Bryan Fuller wants Trek on TV again

The creator of “Pushing Daises” and former writer for both DS9 and Voyager, Bryan Fuller would love to have a crack at a new “Star Trek” TV series.  Here’s some of what he had to say recently while doing press for the fall TV season…

I would love to do another ‘Star Trek’ series. One where you could go back to the spirit and color of the original ‘Star Trek,’ because somehow, it got cold over the years. I love ‘Next Generation,’ but it’s a little cooler and calmer than the ones from the ‘60s, which were so dynamic and passionate. ’Deep Space Nine’ was the best of the modern ones, because it was so emotionally complicated. ‘Enterprise’ was the most sterile of all of them, when it should have been the most fun.

‘Star Trek’ has to recreate itself. Otherwise, all the characters start to feel the same. You always have a captain, a doctor, a security officer, and you have the same arguments based on those perspectives. It starts to feel too familiar. So all those paradigms where it takes place on a starship have to be shaken up.

(above from an MTV interview with Fuller)

I love the idea of a new Trek series (of course).  Here are some of my personal ideas and thoughts…

Lots of interesting ideas and thoughts. First, if I were doing a Trek series I would set it in a very difficult era – to match the difficult times we live in now so parallel stories could be developed as they did many times on Trek.
Two possible times —
1 – The Earth-Romulan war – post Enterprise and just prior to TOS. Lots of conflict, grit, troubles, etc. Sort of BSG meets Trek – to a degree.

2 – Distant future, the Federation has been decimated by years of war with aliens (maybe the Borg, some other alien race) and now Starfleet and the Federation are trying to rebuild, explore, live again.

I’ve loved Trek from TOS and on but things on the later series got a bit too easy. Let’s get our hands dirty, make it emotional, have people explore, live, love, die, etc. Make you care for them and grab your audience. Now that would be good Trek and great TV!

Please comment on some of your ideas below…