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Fan wish

Prime Universe Post Nemesis.

Federation Starbase hosting a diplomatic meeting of major players such as Klingons, Cardassians, Vulcan's, Romulans and Ferengi is subject to a strange spacial phenomena transporting it and the surrounding ships into the Andromeda Galaxy.

Lost and with no hope of contacting home the melting pot of species aboard the starbase would have to work together and explore the new sector of space.

It allows of tonnes of interesting social dynamics, It remains familiar but allows for new species and threats. With a compliment of ships from various species docked you could have episodes that revolve entirely around a Ferengi Crew trying to establish trade routes or relationships cutting back to the events on the Starbase only too reduce ferengi fatigue.

The scope of stories is way bigger than a single crew and you could follow specific groups or characters in a way something like GoT does.

 

[BrokenFiction]

720p/2.0 with commercials. Feel the pain! 😡 😡 😡

 

[Mengy]

Do people not like Orci and Kurtzman? I tend to be optimistic about them since Fringe is one of my favorite shows of all time.

Several points about both of them that trouble me:

- they tend to love writing conspiracy stories, and I don't want the new Star Trek to be about some underground Starfleet dark ops stuff
- they tend to write big picture quick action stuff while ignoring or glossing over the details, in the end you get an empty and hollow story

I just don't think either of them should be anywhere near a new Star Trek series. They just aren't the right people to be involved IMHO.

 

[jelly]

Agents of the Federation is my guess.

 

[DiscoJer]

You're thinking of a Season 1 episode, "If Wishes Were Horses". Although it was Rumpelstiltskin, not a leprechaun. (It was going to be a leprechaun, but Colm Meaney justifiably objected to the idea.)

As bad as that is, it was also the plot of an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea which was basically Star Trek under water (and about 4 years before TOS)

 

[axb2013]

How would you feel if this series will be more like Abrams' Trek and not TNG/DS9?

There... are... four... lights!!!

 

[Sotha_Sil]

Please be more like "All Good Things...." and less like "Into Darkness."

Not sure how hopeful I should be.

 

[Almighty]

Interesting news, but I will keep my expectations low.

 

[Jarmel]

It'll be JJ verse but with a separate crew that is doing their own thing.

 

[Epcott]

Ugh... Kurtzman ;(

Well, I hope its good. I also hope its Star Trek generation 3, as in 100 years after TNG but within the new movie altered timeline.

Would be a great new start and give the writers freedom to tread new ground.

But it's Alex Kurtzman, so I just don't know.

 

[Father_Brain]

Both.

Interesting. Some of my friends will be pretty disappointed if it's not in the original continuity, but I can't say I give a fuck as long as it's good (and hopefully more in the spirit of Trek than the films).

 

[Big-E]

It is sad that Bryan Fuller has too much work as he is the only person I would have faith with.

 

[SlickVic]

I only got into Star Trek this year with TNG and I almost regret not getting into it earlier as it's practically the embodiment of what I want out of sci-fi on TV. I will say it has been nice though to watch the full series in HD remaster with excellent quality.

Definitely looking forward to a new Trek show. Guess 2017 gives me time to watch more of the other series as well.

 

[Dan]

Do people not like Orci and Kurtzman? I tend to be optimistic about them since Fringe is one of my favorite shows of all time.

They barely had anything to do with the show after the first 10 episodes or so, with their credits shifting all the way down to consulting producers. Frankly, what they did work on was stuff that the show quickly jettisoned, what with the focus on The Pattern and Olivia's ex-partner/lover who may or may not have been a traitor. The show started coming together as they wrote out these things during that first half of season one, then truly came into its own after they left Pinkner and Wyman to their own devices.

 

[dead souls]

I love Trek, but I can't imagine a new Trek series will be any good.

I hope I'm proven wrong.

 

[MCN]

Fan wish

Prime Universe Post Nemesis.

