You have a lot going on in there and it’s a little hard to follow, but at least there’s something going on in there, not just chasing each other around like the recent movies.
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Or, suddenly, this assimilation goes wrong and the poor Borgs end up being like their new vassals, an annoying and neurotic race, that is the new enemy of the galaxy. His only hope is to ask for help from the Federation and prevent everyone from looking like sitcom characters.
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So basically Niles and Ms Babcock from the nanny, but in space, and no nanny.
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I’d love to see them do something in the spirit of Trek and tackle the age of Surak, and Vulcan’s paradigm shift from their “aggressive, colonizing period; savage, even by Earth standards” to peaceful mind melding passion suppressing/eliminating logicians.
You know, the series in which we use the lens of Vulcan history to both explore what would have happened if the 1960’s had gone a bit differently and to explore our own present day communications technologies as both enablers of and antidotes to savage behavior.
- Surak as an MLK/Ghandi type figure, the hardliners (destined to ultimately self exile and become the Romulans) who don’t manage to assassinate him
- the emancipation/revolt of colonies
- the discovery of telepathy (perhaps aided by pharmacological discoveries)
- the genesis of the Kolinahr
Kinda writes itself, and gives people both the dystopia porn that studios insist is all that audiences have an appetite for, and the Utopia porn which is so lamentably missing from recent Treks.
Shit. I’m starting to remember just how much I used to love Trek. 
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The transporter hacking one looks great. The writers should read Arthur Clarke’s Travel by wire to get started.
I’d like to see the Federation meet a paperclip-making AI.
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“It looks like you’re trying to make first contact. Do you want to open a communications channel?”
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That would be great… much more of a deep history take on the Star Trek universe. We know how earth’s history eventually projects into the Star Trek universe, so how do the other constituent parts of the Federation become what they are when we start to see them beginning with Enterprise? Same with the Klingons maybe.
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Interesting… Hadn’t thought about it as such, but if it was a deep history take on multiple points, it would present a very interesting opportunity to counterpoint Vulcan’s ascent with an exploration of the Borg’s descent down the slippery slope from .com era connectivity to fanatical expansionist hive-mind xenophile consumer platform.
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Put them on a Pakled vessel, and you’re got an Adult Swim cartoon that would swiftly become one of my guiltiest pleasures.
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What I would genuinely like is a serial anthology, so each season is a single complete story, but those stories only go maybe 13-20 episodes. Each one explores a different little window into the parts of the ST universe we don’t normally see too much of. And if one season is REALLY good, it can become it’s own spinoff. The big thing is to take an MCU approach, where “Star Trek” (like “superhero”) is a plot device, rather than a style. One season might be a comedy while another is all grimdark, and the next is hopefull to the point of sappyness- Or at least have that “veneer” over the established ST norm.
Here are my tops:
Starfleet Academy. The best and brightest teens in the galaxy in the most competitive, high pressure environment there is- But remember that they are still teenagers. They have personal interactions and romances and family drama that seem like the biggest thing in the world to them.
Hospital Ship Vesuvius. This huge medical / disaster relief vessel carries medical personnel and supplies, as well as enough emergency shelter, power, and communications to outfit a small moon. When Picard and the Enterprise crew save that system from a gravitational rift, they call in the Vesuvius to keep the survivors alive long enough to rebuild. Sometimes the help is welcome. Sometimes not. Sometimes people who asked for help resent the almighty Starfleet taking command of rescue and rebuilding efforts.
Star Trek: Core Of Engineers. Literally building the Federation.
Star Trek: Marines. Yeah, there are still minor wars, skirmishes, and peacekeeping actions. Lets see how it really works on the ground in the ST universe.
Klingon Diplomacy. A Klingon diplomatic vessel, with the best and brightest Qo’noS has to offer, skillfully navigates politics and power, both among the parlimentary Klingon houses, and between other friendly worlds which may or may not share their views of honorable combat.
First Contact Unit. These elite teams of linguists, anthropologists, diplomats, and masters of disguise specialize in infiltrating societies on the verge of warp drive, and determining the best way to make first contact.
Holosuite Fantasies. The latest action-adventure holonovel? Something more specific? Somebody’s selling them. Somebody’s sitting in a writers room looking over historical textbooks, news clippings, old properties, and fan submissions, trying to create the next big hit. They’re also reading scathing reviews by people angry that they recycled the textures from “Everest Climb 1869” to use in “Ski Adventures 14”.
Trading post: Really explore interstellar trade between post-scarcity societies and their less evolved neighbors. The Brullgrutt are an esteem-reputation based economy- They’ll gladly give you that high grade dilithium if you can show that X number of Federation citizens really like their cinema. The Murphurpa are a gift economy without currency, where the pair of slightly ill-fitting boots your distant ancestor once gave to their prime minister’s fourth cousin is a major issue of concern for the current transaction.
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3 of 9’s Company Too
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…who is obsessed with the archaic terran band Joy Division.
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I was thinking more Felix and Oscar.
Can two telepaths share an apartment without driving each other crazy
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It is canonical (DS9, ENT) that before the Klingons achieved interstellar travel–or possibly even space travel–they were conquered by an alien enemy known as the Hur’q. (Which is just the Klingon word for alien enemy.) Obviously they didn’t stay conquered, being Klingons, and presumably acquired a bunch of Hur’q technology in the process of liberating themselves. So in a sense this has already happened.
pushes glasses up nose
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Let’s build new Trek around the best character on the best show. I give you Iggy Pop as Yelgrun, last seen being carted off to Federation POW camp near the end of the Dominion War. But the war is over now, and he’s free to resume his service to the Founders in
Star Trek: Droll Vorta Command
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I’m personally waiting for the Star Trek crime series. Like NCIS in space.
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I’ve always wanted Wil Weaton to reprise Wesley Crusher gone bad, as a captain of a starship. Not quite evil, per se, but just horrifically amoral, ruthless, ambitious, able to switch between his old “around adults” persona when brown-nosing the brass but hilariously nasty at all other times.
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I believe the conclusion of Wesley’s story arc on ST:TNG was that he washed out at the academy and decided to be an interdimensional drifter instead of finishing his degree.
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Except we see him in a dress Federation uniform in Troi and Riker’s wedding.
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