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AndrewLyon

Do we need a new Star Trek series on the air?

I guess with all the Star Trek novels I've been reading recently, an idea crossed my mind.

How much Star Trek has impacted the 20th/21st century?

We have Cell phones.

We have people developing real tricorders, as in it will be ready within 2-5 years.

We have computing technology that even at the start of the 80s would be considered impossible.

In some ways the touch screen we take for granted is from the Next Generation.

ATI is working on making the first holodecks within 20 years.

People have linked here about cloaking devices and wrap drives.

 

I can't help but wonder if Paramount missed Star Trek's calling to us as a culture. It's not about Kirk, Picard, Archer, and so forth. It's about the possibilities of what can and cannot be done with technology. I am wondering now if maybe, we need Star Trek on the air, a new series, a new center seat. Not so much as to inform us of the latest adventures of the good ship/station X, but instead to inspire us to make the impossible possible.

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I totally agree with your reasoning here. Many years back when TNG was coming to an end, I had sent Paramount an idea for a follow-on series. What they produced was Deep Space Nine which definitely lacked the main driving point that I was making.

Basically, it's easy! We all know the STAR TREK Universe and how it all works. We don't have to reinvent that. All we have to do is show the audience (show us!) the rest of the Federation, not just the one ship and crew. And what I mean is that every week we are shown a new crew and new environment. It could even be a new Genre, comedy one week, crime drama the next and then a medical or soap opera following that!... We could even throw in a Spaghetti Western! Woot! Woot!

I know, the Holodeck provided some of that from TNG, but what I am talking about is "CSI:Star Trek" or "Star Trek:JAG"

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They would simply reboot TOS for Television,

if STAR TREK even returns to the small screen,

at all. I do not see a STAR TREK in any other

century, with any other crew. It's going to

be Captain Kirk and Company, from now on.

Now, how the T.V. TOS reboot would play out,

I wouldn't hazzard a guess ...

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Looks like the guys at CBS might've read this, according to Yahoo Robert Orci is trying to sell them on a relaunch of the TOS.

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