I was thinking more like they just say it’s Star Trek but make the show identical to Firefly.
It was a reference about how Disco wasn’t anything like Trek other than they called it Star Trek. A similar thing was done with Foundation and Dirk Gently. It’s not like Dirk Gently was bad. I really liked it. But it had absolutely nothing in common with the books.
If Pike makes Kirk look like an aggressive wildcard, Reynolds would make Kirk look like a bank clerk. The running theme in the show would be how, each episode, he barely dodges a court marshal for whatever he did.
No clue. I honestly don’t watch that much TV anymore. A younger Richard Dean Anderson might have been interesting in the role. Who to cast for Burgoyne though, half of the out non-binary actors are already in modern Trek, lol. (Also kudos to Peter David for the non-binary representation in the 90s, wow.)
I’d dig a spinoff about smaller Federation ships. Tugboats, science vessels, diplomatic fixers, whatever. Ships where the half-dozen bridge crew are the entire crew. Release it in arcs following one of those at a time, so we can get to know people, but the show needn’t be afraid of killing people off or blowing up the whole damn ship. Stakes can feel serious because there’s no plot armor… even if the tone is usually safe. And it does allow for captains getting run off, or reassigned to flying a desk, or just regular arrested.
For proper trolling I’d get the cast of Firefly back together and completely jumble their roles.
Which would cause more mayhem, Malcom Reynolds, just trying to survive, or Katherine Janeway getting coffee?
Edit: also it’s Court Martial. As in Martial (Military) Court. The Marshalls aren’t coming to arrest you in Starfleet, no guarantee of that in the 'verse I suppose
You should replace the Starfleet badge with a Stargate Battlestar Galactica one.
Edited because I realized the BSG badge would be less obvious and goes in the same place on the uniform. Stargate patches go on the shoulder, not the chest. If you replaced the delta with a lieutenant badge, you’d need a keen eye to notice it.
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