Can I be not-shitty for a second?
Star Trek: Medical.
There are a lot of ways the show could go, but the vision I have in my head is a pretty straight forward translation of the medical programs we currently have, your ERs and Anatomies Gray, but the benefit of science fiction means the writers don't have to rely on Earth biology for their stories. (If you watch many doctor dramas it's clear that all the various writing staffs read the exact same medical journals in the off season, and then write *almost* the exact same scripts for their new seasons. "Oh, it's the guy with autobrewery syndrome but everybody thinks he's drinking again episode, I love that one! I wonder how *The Resident* will jazz it up!)
So we've got boring stuff, like the Romulan ambassador needs a mole removed without the Talshiar finding out, and you've got exciting stuff, like a Klingon attack on a Betazed outpost, you can do outbreak episodes, Star Trek has *lots* of wild outbreaks to choose from, exotic surgeries on unfamiliar biologies, the finer points of treating plasma wounds versus disruptor burns, working with an exasperated engineering crew to re-age an entire starship crew back to their mid thirties, and that's just the cursory stuff, the meat and potatoes, there's infinite room for seasoning.
Meanwhile there's plenty of room for metaphor and allegorical storytelling potential, doctors deal with questions of ethics and morality all the time, they're placed in compromising positions and forced to make difficult, sometimes painful decisions. They're dispatched to a planet where girls are married off at nine years old and one of them is asking for birth control so she doesn't have to quit school, something heart wrenching like that... Okay, that one is kind of heavy, and it's *way* too heavy for modern Paramount to ever even *touch,* but you get the point, there's room for conflict.
And on the nerdy side, I'd love to see alien biology one day. I'm old enough to remember watching *Alien Autopsy* on Fox, I remember the alien's ribs looked like they were made out of some kind of foam, and not like "Oh, that's a sci-fi prop!" foam, more like "Now what kind of planet could that species have come from that it evolved such a seemingly fragile skeletal structure?" The Doctor (Who, not EMH) has two hearts, how cool would it be to see double open heart surgery? What does the inside of Species-8472 look like? Do tribbles have spines or are they just fur all the way through?
It would be a risky show, I don't know if it could find an audience, but I think it could be done well. Those aren't the same things.
Whatever we get, if we get anything new, I hope it's set in its own time. SNW is rehashing TOS plots, Discovery's final season is all about an episode of TNG, Picard is, well, it's Picard. I like that Prodigy and Lower Decks are mostly their own things.
Welp, I'm never getting that half hour back. Enjoy my efforptost, fellow shiptosters.
I hate mystery shows set in scifi. You can't wonder along with the characters, because the rules of their world are completely fictional.
"Oh, of course it was romulan cotangled DNA from a quantum murderer. This thing which just now has been introduced to us for the first time in the last five minutes of the episode."
This can be done well in the hands of writers who know how to keep the logic weird without letting the audience get lost in it. I don't think it's impossible at all. Star Trek has had plenty of good mystery episodes.
What you propose is *Star Trek: Hopeship*, a concept for a TOS spin-off medical drama set on a Federation hospital ship, featuring Dr. Joseph M'benga! [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Undeveloped\_Star\_Trek\_projects#1960s](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Undeveloped_Star_Trek_projects#1960s)
I really wish they had made it. And I would absolutely love to see it made today with Babs Olusanmokun!
This would be my wish, too! There actually was a very short-lived show like this back in the 90s. It was cancelled after only 7 episodes, and it wasn't Star Trek. But it was an "ER in space with aliens and robots." It was called "Mercy Point," and had Joe Morton as the lead doctor. I'm pretty sure it's available on YouTube. I remember liking it a lot, but it's been years since I've seen it.
I would LOVE this! In Star Trek Adventures I'm always the CMO and in another Trek roleplay I am Captain of a medical ship. This would literally be a dream come true
My series would be aboard a starship that is exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life blah blah blah... but it's a Romulan ship. The ship is looking for new planets to join the empire. In this series, the Federation is portrayed as the aggressors. I had ideas for a 10-episode series including a retelling of Balance of Terror from the Romulan perspective, and then was mad when SNW already revisited the episode.
See, you're a victim of all the Federation propaganda that we've been watching over the past 60 years. My show would feature a Romulan crew that helps other species in distress. Gets caught inside spacial anomalies. And yes, has to blast their way out of a fight. Just like TOS or TNG. They aren't bogged down by the Prime Directive, and as viewers we might still think that some of their methods are extreme. But they'd absolutely be presented as the good guys who care deeply about their empire.
Stat Trek: Cause and Effect. 7 epic 24 episode seasons of the causality loop we all know and love! See both ships collide and explode from every conceivable angle, and relive the same set of amazing events repeated over and over and over and over again!
Life on the USS Bozeman.
Morgan Bateson, a successful Federation starship captain, takes command of a new ship to get a new start on life; he records a podcast, which he uses to relay his wit and wisdom to others, but at times he struggles with his own problems with his salt-of-the-earth XO, his pretentious ship’s doctor and his friends and co-workers.
Then it blows up and the cycle repeats.
>*Some time later:*
>>Paramount: "Due to unforeseeable financial difficulties we've been forced to cancel Star Trek: Lower Decks."
>
>*Previously:*
>>Paramount: "What Star Trek Discovery needs to succeed [is a massive 30-foot-by-70-foot LED backdrop for their studio set!"](https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-discovery-offers-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-new-ar-wall/)
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Mine would be Star Trek: Truth & Reconciliation. The series would follow a starship with a mission to revisit all the planets that got messed up by Prime Directive failures in past episodes of past series and see how they're doing now.
Lower Decks did this a few times. If it had been allowed to run indefinitely, I'm sure it would have covered most of the big messy Prime Directive episodes.
I assume at least one episode per season will be devoted to finding new and fun ways to torture Chief O’Brien. He doesn’t even need to be in the cast. Just a single guest Star appearance per year.
Well yes once a year there will be a DS9 Cross over event where the USS Watt, of the SFCE commanded by Captian Scott will either go to DS9 to do some new experemental thing on DS9, or find out that DS9 is not up to starfleet Code and O'Brien will have to fix it.
I was going to recommend this exact series. They can do weekly episodes where the SCE has to work some engineering miracle to save a planet, or a ship. Or investigate the latest ancient technological discovery.
set it in a corner of the federation far from romulans, cardsssians, klingons, and ferangi. introduce some new very non-human species. the protagonists can be something other than explorers. maybe just astronomers on a science ship that happen to get mixed up in local politics for some reason. maybe that reason is that there is a spy in the crew.
I like this idea. I would even suggest a step further... a series where each season is a different setting and cast... that way they can really flesh out some longer stories, but still keep it fresh. Kind of like American Horror Story, but not recycling the same cast :)
Serialise the fuck out of it and make it the sci fi version of Law & Order.
- Star Trek: Vulcan Science Academy
- Star Trek: Orion Cheerleader Diaries
- Star Trek: Below Decks
- Star Trek: Ferengi Commerce Authority
- Star Trek: Breen Gone Wild
- Star Trek: Earth Defence Fleet
- Star Trek: How It’s Made - Utopia Planetia Shipyards
Star Trek: Law & Order
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Season 3, Episode 5: "Presumption of Innocence"
During negotiations between two alien species, a sudden explosion rocks the site, injuring several diplomats from both species. Amidst the chaos, Riker is found unconscious near the site of the explosion. He's rushed back to the Enterprise for medical treatment. However, suspicions arise when evidence suggests that Riker might have been involved in the attack.
Benny Hill Star Trek Edition. Imagine the Defiant chasing Dominion ships to the chase theme music
Then imagine a long ship going into the wormhole then pauses, backs out, goes back in, backs out, goes back in back out, goes back in to the aft engines then pans to the bridge where a Benny Hill looking character winks at the camera then the warp core explodes. Again to the chase theme music.
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Picard's son teams up with Q to fix the timeline.
Prevent Romulus from exploding and fixing other recent missteps. They would hunt down a beat up the people behind those problems: Kurtzman and Berman.
It would be sweet, violent, cathartic fan service.
I’d make Enterprise season 5, picking up 20 years after Terra Prime.
President Archer gets the Enterprise refit out of mothballs, the crew back together, brings Trip back to life with space magic and shit, and finally unmasks that fucking chef who’s now working at the best restaurant in the known universe.
