Agreed.
By ludwig

Especially when Andromeda is terrible!

But agree with that last remark completely. Everyone seems to think that Rick Berman ahs no right to make more Star Trek without their OK or veto. That's simply not how it works. And you have to realize. While there might be 100 people on these sights. There's 15,000,000 other Star Trek fans that just want a GOOD movie and will take what they can get simply because they love the series.

It's amazing that of all the fanatics...being us...most of the people here have more negative feelings toward the series than the casual Star Trek viewer. But to satisfy both sides of the debate. I developed a film idea of my own that will roughly take the same concept but satisfy people on both sides of the debate.

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-A shuttle craft hovers above the ground of a ravaged miserable desert planet.

Unbeknownst to the crew...While they were in that shuttle, they slipped through a tiny sector of space, an expanse in which linear time does not exist...a place in which an instant is the equivelent to a millenia in normal space and time.

Our main character was escorting a doctor or military analyst, who either held the secrets to winning a mounting war, or held the secrets to a vaxine to a virus that was threatening to destroy the world.

In that instant that they past through the sector of space, the universe aged over one hundred years around them.

Now Earth almost carries a Mad Max feel......Don't worry, it's not going to be anything like Mad Max.......humanity lost the war, or was strickened with the disease/plague, and took one solid step backward in their evolution. They look into the stars as humans once did, but not looking toward the future, they look toward the past. Our main characters come in contact with a group of humans and here is where the internal struggle comes into play. They find it difficult being amongst these Barbarians in which ethics are skewed, morality is virtually non-existent, and all of the progress has suddenly been flushed down the drain.

But the alien population of Earth has separated themselves from the humans. The main villain will be a Romulan that was in some ways immune to the virus. Though it caused his physical disfiguration, it was not deadly to him. It reorganized his synaptic pathways in a way that allowed the development of psychokenisis, allowing him to control things with his mind, and alter peoples perception. This alien segregation from the humans makes for a theme of racism, only its not the humans enslaving anyone, it's the aliens.

This Earthling League of Aliens or whatever they're called, is the only major considerable government or super power.

The civilized human characters must help the rest of the humans to fight and survive....

The Earthbound nature of this Trek film will make for an interesting drama. The premise will be made relevant to what's going on today, with a theme of "history being at risk of repeating itself." It'll mirror the war on terror but not hit on it directly....such as the 2010 idea.

And it will be clearly pronounced as Star Trek. With the remaining starbases and cities, it's still the Star Trek universe. There's going to be ship-to-ship combat with worn down starships found crashlanded or the starships still docked in starbase. I'll also have to deal with the idea of how the Klingons and Romulans look at the Federation now. All of this I plan to deal with....It'll still be Trek, just as we've never seen it before.

By the end, our characters will have been successful. There might be a Star Trek solution to restore Earth or maybe they'll sale off in search of peace and new worlds to explore. All of these ideas I'm grappling with.

It will hit on the same themes and political ideals as the 2010 idea (though not being necessarily controversial or at all a political thriller.) It captures the same mood but doesn't involve time travel. The stakes are high, and it's big, like nothing ever seen before.

Obviously the odds of my getting the script to Paramount is limited. But if it were to be a movie...what would you guys think?