I could see a Fed HQ series working, in that it could have elements of both types of show (space station and starship). Most of the time it’s the setting for the Admiralty (Vance?) making the Big Decisions, dispatching various ships on missions and dealing with the follow through, along with the Federation President doing West Wing style stuff. But approximately once a season, some especially demanding crisis forces us to take Fed HQ to the scene and deal with something directly.
Another Space Station or Starbase Show
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A new space station show would be interesting, but I'm not very interested in a "Starfleet HQ" series to be honest. Maybe a civilian station? That would be a change of pace... I do also like the idea of having a show where you have something akin to the Vanguard novels whereby you have a station with a few resident ships, and you get to check in on different casts of characters from one week to another. It might be a good setting for a Lost Era show, as you could then be dealing with an era where things are a little more routine, and you know your enemies and what not. Something like a Starbase show, where you also have planet side buildings, could also be interesting. Maybe a shipyard, even, would make an interesting setting. You could have the protagonists working to repair Starfleet and alien ships, with new ships visiting the station episodically and bringing with them new and interesting problems to solve.
An Early interview with Alex kurtzman indicates SFA will feature a pretty classic looking Federation starship. The article notes that when kurtzman was interviewed he was reviewing starship designs for the hero ship, noting that some were discarded for being too far from the norm for a federation ship, like too Klingon looking and so forth. I doubt it will be ISS Enterprise though, unless it's renamed and heavily refitted.
I want this! Please tell me the starships all awaken with different personalities.
How about the UFP takes over the Dyson Sphere that the USS Enterprise discovers.
They modify it, learn it's secrets, Terraforms the surface & splits it into many small Eco-Systems where UFP Member Races can Terraform their section & Colonize the Inner & Outter Surfaces.
Then you can explore many other species Biome that gets transplanted onto the inner surface of the Dyson Sphere.
Or you can live in a large Domed City like Mega Structure parked on the outter surface of the Dyson Sphere.
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Star Trek:Sphere has a nice ring to it.
How about:
Star Trek: Dyson Sphere
Even before ds9 I always wanted to spend more time in the spacedock/mushroom style starbases. They look so interesting on the inside (the little we’ve seen). I’d be down! But, like any other show, the quality is what matters. This concept also might not be the best for broad appeal as much as I myself would enjoy it.
I would think that ships at the frontier would be assigned to whatever was the starbase that was closest to the area, and they launch from there for missions into unexplored space and return to that station periodically for resupply, maintenance, crew rotations, etc.
I thought years back that a Deep Space One set after Enterprise and in the early years of the Federation would have worked. Maybe Admiral Archer playing a role similar to Admiral Forrest.
But it can be in another time period. A show that splits time between a station like that and the ships which are homeported there would be good.
I thought years back that a Deep Space One set after Enterprise and in the early years of the Federation would have worked. Maybe Admiral Archer playing a role similar to Admiral Forrest.
But it can be in another time period. A show that splits time between a station like that and the ships which are homeported there would be good.
I've always thought a Federation Council/President centred show could work very well. But then I was a very boring 8 year old that really enjoyed the senate scenes in Phantom Menace.
I think you might've been one of the few children who enjoyed those Senate scenes.
They should try to branch beyond the Federation and try a series based around another Species. A Klingon or Romulan colony would be neat.
Perhaps the first Federation colony in another species' space after the Federation made peace with them?
That would be a mistake and probably spell the end for Star Trek. People generally want to relate in some way with the characters they view. Making a series entirely "alien" to mass audiences would likely spell disaster for the franchise. Star Trek is meant to be about the future of humanity.
I think that is a little bit of an extreme view to hold there.That would be a mistake and probably spell the end for Star Trek. People generally want to relate in some way with the characters they view. Making a series entirely "alien" to mass audiences would likely spell disaster for the franchise. Star Trek is meant to be about the future of humanity.
It may not need to be "entirely" Alien, but perhaps it can still be Humans, under some sort of more unique circumstance than just having it be the Federation.
Even Tolkien acknowledged that stories for humans ultimately have to be about relatable human characters in some way, or acknowledge human characteristics as part of establishing a connection with the audience.That would be a mistake and probably spell the end for Star Trek. People generally want to relate in some way with the characters they view. Making a series entirely "alien" to mass audiences would likely spell disaster for the franchise. Star Trek is meant to be about the future of humanity.
Having a series about Klingons or Romulans would be far too niche to be viable. Sure, it could attract a few Trek fans, I could likely see myself enjoying such a series. But the only audience it could get are pre-existing, you would not draw any new fans to such a show and like it or not, Star Trek needs to draw in new blood into the fandom.
But ignoring that, Klingons and Romulans aren't exactly pleasant people to center a series around. Indeed, this was an issue the IKS Gorkon novel series had to contend with by finding workarounds. That series centered on a Klingon ship exploring space in search for worlds to conquer, which isn't exactly a nice thing for a story's protagonists to do, but it is what Klingons are noted for, so it can't be ignored. Star Wars tie-ins often face a similar issue when they do content centered on Darth Vader.
They kind of already tried that with DS9 and Voyager. DS9 set on an alien space station in a solar system outside the Federation, Voyager on a ship stranded on the opposite end of the galaxy with a Starfleet crew which has to work together with outlaws. Neither show proved to be as popular as TNG at the time they aired, so the studio forced Starfleet and the Federation to take on a much more prominent role in DS9 and forced Voyager to ignore the fact that half its crew were outlaws. Hell, it wasn't until the Picard series that they tried something where Starfleet only had a minimal role, and then by the third season we were back to being set on a Starfleet ship. Starfleet and the Federation are what people expect from Star Trek, the franchise is never going to wander far from them. Ever.
I can see the logic in what you are saying here.
This is where the issues start here, is that the narrative and in universe elements have to suffer because of the studio and audience has a certain viewpoint of what the show should be. Star Trek shouldn't be afraid to be bold, when it is afraid to be bold, we get watered down plots. My issue isn't the Federation, my issue is that the Federation comes off as too human-centric, in a sense?
When TNG rolled out, people didn't like it, but it found its footing and became one of the greatest Trek shows ever made.
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