- Polaron
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Deep range probes have detected what appears to be a gateway, located in a distant star system, that either leads to another galaxy or to another dimension entirely. As the probe neared the system, interference increased until the probe could no longer maintain communications, and the probe has not been heard from since. This demands investigation: is it a gateway? Where does it go? What lies beyond?
Given the extreme distance and importance of this discovery, the Federation has decided that this task is too vital and possibly too large to entrust to any single starship.
A flotilla of starships, led and supported by its Galaxy-class flagship (which will, with this series premise and modern production technique, finally be allowed to fully flourish in its multi-role capacity), makes its way from the Federation frontier out into the great unexplored mass of the galaxy, to find and investigate a mysterious gateway. Along the way, they will explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
The following summaries should not be considered exhaustive rundowns of what would happen in each year of the show, but rather an attempt to illustrate the tone that the series would take in each year.
Year One:
The flotilla assembles in the outer reaches of the Federation. A few stories with familiar trappings (a Federation colony in trouble, a Romulan ship skulking around, a pompous rear end at a starbase makes trouble) as they make their way outbound. A celebration as the ships officially push out beyond where any Starfleet ship has ever gone before, and an appropriate ceremony for those in the crew who have never before been out to Deep Space. News that one of the other deep range probes has been retasked to also approach the gateway star system ahead of the flotilla. Contact with a spacedwelling form of life.
Year Two:
First Contact with a heretofore unknown civilization. One of the smaller ships suffers frequent malfunctions, slowing down progress and causing substantial frustration among the flotilla, and even leading to a question of whether to send her back to Federation space (they figure it out and get going again, eventually). The second probe that was redirected in the first year suffers the same fate as the first probe, but not before sending back confusing data contradictory to what was previously received from the first probe. A friendly competition between the ships in the flotilla results in both a tragedy and a triumph. A space trading post is discovered: some of the crew experience adventure (and misadventure) here as they enjoy some shore leave; the flotilla commanders argue the perils and promise of bargaining for information with technology; and more information about the gateway system is also found, possibly at the cost of tipping others off that something important is there. The flotilla nears the gateway star system.
Year Three:
As the flotilla approaches the gateway star system, their communications with Starfleet (already at great delay and minimal bandwidth) degrade into uselessness. The wreckage of one of the probes is discovered; engineers determine that it appears to have destroyed itself deliberately. The challenges of acting as mobile starbase to several other starships while maintaining herself stretches (but does not quite break) the limits of the flagship. A small fleet of unknown starships waits in orbit of one of the planets of the gateway star system; at first thought of as sentries, they seem to neither challenge the flotilla nor respond to its hails, despite clearly being powered up and active, and appearing to communicate with each other. The gateway is investigated. The flotilla's mettle is severely tested by what appears to be a very ancient artifact of enormous size and power, and unknown purpose.
In part because this is a bit by the seat of my pants, and also because I'm not a great writer, I don't know (yet) what the mystery or nature of the gateway would ultimately be. I do think there should be quite a bit of Awe involved; a momentous, overwhelming occasion for even the most experienced and competent Starfleet officers.
In my mind the flotilla (or at least, elements of it) would return to Federation space, with at least a handful of episodes showing the voyage back, letting the characters decompress a bit, and having a couple of minor adventures along the way - maybe have them superficially similar to ones experienced near the beginning of the show, so as to illustrate how this experience has changed Our Heroes. I'm not certain if this should be a full Year Four or perhaps just an epilogue.
tl;dr - my dream Star Trek would be one that gets the hell away from so much of the astropolitical cruft that's built up in Trek over the years, strikes out into the unknown, attempts to restore a sense of awe and wonder at the Final Frontier, and cherishes the camaraderie and values held by people who come from a fundamentally more just society than the one we live in today.
and, admittedly, indulges a little in flexing the design capabilities of a starship many of us love but never quite got to see fully spread its wings because of production limitations of the past.
I unironically love this idea a lot. Especially because it would give the opportunity to explore crews on multiple ships.
drat, now I'm sad it'll never happen.
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- Polaron
- Oct 13, 2010
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I want to see a Starfleet Academy show set post-DS9. With modern SFX they could get real weird with the aliens (maybe we'd finally get to see that guy with the transparent skull Jadzia dated!) and the nature of the show would allow cameos from every era of Star Trek. Have a hologram of Michael Burnham show up to provide a primer on the Terran Empire/Mirror Universe! Have a hologram of Archer finally give that Founding of the Federation speech!
Throughout it all, you'd have these characters you're following being shown to internalize and understand why Starfleet and the Federation are important and what being a better version of ourselves really means.
On the other end of the spectrum, a show set during the Earth-Romulan War would have the possibility of being really awesome.
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May 17, 2020 05:56
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- Polaron
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If that doesn't fit with the Star Trek canon
For the record, there's absolutely an episode of TNG that drives a nail into the "transporters kill you" theory. Barclay is shown to be conscious of an entire transport trip and is able to pull something out of the matter stream with him.
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- Polaron
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On that note, though, it's obvious that transporters don't actually work how they're described to work (since that would absolutely kill and replace you), so I think you could get a fun episode or two out of characters realizing that and figuring out what they're really doing.
EDIT: Turns out Event Horizon isn't a WH40k prequel, it's a Star Trek prequel and demonic entities/teleporting through Hell are solved problems for the Federation.
Polaron fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Oct 23, 2020
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Oct 23, 2020 03:50
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- Polaron
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The J was fighting a TRANSDIMENSIONAL INCURSION, Daniels was timecopping some other way
if you go by STO, the Sphere Builders were part of the Temporal Cold War.
Which was accidentally caused by Nog.
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Oct 26, 2020 23:14
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- Polaron
- Oct 13, 2010
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unless they disintegrate a pot that contains mashed potatoes in the first episode, i'm not watching
Plot twist: the murderer disintegrated the mashed potatoes because they had poison in them, but the pot was left behind.
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- Polaron
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The episode starts with a montage of a Klingon going through his early life, schooling, graduation, and entrance into his medical research group, with stardates approximately 30 years before the setting of the show. We establish in this that he, like all Klingons, views his calling in the lens of "warriorhood" providing a nice little flavor of how the culture expresses itself in civilian roles.
The episode proper then begins with the current star date, where the crew is deployed to the retirement ceremony of the now decorated doctor and head researcher. He is now retiring as in the past year he and his team have finished isolating and creating a treatment for a rare Klingon genetic condition which affects a vanishingly small % of klingon, albeit obviously in an empire with hundreds of trillions of people is still hundreds of thousands. The crew are there to be security for an ambassador paying a visit, but have also been told they are to make contact with an unknown mole at the party who will give them the treatment schematics so they can be used in Federation space as well.
Numerous Klingon attend of all strata, including a klingon inspector and the crew balances meeting and better grasping the culture with trying to identify who it is they are supposed to meet. At the end of this portion of the episode they go to leave the party only to realize that the mole is the head researcher themself, who gives them his life's work freely.
The end of the episode is months later where the inspector confronts the scientist, revealing he now knows that the scientist was the mole. The scientist states that he swore a vow to fight that disease, even if carried him beyond the borders of the klingon empire, and that he has no regrets and is ready to die. Instead of being killed the Inspector reveals his own oath was to make the Klingon strong. The scientist will be formally exiled from the Klingon Empire to one of their break-away fiefdoms that is slowly falling back into their orbit. The Klingon Empire will gain favor with this group, the inspector ensures that a traitor is punished, and the scientist gets to spend the rest of his days fighting the enemy he vowed to defeat all those years ago so he can die a warrior.
This is really good
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