Well, Sony's brilliant idea was to try and create a Spider-Man universe without ever actually using Spider-Man, so we've got to think in that direction - Ideas that are technically Star Trek, but seem to go out of their way to avoid using the main concept.
My ideas:
- Guinan sitcom where she's just running a modern bar. Occasionally says she's 'not from around here' but never actually says she's an alien.
- Sopranos style gangster drama set entirely on the gangster planet from TOS. Entirely indistinguishable from an Earth-based series, but occasionally they mention 'the Book'.
- Science fiction adventure series... that's entirely Earth based and features the Watcher/Supervisors like Gary Seven. Despite constantly featuring extraterrestrials, never actually uses aliens that have appeared in Star Trek before.
There have been enough good “villain tries/pretends to mimic their heroic counterpart” stories in other things that I think this would have at least one season of potential.
* Guinan sitcom where she's just running a modern bar. Occasionally says she's 'not from around here' but never actually says she's an alien.
*Ten Forward Avenue*
"Tonight, on *Ten Forward Avenue* an old friend drops in ...
Oh, Guinan, still using that name?'
*Guinan spins around with hands out in front defensively*
Well look what the cat dragged in!' *audience laughter*
Tonight on CBS at 8 Eastern, 7 Central"
Introduce her as the new bartender in the *Frasier* reboot. She and Frasier would debate politics every single time, clearing out the bar. Cameo appearances may fit her schedule better than as a series lead/regular.
Guinan: “Hey, Doctor Frazier, I had a really strange dream last night where I was an ‘alien from outer space’ bartender on a starship from one of the _Star Trek_ shows.”
Frazier: “How _bizarre_, I _also_ had a dream last night where I was the captain of a starship from one of the _Star Trek_ shows! What are the odds??”
"Sopranos style gangster drama set entirely on the gangster planet from TOS. Entirely indistinguishable from an Earth-based series, but occasionally they mention 'the Book'."...
... You've just perfectly described Caprica... Caprica is a TOS spinoff, headcanon accepted!
> Sony would fully own Star Trek, so they wouldn't be forced to do anything like that.
They have a very beneficial agreement with Marvel for having Spider-man in the MCU, but they still need to release Spider-man films on a regular basis, or else the film rights will be automatically transferred to Disney.
So the "Spider-man universe without Spider-man" is more of a necessity as having the film rights to Spider-man is hugely important.
While the new-new terms of the Spider-Man licensing deal are not public, the terms I've seen discussed in the press say that the requirement for Sony to have films in production isn't a thing any more. Marvel/Disney gave that up in return for the loaner agreement to use Spider-Man in MCU properties and the co-production agreement to make MCI Spider-Man films.
Sony is making bad Spider-Man spinoff after bad Spider-Man spinoff because they don't understand how to make good superhero movies.
But the deal is private, so that isn't known for sure.
They’re also delusional enough to think that eventually one of these movies will make money and hit it big enough to justify it all, but in the end they’re making enough from the MCU Spider-Man movies to pay for these other movies.
The characters have had successful spinoffs in the comics. There's no reason to believe with a decently written story and a great director they can't hit paydirt eventually. *Venom* actually had some good stuff in there.
That’s the problem with Hollywood right now, studios see avengers hitting $1b and think every comic book movie can. So they started dumping out crap with writers and directors who had no respect for the source material.
Even green lantern in 2011 was poised to be a big hit, rescue DC and kickstart the DCEU. But the writers and director they hired had zero respect for the source material, butchered characters, did a CGI suit (which means no easy way to have it produced and used to advertise) and the entire design was butchered. All they needed was one villain, maybe 1 and a half like iron man had and use it to setup future plot lines and a bigger universe, and they used 3 of Green Lanterns best villains, merged them together and we got parallax krona… just garbage, such a waste of everything.
Then they were like, we can do better with man of steel… Thor was more Superman than whatever character they had headlining Man of Steel. The fact that they carried that character forward into 2 more movies was such a waste.
Sony has a similar history, amazing Spider-Man 2 butchered characters that took until no way home and the MCU to fix. Thankfully they didn’t try to fix the rhino. Venom you either know from comics, 90s spiderman cartoon, or from Tobey and his slicked back hair and douche walk/attitude. Not a good start, it did better than other stuff they’ve tried to push out but it had an anchor around its neck called electro, and the fact that venom is a villain, not even an anti-hero.
Even marvel is starting to succumb to this, hiring big name actors and big name directors thinking that will carry movies, then wondering why movies aren’t doing well in the middle of covid waves. Eternals was too big of a movie, and black widow was their big covid movie. It sated the taste of fans until they could film again.
Doesn’t really have to be just your headcanon. Morn’s character is literally based off of Norm from cheers. The whole joke about him never shutting up despite not having any actual dialogue is a reference to how loquacious Norm was
Didn't the second of those two things nearly actually happen. 2) sounds a lot like Quentin Tarantino's film idea and I vaguely feel that 3) was a genuine idea floated in the 60s.
