Comment A Ship of Klingons... (Score 1) 713
I can't help but think that Paramount needs to get away from their earthcentric view of Star Trek altogether. There's lots of cool species populating the Star Trek universe, and few of them would be burdened by ST canon.
I dunno how interesting it would be to the rest of you, but I'd like a show featuring a bunch of bloodthirsty Klingons flying around, dispensing a little bit of Klingon Justice to some uppity . No need for universal translators there - everyone speaks "disruptor." The moral dilemma of the week problems would be more interesting too, but never anything that couldn't be solved with a bat'leh.
Finally, the thing that's always bothered me about humans since TNG has been that there aren't very many political factions. The Klingons have lots of factions and intrigue. In fact, the sad thing about the ST writing in the last ten years has been their silly reliance on pseudo-physics, chemistry, and pop-psychology. Shakespeare wouldn't recognize Paramount's apparent idea of drama as being all that dramatic. In fact, I think a show about Klingons could say more about the human condition in an hour than a show about some whiny human liberals and a fistful of temporal distortion problem would say in a season.
I dunno how interesting it would be to the rest of you, but I'd like a show featuring a bunch of bloodthirsty Klingons flying around, dispensing a little bit of Klingon Justice to some uppity . No need for universal translators there - everyone speaks "disruptor." The moral dilemma of the week problems would be more interesting too, but never anything that couldn't be solved with a bat'leh.
Finally, the thing that's always bothered me about humans since TNG has been that there aren't very many political factions. The Klingons have lots of factions and intrigue. In fact, the sad thing about the ST writing in the last ten years has been their silly reliance on pseudo-physics, chemistry, and pop-psychology. Shakespeare wouldn't recognize Paramount's apparent idea of drama as being all that dramatic. In fact, I think a show about Klingons could say more about the human condition in an hour than a show about some whiny human liberals and a fistful of temporal distortion problem would say in a season.
