A Star Trek Universe Show
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BridgeConsoleMasher
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A Star Trek Universe Show
Where Earth unites after coming into contact with the Vulcans. You could still get James Cromwell in there.
..What mirror universe?
Re: A Star Trek Universe Show
Star Trek: A New Hope? Star Trek:The Path to the Future?
Well, it would be a tricky show. You'd have to show a divided Earth with different religions and ways of life (except them Middle Est ones that Star Trek nicely kills off).
And to have a show you'd have to have lots of action conflict...but not too much philosophical conflict, as that would hit "too close to home" for most viewers.
And the message of "ok, forget all your dumb stuff, we need to head out into the universe and act like normal people" might not go over well with most viewers.
Well, it would be a tricky show. You'd have to show a divided Earth with different religions and ways of life (except them Middle Est ones that Star Trek nicely kills off).
And to have a show you'd have to have lots of action conflict...but not too much philosophical conflict, as that would hit "too close to home" for most viewers.
And the message of "ok, forget all your dumb stuff, we need to head out into the universe and act like normal people" might not go over well with most viewers.
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Re: A Star Trek Universe Show
*snarks* This show already exists. It's called Earth: Final Conflict *snarks*
"If you get shot up by an A6M Reisen and your plane splits into pieces - does that mean it's divided by Zero?
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Re: A Star Trek Universe Show
I don't see it as an appropriate era to place a Trek show.
What people need to realize is a lot of background material in shows must remain just that. Highlighting too much of previous eras spoils the magic of the world building and makes them mundane. The less said about how so often such shows are poorly handled too, the better.
This is why I feel prequels are inherently flawed. I'd rather argue that a period should be selected, not for its importance to Trek lore, but for it's lack of importance and information, to use that to fill in a period of history rather than go for that sentimental qualify of epic importance of "living history" that seems intrinsic to prequels.
With that said, a possible setting might be fiddling with a Vulcan crew 1000 years ago going around dealing with Klingons and such, though I hesitant to place things in the past given technology creep that producers can't seem to resist.
I still think the only real channel Trek can go in is presenting things from the perspective of another human-dominated nation during a period of Federation decline that allows for the outlook of the other nation to contrast with Federation values and to show the other nationals as more flawed without spoiling the Federation too much (which Picard is doing quite nicely). I don't think it would work being an alien centered how, like from the perspective of a Klingon crew, because the shows values would always be at odds with the Klingons (We'd have fucked up morals coming from the show, such as it being good to kill a dishonorable member of the crew, or the Klingons wouldn't be properly Klingons and just be Westerners in make up).
What people need to realize is a lot of background material in shows must remain just that. Highlighting too much of previous eras spoils the magic of the world building and makes them mundane. The less said about how so often such shows are poorly handled too, the better.
This is why I feel prequels are inherently flawed. I'd rather argue that a period should be selected, not for its importance to Trek lore, but for it's lack of importance and information, to use that to fill in a period of history rather than go for that sentimental qualify of epic importance of "living history" that seems intrinsic to prequels.
With that said, a possible setting might be fiddling with a Vulcan crew 1000 years ago going around dealing with Klingons and such, though I hesitant to place things in the past given technology creep that producers can't seem to resist.
I still think the only real channel Trek can go in is presenting things from the perspective of another human-dominated nation during a period of Federation decline that allows for the outlook of the other nation to contrast with Federation values and to show the other nationals as more flawed without spoiling the Federation too much (which Picard is doing quite nicely). I don't think it would work being an alien centered how, like from the perspective of a Klingon crew, because the shows values would always be at odds with the Klingons (We'd have fucked up morals coming from the show, such as it being good to kill a dishonorable member of the crew, or the Klingons wouldn't be properly Klingons and just be Westerners in make up).