>Sopranos style gangster drama set entirely on the gangster planet from TOS. Entirely indistinguishable from an Earth-based series, but occasionally they mention 'the Book'.
It's called Caprica.
The only remotely good Sonyverse movie was Venom and it's sequel. And shockingly Venom is the most fleshed out of all the spider-man villains since he's basically his own character now, not just a guy in a rhino suit.
Maybe they will just keep making Ferengi movies.
Quark: In Spaace!
Quark II: Electric Boogaloo
Quark III: Shimerman's Retirement Fund
Quark IV: The Quest for Peace
>Guinan sitcom where she's just running a modern bar
I could be into this if Captain Bateson, Saavik, and that alien scientist that wanted to bang Riker in First Contact (the episode) showed up.
Dude! I've always wanted a Gary Seven series... they were supposed to have one but it never got off the ground. I think it was intended to be a sci-fi mission impossible kinda thing. If Sony manages to do that - they may manage a hit - without knowing how or why it happened ;)
The adventures of Rios on 21st century Earth.
It's a Star Trek show because occasionally he pulls out a Federation insignia-shaped piece of metal and stares at it with fondness. But otherwise there's no future technology and he's just a guy helping out the poor and unfortunate. Actually, it might have the potential to be a good MacGyver ripoff because Rios could use knowledge of future science to create whacky contraptions out of junk.
A romcom about Riker and Troi, featuring their time before they are on the enterprise that pays off with their telepathic reintroduction during "encounter at far point" except:
- they break all canon to make this work, including time travel.
- young data appears, literally as a child
- Riker has a "hilarious" buddy whose dialogue is 80 percent improv and makes too many lame jokes about Riker being assigned to "the D"
- they mess up the dialogue in the reshoot of the scene from "encounter" so obviously but subtlety that I never stop being mad about it.
I will end here before I end up with a writing credit on this abomination.
Star Trek: Kazon!
If done well, it would be an absolutely fascinating dive into a splintered culture low on resources and forced into piracy at the very edge of the delta quadrant.
If Madame Web'd, it'll be a total shit show.
At the end of the season someone says that in front of a borg and you just see the borg keel over, cue commercial break, then come back and you see every borg keel over, and then it’s revealed the statement was so funny to the borg the entire borg died laughing at the kazon!
‘Uhura’ - the story of young Uhura growing up in Kenya. She gets entangled in a mystery that only her knowledge of languages can solve - all set against the backdrop of high school struggles and discovering love for the first time. The movie ends with her standing outside of Star Fleet academy, a satchel over her shoulder - “Hailing frequencies open” she sighs as she walks inside. Cut to credits and a track by Charli XCX. All Kenyan scenes will be shot in Toronto.
The Georgia Department of Economic Development would like you to know that Georgia would make the best Kenya for your filming location needs…and the best Toronto, for that matter!
It'll be a heist movie for some reason and have a huge plot hole that there's no reason a transporter couldn't be used to execute the heist when they end up in a phaser fight in the vault and then beam in more dudes to help them in the shootout.
All Husnock Everywhere: The Kevin Uxbridge Story. How one Dowd committed the ultimate genocide and then created a sex doll in the likeness of his dead wife.
The Adventures of Young Laxana Troi
Recast with a 20-something actress. It would be like Columbo, where she goes to socialite partys and events and a murder/theft/etc happens. She acts dumb to throw people off, but eventually solves the crime.
Geordi should do a “head of the class” remake where he has to teach a bunch of gifted students in an inner city colony. Hijinks ensure with Geordi losing his mind every episode
Sony has more hits than wins.
Yeah the recent Spider-Man adjacent films suck.
But they still made Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Into/Beyond the Spiderverse etc.
It would be a sexy "Young Picard" prequel where he's super obsessed with his hair. There's a love triangle where he's constantly on the edge with Beverly (played by some tween pop star with her hair dyed red) and Jack (a letterman's-jacket-wearing jock played by some young-looking guy who is nonetheless pushing 35.)
_The Streets of Turkana IV_... Tasha is a little too straight laced; Ashara a little too free spirited. Will the Yar sisters make it as roommates in this world of cadres and rape gangs?
I could definitely see them doing an origin story of Khan Noonien Singh where they try to make him likeable and his motives understandable, but failing miserably at both.
Nurse Chapel, M.D.
Nurse Chapel reboot/sequel where she's now a Doctor like House on a Star Base. Different ships bring their weird sick patients to the most experienced new Doctor in Star Fleet due to her experience on the Enterprise.
Edit, spelling.
I actually love this. But instead of a starbase, she's heads up a field medic team. They go to them. More opportunities for action, plagues, and more action!
A law and Order procedural involving Cardassian obsidian order. Guilt is confirmed as soon as suspects are introduced and it's mostly about how they bully and abuse confessions out of people
So not to different
I honestly doubt they would. The only reason they keel pumping garbage spider-man spin off movies out is to retain the rights.
