Movie intro to a good ship based/exploration show -
Set 100 years in the future (post star trek nemesis) all is quiet in star trek land. Nothing has been heard from the borg and the dominion have allowed some limited exploration of the gamma quadrant. However, this piece is shattered by a distress call from our once enemies - the dominion. They have been invaded/attacked by the borg!
In a space battle of scope never seen before on television (I have detailed ideas of what I would like to see in this)
Now armed to the teeth with anti-borg weaponary (we sent ships to the delta quadrant with sophisticated future tech to spy on the borg in order to defend against any future attack - all intel sent back to alpha quadrant).
The federation (and possibly other races in alpha quadrant) decide to go to the aid of their once enemy the dominion and fight the borg.
Whilst this is going on - We could introduce a load of new characters. develop their personalities and see how they approached the ensuing battle.
There would be no dialog for the borg - they are just going to be a faceless enemy.
Also - New federation ships have transwarp abilities but this requires them to know the coordinates of hubs or something (haven't thought about the details behind this bit)
The film ends with the borg being destroyed (or at least severely crippled)
However - The ship we introduced with loads of new characters is severely damaged, its crew are exposed to a very strange form of radiation (like the episode of TNG when some alien wipes all the memories and computers from the enterprise and tells them to go kill his enemy). The last act to escape the battle is to go to transwarp (involves locating some code or something)
ANYWAY - The ships occupants awake to surroundings that they are unfamiliar with and also don't know who they are. They know how to operate the ship (and also know about transwarp but don't know how to access it).
They are in some far flung part of the milky way (well away from borg/dominion/alpha quadrant (other side of beta quadrant say) and have no way of getting home (not that they know what or where home is?
The series -
Would detail their adventures in this part of the galaxy - would be strongly character driven (i.e. how to trained star fleet officers organise themselves in this situation?)
Characters -
Obviously since this was a joint operation we could have changelings on the bridge helping out and borg prisoners in the med bay or even invading the ship. Maybe a cardasian/romulan who has joined starfleet in the 100 years since we last had star trek?
The point is - They would all loose their memories! So everyone is going to assume that everyone is a good guy (maybe) or perhaps mistrust each other and the first series is about establishing an internal hierachy on the ship (this is assuming that the characters decide that they want a hierachy!!) Who will become the leader? The cleaner, the cook, the chef, the doctor.... Obviously some roles will be determined by knowledge and skills (i.e. the doctor will realise that they are a doctor very early on).
Perhaps there is a vulcan and a romulan on the ship and the crew come to a planet with a "lost tribe" of vulcan/romulan ancestors (the lost tribe also not knowing where they are from)
There are many possibilities for this show... Don't quite know how you could give it a satisfactory conclusion though.. .would you want to?
Set 100 years in the future (post star trek nemesis) all is quiet in star trek land. Nothing has been heard from the borg and the dominion have allowed some limited exploration of the gamma quadrant. However, this piece is shattered by a distress call from our once enemies - the dominion. They have been invaded/attacked by the borg!
In a space battle of scope never seen before on television (I have detailed ideas of what I would like to see in this)
Now armed to the teeth with anti-borg weaponary (we sent ships to the delta quadrant with sophisticated future tech to spy on the borg in order to defend against any future attack - all intel sent back to alpha quadrant).
The federation (and possibly other races in alpha quadrant) decide to go to the aid of their once enemy the dominion and fight the borg.
Whilst this is going on - We could introduce a load of new characters. develop their personalities and see how they approached the ensuing battle.
There would be no dialog for the borg - they are just going to be a faceless enemy.
Also - New federation ships have transwarp abilities but this requires them to know the coordinates of hubs or something (haven't thought about the details behind this bit)
The film ends with the borg being destroyed (or at least severely crippled)
However - The ship we introduced with loads of new characters is severely damaged, its crew are exposed to a very strange form of radiation (like the episode of TNG when some alien wipes all the memories and computers from the enterprise and tells them to go kill his enemy). The last act to escape the battle is to go to transwarp (involves locating some code or something)
ANYWAY - The ships occupants awake to surroundings that they are unfamiliar with and also don't know who they are. They know how to operate the ship (and also know about transwarp but don't know how to access it).
They are in some far flung part of the milky way (well away from borg/dominion/alpha quadrant (other side of beta quadrant say) and have no way of getting home (not that they know what or where home is?
The series -
Would detail their adventures in this part of the galaxy - would be strongly character driven (i.e. how to trained star fleet officers organise themselves in this situation?)
Characters -
Obviously since this was a joint operation we could have changelings on the bridge helping out and borg prisoners in the med bay or even invading the ship. Maybe a cardasian/romulan who has joined starfleet in the 100 years since we last had star trek?
The point is - They would all loose their memories! So everyone is going to assume that everyone is a good guy (maybe) or perhaps mistrust each other and the first series is about establishing an internal hierachy on the ship (this is assuming that the characters decide that they want a hierachy!!) Who will become the leader? The cleaner, the cook, the chef, the doctor.... Obviously some roles will be determined by knowledge and skills (i.e. the doctor will realise that they are a doctor very early on).
Perhaps there is a vulcan and a romulan on the ship and the crew come to a planet with a "lost tribe" of vulcan/romulan ancestors (the lost tribe also not knowing where they are from)
There are many possibilities for this show... Don't quite know how you could give it a satisfactory conclusion though.. .would you want to?
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