g.man wrote:

Apparently they commissioned nine, but only seven of them were green-lit...

Seven of nine you say, hmmm...

give us an episode with the canonical dolphin crew members you cowards

Dolphins with canons? I LIKE IT!

As long as they say fuck, I’m in.

Voyager they were just stranded across the galaxy. Everything on the ship worked, it was TNG but a long way from home. 

I'm talking about having a ship that's held together with duct tape after it takes a pasting and is unable to call for help or considered destroyed. Voyager was TNG but oops we went through a wormhole, okay time to start heading home. 

I would like to see the aftermath of a starfleet vessel that has been almost crippled, limping around the place heading towards the nearest federation base/ship/outpost/whatever while the remaining crew deal with trying to hold the ship together, trying to hold themselves together and dealing with aliens and whatever turns up on the way when they are not an equal or superior force in the encounters, as they typically are for nearly all episodes of regular trek.

Tempy wrote:

I don’t know why the prequel stuff is seen as such fertile ground.

Cheap way to insert references to future events without much effort so people can watching can go "OMG I KNOW WHAT THEYRE TALKING ABOUT" or "OMG IF ONLY THEY KNEW HOW WRONG THEY WERE ABOUT THAT" and feel like they're really smart because they have basic recall of events that happen on a TV show they like. 

Also probably makes it easier to write the characters if you're lazy because you can just do the whole show by doing episodes where characters who behave in certain ways are shown going through the event that made them act that way in the future.

Roujin wrote:

Voyager they were just stranded across the galaxy. Everything on the ship worked, it was TNG but a long way from home.  I'm talking about having a ship that's held together with duct tape after it takes a pasting and is unable to call for help or considered destroyed. Voyager was TNG but oops we went through a wormhole, okay time to start heading home.  I would like to see the aftermath of a starfleet vessel that has been almost crippled, limping around the place heading towards the nearest federation base/ship/outpost/whatever while the remaining crew deal with trying to hold the ship together, trying to hold themselves together and dealing with aliens and whatever turns up on the way when they are not an equal or superior force in the encounters, as they typically are for nearly all episodes of regular trek.

So what your saying is, take Trek but make it basically like Farscape.

It sounds like he’s describing the original Lost in Space.

This is peak Simpsons did it.

Isnt tempy's idea of dolphins just Seaquest DSV ?

Dinostar77 wrote:

Isnt tempy's idea of dolphins just Seaquest DSV ?

You’ll note I said canonical as in, these dolphins already exist in Trek.

I shall defer to Evil Red Eye, who is the Authority

I'm just disappointed in Chabon. The guy's written some incredible stories.

Make it so?

If there’s one thing Trek needs right now, after being so lost and muddled for so long, it’s a porpoise.

Space, the fin frontier.