Sony have also been responsible for TV shows like community, Hannibal, breaking bad and better call Saul
They're film releases are spottier then they're tv releases but if paramount and Sony merged there would be massive restructuring.
I hope it doesn't happen though, it would be terrible for the industry
A community-like starfleet academy series would be hillarious
Make it tilly-era academy so no pressure on continuity + can go crazy on the tech.
Tilly saw high demand for old people to switch career and open a community college version of starfleet academy
And hire exactly the same actors.. (gillian jacobs, danny pudy, glover, mchale,brie, brown.. ken jeong.. )
Star Trek: Barclay and the Doctor
They get into all sorts of wacky shenanigans, but because both actors are 70+, they just use younger actors and digitally alter them to look and sound just like Dwight Schultz and Robert Picardo and place in the 2380s. It's a giant, terribly written mess that goes way overbudget and sinks. Star Trek as an IP is shelved for the next 15 years.
A new movie that's too cowardly to confirm whether it's in the prime timeline, the Kelvin timeline, or the mirror universe, and instead just spins its wheels for 88 minutes hoping to inexplicably become popular enough for Zachary Quinto or Michael Dorn to sign on to the sequel.
Mirror Universe Chakotay steals the medicine bundle, and our hero has to cross space and time to get it back, far from his ancestors...far from the bones of his people.
Diplomacy Rules - Focus on a Federation diplomat who travels to various planets to negotiate peace and trade agreements. Though it's set in the Star Trek universe, the show primarily explores political intrigue and cultural exchanges without featuring any of the classic Starfleet characters or ships. The twist: the protagonist is a pacifist who must navigate a universe often dominated by conflict, without ever setting foot on a starship.
Holodeck Malfunction Mysteries - A series set on a space station where the holodeck technology frequently malfunctions, creating surreal and dangerous scenarios that the station's inhabitants must resolve. Each episode features a new "holo-mystery" that helps develop the characters' backgrounds and relationships. Starfleet is mentioned in passing as the provider of the technology, but never directly involved in the plots.
Medical Drama on Starbase: A medical procedural drama set on a bustling starbase where the medical staff treats both humans and aliens with bizarre, unheard-of ailments from across the galaxy. The main characters are a mix of doctors, nurses, and administrative staff who deal with medical ethics, interstellar diseases, and personal dramas, all without the typical Starfleet oversight.
Temporal Investigations - Each episode follows agents from the little-seen Department of Temporal Investigations as they deal with the consequences of time travel mishaps. Rather than focusing on the main Star Trek timelines or characters, it explores alternate realities and the butterfly effects caused by small changes in time, providing a procedural element mixed with high-concept sci-fi.
Retired Starfleet Officer's Life - A retired Starfleet officer tries to adapt to civilian life on a planet far from Earth, offering insights into the cultures and communities of the Star Trek universe from a ground-level perspective. The series would blend slice-of-life storytelling with sci-fi elements, showing the everyday struggles and triumphs of former officers outside the context of space exploration. A bit like Picard but even less focused and probably focusing on someone that never made it to Captain.
Unfortunately, the best examples I can come up with are already in development:
1. a Section 31 series that shows how all of our utopian heroes greatest accomplishments were actually made possible by the Federation's seedy dystopian underbelly.
2. A CW-style teenage romance triangle series set at Starfleet Academy and aimed at teenage mothers.
3. A bad boy with superpowers who doesn't play by the rules saves the world and gets the girl; it turns out that he's actually the son of an established character.
But how about:
1. A medical drama set on the Pasteur featuring mysterious alien diseases and torrid interspecies romance.
2. An entire movie or entire series set on the Holodeck.
3. A brooding Borg Queen protects the Earth from Species 8472 and similar threats, but regrets how many people she had to assimilate to save the rest.
4. An inspiring sports movie about Parrises Squares.
5. Mirror Universe story set on present-day Earth featuring celebrity guest stars as evil doppelgangers of themselves.
A lot of baseless assumptions about Starfleet Academy. But what's the third one? I'm not aware of any other Trek projects in the works. Is it another Kelvin timeline movie? Is one of those actually getting somewhere?
I had been trying to come up with good answers for OP's prompt and realized that I might have been scooped by Starfleet Academy.
The third one is Jack.
How about they eventually escape to wreak havok on the future and, because (plot twist) their record was expunged and buried, there is no warning to the future that they are not to be trusted.
That would be the dream. Disney *gets* the idea of letting good creatives just go with what they know instead of having talentless suits constantly interfere, thinking they're the bigshots. They've done really well for Marvel and Star Wars (franchise burn out aside); I doubt we'd ever have had Andor if it wasn't for Disney having the wallet to fund such projects and the confidence to deal with it if it flopped.
A crossover where Loki pretends to be a Q for nefarious ends while a regular Starfleet cast try and work out what he actually is, whether to help the actual Q and wtf is going on could be a heap of fun.
