A cool, new story on a Bryan Singer premise for a new “Star Trek” TV series has surfaced. This was first tossed around back around 2006 and had the concept of a new Trek set about 600 years after TNG. It’s a very interesting concept and I like much of what I am reading. I’ll put a small excerpt of the article below.
The Universe — A Federation in trouble
The way the team proposed shaking up that universe was to move the action to the year 3000 with a different United Federation of Planets. In “Federation” the UFP is still espoused to be the a civilization of alien races united in respect living in a “Golden Age of Peace”, but not all is well, as noted in the proposal document:
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.
Here are some key changes in the Star Trek universe six centuries after Picard.
- Earth’s Humans have become “fat and happy” but this has led to complacency where humans are “giving up exploration for incremental colonization and focusing more on the rightness of their own cultural view over all others”
- Many younger members of the UFP have left, eschewing this “human-centric” Federation
- Vulcans have been disengaging from the Federation and have reunified with the Romulans, spending most of the last 3 centuries focused on creating a new “joined society” overseen by two “quasi-religious clerics who rule according to logic and what is best for their unified peoples, combining Romulan Machiavellian politics with Vulcan logic.
- Bajorans have withdrawn from the Federation to become insular in order to focus on their religion and communing with the Prophets. Bajor is now “like a planet sized Tibet”, handing over all temporal concerns to the Ferengi
- The Klingons have undergone a “massive reformation” moving away from their Viking-like brawling to become a “civilization of warrior mystics” akin to the Tang Dynasty), now flying “sleek” and “serene” ships and while they maintain diplomacy with the Federation they have returned to expanding the Empire via conquest
- The Cardassians have transformed into a “society of artists and philosophers” who now “walk the path” and are now dedicated to a philosophy with “the view of the galaxy as a place created solely to test the faithful.”
- The Ferengi are no longer a “joke” but have become “quite powerful”. Equality for females (including a female Nagus) is “the only concession they have made to progress” and with “the Greater Federation’s cashless society as a restriction, the Ferengi Alliance is now able to shine in its full capitalist glory.” The Ferengi are also making big bucks marketing the Bajoran religion around the galaxy, including pilgrimages to the Bajoran Wormhole.
- Starfleet has been reduced to a “mere peace-keeping force” protecting fringe worlds from aliens and from fighting each other, with starships are old and spread out too thin
There is much more to read about this cool concept. Head over to www.trekmovie.com for the whole story.
