Star Trek : Discovery has been a huge success for CBS , which think that , after years of rent the goggle box side of the enfranchisement lie low , suddenly the connection wants more Star Trek . As in , “ fetch me Sir Patrick Stewart , so help me god ” and “ permit ’s make CBS All Access fundamentally Star Trek 24/7 ” levels of more Star Trek . Naturally , we have some suggestions !
We know at the very least that beyond Discovery there is the Modern Jean - Luc Picard series , as well asat least threeother usher that are potentially in the full treatment as part of a $ 25 million hand with producer Alex Kurtzman : an quicken series , a long - rumored spinoff concentre on the iconic character of Khan from the original series and The Wrath of Khan , and a young - adult - concentrate Starfleet Academy show .
Beyond that , CBS executives have openly discussed the electric potential for even more , including spinoffs for multiple Star Trek : Discovery lineament . But the humankind of Star Trek is so vast , spread across hundred and beetleweed just laden with potential for new show radically different from what we ’re convey right now ( or are about to get ) . So here ’s just a few of the series we ’d lie with to see beyond what we cognize is on the way .
A First Contact Show From the Alien’s Point of View
I recentlypondered this ideaafter re - watching the former season of Deep Space Nine , which focused on the uneasy bristling between Starfleet and the Bajoran government . The former attempted to incorporate the latter into prescribed Federation rank in the wake of a brutal line of work by the Cardassians . But a show in which the focal position is that of an entirely new exotic civilisation , that does n’t have the casualness with Starfleet or the Federation as a conception like we do , would be a fascinating way to hold a mirror up to the saint Trek ’s estimable and bright represent . Getting to see the safe ( and less - than - skillful ) aspect of the Federation from the perspective of them being the other would make for a enceinte twist on what we ’ve seen from Star Trek already .
A Show About the Federation, But Not About Starfleet
Throughout Star Trek ’s entire history , Starfleet has been our window to the idealised utopia of the Federation . Which is kind of uncanny , given that they ’re essentially part diplomat , part scientists , part explorers , and , err , part war machine . But what is life in the so-called utopia of the Federation ’s member public like outside of the realm of Starfleet ? Maybe this could be a futuristic sept dramatic event about conflicts that ca n’t be conclude by handsome sum of money of phaser banks or photon torpedoes . Or even a political thriller — what does the political landscape even look like in a utopian social club , specially one where it seems like Starfleet as an entity has such an all - encompass persona in the presidency of the Federation at tumid ? And what does it mean that they do ?
A Crime Procedural, However That Could Work in Star Trek
Look , this is CBS we ’re talk about — it know nothing more than a sound bull show , so you may bet some television set executive is already looking for the Trek reading of Blue Bloods or something ( god , Tom Selleck as a mustached Trek alien , though ! ) . But for the same reasons as above that would make exploring life in a utopian company interesting , a show about what kind of crime exists in a society like that would be as fascinating . Maybe it ’s a Starfleet security show , about keeping the repose not needs on a starship but on a Federation colony or outpost . Maybe to get it to really work , you have to go a bitConstable Odo in Deep Space Nine — a third party intermediary , not directly associate with Starfleet , but work out with them in a frontier environment where various chemical group with dissimilar moral and legal standard have to live together .
A Show That’s Actually About the Lower Ranks on a Starship
think for about five second when Star Trek : Discovery pitched itself as a show that was about a First Officer , so it would be dealing with life on a spaceship beyond the bridge officers we typically interact with in a main Star Trek cast of characters ? And then it was pretty much forthwith a show about the bridge officers we typically interact with in a main Star Trek cast ? Yeah , sure , half of the Discovery ’s bridge circuit crew scarcely had names , let alone chance to glitter in the first time of year , but it was n’t exactlyLower pack of cards : The TV Series .
… So make abject Decks : The TV Series ! What is life like on a starship when you ’re just cog in the motorcar rather than the people in charge ? We ’ve had show after show about the life-time of Bridge Officers , what about the rest of the crew ? And we ’re talking lower ranks here , the ensigns , the next-to-last - tier LTs — not people who would on a regular basis be interacting with the main chiefs of their several division or the command police officer on a even basis . It ’s an idea that could even bring a sort of satirical bent to the Star Trek humans , a quasi - role - situation comedy where the Average Joes of a Starfleet cruiser ponder about the wildly dangerous and freaky away missions Star Trek span officers usually go on as part of everyday life . How do you live on a normal life when your job is being on a starship that encounters god every other workweek ?
An Honest to God New Star Trek Continuation
All the pitch so far have been relatively out there for what we ’ve typically seen from Star Trek as a TV franchise — which is serialise space risky venture about the work party of a spaceship exploring strange new worlds , seeking out new life history and newfangled civilisation , and boldly conk where no one has drop dead before . But there ’s a reason we ’ve had basically that and nothing else , give or take , for over 50 years — it ’s a damn proficient premiss that cultivate .
perhaps CBS wo n’t want to do it while it ’s still stuck in the past with Discovery as the “ prime ” show in its soon - to - be - expansive Trek roster , but if we do get another standard Star Trek show , it has to be truly new — a Modern ship , new lineament , set after the case of Voyager and Deep Space Nine ( or even this new Picard show ) that is n’t a prequel , or inherently connected to the Star Trek shew of the past . No cameos , no later iteration of the Enterprise , just an wholly young crew on a unexampled mission of geographic expedition . The future timeline of Star Trek beyond the end of the Dominion War and Voyager ’s return to Earth is still so undiscovered on goggle box — so why not really search it ?
And if there must be Discovery spinoffs…
A Non-Mirror Georgiou Show
One possible spinoff CBS head did recently mention having been discuss for Discovery was a show that would concentre on Michelle Yeoh ’s Phillipa Georgiou — perhaps , more specifically , the evil Mirror Universe empress incarnation of the lineament that Burnham countenance live , alarmingly free to wander around the prime universe at the close of Discovery ’s first season . Who does n’t want more Michelle Yeoh ?
But rather of a Mirror Georgiou show where she wanders around contemplating which alien coinage she should eat next , why not bring Yeoh back as Captain Georgiou , the noble Starfleet policeman that would go on to inspire Michael Burnham ? We did n’t get intimately enough of Captain Georgiou before her unseasonable death at the death of Discovery ’s first instalment , so it ’d be nice to actually get to know her as the Starfleet idealist , while leaving Emperor Georgiou as something Discovery could deal with — given that Georgiou ’s death in the show is when fairly much everything with Starfleet go sidelong thanks to a war with the Klingons , it would be interesting to see the period of time when everything was n’t a mammoth mess .
A Klingon-Specific Show
I partially say this so Discovery itself can drop less clip focusing on theKlingons , an view I did not particularly enjoy in its first time of year . But also because there are unquestionably a lot of interesting avenues to research with the pre - unification Klingon society we met at the start of the time of year — basically , make it Game of Thrones with Klingons , war houses engaging in drama and politics while blocs are shape and the true debate about bring the Klingons as a people together into the mighty , laurels - tie Empire we know and love . Not only would it be another opportunity for a non - Starfleet perspective on the Trek existence , the ever - evolving Klingon civilization has made them one of the most dear aspect of the franchise in worldwide . Why not give the Klingons a hazard to shine on their own ?
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