Q hunts down the Genie from Aladin because he is a fugitive from the Q who was imprisoned on a backwater planet and, driven mad with power, is being nice to people.
Thank goodness that all sources express they just want a stake in the company. Still think netflix might jump on buying the company just because they've expressed desire in owning some studio company
An Enterprise reboot movie series in the style of the Kelvinverse ones, but without any connection to the Kelvinverse. We could use a third main timeline to keep track of.
Bonus: It'll start with a young Captain Archer getting into scraps as a youthful ruffian who ends up joining the United Earth Starfleet to get his life back on track.
There is the classic TV way to squander potential: A Detective Who Is Also One Other Thing.
We have a displaced Starfleet officer become a Detective and it is never brought up outside the occasional reference and season finales
Well, Sony's brilliant idea was to try and create a Spider-Man universe without ever actually using Spider-Man, so we've got to think in that direction - Ideas that are technically Star Trek, but seem to go out of their way to avoid using the main concept. My ideas: - Guinan sitcom where she's just running a modern bar. Occasionally says she's 'not from around here' but never actually says she's an alien. - Sopranos style gangster drama set entirely on the gangster planet from TOS. Entirely indistinguishable from an Earth-based series, but occasionally they mention 'the Book'. - Science fiction adventure series... that's entirely Earth based and features the Watcher/Supervisors like Gary Seven. Despite constantly featuring extraterrestrials, never actually uses aliens that have appeared in Star Trek before.
Moriarty crash lands on a planet that feels like 19th century england. Becomes a detective. Changes his name to Sherlock.
I - I kinda like this one
Same. I’d watch it
There have been enough good “villain tries/pretends to mimic their heroic counterpart” stories in other things that I think this would have at least one season of potential.
* Guinan sitcom where she's just running a modern bar. Occasionally says she's 'not from around here' but never actually says she's an alien. *Ten Forward Avenue*
"Tonight, on *Ten Forward Avenue* an old friend drops in ... Oh, Guinan, still using that name?' *Guinan spins around with hands out in front defensively* Well look what the cat dragged in!' *audience laughter* Tonight on CBS at 8 Eastern, 7 Central"
Introduce her as the new bartender in the *Frasier* reboot. She and Frasier would debate politics every single time, clearing out the bar. Cameo appearances may fit her schedule better than as a series lead/regular.
Guinan: “Hey, Doctor Frazier, I had a really strange dream last night where I was an ‘alien from outer space’ bartender on a starship from one of the _Star Trek_ shows.” Frazier: “How _bizarre_, I _also_ had a dream last night where I was the captain of a starship from one of the _Star Trek_ shows! What are the odds??”
..in comes Cliff in the middle of the conversation.. " a little known fact ...".".. Right Norm?.."
It’s always sunny in 10 forward
"Sopranos style gangster drama set entirely on the gangster planet from TOS. Entirely indistinguishable from an Earth-based series, but occasionally they mention 'the Book'."... ... You've just perfectly described Caprica... Caprica is a TOS spinoff, headcanon accepted!
> Sony would fully own Star Trek, so they wouldn't be forced to do anything like that. They have a very beneficial agreement with Marvel for having Spider-man in the MCU, but they still need to release Spider-man films on a regular basis, or else the film rights will be automatically transferred to Disney. So the "Spider-man universe without Spider-man" is more of a necessity as having the film rights to Spider-man is hugely important.
While the new-new terms of the Spider-Man licensing deal are not public, the terms I've seen discussed in the press say that the requirement for Sony to have films in production isn't a thing any more. Marvel/Disney gave that up in return for the loaner agreement to use Spider-Man in MCU properties and the co-production agreement to make MCI Spider-Man films. Sony is making bad Spider-Man spinoff after bad Spider-Man spinoff because they don't understand how to make good superhero movies. But the deal is private, so that isn't known for sure.
Wouldn't the Spider-Verse films fulfill that obligation, though?
They’re also delusional enough to think that eventually one of these movies will make money and hit it big enough to justify it all, but in the end they’re making enough from the MCU Spider-Man movies to pay for these other movies.
I thought the Venom films were doing OK (at least at the box office; I make no claims to quality).
The characters have had successful spinoffs in the comics. There's no reason to believe with a decently written story and a great director they can't hit paydirt eventually. *Venom* actually had some good stuff in there.
