Star Trek: Federation the series that didn't happen

posted on April 19th, 2011, 7:20 pm

Its set in a much more fragile and smaller Federation in the year 3000 with a new Enterprise and a new Kirk.

The Federation hasn’t had a flagship in over two hundred years. They haven’t done anything either scientifically or in terms of exploration that comes near the deeds done in the long ago Age of Expansion.

There is no sense of true unity in the Federation and unity will be required if these new aliens return in force. The people need a symbol to remind them who they are, what they mean to each other and that there are prices to be paid for living in paradise.

They need, in short, a sense of Enterprise…
- from "Star Trek: Federation" series proposal

More here. Exclusive: The True Story Behind The Bryan Singer ‘Pitch’ of “Star Trek: Federation” | TrekMovie.com

Let STAR TREK breathe. Let it return to the marketplace in the hands of people willing to write the sort of stories that confront and entertain today’s audiences. Let’s grapple again with the issues of the day- issues of diversity, government power, gender frictions, a controversial war on foreign soil, and a host of other things. Embrace modern television storytelling techniques. Most importantly, as with the original STAR TREK and THE NEXT GENERATION audiences must recognize the world they live in today in the far-flung future, then take the show’s concepts and lessons with them back into their everyday lives.

The great strength of STAR TREK is the very Universe in which it’s set. The Characters. The Starships. The Aliens. The stories.

Gene Roddenberry himself provided the perfect example how to create a wildly successfully new STAR TREK series…

Acknowledge what’s come before, but then set your stage far enough in the STAR TREK future when everything old is new again.

Turn the STAR TREK Universe upside down. Shake vigorously.

Utopia as a goal is like the fire in a nuclear engine. Utopia in practice is stagnation; it’s dry rot; eventually it’s death. Which is precisely where we find the United Federation of Planets a few centuries after the last Age of Discovery.

Lieutenant Commander Alexander Kirk is the only survivor of the “Sojourner Incident,” as it’s come to be known in the press. And he has no clear memory of the events themselves. Attempts to “help” him remember cause him to become irrational and violent. All he has is images of carnage and death and a hidden malevolent presence lurking behind it all. When called before his superiors, he paints a picture of the enemy that is scarcely believed and which, if true, might tip the already fracturing Federation Alliance into true collapse.

And many many more details on what the Enterprise, the main characters, the Federation and the main races(all of which drastically changed from when we last saw them in the 24th century) would have been like here. Exclusive Details & Excerpts From “Star Trek: Federation” Series Proposal | TrekMovie.com

posted on April 19th, 2011, 10:05 pm

Seems interesting... but is there a point to all this? other than F.Y.I sorta thing?

I dont think we need a new series, just yet anyway. Enterprise left a bad taste in alot of fans mouths, I think it's best to let that memory fade and then try again fresh to recapture some of the spirit of TNG, DS9 and even Voyager...

posted on April 19th, 2011, 10:09 pm

This would make Enterprise seem well written.

posted on April 20th, 2011, 4:44 pm

I agree quad, wait til the third movie is finished and see where Trek as a whole goes from there then it will be time.

posted on April 23rd, 2011, 4:54 pm

i think New Frontier should be started. i like the idea of a crumbling federation in the year 3000 but with kirk again it's a little ackward.

posted on April 23rd, 2011, 4:59 pm

I'm not that sure about a 'crumbling Federation' premise. A war to protect it is one thing, but the Federation collapsing is further from the optimistic origins than the that...

I can see the aesop now: "Make anything good, and it will inevitably screw-up".

posted on April 26th, 2011, 10:02 pm

Trek needed the reboot, but the problem was the reboot failed to stop making the mistakes that caused the need of the reboot in the first place.

posted on April 30th, 2011, 8:56 am

So, the concept is that... the good guys won? And as a result, the underlying monocultures behind the races we've come to know and love have changed?!

. . .

I support this! Everyone will hate it, but they're stupid anyway ( ). Cultural change is attempted so rarely in fiction that any proposal bold enough to suggest it gets my vote!

posted on April 30th, 2011, 9:20 am

Star Trek hasn't changed at all, it just has a new parallel timeline to play with.

posted on April 30th, 2011, 9:27 am

I'm not sure you have the slightest idea what I actually said 

posted on April 30th, 2011, 10:41 am

I agree quad, wait til the third movie is finished and see where Trek as a whole goes from there then it will be time.

What happened to the 2nd movie

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 12:39 am

Enterprise hinted that the future Federation is bigger and even includes the Klingons. But then Enterprise violated so much continuity that I wouldn't put too much trust in that.

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posted on May 2nd, 2011, 1:17 am

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I like the premise (like redshirt said: cultural change is not done very much), but it would need a bit more fleshing out before it jumped to there. Say, a prologue movie to lead up to it? Maybe made for TV?

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 10:54 pm

What happened to the 2nd movie

In the pre-production stage, the script is pretty much done.

posted on May 8th, 2011, 9:14 am

Personally, I think the prime universe needs a reboot, that said I would NOT want it done unless it were to be at least as detailed as the BSG reboot, if not more so.

Start it in the Ent era or earlier, and progress over a few series towards remans suddenly exist era.