XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: rgorman@telusplanet.net   
      
   On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:59:27 GMT, "Bo Raxo"   
    wrote:   
      
      
   >   
   >   
   >Here's a radical idea: how about a Star Trek series set in...the future!   
   >   
   >No, not the "looks like an airport lounge" vision of the future from TNG in   
   >the 80s.  Not some retro look from Enterprise.  Not some bank branch looking   
   >thing from DS9.   
   >   
   >But something that, based on what we know today, actually seems really,   
   >really futuristic.   
   >   
   >You know, something that doesn't have sparks fly from the control panels   
   >every time the ship gets shot, because we know that even today you don't   
   >have high voltage flowing through the control consoles - they're freakin'   
   >controls.   
   >   
   >Something where the ships don't all look like the cutting edge of design -   
   >circa 1966.  Something where the space battles aren't utterly ridiculous in   
   >their proximity,   
      
   Space battles are close proximity so both ships can be on screen.   
      
   and where the captain's tactics consist of something more   
   >varied than "emergency power to the port shields! No, wait, the starboard   
   >shields! Wait, the aft shields!  Damn, I wish that Romulan would stop moving   
   >around so much very unsporting of him!"   
   >   
   >Why does Trek have to be mired in basically the look and tech of what it has   
   >already done?  And jeez, going *back* in time to before the time periods of   
   >series we've already seen - yeah, there's a way to guarantee that nobody who   
   >isn't already a Trek fan will want to check it out.  Y-a-w-n.   
   >   
   >   
   >How about something really futuristic?  That boldly and imaginatively takes   
   >what we know currently about such subjects as genetics, nanotech, computing   
   >and a hundred other technologies, and extrapolates to come up with something   
   >that makes us sit up and go, wow!   
      
   In short, Andromeda.  Well, Wolf's Andromeda.   
      
   >Instead of trying to ape the past (or, even worse, set an entire series in   
   >it), how about getting unburied from the backstory and getting back to what   
   >made people watch the original in the first place?  How about taking some of   
   >the ethical dilemmas technology is already posing today - from cloning to   
   >the digital divide - and place them in a futuristic setting, to examine the   
   >human condition?   
      
   Century City.   
      
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