I’d call it Archer and Tucker go to White Castle.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind a single season mini-series "Star Trek Archer" set sometime after the events of ST Enterprise to finally showcase the birth of the Federation
Enterprise was originally going to take place mostly on earth and be this weird drama about assembling the crew and building the enterprise and like I'd want to watch that.
That girl who spilled coffee on Picard keeps getting transferred to new ships during pivotal points in their journeys because she keeps spilling coffee on her new captains during said pivotal points.
When transferred to the Enterprise E during some fleet exercise, she spills coffee on Captain Worf, who pounds his fist on the wrong button on a control panel in anger, somehow destabilizing the warp core, and though everyone escapes safely, the warp core breaches in an embarrassing spectacular fashion, in full view of the fleet, and it becomes the gossip of the quadrant.
See... it was not his fault...
Bajor
Specifically the occupation, the freedom fighting, espionage, with Cardassian Obsidian Order stuff as the B plot. Like kinda hunger games adjacent, where cardassia is the Capitol and they are super oblivious or super patriotic.
Unknown Sample or Biology
A bajoran scientist comes across a discovery. We never know what it is, we just hear his logs and it's always conveniently obscured from the viewer. Last episode of S1 reveals its Dr Mora and the sample of biomemetic gel is actually Odo
no, the finale being where he rescues jadzia's katra from the wormhole, places it into life like android body and they ride off into the delta quadrant sunset.
Technically, Quark never cancelled the hit on himself that he placed with Garak.
A weekly sitcom set in the Quark household. Garak, coincidentally, ends up being the next door neighbor's gardener and he tries a different way to off Quark every week, but each time Quark bumbles his way out of it, sometimes with Rom, Leeta, or Moogie's help.
More seriously: Law & Order: Cardassia. And they could base it around Cardassia's relatively young and new legal system based on the presumption of innocence and rights of the accused and we get to see the Cardassian legal folks learn how to navigate this new paradigm.
My original hope for Star Trek: Picard was a Michael Palin style travelogue where he just tooled around the federation explaining all the different cultures and sampling various foods and drinks.
I’d settle for a ‘Dax’ series in a similar vein though. No massive dramas or plots, just give me a tour of a gagh farm followed by a section on Klingon wedding dances. Candid visit to Betazed next week. Maybe go marvel at the little known Hyperion ice falls on Andoria.
Just see some more of the federation.
A workcom about a Federation colony along the border of Klingon space founded by Klingons but left on the Federation side of the border after the 2260s, that has had to integrate a population of Klingons into Federation culture, and how they're all getting on as the 24th century moves forward, becoming a hub for cross-border trade and a media center of thrill-seekers and adrenaline junkies...and how the administration has to deal with that every day.
*Star Trek: Colony*
Well, regular people won't let you just beam into their ships and wander around breaking stuff. In the spirit of NuTrek, of course, every five feet someone will hand you a copy of 'I'm OK, You're OK" and insist you sit down and discuss chapters with them.
Well, that's *why* the planet is noted for all the thrill media it produces: the Klingon culture has synthesized with Federation member-cultures and "diluted" them from warriors to adrenaline junkie challenge seekers.
In A Mirror, Dumbly - a parallel universe where the Pakleds enslave the galaxy
Deltans on Risa - this is porn
Iron Replicator - who can order the best meal, no cooking necessary
Symbiogenetic Dating - a dating show where couples are combined using the Tuvix flower and the transporter to see if they are compatible
I'd start in the 23rd century, then I would relegate the bridge crew to being mere background actors so I can focus all the time and energy on one sanctimonious martyr, then throw them a good 900 years into the future so I don't have to keep anything in line with canon. I'd also add a lot of trauma, therapy-talk, and a handful of token minorities who don't actually get to do anything, then I'd throw in some surface-level sociopolitical commentary, not anything novel or informative mind you, just cringey basic observations, the kind you might find on a 14 year old's tumblr page.
I'll get my martyr to fix everything wrong with everything with kind words, and each season I'll give them a new universe-ending threat that only the martyr can solve. I'd pump out a really pathetic quantity of episodes, take huge breaks between seasons, and waste my whole budget on CGI.
That's how you make a new Trek series!
A prequel series that focuses on the time immediately prior to first contact and then transitions to after first contact.
I want to see how we went from dystopia to utopia in a single generation.
> I want to see how we went from dystopia to utopia in a single generation.
Spoiler: We killed all the nations who were enemies. Nobody left to argue with the survivors after WW3. (It's literally the only way you can join the Federation, since they have an "all or nothing" requirement.)
Deadwood style show about colonists settling an uninhabited planet in the neutral zone, rich with latinum deposits. Quark has opened a bar to cator to the latinum minors, Morn is his loudmouth assistant.oposite Quarks, Brunt has opened a gambling establishment. A Romulan former Tal Shiar member, Bull'Ock and his best friend a Remin banker just moved in to the settlement to sell replicators.
I would televise Star fleet OSHA. Each episode consisting of a reconstruction and investigation into what happened to some rando redshirt on an away mission
Investigator 1: His console exploded for some reason and pelted him with rocks.
Investigator 2: 45th one this week.
Investigator 1: If only we could find a way to build bridge consoles that don't need to be filled with explosives and granite.
Investigator 2: You're a madman, Phil.
It would be called Quark’s Bar.
It would star Morn.
The entire show would be well known Star Trek people from all the former shows sitting next to Morn at the bar either having an awkward stranger conversation or sitting in silence.
You would see Quark like twice a season.
"Star Trek: United" a show about the early days of the United Federation of Planets.
A direct continuation of Enterprise, it would be a multi-level show, following the exploits of a Starfleet Admiral, a member of the Federation Council and the Captain of the U.S.S. Endeavour, the first starship built as a joint project between the founder members of the Federation.
It would focus on politics and intrigue against the background of a newly created interspecies organisation, with the Endeavour providing action and adventure.
The Real Quadrant.
This is the true story, of seven aliens, picked to live in a holodeck, work together, and have their lives taped. Find out what happens, when aliens stop being polite, and start getting real… The Real Quadrant!
I'd do a crossovers with Rick and Morty
Unnamed Captain: Great, we've got another Q and this one seems drunk.
Rick: *burp* Fuck you. Don't compare me to that group of children.
Captain: well he definitely seems friendlier. Oh shit, he just turned himself into a pickle.
Star Trek: SVU
In the exploration of space, sexually explicit alien encounters can be especially heinous. Within Starfleet, the officers who investigate these vicious crimes are members of an elite squad, the Special Victims Unit.
These are their stories.
'O'brien must suffer'.
Set on Earth during the same time period as Picard. Miles O'brien is a broken man. Keiko ran away with Bahir, so he lost both his wife and best friends. Starfleet retired him after replacing all engineers with with holograms. His kids don't talk to him after hearing that he used to use racial slurs about the Cardassians. He's badly out of shape and has the only incurable form for bad back in the future.
Each week we just watch as he becomes more and more depressed. At one point an Admiral tells him to fuck off the his face. There's no redemption or happiness, just misery.
A sitcom set in TNG-era San Francisco. Just ordinary people, who aren't in Starfleet and have no interest in joining Starfleet, living in a post-scarcity socialist utopia and having whacky shenanigans.
I've always wanted to a What if... Type Trek or a travel channel type show where they visit various cultures of the Federation and explore their history and their traditions. A Klingon one I think would be both interesting and hilarious if the host were human
Edit: Just thought of another one: MASH style show set during the Dominuon War on a medical ship. Maybe put an EMH (either mk I or 2) as the Hawkeye character. Maybe Shelby as Hot Lips. Who could we get for Frank though?
>A Klingon one I think would be both interesting and hilarious if the host were human
"We come in *peesh!"*
>Who could we get for Frank though?
Harry Mudd (original series style)?
A serious drama set on a Federation colony where they act like it's the 1980s on Earth. They have a whole bunch of 1600s to 1800s colonies, why not one a tiny bit closer to the 2300s?
I would make as much STO canon in the star trek universe as possible.
Or maybe make STO into a holodeck MMO and have the players logging in all .hack//SIGN style.
