Topic: First Clues to Series V Starship Description [Spoilers]
Balapoel
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I think it is possible that the stage has been set for Series V, in a similar fashion that TNG episodes on Bajor set the stage for DS9, and episodes on DS9 and TNG on the Maquis set the stage for VOY. We've had a couple of shows about 29th century Starfleet time travelers (Relativity and Future's End). This way, the series could follow a SF crew that could go anywhere, anywhen. The dramatic possibilities are endless, much more than a time-limited show set in the 21st or even 25th century.
Ben
------------------ Ripley: When we throw the switches, how long before the ship blows? Parker: Ten minutes. Ripley: No bullshit? Parker: If we ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space.
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Unfortunately, time travel is nothing original in Star Trek. In fact, time travel has pretty much become an excuse to justify that the episode in question "never really happened" (All Good Things, Timeless, etc.) And if "Relativity" showed us anything, it's that each episode of a Star Trek series based upon time travel would leave the audience as confused as Janeway was in that ep.
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Balapoel: I think this has been described as Star Trek: Quantum Leap. You'd have future SF officers jumping around in time unable to change things that we've already seen and unable to reveal themselves as being from the future (of course you'd have the occational "just have to tell someone" episode). While I agree that the idea of seeing various important events in Federation history, various hitherto unseen ships, etc. would be very cool, I have no confidense that it could be pulled off intelligently.
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That may not be the case. Remember, Braxton didn't 'remember' what happened to him, because it was in a different timeline. Theoretical physicists entertain the possibility of infinite universes, each set off from each other by each quantum change. In effect, there could be universes where the Klingons defeated the Federation in the 2200s, or where the Dominion won.
Our SF officers could indeed change things in the past, or more specifically, try to manipulate events that merely effect space-time in general.
I admit, TPTB may screw it up as well, but at least it could be entertaining (and imaginative) if they did it right.
Ben
------------------ Ripley: When we throw the switches, how long before the ship blows? Parker: Ten minutes. Ripley: No bullshit? Parker: If we ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space.
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Nahm we've seen too much of that. I'm up for the 25th or 26th - far enough ahead that everything can look totally difference, but not too far ahead that the production people won't be able to keep up with the fantastical technologies they'll have dreamed up by then.
Mark <-- Never, EVER a prequel series!
------------------ "Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?"
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I hope they shake things up a bit. If it's just TNG with a bigger Federation, that won't be good. Something akin to Andromeda, perhaps, with the Federation overcoming a crisis would be cool ...
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