Hypothetical new Star Trek show

[McAvoy]

OK let's say the decision is made to make a new Star Trek series after SNW either during or after their run.

What do you do? Do you stick with the 23rd century or go to the the 25th century. A continuation of the Gene verse or the Disco verse?

Will the ship be the Enterprise? Or some other name? Episodic or serial or a blend?

Will they explore? Or some kind of season long or series long arc of some kind against some threat or concern?

The big thing here is for what you think would be the best way for this new Trek series to succeed. No, pet ideas that you would personally like. Like a Klingon only series. Or a retro TNG style prequel to TNG for example. Or a retro fourth season of TOS.

We can discuss why in a different discussion.

[Thebestoftherest]

I think we need a star trek the next generation the next generation, see what happens to the enterprise after Picard. Keep returning characters to a minimum, and no family members of know characters, and a whole new crew.

[Winter]

I've got two ideas, a one and done prequel series set during the time between TOS and TNG which includes the Borg but in more of a passive role. The main antagonist in a Vulcan who has found a being a pure logic that has called out for help and manipulates a federation crew into helping him find and help them.

We later learn that a Borg Cube crashed on a dead world and was badly damaged and the climax is a fight between the main character and the Vulcan as the cube is reactivated. The crew doesn't learn what they are up against and the Cube is to badly damaged to do anything but flee as it goes to rejoin the collective.

This would be setup for a later story as there is one unanswered question, what damaged a Borg Cube enough that it required help to just barely get it to limp away to safety.

Another idea I have is a lot more lighthearted. Another miniseries though one that can lead into a proper series is a someone who has the chance to be prompted to captain a star ship but gets stuck with a classic TOS ship as part of a war game to test the classics against the new hot stuff and the classic TOS ship manages to win against all odds.

This is actually based on a personal favorite film of mine called Down Periscope which has a diesel submarine in a war game to see if it could sneak past our defenses. It's a fun film, check it out if you can.

Other then that I don't have much else, Star Trek is a series I love but not one I really have any interest in writing for.

[stryke]

No more prequels, please for the love of the great link, please can we not have any more prequels.

Either set it post it Lower Decks, or post Picard, only those two options are allowable.

[Nealithi]

I get Stryke's desire to end the prequel bits. I mean what is next?
Khan brought the mirror universe borg to Earth in the 1960's?
Why do we have to use things that were a surprise in events that would come later?

And yet, I like the idea of between TOS and TNG. Around the time of Undiscovered Country Romulans have not retreated, some Klingons have not accepted the new peace and entire species have not been met yet.
Take a page from Voyager and Lower Decks. Use an Excelsior class but not the Enterprise. Show us what the other ships and crews do that are not on the Enterprise. As an interim show you have a galley as well as a prototype replicator. Real alcohol because synthahol has not been discovered yet.

And here is the thing. Show the Prime Directive shifting from 'don't play god' to its own nearly religious concept. Back during the Tom Baker run of Doctor Who the Doctor landed on a ship with the descendants of Minos if I recall correctly. It was a world the Gallifreyans early on tried to help. But the help backfired so badly the species wiped itself out. Which was when the Time Lords chose to be watchers. Yes I know Orville did this too. But it is a good point for why you would have the Prime Directive change so radically from Pike and Kirk's time.

I would also put in the series bible that nothing that should come later is to appear. So no Ferengi and no Borg. And for the love of all nacelles no Section 31. It has been over done to death.

[clearspira]

I would not be opposed to Star Trek going down the SG Atlantis/Universe route of switching the action to a whole new galaxy. We kind of know most of what the Milky Way is now. It is getting absurd to have too many more huge empires being discovered at this point. But we know for a fact that the Andromeda Galaxy is inhabited. And then there is wherever Gary Seven came from.

Let's shake things up. Go new.

And personally, establish the DISCO future as a possible timeline rather than THE timeline. Star Trek has done this a dozen times already so I do not see the issue. That way we can have a future where the Federation has ships that travel at the speed of Warp 9.9999999 without the baggage of whatever they were doing. Keep the commbadges though. One of the only things i liked about that show. A combined tricorder, transporter and communicator just makes logical sense as an evolution of the tech.

[hammerofglass]

I say go old-school. Either no season-long plots or only very minor character-arc ones. Full-length 24 episode seasons. Self-contained problem-of-the-week episodes.

[Nobody700]

My plan is a simple one. 50 years after Voyager, thanks to the events of trans warp, the Federation has now expanded farther than they ever had before. Now, a massive 200 ship project to map the Beta Quadrant has begun, and we follow one such ship, one of the smaller vessels lead by the youngest captain in all of Starfleet history. A captain who got the job based on politics of a very changing Federation, and while they want to be a great captain... the crew is made up of those who have some secrets themselves they don't want spread. Like what happened to their previous captain.

[CharlesPhipps]

Live Action Lower Decks

[Nobody700]

Live Action Lower Decks

YEAH, Lower Decks actually was my idea I had many years before the show... down to a science officer who was an Orion woman.

They didn't steal my Cardassian first officer, so I still win there! But they did steal my kinda crazed doctor... course he was a Klingon...