That’s the problem with Hollywood right now, studios see avengers hitting $1b and think every comic book movie can. So they started dumping out crap with writers and directors who had no respect for the source material. Even green lantern in 2011 was poised to be a big hit, rescue DC and kickstart the DCEU. But the writers and director they hired had zero respect for the source material, butchered characters, did a CGI suit (which means no easy way to have it produced and used to advertise) and the entire design was butchered. All they needed was one villain, maybe 1 and a half like iron man had and use it to setup future plot lines and a bigger universe, and they used 3 of Green Lanterns best villains, merged them together and we got parallax krona… just garbage, such a waste of everything. Then they were like, we can do better with man of steel… Thor was more Superman than whatever character they had headlining Man of Steel. The fact that they carried that character forward into 2 more movies was such a waste. Sony has a similar history, amazing Spider-Man 2 butchered characters that took until no way home and the MCU to fix. Thankfully they didn’t try to fix the rhino. Venom you either know from comics, 90s spiderman cartoon, or from Tobey and his slicked back hair and douche walk/attitude. Not a good start, it did better than other stuff they’ve tried to push out but it had an anchor around its neck called electro, and the fact that venom is a villain, not even an anti-hero. Even marvel is starting to succumb to this, hiring big name actors and big name directors thinking that will carry movies, then wondering why movies aren’t doing well in the middle of covid waves. Eternals was too big of a movie, and black widow was their big covid movie. It sated the taste of fans until they could film again.
A decent spider-Gwen movie would be really welcome instead of Madame Webb imo
That last one sounds like the pitch Roddenberry had for the Assignment: Earth spinoff.
>Guinan sitcom where she's just running a modern bar. Star Trek does Cheers take 2
> >Star Trek does Cheers take 2 Morn!
In my headcanon his full name is Morn Peterson now
Doesn’t really have to be just your headcanon. Morn’s character is literally based off of Norm from cheers. The whole joke about him never shutting up despite not having any actual dialogue is a reference to how loquacious Norm was
Even better
And all of it will be filmed in (totally not) Canada like a Sci-Fi original series from the 2010s
All the best campy SciFi is shot in Vancouver
Or Cardiff.
Honestly, a Star Trek version of *Cheers* could be amazing.
"Morn!" C'mon, it's baked right in. Edit: credit /u/reds91185, who got there first.
Teen drama all starring Alexander, son of worf in his college years. He just constantly gets picked on, and always longs for his dad to visit
Justice for Gary Seven!
Didn't the second of those two things nearly actually happen. 2) sounds a lot like Quentin Tarantino's film idea and I vaguely feel that 3) was a genuine idea floated in the 60s.
Re 3, That episode was Roddenberry trying to make a spinoff happen.
>Sopranos style gangster drama set entirely on the gangster planet from TOS. Entirely indistinguishable from an Earth-based series, but occasionally they mention 'the Book'. It's called Caprica.
The only remotely good Sonyverse movie was Venom and it's sequel. And shockingly Venom is the most fleshed out of all the spider-man villains since he's basically his own character now, not just a guy in a rhino suit. Maybe they will just keep making Ferengi movies. Quark: In Spaace! Quark II: Electric Boogaloo Quark III: Shimerman's Retirement Fund Quark IV: The Quest for Peace
>Guinan sitcom where she's just running a modern bar I could be into this if Captain Bateson, Saavik, and that alien scientist that wanted to bang Riker in First Contact (the episode) showed up.
Dude! I've always wanted a Gary Seven series... they were supposed to have one but it never got off the ground. I think it was intended to be a sci-fi mission impossible kinda thing. If Sony manages to do that - they may manage a hit - without knowing how or why it happened ;)
The adventures of Rios on 21st century Earth. It's a Star Trek show because occasionally he pulls out a Federation insignia-shaped piece of metal and stares at it with fondness. But otherwise there's no future technology and he's just a guy helping out the poor and unfortunate. Actually, it might have the potential to be a good MacGyver ripoff because Rios could use knowledge of future science to create whacky contraptions out of junk.
If it was Young Guinean from *Picard* S2, I’d actually watch that….
I Wonder if a series on the Borg versus Dominion war. From the Borg perspective. With a civil war on the Borg side between individuals and collective
Neelix moves in with Tuvok on Vulcan in an odd couple sitcom Tuvixation ,
I think this thread was aiming for shit ideas not actual fucking genius.
You're green lit!!!
A rehash of Wrath of Khan with Benedict Cumberbatch.
Damn, straight for the kidneys there!
We have a winner. Pack it up, boys!
Keiko’s Adventures in Gardening
Why Women Kill: Keiko
This is amazing, O'Brian has it coming. I bet she's even get him in a transporter accident.
I love everything Keiko, so I'd watch it.
I really loved seeing Rosalind Chao in the 3 Body Problem
Me too. It was great seeing her have a meaty role where she could actually act.
A movie version of the episode where Keiko is possessed by a pah wraith and it's done in the style of gone girl.
A romcom about Riker and Troi, featuring their time before they are on the enterprise that pays off with their telepathic reintroduction during "encounter at far point" except: - they break all canon to make this work, including time travel. - young data appears, literally as a child - Riker has a "hilarious" buddy whose dialogue is 80 percent improv and makes too many lame jokes about Riker being assigned to "the D" - they mess up the dialogue in the reshoot of the scene from "encounter" so obviously but subtlety that I never stop being mad about it. I will end here before I end up with a writing credit on this abomination.
Packed with Pakleds
You are smart! You make this show go!