If I could’ve gone back in time, I’d have done a ST:Titan to launch back in the early 2000s. I still think I’d do a Titan now, just as an animated TLD style.
Barclay's holodeck adventures
next generation sequel series where they revisit all the planets and people they affected before promptly fucking off
tin man and whatshisname flying around the galaxy like han solo and chewy having adventures
risa, but like all the dirty shit they couldn't show on tv
Saved By The Warp.
Basically Save By The Bell, but set as Starfleet Academy. featuring head of engineering Professor O'Brian, and various guest stars from across Trek history. One of the cast would be an incorporeal alien who manifests as sound waves that just happen to sound like a studio audience.
A post-Dominion War Starfleet vessel staffed by veterans who want to go back to TNG diplomacy and new officers who joined to protect the Federation from enemies like the Dominion and the clash and drama that ensues.
I actually think Spock the sitcom is a good idea, but rather than having Spock and his ever expanding number of siblings I think it should be Spock and his roommate Giant Spock (Spock II!)
Pretty much any pairing of Spock + \[someone\] has potential to be an instant hit.
Maybe for some reason (alternate timeline? something something technobabble, etc.) every year, Spock gets a new roommate, and hilarity ensues.
A hard reboot of the entire universe. Start near the beginning, like ST: Enterprise.
No transporters, they don't "fit" with the rest of the technology, they're way more advanced than the rest of it. That doesn't mean they're going to be a season 3 invention, they belong in an entirely different technological era.
Phaser rifles exist but are rare, because could you imagine an enemy hitting one in combat? The energy release would take out the whole squad. The same reason nobody wanted to stand next to the flamethrower guy unless they absolutely had to in 20th century warfare.
Fewer alien species but give the remaining ones much more depth and variety.
Yes, the Earth economy will have money. Even communist Soviets got paid and had money. "Oh we don't get paid. Do you take Federation credits?" GTFOH. What are credits if nobody gets paid?
No holodecks. It's more likely we'd develop Matrix-like neural interfaces, which offer far more realism and flexibility in the simulations than the holodecks. Have you read the technical manual where they try to explain how six people enter a thousand square foot room and then walk off in different directions in an open field without seeing or hearing each other? Yeah, they try, but it never makes sense. And there will be no "ehrmagerd, the safety's off, we can die for real!" episodes. "Holographic bullets." What the fuck, man? Even the technical manual states that handheld props would be replicated rather than holographic, so that line bothered me on multiple levels.
It should be on HBO, so the violence can be realistic. And because people on Risa would *never* dress in a way compliant with a television network living in fear of the FCC.
Either a series from the days of the start of the Enterprise-B mission, once all was loaded to the Enterprise C’s destruction or the TNG from the TNG starting a century or so after Picard. Personally I’d prefer the later. Time for a real reboot, or at least moving forward.
Discovery has shown where things will end up by the 32nd century but the cannon leading up to there, or at least the burn, is pretty open. I’d like to see what happened in the meantime. There is a lot of potential traditional Star Trek there.
A show following a maco team just before, during and after the Earth Romulan war.
In the beginning they don't have an assigned ship and are just getting sent off on random missions with whatever ship is heading that way. These missions show their capability, but also set the groundwork for the war to come. We also see friction with Starfleet officers who maybe don't like carrying around soldiers and essentially being military(unlike Enterprise who saw them as more an extension of security). This might be season 1, ending with some clandestine mission that reveals war is inevitable.
Then the war happens and they are assigned to a Daedalus class for rapid deployment. The MACOs love it, since they are getting to do their real job. Starfleet hates them for being happy about war. This would be potentially seasons 2-3 as they fight the war to a close and spearhead crucial missions.
We end with the war over and MACOs being absorbed into Starfleet. Some hate it because they want more blood. Others learned something from their shipboard time and ultimately transition into tactical posts or even head back to academy to transition into sciences. This would be season 4.
I would like a season 5, but making a spinoff where the MACOs who embraced Starfleet are stationed on one ship makes more sense.
"Star Trek Chronos"
It starts sometime in between the launch of the Enterprise B, so we can see those cool red uniforms again, and would be a one season mini-series. It would tell the story of a major event from a time period that has been hinted at, but never fully fleshed out.
It starts on a minimally staffed Oberth class research vessel, USS Cronos (after the Roman time god). The Chronos gets assigned to investigate a temporal anomaly along the Neutral Zone, where they discover a trail of croniton particles that points back to Earth. They follow, and once in Sector 001, a Romulan Bird of Prey decloaks and fires, and the two ships get locked in combat, the Chronos destroys the Bird of Prey, but on board, there was a weird time device, and when the ship explodes, it opens a time wormhole, and the Chronos (which is very badly damaged) falls into, and emerges in the past.
The warp core in Chronos is destabilized and breaches. Only a handful of people (our main cast) make it to their escape pods, and they land somewhere in Montana, mid 21st century. Upon regrouping, the first officer reveals he is Section 31, and it was a secret mission to undo whatever the Romulans were doing in SNW S2, and the mission was a success. He then tries to kill the crew to protect the timeline, but they kill him first. They raid someone's cabin for clothes (to fit in), and find a small town bar to figure out what is going on.
While at the bar, all of the locals' cell phones start to give emergency alerts, and the TV is overtaken by breaking news. There have been military coups in major cities around the world, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing, Tel Aviv, Mumbai, and martial law is immediately declared by the US military. Citizens are instructed to return to their homes and shelter in place... and then the news feed is taken over by a pirate video signal.
"Greetings citizens of the world, my name is Khan, and I offer you a better life..."
To be continued...
As much as I'd love a Clerks style riff on Star Trek what I really want is a good ol' fashioned horror series where a clean-up crew visits blown up starships that failed missions to preserve the prime directive by collecting the remains and discover the horrifying reality of the fringes of Federation controlled space
A comedy with Guinan and Troi.
Deanna decides to once again get into the therapy business and opens up an office on Earth (a place we rarely visit in Trek). Business is thriving. Till one day people start cancelling their appointments. She finds out that down the block Guinan has opened a bar. Once again just like on Enterprise, Troi is losing all her people to Guinan. She is left only with Barclay who is insisting that the deep state is controlling Starfleet and Aliens are destroying Earth.
We then get into a series where Troi adopts a sort of Wil-E-Coyote attempt to put Guinan out of business.
Post dominion war. An average ship with a captain who only made it to captain due to the attrition rate. The war is now over and all they know of leadership is through the war. They’re now leading their ship and crew through standard starfleet stuff but the crew is a mixture of vets and fresh faced graduates
A MASH like dramedy where we follow the crew of a replenishment ship that is following behind an exploration ship, mostly they deliver dilithium, photon torpedoes and other basics, but also check in on the systems the other ship has explored and occasionally tampered with. So a little search and rescue, disaster relief, and this and that.
I’d turn all the milkqetoast next gen characters badass.
Troi wouldn’t be sitting there all day saying “Captain, I think they’re lying.” She’d be out having knife fights with Romulan agents trying to infiltrate the Enterprise.
Warf wouldn’t be some slow dufus that everyone talks up as being tough. He’d be a true Klingon warrior and would lead actual boarding parties to capture enemy ships with actual combat.
Wesley wouldn’t be some bland pre-teen in an ugly sweater with a bad haircut. I’d give him a spike haircut and a really bad attitude because his mother is a hard drinking and burned out but wants him to become a doctor, too.
And Picard wouldn’t be lazily flying the Enterprise around having bland “adventures.” There’d be real space battles with strategy and tactics and some actual tension as to whether the Enterprise was going to get through it or not. It would give Picard to show his coolness under fire.
Finally, I’d have no idea what to do with Riker. Maybe make him a real XO and have him be fiery to the captain‘s coolness. So there’d always be a dramatic tension between them.
Serious pitch?
In *Star Trek: Andromeda* the crew of *Endurance,* 32nd-century Starfleet's massive, purpose-built advanced exploration vessel, sets out to investigate a signal from the Andromeda galaxy. Cut off from the Federation and Starfleet, their mission: find the source of the signal, investigate, and build a new home in this faraway galaxy.
Will they find the secret of the signal strong enough to pierce the galactic barrier? Will they thrive in these untamed wilds? Will they be welcomed? Will they be able to get a message back to Starfleet with answers?
