Exciting, but not holding my breath now that paramount is merging with sky :/
Are we still doing “phrasing”?
It’s been a long road
Getting from here to there
How about, and hear me out on this…give us a good, well written series and ease off in the callbacks and blatant shameless fan service. If you feel so compelled to do that era, give us a compelling show about the Earth Romulan War, with new characters on a new ship and a new crew with the occasional rare cameo.
This doesn’t mean make Reed the captain with Sato as his first officer and Mayweather as the second officer with Phlox and T’Pol showing up every other episode, constantly contacting Archer, and directly referencing Enterprise episodes every 4-7 minutes while featuring a young Sarek who becomes a regular cast member in season 2 and oh look ancestors of Kirk and Riker…
Everyone is always focused on a new ship and crew. DS9 proved you don’t need that to make a great Trek.
A well written show about how the Admiralty handles this early situations like the Earth Romulan War on a larger scale, that then sometimes dives down into those early Startleet officers trying to handle those directly would be a unique perspective really only DS9 and a handful of scenes in SNW sort of scratched the surface with.
Everyone is always focused on a new ship and crew. DS9 proved you don’t need that to make a great Trek.
DS9 had not just a new starship but a whole new type of location instead of a ship with a memberberry name l. Also, besides Miles who was only a minor character in TNG and only in DS9 became a fleshed out person and Worf much later in the show, every character was a brand new one (with the exception of some side characters that came back for an episode or two but not every week).
DS9 is a good example of what OP means.
The Defiant wasn’t introduced until the third season, the DS9 series was already established by that point as having the Station be the equivalent of the ships from previous series. And after introduction it was only in a fraction of the episodes.
The Defiant was not the primary location of the show, it was the Delta Flyer of DS9. It was useful for certain stories to be told outside the station, but it was not the focus of the show.
But who’s talking about the Defiant?
Maybe I misread your previous comment. It seemed like you were talking about how DS9 had both a new ship, the Defiant, and the station. And the OP I originally responded to specifically mentioned using a new ship and crew.
I was pointing out that a new ship wasn’t even necessary as long as there was an interesting enough location, like DS9’s station. Focusing on Starfleet HQ specifically and the Admiralty’s decisions as Starfleet is created, as opposed to frontline crews can be an interesting location we haven’t seen yet. And different enough that it’s not just another ship and crew puttering about like most of the shows have been.
My comment was meant as "we need a new location and DS9 was a prime example of a new location because it wasn’t just a new ship (a ship is a location) but a new typeof location, too (because it wasn’t a ship).
And the OP I originally responded to specifically mentioned using a new ship and crew.
I guess that’s because most Star Trek shows take place on a starship. I didn’t read it as they specifically want a new ship but more as “please, don’t give us another show about known characters in a location we already know”.
I personally couldn’t care less about admiralty in HQ though. In Star Trek, that is marketed by “where no one has gone before” I want to see acting crews far away from the comfortability of making decisions behind a desk.
I’m one of the rare defenders of Enterprise mostly because I just really like Bakula in the role of a gruffer, more inherently American early Captain, so while I hate all these prequels and midquels and stuff they keep pumping out, I would probably watch if Bakula reprised the role.
I also like Archer in Enterprise, despite most of the fandom really not liking him.
I feel it’s completely unrealistic to expect him to be as much of a polished and perfect Starfleet officer as, say, Picard or Pike are.
He’s doing all of this stuff for the first time, with completely inadequate training, very little in the way of standard procedures imposed by the Earth government, etc. he also doesn’t have captain’s logs from others to pore through and learn from.
People complain that he’s out of his depth half the time, but that’s the entire theme of the show.
It’s a great shame we never got to see the Earth-Romulan war and more of the political back and forth between the Federation founder worlds.
The beginning of the Federation is a unique space to look closer at. Sort of similar to how Starfleet Academy clearly won’t be following a ship’s adventures. Take a more DS9 approach to it, focusing on the innet working of the Admiralty and Day to day operations at the command level, and it could work despite being a prequel timeframe.
One of the reasons Enterprise worked as well as it did was because it wasn’t as beholden to the existing canon. It was far enough removed in the timeline that it didn’t need to address most existing canon events. The ship wasn’t fast enough to get to far flung regions, and it allowed us to see the start of humanity’s exploration without the corrupted Admiralty of Starfleet in the TNG/DS9/VOY era.
SNW is great, but it is limited by the tight confines of its place in the chronology. Similar to Disco before its leap forward, except Disco had the added complexity of a magical propulsion system no one outside the crew could really know about.
Instead of an 80s genre theme song like they did with Enterprise … they’ll probably upgrade to a 90s ska band style in this one.
DS9 sucks IMO
You’re allowed to have incorrect opinions.
Did you watch beyond the first season?
Honestly as far as first seasons in Trek go, DS9 is far from the worst. Duet is still one of my favourite episodes in all of Trek.
All of them? Except the ones for children
I actually liked Prodigy quite a lot. :)
Prodigy is excellent.
He’s a great actor. I’d give it a good try
So is Jason Isaacs. But I checked out long before he did. Star Trek has lots of great actors. What they need currently is great writers that want to tell a star trek story.
SNW works despite the callbacks and familiar cast, not because of it. Uhura could be a different named character and the show would not change. Spock is the only part that would need to change. He’s good in itz the actor and is his character, but they could explore the same themes and plots with a different romulan if they wanted to. It would be different without falling back on the half han part, but the difference would be more interesting.
Have a romulan that was not half human and was more conflicted in emotion than Spock.
the bakula is bakula
Not content to do just another prequel, they think we need President Duchess? Please for Koala’s sake give us the post-Dominion War series we deserve.
I always read his last name as something else.
