The stuff I don't get to immediately and then forget about afterwards...
From: Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <brin-l@mccmedia.com>
To: Killer Bs Discussion <brin-l@mccmedia.com>
Subject: Re: Fare thee well my beautiful Vulcan,was RE: Star Trek signs off
tonight....
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:59:51 -0700
On May 13, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As most of us know, Star Trek Enterprise signs off tonight with two back
to
back episodes. ... I wonder what the next incarnation of Star Trek will
be?
Hard to say. Personally though I'd like to see a jump to the not so
distant future. Similar to the TOS - TNG transition in essence; i.e. far
enough ahead to evoke the sense of progression for this universe, yet
close enough to be easily connected with "present day" Trek a la the
conclusion of Voyager.
I have been hoping for a while that we'd see a darker Federation. A Fed
from the perspective of colony worlds who had not joined it, who didn't
want (necessarily) to join it. Set it in the Kirk era, when tensions were
at their all-time high.
I mean -- OK, so the Federation features high tech, highfalutin
philosophies and of course lean hardbodied crew. Wouldn't it be magnificent
to see the story of a world that didn't want to get barcoded and look
exactly like FedVolken? These people, maybe, have had to eke out a living
for decades on some barely survivable rock at the farthest fringe of
almost-forgotten space. They have traded with the Ferengi, the Klingons and
even the Romulans on more or less even terms, and they've managed over the
years to develop their own culture and sense of independence.
Along comes some guy in a big shiny vessel with a command shirt and a brief
to standardize the planet to Fed guidelines. But they don't *want* those
guidelines. To them the Fed is little different from the Borg. And because
of strategic position or planetary reserves, the Fed wants them badly, but
the Ferengi, Klingons and Romulans would all benefit from seeing this world
retain its non-Federation affiliation.
What happens then?
And suppose these people have access to Fed history (current events?) ...
and often quote one James Tiberius Kirk regarding the values of
independence, internal ethics and so forth?
Use the Trek model to interrogate the values of the Federation, IOW. That
to me would be interesting, particularly if there was no reset button.
Wouldn't it be cool to see a Fed captain saying something like, "Prime
Directive be damned! We MUST have this planet! We WILL have this planet!
Disable their shield and arm the torpedoes!"
Not tea bag of an idea really (current political parallels aside), but it's
my understanding that fans have already been dealt the dark side of things
with DS9, and by and large want a return to the more quixotical side of
things best exemplified by early TNG and of course the irrepressible and
avant-garde TOS.
I'll try to dig up some articles on that if I can.
-Travis
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