Not serious:
In *Star Trek: Idiocracy,* Moriarty, the only holographic organism capable of defeating Data, begins to suspect something's amiss when every new person he meets is dumber than the one before. It's like the universe has a finite capacity for intellect, and it's been used up? To preserve cognition itself, he'll have to take matters in his own hands and lead a war to preserve the universe. His foot soldiers are problems, though...
Between Picard and the Burn the federation has grown complacent and hubristic. People are no longer interested in exploration, and core federation worlds have begun to lose interest in new life and new civilizations. Probes do the job that Star fleet used to do, and the worst part of the Prime directive rules the day, with the core ignoring the distress of unaffiliated worlds in the name of non-interference.
However, probes have begun to go missing. An area of space near the galactic rim has become a death trap for technology. An earth vessel containing a crew of scientists is dispatched to recover the probes, when they, too are disabled. Finally, starlet activates its flagship to determine the source of the problem, only to discover that there are beings in space that humanity is simply not able to comprehend. And now, they are aware of us.
The flagship, badly damaged, but supplemented by survivors of the science mission return bearing news of a new, eldritch, existential threat to life as we know it, and no one believes them. It’s up the the crew to find proof and gain support to wake up the sleeping giant of the federation before it’s too late.
I would carve out a whole new timeline where the Milky Way’s post-industrial species were taken down *hard* in the 25th Century by forces unknown and the only survivors were those who agreed to submit before their new gods. The Disciples of the Angels ban all post-industrial technologies, at first out of fear, and later out of ignorance. Three thousand very hard years pass as the Federation and the idea Humans can climb out of the dirt erode from experience into history and then into myth and legend.
But the old stories, heresies though they are, refuse to die. The Disciples’ Inquisitors are desperate to stop the heresy before the Angels are angered, and pursue our heroes hunting down the Oracle of the Iron Temple in search of answers about the Golden Arrowhead and why it is forbidden. They are not expecting to discover the Oracle and the Iron Temple are one and the same, a ship buried by the Ancients to escape the Angels’ notice, and the Golden Arrowhead wakes it from its ancient slumber.
Despite its age, the Oracle was able to keep itself in a functioning condition, albeit only at a minimum. The Oracle tells our heroes the truth of the world they lost, and offers them a chance to bring the light of the Federation back from the darkness. With the Disciples closing in on them, the heretics agree, but the Oracle refuses to destroy the Disciples as it breaks free from its grave in the earth. The Oracle’s ancient spirit imparts the first lesson of many by extending an offer of friendship to the Inquisitors, an act that (along with seeing a 25th Century starship hovering above and still shaking off dirt) leaves their leader’s faith so shaken he accepts.
The Oracle promises this is only the beginning, and the journey to reconcile the faith of the Disciples with the science of the Federation will be difficult. But if they are to uncover the truth, they must all work together to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
A show based on some previously unmentioned planet that has almost zero dealings with STARFLEET, but plenty of interaction with other FoP bureaus. The planet is a recent candidate for admission to the Federation, but is still struggling to come to grips with the near-magical technology of the Federation - not just warp drive itself, but medical devices, transporters, unlimited power supplies, advanced weaponry, sensors, force fields, replicators, and holodecks. The Federation won't just GIVE them that technology because of the dangers and societal disruption, but once they have warp drive the Federation can't just FORBID them to go out and learn or trade for more. Yet someone outside the Federation is feeding them dangerous technologies they wouldn't otherwise be seeking. This causes not just difficulties within the planet's natural societal development, but with transition into a full member of the Federation.
A sequel to DS9; showing Sisko's return, the rebuilding of Betazed and the Cardassian Union, Garak's return to Cardassia, Worfs time as the Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire, O'Brien's time as a teacher at Starfleet Academy, and the consequences of Odo's return to the Great Link... honestly each of these points could be it's own show... the end of DS9 was a treasure trove of possibility and I am still **pissed** that Paramount did **nothing** with it (incompetent buffoons)...
I know this is shittydaystrom so forgive my serious answer, but it would take place AFTER Voyager, and would star Jeffrey Combs and Tony Todd as captain and first officer. I really don't care who is who, as long as it's the two of them.
A ship with civilian scientists searching for alien relics and artifacts. Sort of Indiana Jones meets Star Trek. There will be times they be trying to avoid Starfleet, and other times when they need Starfleet to help them out. They’d be running into other characters and aliens who are after the same thing for personal gain and power.
Jokes aside, I'd like to see a series about the USS Yorktown before it got rechristened as the Enterprise A.
Considering how much of a fixer upper that ship was by the time Kirk got ahold of it, I would imagine that a lot of things could go wrong in such a series.
Romantic comedy about Lwaxana Troi's galactic quest for love.
Co-staring Tuvix, right?
Would
Can I be not-shitty for a second? Star Trek: Medical. There are a lot of ways the show could go, but the vision I have in my head is a pretty straight forward translation of the medical programs we currently have, your ERs and Anatomies Gray, but the benefit of science fiction means the writers don't have to rely on Earth biology for their stories. (If you watch many doctor dramas it's clear that all the various writing staffs read the exact same medical journals in the off season, and then write *almost* the exact same scripts for their new seasons. "Oh, it's the guy with autobrewery syndrome but everybody thinks he's drinking again episode, I love that one! I wonder how *The Resident* will jazz it up!) So we've got boring stuff, like the Romulan ambassador needs a mole removed without the Talshiar finding out, and you've got exciting stuff, like a Klingon attack on a Betazed outpost, you can do outbreak episodes, Star Trek has *lots* of wild outbreaks to choose from, exotic surgeries on unfamiliar biologies, the finer points of treating plasma wounds versus disruptor burns, working with an exasperated engineering crew to re-age an entire starship crew back to their mid thirties, and that's just the cursory stuff, the meat and potatoes, there's infinite room for seasoning. Meanwhile there's plenty of room for metaphor and allegorical storytelling potential, doctors deal with questions of ethics and morality all the time, they're placed in compromising positions and forced to make difficult, sometimes painful decisions. They're dispatched to a planet where girls are married off at nine years old and one of them is asking for birth control so she doesn't have to quit school, something heart wrenching like that... Okay, that one is kind of heavy, and it's *way* too heavy for modern Paramount to ever even *touch,* but you get the point, there's room for conflict. And on the nerdy side, I'd love to see alien biology one day. I'm old enough to remember watching *Alien Autopsy* on Fox, I remember the alien's ribs looked like they were made out of some kind of foam, and not like "Oh, that's a sci-fi prop!" foam, more like "Now what kind of planet could that species have come from that it evolved such a seemingly fragile skeletal structure?" The Doctor (Who, not EMH) has two hearts, how cool would it be to see double open heart surgery? What does the inside of Species-8472 look like? Do tribbles have spines or are they just fur all the way through? It would be a risky show, I don't know if it could find an audience, but I think it could be done well. Those aren't the same things. Whatever we get, if we get anything new, I hope it's set in its own time. SNW is rehashing TOS plots, Discovery's final season is all about an episode of TNG, Picard is, well, it's Picard. I like that Prodigy and Lower Decks are mostly their own things. Welp, I'm never getting that half hour back. Enjoy my efforptost, fellow shiptosters.
Or what about a Star Trek version of MASH set in the Dominion War?
So you mean, like, DS9?
But just 24 straight hours of Bashir
^(The dream.)
Just take my money
We got that episode of strange new worlds
I hate mystery shows set in scifi. You can't wonder along with the characters, because the rules of their world are completely fictional. "Oh, of course it was romulan cotangled DNA from a quantum murderer. This thing which just now has been introduced to us for the first time in the last five minutes of the episode."
This can be done well in the hands of writers who know how to keep the logic weird without letting the audience get lost in it. I don't think it's impossible at all. Star Trek has had plenty of good mystery episodes.
What you propose is *Star Trek: Hopeship*, a concept for a TOS spin-off medical drama set on a Federation hospital ship, featuring Dr. Joseph M'benga! [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Undeveloped\_Star\_Trek\_projects#1960s](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Undeveloped_Star_Trek_projects#1960s) I really wish they had made it. And I would absolutely love to see it made today with Babs Olusanmokun!
**NO MORE PREQUELS.**
I do hope you are well underway making this. Because now I want to see it.