Federation Starbase hosting a diplomatic meeting of major players such as Klingons, Cardassians, Vulcan's, Romulans and Ferengi is subject to a strange spacial phenomena transporting it and the surrounding ships into the Andromeda Galaxy.

Lost and with no hope of contacting home the melting pot of species aboard the starbase would have to work together and explore the new sector of space.

It allows of tonnes of interesting social dynamics, It remains familiar but allows for new species and threats. With a compliment of ships from various species docked you could have episodes that revolve entirely around a Ferengi Crew trying to establish trade routes or relationships cutting back to the events on the Starbase only too reduce ferengi fatigue.

The scope of stories is way bigger than a single crew and you could follow specific groups or characters in a way something like GoT does.

Voyager 2: Voyage Harder?

 

[Walshicus]

Fan wish

Prime Universe Post Nemesis.

Federation Starbase hosting a diplomatic meeting of major players such as Klingons, Cardassians, Vulcan's, Romulans and Ferengi is subject to a strange spacial phenomena transporting it and the surrounding ships into the Andromeda Galaxy.

Lost and with no hope of contacting home the melting pot of species aboard the starbase would have to work together and explore the new sector of space.

It allows of tonnes of interesting social dynamics, It remains familiar but allows for new species and threats. With a compliment of ships from various species docked you could have episodes that revolve entirely around a Ferengi Crew trying to establish trade routes or relationships cutting back to the events on the Starbase only too reduce ferengi fatigue.

The scope of stories is way bigger than a single crew and you could follow specific groups or characters in a way something like GoT does.

This is basically the plot of the new Mass Effect...

 

[Zabojnik]

Not too optimistic about it, but any Trek is better than no Trek.

Btw, do any of the 'quality' networks have a space sci-fi show in the works?

 

[Chips Fission]

They should just lift premises of the story from Star Trek: Titan and tweak it a bit, that would make good tv. I would be more then happy with that.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Fan wish

Prime Universe Post Nemesis.

Federation Starbase hosting a diplomatic meeting of major players such as Klingons, Cardassians, Vulcan's, Romulans and Ferengi is subject to a strange spacial phenomena transporting it and the surrounding ships into the Andromeda Galaxy.

Lost and with no hope of contacting home the melting pot of species aboard the starbase would have to work together and explore the new sector of space.

It allows of tonnes of interesting social dynamics, It remains familiar but allows for new species and threats. With a compliment of ships from various species docked you could have episodes that revolve entirely around a Ferengi Crew trying to establish trade routes or relationships cutting back to the events on the Starbase only too reduce ferengi fatigue.

The scope of stories is way bigger than a single crew and you could follow specific groups or characters in a way something like GoT does.

Andromeda isn't habitable. There was an episode of TOS about aliens from Andromeda trying to find a new home after Andromeda got too radioactive for life.

 

[Mr. Luchador]

Fan wish

Prime Universe Post Nemesis.

Federation Starbase hosting a diplomatic meeting of major players such as Klingons, Cardassians, Vulcan's, Romulans and Ferengi is subject to a strange spacial phenomena transporting it and the surrounding ships into the Andromeda Galaxy.

Lost and with no hope of contacting home the melting pot of species aboard the starbase would have to work together and explore the new sector of space.

It allows of tonnes of interesting social dynamics, It remains familiar but allows for new species and threats. With a compliment of ships from various species docked you could have episodes that revolve entirely around a Ferengi Crew trying to establish trade routes or relationships cutting back to the events on the Starbase only too reduce ferengi fatigue.

The scope of stories is way bigger than a single crew and you could follow specific groups or characters in a way something like GoT does.

Interesting, but feels pretty similar to DS9 only on a larger scale.

 

[Succinct Verbosity]

My hope with Star Trek is that it tackles relevant subjects in a fantastical setting. I mean we have the current struggle with migration, a debate about how much to interfere is foreign societies like Syria (helloooo prime directive. Sorta) and a resurgent Russia - all of these subjects are perfect for trek to tackle.

