They should let me produce a new series. It won't focus on a single ship or crew. I'll call it:
Star Trek: UniverseThe opening will have different characters speaking part of the intro
Space, the final frontier.
These are the stories of the Federation Starfleet.
It's endless mission: To explore strange new worlds,
to seek out new life and new civilizations,
to boldly go where where no one has gone before
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I envision at least five ships of different classes. Their captain's are brought together by an admiral to discuss the situation in a neglected corner of the federation where Klingons and Romulans share a border region. It seems that both and others have established colonies in systems abandoned by a race called the Durnan, which all mysteriously vanished suddenly. These five ships are assigned by a Starfleet stretched thin after the Dominion War to patrol the sector, try to establish peace between bitterly opposed colonies, investigate the Durnan and other things.
Recently though there have been reports of a possible Borg sphere in the area. One private vessel claims a close contact and that one of its food replicators was beamed off their ship. Analysts say the sphere is likely in bad repair, having somehow survived since the last war with the Borg.
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I envision the first episode opening with a "Captain's log" entry from a Borg reporting that their sphere was heavily damaged and cut off from the collective. Being cut off killed nearly the entire crew, only a handful survived. They all represent different species, some regained partial memories from before assimilation but all reported bad effects from being cut off. Fortunately the activation of an empty carrier wave mimicking the hive mind, albeit silent, kept them sane.
They had to work out how to be individuals, how to obtain nutrition since the regeneration units no longer function and how to return "home" or rather what is their "home".
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Do you think it'd be unfair to spend most of the first episode on Borg survivors? lol.
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I would have 4 units filming separate episodes at the same time, each focused on a different vessel (they can hop in and out for smaller parts in each others episodes) and then every 5th episode involving more or all of them. You might recall some Dr Who episodes that focus on others with the main cast barely popping in to save the day (saves money and time and at least its not a flashback episode)