STAR TREK: SERIES V
CONFIRMED FACTS
- While talking to Eon Magazine, Braga revealed the
challenges involved in creating yet another Star Trek series
let alone another science fiction program, saying, "Rick
Berman and myself and Paramount Pictures have been
thinking about, talking about for a long, long time, that Star
Trek's at a cross-roads. Deep Space Nine is over.
Voyager is going into its last season [after this current
season, its sixth] for all intents and purposes. What's going
to happen? Is Star Trek going to go away for awhile? Is it
going to continue? It's going to continue is my guess. I think
the next series, if there is one, is a very important step. It's
just that it can't be the same. It has to be a radical departure
and still be Star Trek. I really don't know what's going to
happen with the movie… I don't know where it's all going. I
think in order to stay popular, it's got to stay true to itself,
and embody all of the Star Trek elements, and yet at the
same time it can't be more of the same. It just can't be
another crew, another starship. All of science fiction is
waning now. It's got to reinvent itself. I wish I could say I
have the answer for how to do that. I don't."
- While talking to USA Today, Berman would only reveal that the series
would be "dramatically different from the last two." In addition, Berman
suggested that the series will hit the small screen in fall 2000 or early
2001.
- Brannon Braga confirmed in a recent interview that there has been no
discussions about a "Flight Academy" series. He also stated that it is
very unlikely that there will be any Academy series.
- Rick Berman is currently working with Voyager's executive producer,
Brannon Braga on the new series. So far they are in early development and
are tossing around ideas for now.
- There have been recent rumors flowing around about a 'Top Gun' based
'Trek series I chose not to post those rumors here as they seemed totally
unstrue. Now here's an
article confirming the rumors are false
- Rick Berman recently stated that the new series in the Chicago Tribune
that the series will be no more than 2 years away
- Berman also stated in the Tribune that the new series will have a very
unique dramatic twist to it. He said that it will be very different from
the previous 3 series.
- Paramount is interested in a new series though pre-production will
probably not begin untill early 2000.
- At this point Paramount plans on releasing the new series in the
fall of 2001.
- Rick Berman stated that it will most likely take place in the
early 25th century
- Rick Berman will obviously be leading the series, but the most
likely candidates for creator/co-executive producer title are Brannon
Braga and Ronald D. Moore. Michael Piller's involvment will mostly
be freelance work
PLOT IDEAS
- Thanks to TrekWeb.com for
supplying this info.
Here's the scoop. You know all that stuff about Star Trek Flight Academy. Forget it.
That ain't the plot.
Apparently, the new Trek is going to feature a Star Fleet vessel called the USS
Excellent.
The action is going to be set at the far end of the Federation frontier from where the
Klingons, Romulans etc hang out - nice excuse to trot out some new races & faces.
We're not fountains of Trek lore, so some fans might be able to help us out here, but
apparently in STTNG there were references to some 'good people'-type political
alliance at the nub end of the Federation that takes 6 months in Warp to reach.
The analogy being if the Federation is the USA, then this other lot are the European
Community.
All very settled and civilised, all rather peaceful and boring. No Trek stories to date
have ever focused on this area of space - I guess trade deal arguments over tariffs on
Romulan Ale don't an interesting plot-arc make.
Well, apparently the EC analogue is being threatened by a newly discovered hostile
alien super-power and large swathes of it quickly falls to their guns.
The Federation needs to make a decision. Do they support their previously friendly
neighbour and risk all-out war with the new kids on the block, or do they let their
chums fall and invite a deadly new enemy to camp on their distant borders.
The enemy (we weren't leaked the name) is being described as nomadic space
barbarians - fairly primitive and gothic, possibly even steam-driven ion drives for
in-system travel, but hordes and hordes of the buggers.
Sounds like Orks in space to us.
Because this area of space has been as exciting and as dangerous as Sweden for
over a hundred years, the Federation has hardly any warships in the area - only
trading stations, science ships, research posts and small police action capable
vessels one size bigger than runabouts.
The one exception? The USS Excellent, a new class of mega-ship that has been sent
to take part in an extensive joint Federation/EC knowledge & experience exchange
program.
Yep, they're the only Federation vessel worth a spit on the ground - and likely to
remain that way for 6 months - and the future of the UFP hangs on their actions.
Sounds like a good opener.