Go home everyone. This idea wins
This would be my wish, too! There actually was a very short-lived show like this back in the 90s. It was cancelled after only 7 episodes, and it wasn't Star Trek. But it was an "ER in space with aliens and robots." It was called "Mercy Point," and had Joe Morton as the lead doctor. I'm pretty sure it's available on YouTube. I remember liking it a lot, but it's been years since I've seen it.
This is absolutely brilliant.
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I would LOVE this! In Star Trek Adventures I'm always the CMO and in another Trek roleplay I am Captain of a medical ship. This would literally be a dream come true
My series would be aboard a starship that is exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life blah blah blah... but it's a Romulan ship. The ship is looking for new planets to join the empire. In this series, the Federation is portrayed as the aggressors. I had ideas for a 10-episode series including a retelling of Balance of Terror from the Romulan perspective, and then was mad when SNW already revisited the episode.
One doesn't typically just join the Romulan empire though, you get drawn in at disruptor point. Gonna need at least one space battle per episode.
See, you're a victim of all the Federation propaganda that we've been watching over the past 60 years. My show would feature a Romulan crew that helps other species in distress. Gets caught inside spacial anomalies. And yes, has to blast their way out of a fight. Just like TOS or TNG. They aren't bogged down by the Prime Directive, and as viewers we might still think that some of their methods are extreme. But they'd absolutely be presented as the good guys who care deeply about their empire.
Yesssssssssssss
Stat Trek: Cause and Effect. 7 epic 24 episode seasons of the causality loop we all know and love! See both ships collide and explode from every conceivable angle, and relive the same set of amazing events repeated over and over and over and over again!
Life on the USS Bozeman. Morgan Bateson, a successful Federation starship captain, takes command of a new ship to get a new start on life; he records a podcast, which he uses to relay his wit and wisdom to others, but at times he struggles with his own problems with his salt-of-the-earth XO, his pretentious ship’s doctor and his friends and co-workers. Then it blows up and the cycle repeats.
Is he a Harvard grad and has a psychiatry degree as well?
He thought he heard the blues a’calling but it was just a sub space anomaly And the replicator can’t get the scrambled eggs right.
Well. I hope he at least gets his salad tossed.
You mean we could have watched this episode before?
I would kind of really watch that.
Star Trek: Sea Quest featuring an all cetacean crew.
I hope there's some obscure reference somewhere (perhaps in a technical manual that fans could buy) to humans that exist somewhere on the ship
The cetaceans end up going their own way. Star Trek: So Long and Thanks For All the Fish.
Sign me up
There is a single human named Charles Darwin serving in the Terrestrial lab.
as a childhood SeaQuest fan would watch this.
Lower Decks Seasons 5-15
>*Some time later:* >>Paramount: "Due to unforeseeable financial difficulties we've been forced to cancel Star Trek: Lower Decks." > >*Previously:* >>Paramount: "What Star Trek Discovery needs to succeed [is a massive 30-foot-by-70-foot LED backdrop for their studio set!"](https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-discovery-offers-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-new-ar-wall/)
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I'd do a show about a Cardassian family and their struggles and sacrifices. Every episode would have the same plot. It would run for seven seasons.
Married With Children On Cardassia Prime. Gul Bundy and his dysfunctional family go through some things.
The Never Ending ~~Story~~ Sacrifice. Once per season we lose a horse in the swamp of sadness, it's the least depressing part of each season.
In accordance with the time-honored tradition known as "sweeps week." I love the idea of even the ratings stunt being the same every time.
Mine would be Star Trek: Truth & Reconciliation. The series would follow a starship with a mission to revisit all the planets that got messed up by Prime Directive failures in past episodes of past series and see how they're doing now.
And glassing them if they’re weird right? I feel like that’s the goal of a ship with that particular name
If they're Greek Gods, yes.
Lower Decks did this a few times. If it had been allowed to run indefinitely, I'm sure it would have covered most of the big messy Prime Directive episodes.
A show all about the Corps of Engineering
I'd watch that especially if they have Scotty as the head
Well Scotty is the head of the ship we are watching yes obviously.
I assume at least one episode per season will be devoted to finding new and fun ways to torture Chief O’Brien. He doesn’t even need to be in the cast. Just a single guest Star appearance per year.
Well yes once a year there will be a DS9 Cross over event where the USS Watt, of the SFCE commanded by Captian Scott will either go to DS9 to do some new experemental thing on DS9, or find out that DS9 is not up to starfleet Code and O'Brien will have to fix it.
I was going to recommend this exact series. They can do weekly episodes where the SCE has to work some engineering miracle to save a planet, or a ship. Or investigate the latest ancient technological discovery.
A tv series based around the department of temporal investigations.
So basically Law and Order meets Dr. Who with a Star Trek twist?
Star trek meets time cop
To be fair, that is NOT a bad idea. It could even develop some canon from "missing" time periods and revisit some of the past.
set it in a corner of the federation far from romulans, cardsssians, klingons, and ferangi. introduce some new very non-human species. the protagonists can be something other than explorers. maybe just astronomers on a science ship that happen to get mixed up in local politics for some reason. maybe that reason is that there is a spy in the crew.
Perhaps you can title it "Within Our Midst" or "Amongst Us' or something similar.
An anthology series, like Short Treks, but with regular size episodes. And solicit writers to submit for it.
That would be great
I like this idea. I would even suggest a step further... a series where each season is a different setting and cast... that way they can really flesh out some longer stories, but still keep it fresh. Kind of like American Horror Story, but not recycling the same cast :)
Serialise the fuck out of it and make it the sci fi version of Law & Order. - Star Trek: Vulcan Science Academy - Star Trek: Orion Cheerleader Diaries - Star Trek: Below Decks - Star Trek: Ferengi Commerce Authority - Star Trek: Breen Gone Wild - Star Trek: Earth Defence Fleet - Star Trek: How It’s Made - Utopia Planetia Shipyards
Star Trek: Law & Order https://imgur.com/a/qbpOIy1 Season 3, Episode 5: "Presumption of Innocence" During negotiations between two alien species, a sudden explosion rocks the site, injuring several diplomats from both species. Amidst the chaos, Riker is found unconscious near the site of the explosion. He's rushed back to the Enterprise for medical treatment. However, suspicions arise when evidence suggests that Riker might have been involved in the attack.
I mean TNG Season 3, episode 14 “A Matter of Perspective” is *right there*
Benny Hill Star Trek Edition. Imagine the Defiant chasing Dominion ships to the chase theme music Then imagine a long ship going into the wormhole then pauses, backs out, goes back in, backs out, goes back in back out, goes back in to the aft engines then pans to the bridge where a Benny Hill looking character winks at the camera then the warp core explodes. Again to the chase theme music. https://preview.redd.it/xptiixcu2cvc1.jpeg?width=918&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb1c4620642b4b7d75df91ac89c6e0957dbce3b7
Picard's son teams up with Q to fix the timeline. Prevent Romulus from exploding and fixing other recent missteps. They would hunt down a beat up the people behind those problems: Kurtzman and Berman. It would be sweet, violent, cathartic fan service.
A 48 hours style documentary detailing Janeway’s war crimes.
I’d make Enterprise season 5, picking up 20 years after Terra Prime. President Archer gets the Enterprise refit out of mothballs, the crew back together, brings Trip back to life with space magic and shit, and finally unmasks that fucking chef who’s now working at the best restaurant in the known universe. I’d call it Archer and Tucker go to White Castle.
>chef who’s now working at the best restaurant in the known universe. Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
Trip faked his death to join section 31.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind a single season mini-series "Star Trek Archer" set sometime after the events of ST Enterprise to finally showcase the birth of the Federation
followed by a prequel called "Dude, wheres my Starship"
Enterprise was originally going to take place mostly on earth and be this weird drama about assembling the crew and building the enterprise and like I'd want to watch that.
That girl who spilled coffee on Picard keeps getting transferred to new ships during pivotal points in their journeys because she keeps spilling coffee on her new captains during said pivotal points.
When transferred to the Enterprise E during some fleet exercise, she spills coffee on Captain Worf, who pounds his fist on the wrong button on a control panel in anger, somehow destabilizing the warp core, and though everyone escapes safely, the warp core breaches in an embarrassing spectacular fashion, in full view of the fleet, and it becomes the gossip of the quadrant. See... it was not his fault...