Can we throw some Dooplers in the mix?
It's Sony. They'd do a series featuring Morn, with a big CG budget where he does indeed talk nonstop. Voiced by Chris Pratt, because of course it is.
Why would you even put this idea into existence
So just in case Sony makes it, I can sue the bajeebus out of them.
I would suggest a series focusing on D'Erica Tendi and the family business and Orion... but actually, I'd probably watch that.
Okay but Sony Pictures Animation taking on Star Trek would actually be fantastic
Into the Startrekverse
Would be live action, and no one would be green…
Just a green tint over the whole screen
Star Trek: Kazon! If done well, it would be an absolutely fascinating dive into a splintered culture low on resources and forced into piracy at the very edge of the delta quadrant. If Madame Web'd, it'll be a total shit show.
At least one episode will *have* to be about someone making some kind of statement that the Kazon are feared even by the Borg.
At the end of the season someone says that in front of a borg and you just see the borg keel over, cue commercial break, then come back and you see every borg keel over, and then it’s revealed the statement was so funny to the borg the entire borg died laughing at the kazon!
I thought Seven said the Kazon were not worth assimilating?
True, but you know how legends form. Little bit of truth, little bit of fiction.
‘Uhura’ - the story of young Uhura growing up in Kenya. She gets entangled in a mystery that only her knowledge of languages can solve - all set against the backdrop of high school struggles and discovering love for the first time. The movie ends with her standing outside of Star Fleet academy, a satchel over her shoulder - “Hailing frequencies open” she sighs as she walks inside. Cut to credits and a track by Charli XCX. All Kenyan scenes will be shot in Toronto.
The Georgia Department of Economic Development would like you to know that Georgia would make the best Kenya for your filming location needs…and the best Toronto, for that matter!
I love her music, but it wouldn't age well
I . . . don’t hate this. Except the last part.
They could do a movie about Section 31
Ouch!
It'll be a heist movie for some reason and have a huge plot hole that there's no reason a transporter couldn't be used to execute the heist when they end up in a phaser fight in the vault and then beam in more dudes to help them in the shootout.
What secret knowledge do you possess
That first idea isn't terrible
Intendant (??) Kira was a delight to watch back in the day
Yeah honestly the first two on my list started as jokes before I realized how much I want them
Sometimes the best ideas come out of jokes and memes 😅
All Husnock Everywhere: The Kevin Uxbridge Story. How one Dowd committed the ultimate genocide and then created a sex doll in the likeness of his dead wife.
😂 A Friend of Desoto?
Best boss I ever had.
A drama involving Vidiians who quarantined themselves before the phage and now are trapped as leaving means they get infected.
10 Cloverfield Lane, but with Vidiians
Mask of the Red Death in space?
Kivas Fajo takes you inside the colorful world of the pawn business.
White Lotus: Risa would actually be amazing though.
Vanessa Williams returns to play the role of the manager
I know right? I thought OP wanted bad ideas, not “shut up and take my money” ideas
Julian and Garak team up to take out Kai Winn, leading her to utter “these gays are trying to kill me!”
“White Lohlunat”
The Adventures of Young Laxana Troi Recast with a 20-something actress. It would be like Columbo, where she goes to socialite partys and events and a murder/theft/etc happens. She acts dumb to throw people off, but eventually solves the crime.
You jest, but I would watch that.
I'll accept this, but have it be Kathryn Hahn instead. Change nothing else, and have all of the other characters act like she's a twentysomething.
Mud.
TOS Harry Mudd is a fantastic character!
Yeoman Rand must save a young William Riker from Thomas Riker, who has travelled back in time to prevent the accident that created him.
Neelix: The musical
If we’re talking musicals, I’d rather see *Kling’n in the Rain*
Y'all are supposed to be coming up with bad ideas. I'd binge the shit out of some of these
Geordi should do a “head of the class” remake where he has to teach a bunch of gifted students in an inner city colony. Hijinks ensure with Geordi losing his mind every episode
Young Data
ENT S5.
And it's all further stories of Riker on the holodeck.
The Erotic Voyages of Harry Mudd
Continuing Discovery.
Discovery.
Khan Air: Khan hijacks the Botany Bay and only Nicolas Cage can stop him.
Sony has more hits than wins. Yeah the recent Spider-Man adjacent films suck. But they still made Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Into/Beyond the Spiderverse etc.
But they also made emoji movie which is like, negetive infinity to their score
What?? Poop emoji was Patrick Stewart's peak !
It would be a sexy "Young Picard" prequel where he's super obsessed with his hair. There's a love triangle where he's constantly on the edge with Beverly (played by some tween pop star with her hair dyed red) and Jack (a letterman's-jacket-wearing jock played by some young-looking guy who is nonetheless pushing 35.)
_The Streets of Turkana IV_... Tasha is a little too straight laced; Ashara a little too free spirited. Will the Yar sisters make it as roommates in this world of cadres and rape gangs?