Our source was cagey about the casting choices because it's still going on, but there
might be a few interesting species choices on the vessel following Paramount Chief's
concerns that Babylon Five was out-gunning them on the realistic alien aliens front.
Do we detect a whiff of CGI in the air? Just as long as Jar Jar Binks doesn't make a
crossover appearance, we will be more than satisfied.
More of the new Trek series from our Deep Throat source as we wheedle it out of him
(or her).
- Something that's been flowing around for a long time is
the series revolving around Starfleet Academy. If that's so and
it does take place in the early 25th century there is the
possibility that Captain Sisko's/Captain Yate's child could
appear as a main character. The kid would be following in Sisko's
footsteps. And to make things more interesting for the cadet we could have a
Bajoran character who may worship or despise Cadet Sisko. We may also see
the return of an aged Professor O'Brian. Remember all of this is my
speculation and could be the farthest away from the truth
- So far there has been a lot of setup around Section 31. We could
an entire series dedicated to tying up the loose ends in the Star Trek
universe while at the same time making the few members of Section 31 deal
with ethical issues. I myself think it would be pretty lousy to watch
week after week if there was no base and only a few members like DS9
established
- My last idea would have to settle on the USS Relativity. I know, I
know that's a 29th century ship/setting not a 25th century. But look at
the phasers, ship design, consoles and tricorders from 'FUTURE'S END' and
'RELATIVITY'. Those things look like technology from the 25th century.
Maybe for some reason Braxton had to lie about what century he's from.
Anyway, we could follow the adventures of Captain Braxton and Lt. Ducane
before Braxton was sent to prison (or how the timeline was supposed to be
after 'FUTURE'S END'). We could watch them repair the timeline and battle
their advisaries, the Temporal Terrorists. Sure, it sounds corny but
wouldn't it be fun to watch?
- Daniel Keefer:
I believe that the next series should not be set in
any specific place
with the same characters show after show after
show. It should be like a
twilght zone or outer limits with different
characters and settings per
episode set in the startrek universe. For example,one
episode could
feature the crew of a klingon battle cruiser on a
particular mission
their on or a federation scientist thats conducting
illegal experiments
because he feels its for the greater good or maybe
his own good.The
possibilities for stories would be endless,they
could even take an
episode or two and revisit kira and jake or
ambassador worf on
kronos. Personaly I would like to see the first
encounter between the
federation and klingons that turned out to be a
total disaster.
- Philip O'Leary:
I think it should be about 1 or 2 after the Dominion war and the
Federation
Alliances doing some post-war rebuilding. But with the alliance in its
weekend state pirates, mercenaries and raiders have been taking advantage
of the
powers. So Star fleet dispatches the 3rd fleet to police the old
front-lines.
This story has to do with the Federation Alliance air-craft carrier
U.S.S.
Armageddon a heavily armed Akira class starship refitted with the
facilities
to service at least 100 federation fighters. The fighters are the ones
used
in "sacrifice of angles" and other major battles. The show would be
about the
ships pilots and wing commander plus captain and some of the crew. but
unknown
to the federation is that its the Tzenkethi & Son'a who are creating
the
problems in the old war-zone. And because of its proximity to wear the
war
took place they could visit DS9, Chin'Taka, starbase 375, and other
places
wear the war raged on.
- Fabio Alexander Juan Luelmo
Well, as the Series V will be in the 25th century, there's no reason
why not
to use Nog, or Jake, or even the little girl in Voyager, but that's
just
chaacter speculation that might give interesting episodes. I think the
reason this will be a different Trek compared to the other 4 series is
that
The Feds have changed so much in this time. We can assum that thanx to
Voyager, they have slipstream tech (to be only used when warp is
inadequate), borg tech, Krenim tech and god knows what else. This all
means
that The layout of the galaxy will be seen in a new light, as the
Federation
and it's allies can zip from quadrant to quadrant in weeks. Thusly
encountering the Borg, Dominion and god knows what else all the time.
(Just
think how advanced the Borg will be by then!) This could lead to
intergalctic exploration, instead of just interstellar. Which means
they
won't bleed the Trek galaxy dry of ideas, and thanx to CGI, aliens in
other
galaxies will not be humanoid. (As we all know, only this galaxy was
scatered with humanoid DNA) I gather Temporal Investigations are gonna
have
their hands full in this series as we know the Prime Directive Has
become
the Temporal Prime Directive by then.
Do have any plot ideas for the next series? If you do
send them to me and I'll
post them here.