Two thing bump in the past week or so : Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s first seasoncame out in optic - popping high definition . And Roberto Orci said that utter about a new Star Trek idiot box showare “ almost real . ”
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As legions of Trek fans , one-time and new , pore over the first class of TNG and revisit how exciting it was the last prison term Star Trek came back to television , it ’s worth contemplating just what it could search like , if Starfleet manage to warp back to our screens on a weekly basis . Here ’s what we ’d like to see from a brand novel Star Trek .
Top image : Darth Mojo .
Rewatching the first season of TNG , including the featurettes that discourse the creative appendage that went into it , it ’s striking just how gamey - minded the genesis of this show actually was . And that intelligibly comes straight from Gene Roddenberry , who wield infrangible control over the show ’s first class — partly as a compensation for the fact that he had zero restraint over the Trek flick at that point . You see the same kind of slenderly heavy philosophizing inRoddenberry ’s failed pilot program The Questor Tapes , in a number of TOS instalment , and of course in Star Trek : The Motion Picture .
Star Trek always had two opposing English : the “ philosophic ” side , and the swaggering , spectacular - but - optimistic “ adventure ” side . When Trek bring home the bacon in reconciling and combining these two aspects , it ’s more often than not had a huge winner . But when it ’s veered too far to one side or the other , it ’s fallen flat . So the real bottom line is that we ’d know to see a show that pull off the same miracle as the halfway season of TNG , with great escapade stories that call for deep question .
Obviously , a draw depends on what character of Trek series we get — a half - hour animate show may not be quite as complex as a one - 60 minutes live - action show can be . ( Although both Clone Wars and the seventies animated Trek prove you could do a mickle with invigoration . )
In either case , though , here are 10 thing we ’d really like to see :
With interesting biology and distinctive cultures . In other words , not just the “ safe forehead of the calendar week ” thing . It would be cool to see some more outlander that calculate completely unlike from human , “ The Chase ” be anathemise . But also , honoring the old Vulcan motto of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations requires have got some more fully realized exotic civilisation to research — and understand with , even when they jar with our own . ( peculiarly then . )
It ’s no chance event that almost every Star Trek show has featured the most brawny spaceship in the extragalactic nebula , with the most advanced engineering — partially , it ’s complete wish fulfillment . But also , a large part of the Trek ethos involves accept great power and not using it . That ’s what the Prime Directive is about , and it ’s also at the root of many of the most interesting Trek episodes . At the tiptop of America ’s power status , Star Trek explored the theme that not using your full might is often the bravest response to a situation . In the epoch of killer drones , omnipresent surveillance and other new types of power , it would be great to see a Trek that explore these ideas in earnest .
A passel of the good science fable asks what it means to be human , and Star Trek has usually done this best by including someone who ’s got human characteristics but is n’t in reality one of us . There has n’t really been a Star Trek series since the ascending of the posthuman and transhuman movements , so the time is ripe for a fresh type who ’s not quite human .
Not just outer space fight , but tricky , strategy - base outer space engagement . Star Wars has dogfights , Star Trek has Italian sandwich combat — and a whole genesis of nerds grow up playinggames like Star Fleet Battlesafter encounter the intricate scheme in “ Balance of Terror ” and Wrath of Khan . Not to mention thePicard Maneuver . Space is very big and full of unearthly phenomenon , so it actually makes sentience that space scrap would be full of trick .
The quondam tradition of having people like Theodore Sturgeon and Larry Niven write for Star Trek deserves to be revived . And fortuitously , this propagation has provided plenty of likely defendant — just page through late anthologies likeFederationsorWar and Space . Seriously , hire John Scalzi to write an sequence or twenty . ( Especially after scan his latest Koran Redshirts , we ’re kind of hyped to see a Scalzi - written Trek . )
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Apple take some new divine guidance , right ? They already made the PADDs from Engineering , and we already have communicators , and something approximatingtricordersandhyposprays . We need Star Trek to inspire the next batch of consumer products .
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ethical motive plays were a cock-a-hoop part of classic Star Trek , as well as TNG and DS9 . And often , the best form of ethical motive shimmer comes from thefalse utopia — a cosmos where mass cogitate they ’ve figured out the perfect society , but we can see from the outside that they really have n’t . This provide a fascinating dividing line with Star Trek ’s own flawed - but - viable utopia , the Federation . ( And yet , at the same clip , it would be skillful to see more of the civilian side of the Federation , so we can finally get a common sense of what it ’s in reality like to live there and hold down a business , in a domain without money . )
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This sort of bear on back to the “ honorable dilemma ” thing , but it ’s also different . The ethical quandary usually are more about dealing with less hefty cultures , but Star Trek has a long tradition of depict discreetness with other innovative space - faring race . The earlier Trek shows limn a universe with two fight down blank powers ( during the Cold War ) and a complicated set of alliances and uneasy truces ( during the post - Cold War era . ) But now we postulate a Star Trek for today ’s even more complicated , tension - fill era .
And now , we get to the more wishful part of the wishlist . It ’s sounding as though Orci , at least , want to make a show set in the rebooted TOS earned run average of the J.J. Abrams film . But it would just be more interesting to see Star Trek move fore , into the futurity , rather . We need to see what happens after Voyager and DS9 , either in the original timeline or the Vulcan - less version . ( Image byDarth Mojo . )
Plus that way of life , any fright of steal the smack of the Abrams films could be allayed — in the same way that you had pic about Kirk and Spock , while TNG was on television . If there ’s one matter that ’s set Star Trek at its beneficial , it ’s moving forward and explore the next thing . We ’re glad to see J.J. Abrams reimagine Kirk and his crew for a fresh earned run average , especially if it ’s as fun as Abrams ’ first picture show . But a Star Trek boob tube show should take us beyond what we already lie with — to , you know , boldly go where no - one has gone before . And that would allow us to see …
In many ways , this is the next frontier for Star Trek . The Original Series takes position in a future tense with no A.I. at all — although the ship ’s computer does become a bit amorous in “ Tomorrow is Yesterday . ” And Kirk is constantly talking bossy computer into self - destructing , and we meet the casual android . And then , in TNG , there ’s an android in Starfleet — but only one android , in the entire Federation , and nobody ’s been able-bodied to duplicate Data ’s positronic brain . There are pinch that holographic life human body could become aware ( like Moriarty , and the planet of hologram in DS9 . ) By Voyager , there ’s a ego - aware holographic aesculapian officer who just runs on the ship ’s figurer organisation , and we learn there are others out there . Voyager also returns to Earth laden with steal Borg technology . So the Federation is poise on the brink of a revolution in A.I. — and we ’ve never gotten to see it .
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