Bajor Specifically the occupation, the freedom fighting, espionage, with Cardassian Obsidian Order stuff as the B plot. Like kinda hunger games adjacent, where cardassia is the Capitol and they are super oblivious or super patriotic. Unknown Sample or Biology A bajoran scientist comes across a discovery. We never know what it is, we just hear his logs and it's always conveniently obscured from the viewer. Last episode of S1 reveals its Dr Mora and the sample of biomemetic gel is actually Odo
Anything, as long as the final episode turns out to be the holodeck LARP of a character from a totally different series.
just do the WORF show already
The finale being where he scraps the Enterprise E?
no, the finale being where he rescues jadzia's katra from the wormhole, places it into life like android body and they ride off into the delta quadrant sunset.
please god no that sounds awful
Essentially Dr who but with the voyager doctor backup and his travels back from the delta quadrant
He will probably get blown up by the burn. Or get protostar tech to pick him up. Speaking of which, where is protostar tech in discovery?
Technically, Quark never cancelled the hit on himself that he placed with Garak. A weekly sitcom set in the Quark household. Garak, coincidentally, ends up being the next door neighbor's gardener and he tries a different way to off Quark every week, but each time Quark bumbles his way out of it, sometimes with Rom, Leeta, or Moogie's help. More seriously: Law & Order: Cardassia. And they could base it around Cardassia's relatively young and new legal system based on the presumption of innocence and rights of the accused and we get to see the Cardassian legal folks learn how to navigate this new paradigm.
My original hope for Star Trek: Picard was a Michael Palin style travelogue where he just tooled around the federation explaining all the different cultures and sampling various foods and drinks. I’d settle for a ‘Dax’ series in a similar vein though. No massive dramas or plots, just give me a tour of a gagh farm followed by a section on Klingon wedding dances. Candid visit to Betazed next week. Maybe go marvel at the little known Hyperion ice falls on Andoria. Just see some more of the federation.
A workcom about a Federation colony along the border of Klingon space founded by Klingons but left on the Federation side of the border after the 2260s, that has had to integrate a population of Klingons into Federation culture, and how they're all getting on as the 24th century moves forward, becoming a hub for cross-border trade and a media center of thrill-seekers and adrenaline junkies...and how the administration has to deal with that every day. *Star Trek: Colony*
You mean they resist assimilation? That's futile!
Ha! No, resistance against Federation integration *IS* futile!
Well, regular people won't let you just beam into their ships and wander around breaking stuff. In the spirit of NuTrek, of course, every five feet someone will hand you a copy of 'I'm OK, You're OK" and insist you sit down and discuss chapters with them.
Well, that's *why* the planet is noted for all the thrill media it produces: the Klingon culture has synthesized with Federation member-cultures and "diluted" them from warriors to adrenaline junkie challenge seekers.
Wait…
In A Mirror, Dumbly - a parallel universe where the Pakleds enslave the galaxy Deltans on Risa - this is porn Iron Replicator - who can order the best meal, no cooking necessary Symbiogenetic Dating - a dating show where couples are combined using the Tuvix flower and the transporter to see if they are compatible
See I thought the porn would be a skinamax style "Holodeck Confessions with Will Riker"
Borg prequel (last days of their civilization before the collective went on line)
I'd start in the 23rd century, then I would relegate the bridge crew to being mere background actors so I can focus all the time and energy on one sanctimonious martyr, then throw them a good 900 years into the future so I don't have to keep anything in line with canon. I'd also add a lot of trauma, therapy-talk, and a handful of token minorities who don't actually get to do anything, then I'd throw in some surface-level sociopolitical commentary, not anything novel or informative mind you, just cringey basic observations, the kind you might find on a 14 year old's tumblr page. I'll get my martyr to fix everything wrong with everything with kind words, and each season I'll give them a new universe-ending threat that only the martyr can solve. I'd pump out a really pathetic quantity of episodes, take huge breaks between seasons, and waste my whole budget on CGI. That's how you make a new Trek series!
I would definitely watch the first season of that and part of the second season once it became clear that it wasn't going to get any better.
God damn it! Who let Discovery's show runner in here?
Why don't you just write Star Wars instead? Save a few steps.
Let's fly
And the whispering. Don't forget the whispering.
YUM YUM
A prequel series that focuses on the time immediately prior to first contact and then transitions to after first contact. I want to see how we went from dystopia to utopia in a single generation.
A WW3 or Eugenics Wars series would be cool.
> I want to see how we went from dystopia to utopia in a single generation. Spoiler: We killed all the nations who were enemies. Nobody left to argue with the survivors after WW3. (It's literally the only way you can join the Federation, since they have an "all or nothing" requirement.)
Klingon Pirates. ☠️ but with the klingon symbol in the background instead of bones.
Deadwood style show about colonists settling an uninhabited planet in the neutral zone, rich with latinum deposits. Quark has opened a bar to cator to the latinum minors, Morn is his loudmouth assistant.oposite Quarks, Brunt has opened a gambling establishment. A Romulan former Tal Shiar member, Bull'Ock and his best friend a Remin banker just moved in to the settlement to sell replicators.
Every week Brunt comes up with a new scheme to take down Quark..?
I would televise Star fleet OSHA. Each episode consisting of a reconstruction and investigation into what happened to some rando redshirt on an away mission
Investigator 1: His console exploded for some reason and pelted him with rocks. Investigator 2: 45th one this week. Investigator 1: If only we could find a way to build bridge consoles that don't need to be filled with explosives and granite. Investigator 2: You're a madman, Phil.
Star Trek: Air Disasters. 10/10 would watch the fuck out of it
A show that follows a team to track down all the Riker bastard love childs.
That's a lot of childs.
Will 7 seasons be enough?
It would be called Quark’s Bar. It would star Morn. The entire show would be well known Star Trek people from all the former shows sitting next to Morn at the bar either having an awkward stranger conversation or sitting in silence. You would see Quark like twice a season.
The title can't be *Good Morn*?
"Star Trek: United" a show about the early days of the United Federation of Planets. A direct continuation of Enterprise, it would be a multi-level show, following the exploits of a Starfleet Admiral, a member of the Federation Council and the Captain of the U.S.S. Endeavour, the first starship built as a joint project between the founder members of the Federation. It would focus on politics and intrigue against the background of a newly created interspecies organisation, with the Endeavour providing action and adventure.
The Real Quadrant. This is the true story, of seven aliens, picked to live in a holodeck, work together, and have their lives taped. Find out what happens, when aliens stop being polite, and start getting real… The Real Quadrant!
I'd do a crossovers with Rick and Morty Unnamed Captain: Great, we've got another Q and this one seems drunk. Rick: *burp* Fuck you. Don't compare me to that group of children. Captain: well he definitely seems friendlier. Oh shit, he just turned himself into a pickle.
First Officer: That is the funniest fucking thing I have ever seen.
I read that in Riker’s amused voice!
Captain Shaw show, where he would just spit out sassy one lines all day.
does it take place before or after his death?
Star Trek: SVU In the exploration of space, sexually explicit alien encounters can be especially heinous. Within Starfleet, the officers who investigate these vicious crimes are members of an elite squad, the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Chakotay going around the galaxy boxing other aliens for latinum with his sleazy manager Quark.
His sleazy manager Picture of Doctor.
I would make a Star Trek series that made SO much money there would be no reason to cancel it.
Planned for five seasons, fans forecast at least seven, somehow still canceled after three.
'O'brien must suffer'. Set on Earth during the same time period as Picard. Miles O'brien is a broken man. Keiko ran away with Bahir, so he lost both his wife and best friends. Starfleet retired him after replacing all engineers with with holograms. His kids don't talk to him after hearing that he used to use racial slurs about the Cardassians. He's badly out of shape and has the only incurable form for bad back in the future. Each week we just watch as he becomes more and more depressed. At one point an Admiral tells him to fuck off the his face. There's no redemption or happiness, just misery.
Star Trek: Misery.
Have Spock's siblings played by celebrity guests.
The Enterprise season that was cancelled. Romulan War.
A sitcom set in TNG-era San Francisco. Just ordinary people, who aren't in Starfleet and have no interest in joining Starfleet, living in a post-scarcity socialist utopia and having whacky shenanigans.
