Sube said:
I GOT IT! A Federation crew, possibly the Enterprise-G, maybe the "USS Picard" and Patrick Stewart could reprise his role for a cameo and the dedication ceremony. They are on a science/peace keeping mission, like always, and are thrust forward 100 years into the future. They would be from a time familiar to fans, but not only "Discovering new life and new civilizations" but also "discovering what has happened over the last 100 years".
The Federation is in near ruins, there hasn't been a new Starship built in years, but those around are far more advanced than what we had last seen., but without hope, it doesn't matter. War has broken out among the Alpha and Beta Quadrant fractions, the Ferengi are the power brokers. No longer are they comic mischief, they are the shadowy financiers of the Wars between the "Nation States".
Only the Enterprise-G brings hope from a forgotten era to pull together the resources and rebuild the Federation.
Not only new worlds, but new time, new technologies, new relationships, new enemies.
I had a similar idea years ago, although I jumped further ahead into the future so as not to be so dependent on appearances by previous Trek characters, nor to worry about fitting into any sort of gap in continuity with a sister series. I'd have probaby went with a half-hour animated show, either CGI (a la Clone Wars) or a cel-CGI mix (a la TRON Uprising) that gets back to basics, chronicling the 33rd-century exploits of the mostly-alien-and-one-human crew of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A2, exploring strange new worlds...
...that is, new worlds recreated from the remains of old ones that were assimilated by the Borg decades ago and reborn when the Federation employed a final solution against the Borg homeworld - a recreated Genesis Device - that caused spontaneous regeneration in EVERY world the Borg had ever assimilated, which by that point in time included pretty much all of the Milky Way (Earth, too).
We discover as the series premiere progresses that the end result of this controversy was the final nail in the coffin of the Federation - as many of its member worlds broke ties with it in disgust over the use of the Device, regardless of its vitality in winning the war - and that the new Enterprise is actually a KLINGON ship (cloaking device and all) in a different form of Starfleet, one representing a still-tense alliance between what remains of the Klingons, Cardassians and Ferengi and any other survivors that fell in with any of them, most of which have had to resort to cloning to salvage their respective species (the Romulans and Bajorans are never mentioned and if they're seen, we'd only get one or two of them - one might get the impression that whatever hostilities they had against the Klingons and Cardassians, respectively, got tossed to the wayside once the threat of mutual extinction reared its head - shades of "The Undiscovered Country", I guess*). Thus it is that this new "Starfleet" sends out the Enterprise - named out of respect for the one Federation ship that merited such respect in so many incarnations, so far as this alliance is concerned - to examine what has transpired on these techno-organic worlds since their regeneration, in the hopes of maintaining the peace as well as charting the suitability of these planets to accommodate the rebuilding of the survivors' respective races, as well as deal with any other interested parties that have already staked claims to any of these worlds.
There's just one problem, though...while their numbers have been greatly reduced, the Borg themselves are not entirely extinct. Worse yet, there was a distinct side-effect from that little Genesis Device detonation decades back on the remaining Collective drifting through the cosmos - namely, it caused them to re-generate and mutate into fully bio-mechanical creatures with non-humanoid physiognomies; imagine what Terminators would look like if Skynet had H.R. Giger's design sensibility, THEN imagine what such a machine would look like if it could be infected by The Thing, and you'd probably have a rough idea of where I'm going with this. So basically, the series is "Star Trek" with a touch of "Alien" thrown in.
* Of course, it's also worth mentioning that another reason I'd jump this series so much farther into the future is to create enough of a time-gap unfilled so that by only obliquely referring to the Romulans being near-extinct and not specifically referring to what caused this, this series could potentially fall into either the 'Prime' timeline OR that of the new movies (the latter would of course assume that, as with Nero, there were still Romulan ships out there in the stars when she went with the supernova, but again this wouldn't be detailed as such in the terms of this series). There are at least some questions I would want deliberately left unanswered (like avoiding any specific mention or reference to Vulcan), as much for that reason as for keeping the franchise looking ahead rather than back.
YES! I love it! LOVE IT!
It could be fine, but one had to be careful to not lose the Roddenberry vision, showing the positive aspects, what we could become.
