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I want a new star trek show!!!

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    Ryth8

    [41]Mar 4, 2011
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    Voyager is one show I can come back to time-and-again. The closest show to the heart of Star Trek IMO is Eureka, its just fun, you can't take it too seriously but its got the sense of "3 year olds looking under rocks and discovering aspatialdiscontinuity" that some of the best episodes in all the ST series. And then there's Fringe... but that's SciFan more than SciFi.


    What I can't get over is that we see so many banal murder shows popping up, they can recreate death over and over, yet the idea of playing with a whole universe of multiple realities they find limiting? Whatever. Sure, I agree that any new series would have to take a radical approach, for my money a variation on Asimov's Foundation series? That was based on a single species, but I like the more psychological tail twisting that went into that. Or steal Lazarus Long from Heinlein! Ursula Le Guin's Hain universe... Mmm, I do like old SciFi....


    Even something based in the ST universe, but single planet orientated - maybe zip back to one of the border planets the Marquis were based off, or that Delta quadrant planet the '37s were taken to (remember, random Amelia Earhart ref?). I even just finished re-watching the Voyager ep where the "Demon" class planet that copied people. Or the Voth, or Seska's son... That is one of the things I love about Voyager still: the rippling wake of change and effect they left behind them, infinite other threads to pick up on.


    The longer the networks leave it between Star Trek series the less in-built fan base they will have to build on. I think the iron is starting to get mighty cold.

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    ChipsTheButler

    [42]Jun 25, 2011
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    The franchise needs room to breathe. Only when they get a good series idea (the now abandoned animated series based around a war between the Federation and the Romulans sounded really good... especially the idea of the Romulans using that element to make subspace explosions making parts of the Federation impossible to go across at warp, splitting it in half).
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    Dagor_88

    [43]Jun 25, 2011
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    ChipsTheButler wrote:
    The franchise needs room to breathe. Only when they get a good series idea (the now abandoned animated series based around a war between the Federation and the Romulans sounded really good... especially the idea of the Romulans using that element to make subspace explosions making parts of the Federation impossible to go across at warp, splitting it in half).


    Yeah I liked where that idea was going too. But I'm starting to think it would be best to make a hundred year jump and come up with some interesting new technologies. If they could come up with a solid idea for a story-arc, without involving time travel or another giant war it could definitely work. I think they should focus on exploration, with the story arc ending in some mind-blowing discovery...

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