Star Trek: Federation the series that didn't happen

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A much more fragile and smaller Federation set in the year 3000 with a new Enterprise and a new Kirk.

The Federation hasn?t had a flagship in over two hundred years. They haven?t done anything either scientifically or in terms of exploration that comes near the deeds done in the long ago Age of Expansion.

There is no sense of true unity in the Federation and unity will be required if these new aliens return in force. The people need a symbol to remind them who they are, what they mean to each other and that there are prices to be paid for living in paradise.

They need, in short, a sense of Enterprise?
- from "Star Trek: Federation" series proposal

http://trekmovie.com/2011/04/14/exclusive-the-true-story-behind-the-bryan-singer-pitch-of-star-trek-federation/

Let STAR TREK breathe. Let it return to the marketplace in the hands of people willing to write the sort of stories that confront and entertain today?s audiences. Let?s grapple again with the issues of the day- issues of diversity, government power, gender frictions, a controversial war on foreign soil, and a host of other things. Embrace modern television storytelling techniques. Most importantly, as with the original STAR TREK and THE NEXT GENERATION audiences must recognize the world they live in today in the far-flung future, then take the show?s concepts and lessons with them back into their everyday lives.

The great strength of STAR TREK is the very Universe in which it?s set. The Characters. The Starships. The Aliens. The stories.

Gene Roddenberry himself provided the perfect example how to create a wildly successfully new STAR TREK series?

Acknowledge what?s come before, but then set your stage far enough in the STAR TREK future when everything old is new again.

Turn the STAR TREK Universe upside down. Shake vigorously.

Utopia as a goal is like the fire in a nuclear engine. Utopia in practice is stagnation; it?s dry rot; eventually it?s death. Which is precisely where we find the United Federation of Planets a few centuries after the last Age of Discovery.

Lieutenant Commander Alexander Kirk is the only survivor of the ?Sojourner Incident,? as it?s come to be known in the press. And he has no clear memory of the events themselves. Attempts to ?help? him remember cause him to become irrational and violent. All he has is images of carnage and death and a hidden malevolent presence lurking behind it all. When called before his superiors, he paints a picture of the enemy that is scarcely believed and which, if true, might tip the already fracturing Federation Alliance into true collapse.

http://trekmovie.com/2011/04/16/exclusive-details-excerpts-from-star-trek-federation-series-proposal/

[TheConstable6]

I know this is old but I HAD to say...I really wish they would've made this. It sounds amazing