 

[Esch]

Kurtzmann/Orci

CBS all access

probably more jjabramsverse



fuck off m8

 

[Dr Prob]

LES MOONVES and a GAF MEMBER meet at the weed spot. It's not raining or anything.

GM: Hey, Mr. Moonves. How you doing?

Moonves: Oh, fantastic. Just fantastic. Have you heard the news?

GM: What news? What's up?

Moonves: Star Trek is back!

GM: What, like a show?

Moonves: Yes!

GM: No way! Dude, I love Star Trek. Well, most of it--actually more like half--doesn't matter. That's great news!

Moonves: We think so. Very exciting.

GM: And on CBS, wow!

Moonves: Yes, CBS All Access.

GM: (confused) What's that?

Moonves: It's our over the top streaming service.

GM: You guys have a streaming service?

Moonves: Oh, yes. It's terrific!

GM: What the hell do you stream?

Moonves: All our programming. You know: CSI, NCIS, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, Undercover Boss, Zoo, all of it.

GM: Wait, I thought part of the deal with Zoo was that you had to destroy those after six months?

Moonves: No, no. We're streaming it!

GM: Huh. No offense, but this thing sounds terrible. That's all there is?

Moonves: Of course not. We also offer classic series like I Love Lucy, Cheers and Frasier. Plus every episode of all the Star Trek television shows!

GM: But aren't all those things already streaming on other services or out there in syndication somewhere?

Moonves: Well, yes.

GM: What about sports? Can we get the NFL games on this thing?

Moonves: Hahaha, no.

GM: No offense, but this seems like a hard sell. For most people it's going to seem like you're charging them a couple bucks...

Moonves: Six dollars.

GM: Six bucks! Ok, for most people it's going to seem like you're charging them those six bucks for just one show, you know what I mean?

Moonves: I don't see it that way, but the Star Trek fanbase is very loyal.

GM: Seems risky to me, Mr. Moonves. Star Trek hasn't really been good in about fifteen years--that's a lot of pressure on its own--but now you're asking it to basically carry a streaming service on top of that, and for hopeful fans to buy into that service when they probably don't want or need to. You could really piss some people off with this scheme, not to mention torpedo your show before it even gets going.

Moonves: There is a sense of threading the needle about the situation, that's kind of why I'm here.

GM: Yeah. Look--for your own good--I can't sell you any more weed. You're streaming Touched by an Angel and shit. Please, just go home to Julie.

 

[Busty]

Kurtzmann/Orci

CBS all access

probably more jjabramsverse



fuck off m8

Where is this 'Abramsverse' talk coming from? With no Paramount and no Bad Robot involved it won't have anything to do with the 'Abrams Trek universe' at all.

If anything, given that it'll be the first Trek series since the original that won't feature Paramount it's possible that it could use the original series as a jumping off point and won't feature anything from the Abrams or TNG universes...., in theory.

 

[BrokenFiction]

Voyager 2: Voyage Harder?

2 Star 2 Trek.

 

[Cornballer]

Joe Adalian takes a look at the economics of the Star Trek / All Access deal on NY Mag:

- Will Star Trek Be CBS’s House of Cards?

For diehard fans, Monday’s announcement that Star Trek will beam back to television in 2017 represents the beginning of the end to a what’s been a decade-long wait: Gene Roddenberry’s iconic franchise is finally set to return to the medium that birthed it. And yet as big as this development is for Trekkies, producer CBS Television Studios also shocked a number of TV-industry insiders with the news of how it plans to distribute the new show. Rather than find a home for it on a linear broadcast or cable network (such as CBS or Syfy), the studio decided the new Trek — after a preview on the CBS network — will live on CBS All Access, the Netflix-like subscription streaming service owned by the Eye. While digital revivals are pretty common these days (think Arrested Development or Fuller House), CBS is dramatically upping the stakes by choosing to resurrect one of the biggest — and potentially most profitable — properties in its library via a nontraditional platform. Here’s what we know so far about why CBS decided to boldly go where no big broadcast company has gone before.

