the time of the new show, has already seen a Year of Hell or two. Something not very large, but big enough to carry a sustainable crew population (assuming some will be killed off). Say... 300-400 or so. I would think the ship's tech should be an outgrowth of lessons learned during the Dominion War, as well as the previous Borg invasions. If we give a few years after Voyager (we assume) returns, there might even be time to incorporate a slipstream drive or minor aspects of Borg technology (adaptive shielding, etc).
I don't think the Borg would need to make a 'quantum leap' in technology to stomp on the Federation and its' allies... just send a half-dozen ships instead of one.
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Well, as stated earlier, this would never make it on TV because of the major changes to the franchise. That's what fanfiction is for!
By the way, if the Borg becomes the main vilain, please don't bring back the Queen... I want machine-like Borgs whose main interest is assimilation period. No stupid Queenie searching for a mate, no plot to use a former drone to assimilate an insignificant planet (Earth in "Dark Frontier"). I want to see a Collective who thinks it's doing the galaxy a favor by "improving" it, just like it was represented in "The Best of Both Worlds"
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This is gonna get us way off the subject, but I think the Queen is already absorbed into the Collective. I think she is a manifestation of the Collective's consciousness that exists within the Collective. She can be anywhere she wants with in the group. When she wants to witness something first hand, she has the drones constuct a body for her. This would explain how Picard could kill her and then she shows up again in the DQ to harass Janeway.
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