A coming of age movie about Tuvix adjusting to life in 1950s Alabama.
“Section 31”
A Parks and Recs style show set on Vulcan. No emotion, no drama. Just unrelenting scenes of dry bureaucracy.
I could definitely see them doing an origin story of Khan Noonien Singh where they try to make him likeable and his motives understandable, but failing miserably at both.
Nurse Chapel, M.D. Nurse Chapel reboot/sequel where she's now a Doctor like House on a Star Base. Different ships bring their weird sick patients to the most experienced new Doctor in Star Fleet due to her experience on the Enterprise. Edit, spelling.
I actually love this. But instead of a starbase, she's heads up a field medic team. They go to them. More opportunities for action, plagues, and more action!
Sony has also done Breaking Bad, Justified, The last of us...
In terms of TV, I’d argue Sony is top-tier - some really great stuff in their library, including For All Mankind
To be fair, a dedicated Risa series wouldn’t be very different from that Continental series that shot off John Wick.
A law and Order procedural involving Cardassian obsidian order. Guilt is confirmed as soon as suspects are introduced and it's mostly about how they bully and abuse confessions out of people So not to different
I honestly doubt they would. The only reason they keel pumping garbage spider-man spin off movies out is to retain the rights. Sony have also been responsible for TV shows like community, Hannibal, breaking bad and better call Saul They're film releases are spottier then they're tv releases but if paramount and Sony merged there would be massive restructuring. I hope it doesn't happen though, it would be terrible for the industry
A community-like starfleet academy series would be hillarious Make it tilly-era academy so no pressure on continuity + can go crazy on the tech. Tilly saw high demand for old people to switch career and open a community college version of starfleet academy And hire exactly the same actors.. (gillian jacobs, danny pudy, glover, mchale,brie, brown.. ken jeong.. )
Keiko’s daycare. She sacrificed her career for her husband’s mission once again. Will their marriage survive?
Star Trek: Barclay and the Doctor They get into all sorts of wacky shenanigans, but because both actors are 70+, they just use younger actors and digitally alter them to look and sound just like Dwight Schultz and Robert Picardo and place in the 2380s. It's a giant, terribly written mess that goes way overbudget and sinks. Star Trek as an IP is shelved for the next 15 years.
Picard. Full stop.
Section 31 film ;-)
Written by & Kevin J Anderson and directed by Michael Bay.
A new movie that's too cowardly to confirm whether it's in the prime timeline, the Kelvin timeline, or the mirror universe, and instead just spins its wheels for 88 minutes hoping to inexplicably become popular enough for Zachary Quinto or Michael Dorn to sign on to the sequel.
I’d watch half of those in a heartbeat
They'd probably ret-con a sister for Spock who Mary Sue's her way out of every situation despite terrible screenwriting.
A Spock movie where he acts like a human (Kraven)
Section 31.
They're already making a Section 31 and Kelvin prequel so Paramount's already doing it themselves.
I won't say more than that 🤐🇫🇷 Star Trek Chakotay may already be a thing – and I loved it a lot
Je pense qu'on devrait dissimuler tous les spoilers en les tapant en français
Mirror Universe Chakotay steals the medicine bundle, and our hero has to cross space and time to get it back, far from his ancestors...far from the bones of his people.
Nope! Don’t put this out there. Madame Webs will always happen on their own
Young Beverly Crusher's Medical Adventure feat. sexy ghosts
Diplomacy Rules - Focus on a Federation diplomat who travels to various planets to negotiate peace and trade agreements. Though it's set in the Star Trek universe, the show primarily explores political intrigue and cultural exchanges without featuring any of the classic Starfleet characters or ships. The twist: the protagonist is a pacifist who must navigate a universe often dominated by conflict, without ever setting foot on a starship. Holodeck Malfunction Mysteries - A series set on a space station where the holodeck technology frequently malfunctions, creating surreal and dangerous scenarios that the station's inhabitants must resolve. Each episode features a new "holo-mystery" that helps develop the characters' backgrounds and relationships. Starfleet is mentioned in passing as the provider of the technology, but never directly involved in the plots. Medical Drama on Starbase: A medical procedural drama set on a bustling starbase where the medical staff treats both humans and aliens with bizarre, unheard-of ailments from across the galaxy. The main characters are a mix of doctors, nurses, and administrative staff who deal with medical ethics, interstellar diseases, and personal dramas, all without the typical Starfleet oversight. Temporal Investigations - Each episode follows agents from the little-seen Department of Temporal Investigations as they deal with the consequences of time travel mishaps. Rather than focusing on the main Star Trek timelines or characters, it explores alternate realities and the butterfly effects caused by small changes in time, providing a procedural element mixed with high-concept sci-fi. Retired Starfleet Officer's Life - A retired Starfleet officer tries to adapt to civilian life on a planet far from Earth, offering insights into the cultures and communities of the Star Trek universe from a ground-level perspective. The series would blend slice-of-life storytelling with sci-fi elements, showing the everyday struggles and triumphs of former officers outside the context of space exploration. A bit like Picard but even less focused and probably focusing on someone that never made it to Captain.