More via the link.

 

[Mokujin]

Shocked!! Really hoping it turns out good, really hungry for some new Trek TV.

 

[Rodney McKay]

I'm excited about a new Star Trek series, but the subscription service means I'll be waiting a while to get impressions about whether or not the shows any good before I subscribe.

If it's good, but it's the only thing on the service I want to watch, I'll probably wait until the season is over and binge watch it over the course of a month and cancel afterwards. But if it's good and there's a decent selection of other stuff on there I might subscribe close to the start.

 

[MrCunningham]

It'll be JJ verse but with a separate crew that is doing their own thing.

I'm actually OK with this if they decided to go with an alternate reality TNG set inside the JJ universe.

 

[BBboy20]

Was this a unexpected announcement?

 

[Skellig Gra]

I'm on red alert after this announcement.

 

[Come to Butt-Head]

Oh damn, how did I miss this news? This is awesome.

 

[DrEvil]

Kurtzman is fine. Orci was the problem of the two. Orci is not involved. Crisis averted.

 

[The Incarnation]

This is going to be like the 1st season of Stargate Universe isn't it?

 

[DrEvil]

This is going to be like the 1st season of Stargate Universe isn't it?

I miss that show. Thanks for reminding me it got cancelled. What's next, you're gonna bring up Caprica, too?

 

[JeffZero]

I've been waiting since May 2005 for this announcement. Fuck, I was 17 then. My 20's almost whizzed by me entirely without news on the TV return of my favorite franchise.

I don't care that it's Kurtzman (I like nuTrek and Fringe a lot anyway). I don't care that it's streaming. Nothing's gonna get me down from this cloud anytime soon.

EDIT: Yesssssss, totally forgot my avatar here was Kira Nerys right now too.

 

[Shauni]

Wait up, CBS has its own Netflix-esque service? I honestly had no idea at all. I was wondering why it was that CBS shows seemed mostly absent from other streaming sites.

 

[JeffZero]

Wait up, CBS has its own Netflix-esque service? I honestly had no idea at all. I was wondering why it was that CBS shows seemed mostly absent from other streaming sites.

Yeah. It launched 11 months ago, IIRC. I'm seeing numbers of around 100k active subscribers rolling around, which isn't too bad except that... well... Netflix has, what, 40 million? Long way to go.

I imagine CBS is spearheading this gig with Trek in much the same way TNG frontlined syndicated dramas and Voyager frontlined UPN's launch. They see the Trek crowd as tech-savvy and a good way to get their service better numbers. I think that'll happen, to be sure, but I think many more of Trek's US diehards will turn instead to pirating.

I also figure this is the first of a few new shows CBS plans to distribute primarily through All Access. Also, the new Trek show will no doubt pop up on bigger services such as Netflix near the beginning of new seasons, guaranteeing its network more cash in the process. There's a legit thirst for this; we'll see if it's enough of a thirst to cover the costs, though.

 

[lastplayed]

My hope with Star Trek is that it tackles relevant subjects in a fantastical setting. I mean we have the current struggle with migration, a debate about how much to interfere is foreign societies like Syria (helloooo prime directive. Sorta) and a resurgent Russia - all of these subjects are perfect for trek to tackle.

Yeah, I mean even DS9's earlier seasons focused on occupations, dying and rising powers, forced population relocation, terrorism, political activism.. surprisingly relevant to this day.

 

[funkystudent]

Yeah, I mean even DS9's earlier seasons focused on occupations, dying and rising powers, forced population relocation, terrorism, political activism.. surprisingly relevant to this day.

A lot of DS9 felt like it fell out of a show made a decade later. Its creepy how many of the themes they went after came to pass or became even more relevant with time.


