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One other idea might be fun, but perhaps not the most original.
Go ahead and push it another two hundred years past TNG... to a time when some presently-unknown force (the Kelvans? Ooh...) has decimated our galaxy and colonized it. All that's left of the races we know are pockets of resistence scattered accross random worlds, sturggling to survive. They could have transwarp or slipstream or whatever, and groovy weapons, but none of the miracle tech lost in the big wipeout. That lets us see into The Future [tm] without getting into the Clarkian difficulties (which are my grounds for not being interested in a post 2380 series).
Of course, that's also just Star Wars without the Force.
quote:Originally posted by EdipisReks: section 31 would still be recognizable for the average trek viewer
Section 31 was in 3 episodes out of, what, 600 or so? That's like 0.5%. It would be trivially easy for a large portion of the audience to have never heard of the group.
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i didn't mean recognizable as "oh yeah, we kow who they are", but instead as "oh, they are like regular starfleet only secret like mission impossible. we get it".
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quote:Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: One other idea might be fun, but perhaps not the most original.
Go ahead and push it another two hundred years past TNG... to a time when some presently-unknown force (the Kelvans? Ooh...) has decimated our galaxy and colonized it. All that's left of the races we know are pockets of resistence scattered accross random worlds, sturggling to survive. They could have transwarp or slipstream or whatever, and groovy weapons, but none of the miracle tech lost in the big wipeout. That lets us see into The Future [tm] without getting into the Clarkian difficulties (which are my grounds for not being interested in a post 2380 series).
Of course, that's also just Star Wars without the Force.
*coughAndromedacough*
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I think its kind of funny that 'Andromeda' was pushed by Majel Barrett as the next 'Star Trek' series, a few years ago. She was turned down, and lo' and behold ...
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Before JAG - I always thought Star Trek: JAG would have been good!
What about Star Trek: Merchantman... we know how it ends...
Star Trek: Maquis?
Star Trek: Whale Probe - 178 episodes of whale song ;o)
Star Trek: Excelsior
Temporal Investigators
Photonics 'r' Us
EMH - the story of the EMH - back-up's journey home...
The Federation Council a la The West Wing
Space Dock 1.
A show with civilians and their own ship
Star Trek: First Contact - following the crew involved in first contact of a civilisation from initial visit, to undercover observations to the planet's first steps into outerspace.
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Why does everyone like Section 31 so much? .. they are assholes.. if i wanted to see ultra-conservative, conspiratorial murderers running governments behind the scenes, I'd watch the news.
I'd like to think we'd move beyond that bullshit by the time of Roddenberry's perfect worlds. Even the Section 31 novels, which were pretty good stories, were impossibly depressing.
What about Star Trek: Assignment Earth. Either do it a period show taking place in the 60s-70s-80s with new actors to play Roberta Lincoln, Gary Seven (and Noon Singh! heheheh).. or have it take place now with Robert Lansing and Teri Garr reprising their roles and training new younger secret agents!
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Truly an amazing feat, especially if they can animate Lansing's 8-years-dead corpse. I'm sure the makeup budget alone to make him even barely passable would be prohibitive. He might stink a bit, too
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quote:What about Star Trek: Assignment Earth. Either do it a period show taking place in the 60s-70s-80s with new actors to play Roberta Lincoln, Gary Seven (and Noon Singh! heheheh).. or have it take place now with Robert Lansing and Teri Garr reprising their roles and training new younger secret agents!
You know, "Assignment: Earth" was originally pitched as a spin-off to 'Star Trek.' I sound like a bad record.
Andrew, I like your idea about the first contact series. Have to be a different name, tho ... a TNG episode, a TNG movie, and a new series all with the same name?! Aiy!
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I would have known about Lansing except that I'm afraid to go to IMDB now that it opens exactly 3 popups every page you visit on that site.
I assumed he was still alive because i just saw him in an episode of Simon & Simon the other day.. (gotta stop smoking weed long enough to realize that Simon & Simon wasnt recently produced)..
oh well.. new actors then.. i still think that Assignment Earth wouldve been a great series.. it would have diversified the Trek universe a lot (kept it on TV during the 70s.. introduced crossovers and followups and what have you and maybe been a vehicle to make Phase II more viable)
And if youve read The Eugenics Wars you know about all the zany adventures that Seven and Roberta had.. they uncovered the Stepford Wives, fought Devidians, used Guinan as an informant, and were there for all the events leading up to the hush hush Eugenics wars. Crazy!
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