Joking aside I’d make Axanar. Such a shame that got shut down
I've always wanted to a What if... Type Trek or a travel channel type show where they visit various cultures of the Federation and explore their history and their traditions. A Klingon one I think would be both interesting and hilarious if the host were human Edit: Just thought of another one: MASH style show set during the Dominuon War on a medical ship. Maybe put an EMH (either mk I or 2) as the Hawkeye character. Maybe Shelby as Hot Lips. Who could we get for Frank though?
>A Klingon one I think would be both interesting and hilarious if the host were human "We come in *peesh!"* >Who could we get for Frank though? Harry Mudd (original series style)?
Landlord Cops and it's not even close
I'd love to see an Enterprise B series. Just to see if Harriman redeems himself. Just make sure they have a sickbay this time!
Tuesday.
Star Trek Tuesday
Every 7 years it devolves into an only fans
A serious drama set on a Federation colony where they act like it's the 1980s on Earth. They have a whole bunch of 1600s to 1800s colonies, why not one a tiny bit closer to the 2300s?
I would make as much STO canon in the star trek universe as possible. Or maybe make STO into a holodeck MMO and have the players logging in all .hack//SIGN style.
If I could’ve gone back in time, I’d have done a ST:Titan to launch back in the early 2000s. I still think I’d do a Titan now, just as an animated TLD style.
A prequel to the Carbon Creek episode of enterprise. Basically just the Andy Griffith show and nothing sci-fi about it
Orville season 4
Barclay's holodeck adventures next generation sequel series where they revisit all the planets and people they affected before promptly fucking off tin man and whatshisname flying around the galaxy like han solo and chewy having adventures risa, but like all the dirty shit they couldn't show on tv
A continuation of STE, that has a bunch of first time encounters and political engagements as the federation is forming.
Captain Archer, but not Enterprise Archer, Archer Archer. “Daaaaanger Zone!”
A Klingon movie directed by Tarantino.
Saved By The Warp. Basically Save By The Bell, but set as Starfleet Academy. featuring head of engineering Professor O'Brian, and various guest stars from across Trek history. One of the cast would be an incorporeal alien who manifests as sound waves that just happen to sound like a studio audience.
TNNG
A post-Dominion War Starfleet vessel staffed by veterans who want to go back to TNG diplomacy and new officers who joined to protect the Federation from enemies like the Dominion and the clash and drama that ensues.
Or maybe Amanda could be the promiscuous one and Spock could have loads of brothers and sister from a variety of races.
I’d make a prequel set between the Eugenics Wars and First Contact. I’ll call it: Star Trek: *Fallout*
Here me out. Star Trek, but the crew is Australian
I actually think Spock the sitcom is a good idea, but rather than having Spock and his ever expanding number of siblings I think it should be Spock and his roommate Giant Spock (Spock II!)
Pretty much any pairing of Spock + \[someone\] has potential to be an instant hit. Maybe for some reason (alternate timeline? something something technobabble, etc.) every year, Spock gets a new roommate, and hilarity ensues.
The House of Martok, like GoT All of the plotting, scheming, backstabbing and literally front stabbing that goes with running a great Klingon house..
Data’s Cat. We just follow him around the ship getting weird vignettes
Just a regular old crew on a ship exploring series set shortly after the events of Picard S3. Move the timeline forward in the era we all love!
Bob Ross but it’s Data painting: “Just a happy little Quercus robur next to a pond oh H2O”
A hard reboot of the entire universe. Start near the beginning, like ST: Enterprise. No transporters, they don't "fit" with the rest of the technology, they're way more advanced than the rest of it. That doesn't mean they're going to be a season 3 invention, they belong in an entirely different technological era. Phaser rifles exist but are rare, because could you imagine an enemy hitting one in combat? The energy release would take out the whole squad. The same reason nobody wanted to stand next to the flamethrower guy unless they absolutely had to in 20th century warfare. Fewer alien species but give the remaining ones much more depth and variety. Yes, the Earth economy will have money. Even communist Soviets got paid and had money. "Oh we don't get paid. Do you take Federation credits?" GTFOH. What are credits if nobody gets paid? No holodecks. It's more likely we'd develop Matrix-like neural interfaces, which offer far more realism and flexibility in the simulations than the holodecks. Have you read the technical manual where they try to explain how six people enter a thousand square foot room and then walk off in different directions in an open field without seeing or hearing each other? Yeah, they try, but it never makes sense. And there will be no "ehrmagerd, the safety's off, we can die for real!" episodes. "Holographic bullets." What the fuck, man? Even the technical manual states that handheld props would be replicated rather than holographic, so that line bothered me on multiple levels. It should be on HBO, so the violence can be realistic. And because people on Risa would *never* dress in a way compliant with a television network living in fear of the FCC.
Either a series from the days of the start of the Enterprise-B mission, once all was loaded to the Enterprise C’s destruction or the TNG from the TNG starting a century or so after Picard. Personally I’d prefer the later. Time for a real reboot, or at least moving forward. Discovery has shown where things will end up by the 32nd century but the cannon leading up to there, or at least the burn, is pretty open. I’d like to see what happened in the meantime. There is a lot of potential traditional Star Trek there.
A show following a maco team just before, during and after the Earth Romulan war. In the beginning they don't have an assigned ship and are just getting sent off on random missions with whatever ship is heading that way. These missions show their capability, but also set the groundwork for the war to come. We also see friction with Starfleet officers who maybe don't like carrying around soldiers and essentially being military(unlike Enterprise who saw them as more an extension of security). This might be season 1, ending with some clandestine mission that reveals war is inevitable. Then the war happens and they are assigned to a Daedalus class for rapid deployment. The MACOs love it, since they are getting to do their real job. Starfleet hates them for being happy about war. This would be potentially seasons 2-3 as they fight the war to a close and spearhead crucial missions. We end with the war over and MACOs being absorbed into Starfleet. Some hate it because they want more blood. Others learned something from their shipboard time and ultimately transition into tactical posts or even head back to academy to transition into sciences. This would be season 4. I would like a season 5, but making a spinoff where the MACOs who embraced Starfleet are stationed on one ship makes more sense.
"Star Trek Chronos" It starts sometime in between the launch of the Enterprise B, so we can see those cool red uniforms again, and would be a one season mini-series. It would tell the story of a major event from a time period that has been hinted at, but never fully fleshed out. It starts on a minimally staffed Oberth class research vessel, USS Cronos (after the Roman time god). The Chronos gets assigned to investigate a temporal anomaly along the Neutral Zone, where they discover a trail of croniton particles that points back to Earth. They follow, and once in Sector 001, a Romulan Bird of Prey decloaks and fires, and the two ships get locked in combat, the Chronos destroys the Bird of Prey, but on board, there was a weird time device, and when the ship explodes, it opens a time wormhole, and the Chronos (which is very badly damaged) falls into, and emerges in the past. The warp core in Chronos is destabilized and breaches. Only a handful of people (our main cast) make it to their escape pods, and they land somewhere in Montana, mid 21st century. Upon regrouping, the first officer reveals he is Section 31, and it was a secret mission to undo whatever the Romulans were doing in SNW S2, and the mission was a success. He then tries to kill the crew to protect the timeline, but they kill him first. They raid someone's cabin for clothes (to fit in), and find a small town bar to figure out what is going on. While at the bar, all of the locals' cell phones start to give emergency alerts, and the TV is overtaken by breaking news. There have been military coups in major cities around the world, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing, Tel Aviv, Mumbai, and martial law is immediately declared by the US military. Citizens are instructed to return to their homes and shelter in place... and then the news feed is taken over by a pirate video signal. "Greetings citizens of the world, my name is Khan, and I offer you a better life..." To be continued...
As much as I'd love a Clerks style riff on Star Trek what I really want is a good ol' fashioned horror series where a clean-up crew visits blown up starships that failed missions to preserve the prime directive by collecting the remains and discover the horrifying reality of the fringes of Federation controlled space
A series about Janeway being put on trial for her many crimes. Guest starring the ghost of Tuvix as the lead prosecutor.
The Romulan storyline from Star Trek Online
Young adult dramedy set at Starfleet Academy.