I mean I'd say the episode where Sisko is sent back in time to the early 21th century to a USA with a wealth gap so wide that the poor and mentally ill are literally walled off is a little on the nose but for something filmed in 1994 its was fun to rewatch a week ago with the way things are going these days.

 

[maharg]

A lot of DS9 felt like it fell out of a show made a decade later. Its creepy how many of the themes they went after came to pass or became even more relevant with time.


I mean I'd say the episode where Sisko is sent back in time to the early 21th century to a USA with a wealth gap so wide that the poor and mentally ill are literally walled off is a little on the nose but for something filmed in 1994 its was fun to rewatch a week ago with the way things are going these days.

These were pretty important themes in the nineties... They are, if anything, some of the most significant issues of the entire 20th century.

 

[JeffZero]

DS9 feels like a show made a decade later (the fifth through seventh seasons, anyway) largely because of its structure. Twin Peaks premiered the same year DS9 did, and Babylon 5, too, but these shows were among the exceptions. Structured stories told long-form across several years with characters who were dynamic and questioned the changing worlds around them.

The themes it tackled remain relevant, which is absolutely worth mentioning, yeah. But they were highly relevant when the show aired, too.

 

[Not]

I was jumping up and down in my chair until the words "Alex" and "Kurtzman" entered my field of vision, at which point my face fell faster than a meteorite for a much more attractive meteorite.

Goddammit.

 

[Monocle]

In my opinion Star Trek has a confusing story. They should have stopped making it after the sixth movie where Dark Fader was bad and then died in the third movie and then got reincarnated as a good child in the fourth movie and then became a bad teenager with messed up eyes who got found by some old lady after a volcano jumping accident and then got put in his original armor and basically ended up back where he started. George Lucas got greedy.

 

[lastplayed]

I mean I'd say the episode where Sisko is sent back in time to the early 21th century to a USA with a wealth gap so wide that the poor and mentally ill are literally walled off is a little on the nose but for something filmed in 1994 its was fun to rewatch a week ago with the way things are going these days.

It is a little scary that something like that seems entirely possible now in Europe or NA with the way things are going. Trek has always maintained the view that it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better, with its eugenic wars and WW3.

 

[Karu]

Saw Shades of Gray yesterday for the first time. The pinnacle of TNG so far. Can't wait for the new show!!!

 

[Father_Brain]

Saw Shades of Gray yesterday for the first time. The pinnacle of TNG so far. Can't wait for the new show!!!

...You're joking, right?

 

[BlackLagoon]

I mean I'd say the episode where Sisko is sent back in time to the early 21th century to a USA with a wealth gap so wide that the poor and mentally ill are literally walled off is a little on the nose but for something filmed in 1994 its was fun to rewatch a week ago with the way things are going these days.

Well, to be fair, the TNG era's way dealing with mental illness - pretending that it doesn't exist and then giving disturbed people high level positions in Star Fleet instead of treatment - doesn't seem all that much better.

 

[JeffZero]

I keep thinking about how Karl Urban, Zachary Quinto and John Cho are right at home on TV and it kind of makes me hope this show is set concurrently with the new films so we can get some sweet, sweet nuTOS appearances from time to time.

But then I think about a.) the potential legal hoopla involving utilizing the Abramsverse with CBS, b.) DC showing off that it's possible to plot a TV-verse and a separate film-verse simultaneously, and c.) all the loud noises fans are making about not wanting an Abramsverse show. And then I realize, it may be a less likely proposition than some assume. Yes, nuTrek is profitable, but I could still see this being either a brand new reality or a return to the Primeverse (albeit a hundred years or so past the 24th century, IMO, so as to avoid getting mired in preexisting ideas).

Ultimately I really don't care, so long as it's a decent show. Whatever the writers decide is best for them is probably fine by me. But in the absence of real information on this project, I can't help but dabble in this discussion.