How to Save Star Trek

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How to Save Star Trek

James Joyner | Thursday, February 10, 2005

Adam Yoshida has some amusing yet interesting ideas on how to revive the Star Trek franchise after the failure of Enterprise to last the requisite seven years.

Star Trek: Smallville: The âStarfleet Academyâ idea proposal has been floating around for years. At least since the time before Star Trek 6 was made. Itâs an idea with potential. If executed correctly, it might well work. Thereâs two ways of doing this: cast people to play famous characters when they were younger or create new characters. I tend to favor the former. Hence why Iâve designated this option âSmallville.â Iâd favor doing it with original series characters, since the later ones lack the fame and, in the case of the later generations, too far separated in age.

Star Trek: The West Wing: Weâve established a little bit about the Federation Government. Why donât we learn a little more? It strikes me as entirely possible that world of the Federation President, if well-written, would make for an interesting show. This would give us the opportunity to explore the more traditional areas of the Federation (particularly Earth, Luna, Mars, etc.) which weâve yet to see explored.

CSI Vulcan: This is actually my personal favorite. Frankly, the CSI-genre and the Star Trek-genre strike me as the perfect two areas for the creation of a fusion product. Criminal investigations (and the ability of criminals for disguise) in the Star Trek-universe just seems like a perfect candidate for a future hit.

I’d watch any of those, I think.

Hat tip Stephen Green, whose wife would especially be thrilled if Tom Welling, preferably minus shirt, were featured in ST: Smallville.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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