A different sort of series

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:32 pm

A random thought that occured to me today. How plausable would it be to have a series, not based around a Federation ship, but around an alien ship? By that I mean, rather than having (say) a Galaxy class with a mostly human crew, you would have a D'Derix or a Negh'var instaed, crewed by their respective races.
Assuming it is written by someone with a brain, how well would such a series fare? Would taking the humans out of it cause the series to fail misserably?

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:22 pm

It might not be welcomed as well by trekkie veterans. But it might attract a new wave of fans.

Blackstar the Chakat · Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:35 pm

I don't think it would do well. It would be difficult for fans to connect to the characters. I think half the main characters need to be human or human-like for it to work, or else you end up with only a handful of diehard fans like with D&D and other fantasy stuff where you have to be really into it to understand what they're talking about.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:37 pm

And there would be loads of people moaning that the speech wasn't in Romulan or Klingon. Then If it was, there would have to be subtitles, which would annoy alot of people.

Post by **Teaos** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:12 pm

I believe one of the main ideas kicked around when they were going to make another series whoch finally became enterprise they were going to do one about a Klingon Bird of prey ship.

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:55 pm

I'm really not sure. On the one hands, books which feature just aliens do not tend to do well. However, is this simply because they are only written by those deep in the sci-fi genre and obscure to outsiders? The idea that an alien-focused book would not do well may in that case be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I would love to see it, personally. It would be nice to see the Klingons brought back from monoculture hell.

Post by **Mikey** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:43 pm

I'd like to also, but a show has to justify itself financially. In this case, you're cutting your market in two ways; once by having a cast of characters with whom it essentially harder to connect, and again by not having the shining star of the idea of Star Trek - the Federation - as central to the background.

Unfortunately, these are real considerations, and Paramount continues to not make moves based solely on what I want.

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:51 am

I think the scenario would be great as a miniseries, then if it did really well in the Nielsen ratings or sweeps, launch it as a series.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:19 am

I agree, that's a miniseries type of thing.

Besides, Trek's aliens are too two dimentional. Just look at the ENT episode when the Vulcan ambassador was talking about how humans have the traits of all those other races and it scares the Vulcans. Then look at the negative response at making 'evil' vulcans (Which I perfer a whole lot more than the idea of always good vulcans)

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:02 am

That's what I meant about getting the Klingons out of monoculture hell.

Post by **Teaos** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:26 am

I think people exagerate the level to which the Klingons are monocultured. We only ever see their military pretty much and even then we see a decent amount of difference. As much as you would in our modern army anyway.