Star Trek: Kelvin

[One of None]

I am altering my original concept to reflect the last position of the Kelvin. My second viewing of tne movie was not in a big group like the first and I was able to notice things I had not seen the first time.

Edited

My basic premise for the show would be a Gunsmoke to the Stars. The Kelvin would be a Scout/Destroyer Vessel. It's mission would be to patrol the area around the Neutral Zone. After the Romulan War, Starfleet was stetched thin. The area there became lawless. The Orions and Nausicans are out of control. People have lost faith in the Federation and have taken things into thier own hands. Robau and the Kelvin have been assigned to bring order and make contact with these worlds. He would rather be exploring space, but he sees the need for what he is doing.

The Kelvin would be based at Station R-23, a station similar to K-7. Updated to reflect the Nu-trek styling. R-23 would have four arms on it, two with drydocks and the other two with living quarters. Most of the other Romulan Neutral Zone posts would be built on asteroids, making R-23 a major hub for space traffic. Sort of like DS9. R-23 is the closest starbase from the Romulan border to the Klingon Empire. The Orions would strike from the asteroids and then retreat back fustrating and taunting Robau to enter the Neutral Zone. The Klingons would be there disputing borders set forth in the Romulan treaty.

Since it may be before the Kobayashi Maru incident it is possible that it would be seen in this series. The ship was in this area of space when attacked. It would be interesting to see and know this crew also, knowing what would be their ultimate fate.

I would have loved the Tholians, but they are just too far at that speed. And from the movie this is a better location.

 

[Jayson]

I am altering my original concept to reflect the last position of the Kelvin. My second viewing of tne movie was not in a big group like the first and I was able to notice things I had not seen the first time.

Edited

My basic premise for the show would be a Gunsmoke to the Stars. The Kelvin would be a Scout/Destroyer Vessel. It's mission would be to patrol the area around the Neutral Zone. After the Romulan War, Starfleet was stetched thin. The area there became lawless. The Orions and Nausicans are out of control. People have lost faith in the Federation and have taken things into thier own hands. Robau and the Kelvin have been assigned to bring order and make contact with these worlds. He would rather be exploring space, but he sees the need for what he is doing.

The Kelvin would be based at Station R-23, a station similar to K-7. Updated to reflect the Nu-trek styling. R-23 would have four arms on it, two with drydocks and the other two with living quarters. Most of the other Romulan Neutral Zone posts would be built on asteroids, making R-23 a major hub for space traffic. Sort of like DS9. R-23 is the closest starbase from the Romulan border to the Klingon Empire. The Orions would strike from the asteroids and then retreat back fustrating and taunting Robau to enter the Neutral Zone. The Klingons would be there disputing borders set forth in the Romulan treaty.

Since it may be before the Kobayashi Maru incident it is possible that it would be seen in this series. The ship was in this area of space when attacked. It would be interesting to see and know this crew also, knowing what would be their ultimate fate.

I would have loved the Tholians, but they are just too far at that speed. And from the movie this is a better location.

If you want to go with a isloated feel then perhaps you could make this a ship that belongs to Section 31 or Starfleet Intelligence. Have this ship operating basically on it's own in part because it doesn't want mainstream starfleet know what it's doing. You could have civilian spealist onboard and aliens we have never seen before or won't see until the 24th century because everything going on is basically top secret. Perhaps Kirk's dad is sort of a buearcrat/first officer type that is there to sort of bring some form over oversigt and to make sure the ship and crew doesn't stay to far from starfleet principles. A major themse of the show would be whether or not some of the things they do is wrong or right. This might for example explain why they know about Carddisains in the Abramsverse. A Carddisian was onbaord and this was exposed when starfleet rescued it's crew. In the Prime universe though this might be a secret thay stays a secret.

Jason

 

[Kross]

I actually like this idea a lot. The Kelvin was a cool looking ship, even if it did violate Roddenberry's Law about warp nacelles. Plus, its TOS-era (roughly) and it would be nice to have another one of those shows again.

 

[One of None]

With everything that has been thrown out since the original series, I wonder how the warp engine thing still hangs around. As far as anyone knows their may be a pair of warp coils in that single nacelle and it may very well follow Roddenberry's Law. It sure is big enough. On the original dreadnought IIRC the third nacelle was just a power generator. Things are not always what they seem on trek.

 

[Jayson]

With everything that has been thrown out since the original series, I wonder how the warp engine thing still hangs around. As far as anyone knows their may be a pair of warp coils in that single nacelle and it may very well follow Roddenberry's Law. It sure is big enough. On the original dreadnought IIRC the third nacelle was just a power generator. Things are not always what they seem on trek.

My crazy theory is that ship is hurt in manueaverabilty but in a straight line it can go faster than two-nacelle ships of that era.

Jason

 

[Kross]

I thought it was interesting that the ship had a secondary hull. Every single nacelled ship I've seen have lacked one.

 

[bryce]

As far as anyone knows their may be a pair of warp coils in that single nacelle.

Actually, a couple of the official movie-related sites said just that about the Kelvin.

(That it had two rows of warp coils in the nacelle.)

Though - so did that ship with 3 Kelvin-like nacelles have *6* rows of warp coils...???

 

[One of None]

As far as anyone knows their may be a pair of warp coils in that single nacelle.

Actually, a couple of the official movie-related sites said just that about the Kelvin.

(That it had two rows of warp coils in the nacelle.)

Though - so did that ship with 3 Kelvin-like nacelles have *6* rows of warp coils...???

If you look at the 3 nacelle ship you notice that the center one was longer than the outer ones. I would think that the center nacelle was the same type as the Kelvin with 2 coils and the outer smaller ones only had one coil each.

Loooking at that design makes me think of the old Franz Joseph tug from the Technical Manual. I could see that ship with a transport container instead of another nacelle. It could be that the ship may be multi rolled like the Nebula class ship, different center pods for different missions. Nacelle, secondary hull or transport containers for different missions or none of the above.

Of course unless it is in the movies it is all just my crazy speculations.