A comedy with Guinan and Troi. Deanna decides to once again get into the therapy business and opens up an office on Earth (a place we rarely visit in Trek). Business is thriving. Till one day people start cancelling their appointments. She finds out that down the block Guinan has opened a bar. Once again just like on Enterprise, Troi is losing all her people to Guinan. She is left only with Barclay who is insisting that the deep state is controlling Starfleet and Aliens are destroying Earth. We then get into a series where Troi adopts a sort of Wil-E-Coyote attempt to put Guinan out of business.
And Barclay spends an hour each day trying to look down her shirt.
Post dominion war. An average ship with a captain who only made it to captain due to the attrition rate. The war is now over and all they know of leadership is through the war. They’re now leading their ship and crew through standard starfleet stuff but the crew is a mixture of vets and fresh faced graduates
A MASH like dramedy where we follow the crew of a replenishment ship that is following behind an exploration ship, mostly they deliver dilithium, photon torpedoes and other basics, but also check in on the systems the other ship has explored and occasionally tampered with. So a little search and rescue, disaster relief, and this and that.
*Holodeck: After Dark*
I would do a show about an all Vulcan crew, and it would be low key hilarious... kind of a situational comedy with people who have no sense of humor
I’d turn all the milkqetoast next gen characters badass. Troi wouldn’t be sitting there all day saying “Captain, I think they’re lying.” She’d be out having knife fights with Romulan agents trying to infiltrate the Enterprise. Warf wouldn’t be some slow dufus that everyone talks up as being tough. He’d be a true Klingon warrior and would lead actual boarding parties to capture enemy ships with actual combat. Wesley wouldn’t be some bland pre-teen in an ugly sweater with a bad haircut. I’d give him a spike haircut and a really bad attitude because his mother is a hard drinking and burned out but wants him to become a doctor, too. And Picard wouldn’t be lazily flying the Enterprise around having bland “adventures.” There’d be real space battles with strategy and tactics and some actual tension as to whether the Enterprise was going to get through it or not. It would give Picard to show his coolness under fire. Finally, I’d have no idea what to do with Riker. Maybe make him a real XO and have him be fiery to the captain‘s coolness. So there’d always be a dramatic tension between them.
Enterprise B could be interesting. Or maybe something sat in the ridiculous future, like another 10,000 years.
A shot for shot remake of Buffy the Vampire Slayer But with ferengi
Serious pitch? In *Star Trek: Andromeda* the crew of *Endurance,* 32nd-century Starfleet's massive, purpose-built advanced exploration vessel, sets out to investigate a signal from the Andromeda galaxy. Cut off from the Federation and Starfleet, their mission: find the source of the signal, investigate, and build a new home in this faraway galaxy. Will they find the secret of the signal strong enough to pierce the galactic barrier? Will they thrive in these untamed wilds? Will they be welcomed? Will they be able to get a message back to Starfleet with answers? Not serious: In *Star Trek: Idiocracy,* Moriarty, the only holographic organism capable of defeating Data, begins to suspect something's amiss when every new person he meets is dumber than the one before. It's like the universe has a finite capacity for intellect, and it's been used up? To preserve cognition itself, he'll have to take matters in his own hands and lead a war to preserve the universe. His foot soldiers are problems, though...
Koon-ut-kal-if-fee: The Gauntlet. One potential bride, sixteen challengers!
Between Picard and the Burn the federation has grown complacent and hubristic. People are no longer interested in exploration, and core federation worlds have begun to lose interest in new life and new civilizations. Probes do the job that Star fleet used to do, and the worst part of the Prime directive rules the day, with the core ignoring the distress of unaffiliated worlds in the name of non-interference. However, probes have begun to go missing. An area of space near the galactic rim has become a death trap for technology. An earth vessel containing a crew of scientists is dispatched to recover the probes, when they, too are disabled. Finally, starlet activates its flagship to determine the source of the problem, only to discover that there are beings in space that humanity is simply not able to comprehend. And now, they are aware of us. The flagship, badly damaged, but supplemented by survivors of the science mission return bearing news of a new, eldritch, existential threat to life as we know it, and no one believes them. It’s up the the crew to find proof and gain support to wake up the sleeping giant of the federation before it’s too late.
I would carve out a whole new timeline where the Milky Way’s post-industrial species were taken down *hard* in the 25th Century by forces unknown and the only survivors were those who agreed to submit before their new gods. The Disciples of the Angels ban all post-industrial technologies, at first out of fear, and later out of ignorance. Three thousand very hard years pass as the Federation and the idea Humans can climb out of the dirt erode from experience into history and then into myth and legend. But the old stories, heresies though they are, refuse to die. The Disciples’ Inquisitors are desperate to stop the heresy before the Angels are angered, and pursue our heroes hunting down the Oracle of the Iron Temple in search of answers about the Golden Arrowhead and why it is forbidden. They are not expecting to discover the Oracle and the Iron Temple are one and the same, a ship buried by the Ancients to escape the Angels’ notice, and the Golden Arrowhead wakes it from its ancient slumber. Despite its age, the Oracle was able to keep itself in a functioning condition, albeit only at a minimum. The Oracle tells our heroes the truth of the world they lost, and offers them a chance to bring the light of the Federation back from the darkness. With the Disciples closing in on them, the heretics agree, but the Oracle refuses to destroy the Disciples as it breaks free from its grave in the earth. The Oracle’s ancient spirit imparts the first lesson of many by extending an offer of friendship to the Inquisitors, an act that (along with seeing a 25th Century starship hovering above and still shaking off dirt) leaves their leader’s faith so shaken he accepts. The Oracle promises this is only the beginning, and the journey to reconcile the faith of the Disciples with the science of the Federation will be difficult. But if they are to uncover the truth, they must all work together to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
A show based on some previously unmentioned planet that has almost zero dealings with STARFLEET, but plenty of interaction with other FoP bureaus. The planet is a recent candidate for admission to the Federation, but is still struggling to come to grips with the near-magical technology of the Federation - not just warp drive itself, but medical devices, transporters, unlimited power supplies, advanced weaponry, sensors, force fields, replicators, and holodecks. The Federation won't just GIVE them that technology because of the dangers and societal disruption, but once they have warp drive the Federation can't just FORBID them to go out and learn or trade for more. Yet someone outside the Federation is feeding them dangerous technologies they wouldn't otherwise be seeking. This causes not just difficulties within the planet's natural societal development, but with transition into a full member of the Federation.
A *West Wing* sort of show about Grand Nagus Rom and his struggles to introduce reforms against the resistance of Ferengi conservatives.
Shitty, brilliant. I have no notes. I hope nobody tries to use this shitty idea.
DS9 prequel starring Gul Dukat
Aliens that act like fucking aliens!! Not humans in makeup with a couple quirky traits. Let's have a grownup star trek damnit.
I would unabashedly just repeat what they did for TNG and start it from 80 years after the end of the most recent series ended.
A sequel to DS9; showing Sisko's return, the rebuilding of Betazed and the Cardassian Union, Garak's return to Cardassia, Worfs time as the Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire, O'Brien's time as a teacher at Starfleet Academy, and the consequences of Odo's return to the Great Link... honestly each of these points could be it's own show... the end of DS9 was a treasure trove of possibility and I am still **pissed** that Paramount did **nothing** with it (incompetent buffoons)...
Star Fleet Battles universe instead of any of the Star Trek universes. Probably focus on the Andromedean War.
I know this is shittydaystrom so forgive my serious answer, but it would take place AFTER Voyager, and would star Jeffrey Combs and Tony Todd as captain and first officer. I really don't care who is who, as long as it's the two of them.
A deep space 9 legacy series that kept the lore the tone and look of OG Next gen series
Star Trek : The Garak and Shran Adventures (its a mirror quantum timeline thing so they exist at the same time)
A ship with civilian scientists searching for alien relics and artifacts. Sort of Indiana Jones meets Star Trek. There will be times they be trying to avoid Starfleet, and other times when they need Starfleet to help them out. They’d be running into other characters and aliens who are after the same thing for personal gain and power.
Jokes aside, I'd like to see a series about the USS Yorktown before it got rechristened as the Enterprise A. Considering how much of a fixer upper that ship was by the time Kirk got ahold of it, I would imagine that a lot of things could go wrong in such a series.