I'm glad that I'm not alone with this motion. Though I was unknowingly working on ST: Titan for the LCARS artwork, which my friend Scott Nakada brought me in and the producer of ST: oGaM Peter Christian proposed to CBS (which was ditched, if you remember), I think, there's a need to take a new point of view of Trek. What made Trek great was not the aliens or space or big space battles, but what Gene always said, the human nature, the position we inherit in this universe and what it means to be human.
Important thing is, not to repeat itself. Trek was always original, fresh and very avant-garde - reflecting current and upcoming world events. We had the formularic stand-alone episodes (except DSN), alien/android, who seek humanity lacking emotions/supressing it to reflect ourself, we had a captain/command, who's a womanizer, a genius engineer, etc. … toss it out. Been there, done that.
Prequel… which only started being Trek after Manny Coto was too late on board on season 4. Studio Execs, who meddled with the ship's design, the name, producer's decisions (who are also to blame, but had to take hard flaks). Look, what damage it had done to the once great name Star Trek. NO MORE, either, they trust the vision of the Trek-fan producer or no Trek at all.
JJ Trek, yep… not your father's Star Trek. But it's not mine either. I felt entertained, I must admit, but it's so superficial, shallow, hollow. Where's the moralic question raised in the movie? Where's the theme? OH! And where's the Alexander Courage's orchestral theme? The "new" theme of Giacchino doesn't invoke adventure… don't mess with iconic things too much.
What I have in mind is not the dead horse beaten Academy concept. It has accumulated so much poison over the years, I won't even pick it up with a tweezer. What would be interesting is, what we HAVEN'T seen yet. The Federation, the worlds of Federation. There are over 150 members in the UFP, thousand of planets within 8000 lightyears, yet we saw only a fraction of them, some we did see once on tv and never again like the Bynars (minus the novels, but they are not canon) or Sheliaks. Other we did see in ENT, but I can't them them really for canon, they screwed the official timeline one too many times. We can explore interstellar and cultural exchanges for once, a diplomatic ship. And the ship's name could be USS Yorktown, the original name of the Enterprise.
And what we haven't seen, is a ship composed mostly of aliens, where humans are the minority. We had an american captain, a french captain, an afro-american captain, a female captain, why not an alien captain for once? And please, no vulcan captain, we had vulcans too many times.
It would be interesting to see a Bolian captain or Andorian captain with a female human commander (which was seldom, Kira servered as one). A Klingon Doctor is hilarious, since they die in honor and have multiple back-up organs and that Klingon has be empathic towards other species (What do you want?! - the rough klingonese *snicker*) and had to learn the anatomy of other species, which is an interesting character to develop and he has to evolve. Also a J'naii counselor would be an interesting premise, since they are a androgynous race and can serve exploring the issue of homosexuality, without adress it directly.
That'll be some interesting constellation.
I'm up for a new series. I don't want a remake.
DITTO everything above. I agree!
^This, very, very much this
DC Fontana is still around.
I saw an episode or two of the web series where they try to continue the original series. I thought they were trying to hard. Why not a different ship and crew in the same universe?
Hear hear!!
Next generation era for the win!
Not favoured by the TNG fans…
How about The Next Generation, but in the JJ continuation?
Who would make a great Picard?