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Nah, it's all about prequels nowadays.
Stargate: SG-0
Star Trek: Lowest Decks
Babylon 4
Star Trek: Deep Space 8
Star Trek Deep Space 10 with Commander Sevenko
Unironically, I think Star Trek: Away would be a fun Lower Decksian concept that covers an away team, but only while they are on mission.
The episode starts once they have left the ship (whether by transporter, shuttle or otherwise), no context, and the show builds the premise of the mission over the course of the episode. We never actually get a good view of the inside of the ship and all the nonsense that goes on there (mission related or not) has to be relayed through coms, dialogue, or the away team’s outside perspective.
I would love to see this as a series of shorts
It’s ripe for all sorts of ongoing gags: red shirt death toll, or a red shirt that gets horribly maimed but comes back from sick bay every episode South Park style. Plenty of room for plot twists and narrative shifts because neither the MacGuffin nor the true nature of the setting are revealed at the beginning.
Open planet-side. The away team beams in and starts taking readings and such.
Away 1: So, how many tentacles do you think the transporter chief actually has?
Away 2: At least 30, but that depends where in the branching you start counting.
Away 3: 30‽ More like 2,030!
Away 2: Oh I don’t count the little ones. I think of them more like fingers.
Away 1: Or octopus suckers.
Away 4: I think they are more like…tongues?
Away 1: Wait! So every time they shook my hand…
Away 4: Uh huh.
Away 1: Honestly, I’m not sure if I’m disgusted or aroused…
Away 3: dis-groused?
Away 4: I always thought they were 1 multi pronged tentacle, like… a hand… or, or, a starfish!
Away 1: A starfish? do you think if they were cut in half they’d become twins?
Disembodied voice: Away One, your communicator is still on.
Away 1: Ugggh! Not again! If I get another reprim…
Blaster fire hits a nearby red shirt and plot ensues
Just poker, drinking, and hanging out.
iirc there was an episode of MASH that was one long poker game. At the start Hawkeye comes in from the operating room and tells someone that he has to wait two hours before his patient has gotten enough blood to start operating. Players come in and out, and they keep chatting while the bombs fall.
MASH did some amazing bottle episodes. I remember watching the series back when Netflix mailed disks and really enjoying it. It held up really well.
The change that always intrigues me is that Frank Burns character.
In the original book and movie [he was played by Robert Duval] Frank is not an idiot. He's a competent surgeon. The reason the others hate him is that when a patient lives it's because Frank is a great doctor, and when a patient dies it's someone else's fault. Trapper punches him after Frank tells an 18 year old corpsman that the corpsman had killed a patient.
Winchester was overbearing and obnoxious, but he had a sense of humor and a modicum of self-awareness.
Do we have a ST:DS Nein yet? It'd really give Nurse Ratched a goose-step up in a pressed Hugo Boss "Imperial March Madness" ensemble. 😅
There is precedent:
Ah, the new Ellison-approved Star Trek show!
On the subject of Stargate; a new series is being made. I'm jaded as fuck considering that every attempt at reviving classic sci-fi and fantasy has been done by those least qualified.
But when it does come, I really hope Stargate embraces an alternate history approach, because if it turns out the whole Stargate program is somehow still a secret, then it'll be unbelievable to the point of absurdity.
LOL, brother thinks stargate was real. It's just a sci-fi show.
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Yes. I think, what happens when the Stargate Program becomes public knowledge is one of the most interesting premises the show could work with.
They’ve been trying to make a new Stargate series for years. Pretty much since Universe bombed, but especially since Amazon bought MGM. Last I heard they had recruited Joseph Mallozzi to run the new show. He has been with Stargate since season 4 of SG-1 and supposedly was heavily involved with Atlantis but not as involved with Universe, so we shall see but I’m not going to hold my breath for a good show.
Star Trek: Moopsy
Moopsy vs Tribbles
Moopsy vs Tribbles 2: Attack Trible
Firefly season 2
Apparently they are working on an animated version with the original cast.
https://screenrant.com/firefly-reboot-animated-series-original-cast-return/
At this point it would have to be animated.
I wonder if Serenity is still canon.
I believe they are going for a 'prequel' set in the days between the end of the show and the Serenity movie.
More will be revealed
As long as we don't do prequels.
Babylon 4 might have a bit of a delay.
Say what you will about Babylon 1-3, they went out with a bang.
People said they were daft for building a space station in a swamp.
Refresh my memory.
I know I could look it up, but I want to hear a story. iirc Babylon 4 was the one that just disappeared?
I know I could look it up, but I want to hear a story. iirc Babylon 4 was the one that just disappeared?
Spoiler warning!
At the beginning of the show, yes it "disappeared". Later in the seasons we find out that Babylon 4 was stolen by the good guys and taken back in time to use as weapon in the first shadow war. If memory serves, this is also when Sinclair comes back into the show for a cameo. Sinclair leads the forces of good against the shadows (and becomes Valien, the Mimbari ancestor/god I think).
Star Trek: The Still Image
Star Trek : Public College
Captain Dean Craig Pelton better be in charge of that Community College
Infinit sexual diversity in a finit man
Captain Dean Pelton: I scolded Commander Reno today so according to Starfleet Community College bylaws, I now have to grant her three wishes.
Really Farscape
Space 2000
2002 A Space Eventy
Fartherscape
Still a better love story than Twilight
My failed marriage was still a better love story than Twilight.
Star Trek: Falsifiable Hypothesis