I’m not sure if this is the right community or not, but I’m curious what y’all would think if they came out with a new show set in the Enterprise era. Ent is one of my favorite shows, and I always felt like we got screwed out of some really compelling TV when they ended they stopped making Trek after ENT ended. That era of humanity, the coalition of planets, the filling in of details on humanity’s early relationship with the Vulcans. Plus, it has denobulans, and we need more denobulans.
So, I guess I’m just curious if I’m in the minority or not. Would any of y’all be excited if they announced a show in that era?
@DharmaCurious Please can we stop with prequels, what’s wrong with just telling a story that moves forwards in time?
I mean with that attitude, we should only have shows set in the 32nd century! After all, time has moved forward, right? ;)
In all seriousness, that argument may have made sense when Enterprise came out, but now there’s four seasons of characters, setting, and story, which could be expanded on as a sequel. “Prequel” depends on your frame of reference.
@the_sisko
Ha! Fair point. Feels like with SNW and the propose Academy series we have have that era covered. I suppose there is scope for something between the TOS films and the start of TNG?
I’d really love the proposed Legacy series with the Enterprise-G, or maybe something completely new in the 25th century.
Take your point with Discovery but I reckon 800 years provides a big enough gain without having to worry about CANON.
For what it’s worth, ENT is set around 2150, SNW around 2259, TNG starts around 2364, and PIC around 2399. In my mind, ENT is pretty far removed from the SNW/TOS era that you’d say is well covered. There’s a lot of “untouched” canon to discuss, like the Earth Romulan war. So long as temporal wars are forgotten, I’d be excited to see more ENT stuff.
But I also agree that just going forward into the 25th century would be nice too. Ideally for me I’d prefer to see a clean break from the TNG/PIC nostalgia characters: just the next, next generation, with a new captain and crew.
I do like Jeri Ryan’s Seven a lot, and would love a Captain Seven, but there’s something to be said for just starting the new thing and building the next big dynasty of trek, rather than borrowing characters.
I think a non-Starfleet show in that era might be interesting, maybe set on some freighter that is a generation or two after the ones Travis grew up on (so we do not spend months for each journey).
Honestly, that sounds like my ideal show. I’ve always wanted a show that gave us something outside of Starfleet, and I’ve also always wanted a show that showed us a little more of earth (cannot wait for a sf academy). A freighter based show could us both. Frequent trips to earth to pick up supplies, space without the protection of the military’s flagship, or the protection of being an important military space station. Tight knit crew, likely family members and all the drama and story that comes with that. God, that would be an awesome show.
I’d rather see a one-off two hour direct-to-streaming movie for this kind of thing.
It would be great to build out the world into civilian settings, but I don’t think an entire show.
Otherwise, single season limited series set in the 22nd could be a way to get to some of the things that Enterprise did not pick up on.
They had a lot of weird stuff in Enterprise. I would love if they did a show in that era that was actually about that era instead of time travel shenanigans. It would be fun to learn about how the alliances and rivalries built up, the successes and blunders and cultural clashes. From what I recall, season 4 was when they finally started looking at that stuff and by then it was too late.
I’ve heard people float the idea of a west wing style political drama where the president (often suggested as Archer) is dealing with all the problems of maintaining a young federation.
I’d think it would be a wonderful idea. I’m not sure another exploration show in that era is needed though.