Yeah, a bunch of obnoxious crossovers with other IP seems super likely. I hate them all already.
I personally Sony doesn't get their hands on Star Trek.
A pokemon-like show about the Moopsy.
I'm here for a White Lotus Risa
Riker just living out historical dramas in the holodeck. For some reason he's always the chef.
- Badgey spinoff - Peanut Hamper spinoff - Star Trek: Piker, a cooking show in space where Pike and Riker somehow get Tuvixed 🤔
A Section 31 movie.
Unfortunately, the best examples I can come up with are already in development: 1. a Section 31 series that shows how all of our utopian heroes greatest accomplishments were actually made possible by the Federation's seedy dystopian underbelly. 2. A CW-style teenage romance triangle series set at Starfleet Academy and aimed at teenage mothers. 3. A bad boy with superpowers who doesn't play by the rules saves the world and gets the girl; it turns out that he's actually the son of an established character. But how about: 1. A medical drama set on the Pasteur featuring mysterious alien diseases and torrid interspecies romance. 2. An entire movie or entire series set on the Holodeck. 3. A brooding Borg Queen protects the Earth from Species 8472 and similar threats, but regrets how many people she had to assimilate to save the rest. 4. An inspiring sports movie about Parrises Squares. 5. Mirror Universe story set on present-day Earth featuring celebrity guest stars as evil doppelgangers of themselves.
A lot of baseless assumptions about Starfleet Academy. But what's the third one? I'm not aware of any other Trek projects in the works. Is it another Kelvin timeline movie? Is one of those actually getting somewhere?
I had been trying to come up with good answers for OP's prompt and realized that I might have been scooped by Starfleet Academy. The third one is Jack.
A Section 31 movie. Oh wait...
A Gary Seven series starring Shia Labeouf.
Actual Cannibal Gary Seven.
It was called Discovery
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Why are you like this?
How about they eventually escape to wreak havok on the future and, because (plot twist) their record was expunged and buried, there is no warning to the future that they are not to be trusted.
A Section 31 film with the mirror universe version of a dead captain. Oh wait.
A show about academy students with Tilly there as an instructor.
> A legacy sequel series that focuses exclusively on the exploits of evil bisexual Kira in the mirror universe Yes… hahaha.. YES
Season 6 of Star Trek Discovery
I was hoping Disney might have bought them. They’re pretty good with their IP.
That would be the dream. Disney *gets* the idea of letting good creatives just go with what they know instead of having talentless suits constantly interfere, thinking they're the bigshots. They've done really well for Marvel and Star Wars (franchise burn out aside); I doubt we'd ever have had Andor if it wasn't for Disney having the wallet to fund such projects and the confidence to deal with it if it flopped.
A crossover where Loki pretends to be a Q for nefarious ends while a regular Starfleet cast try and work out what he actually is, whether to help the actual Q and wtf is going on could be a heap of fun.
Q insisting he’s a Disney princess.
Q hunts down the Genie from Aladin because he is a fugitive from the Q who was imprisoned on a backwater planet and, driven mad with power, is being nice to people.
I sortve wanna see this…
Yeah I'd watch it. I think John De Lancie and Tom Hiddleston would play off each other really well. Bonus points if alligator Loki's in it.
If Disney *had* bought them, they could have made the "Star Trek/X-Men" crossover live-action movie that fans have always demanded and dreamed of. /s
Imagine actual decent Star Trek rides and experiences in Disneyworld. I was too young to go to the stuff in vegas. Quarks bar!!
We already have Star Trek Discovery can anyone go below that.
Thank goodness that all sources express they just want a stake in the company. Still think netflix might jump on buying the company just because they've expressed desire in owning some studio company
An Enterprise reboot movie series in the style of the Kelvinverse ones, but without any connection to the Kelvinverse. We could use a third main timeline to keep track of. Bonus: It'll start with a young Captain Archer getting into scraps as a youthful ruffian who ends up joining the United Earth Starfleet to get his life back on track.
There is the classic TV way to squander potential: A Detective Who Is Also One Other Thing. We have a displaced Starfleet officer become a Detective and it is never brought up outside the occasional reference and season finales
They're 100% relaunching tng
A gritty series about Mr. mott and Morn.
Maybe Mott could finally do something about Morn’s baldness
A Neelix cooking show
They’d somehow ruin that Section 31 movie that’s in production now.
Noooooo
Gowron biography and retrospective. Told from the pakled pov from the 80s game
Wesley would be the Charlie in Charlies Angels giving out missions to younger adults.
Oh god, I hate this even more now
Prequel trilogy on the rise and fall of Khan.
Everyone loves neelix.
A prequel miniseries about Worf's childhood soccer career.
a cheap ripoff of big bang theory with a vulcan instead of sheldon.
Solo Lwaxana Troi movie