This is the pitch from Bryan Singer made a few years ago
The concept as a series could have been interesting.
Tho my initial thot in seeing the title and inital ideas was a series version of Star Trek - Articles of Federation, which dealt with the Fedration Persident (kinda like Star Trek meets West Wing) - and those characters were (and are) awesome
I love that they said they’d name the computer Majel. Nice homage.
I just sort of skimmed it, but I’ll try to remember to read the whole thing when I get home.
I wasn’t too thrilled with this, to be honest. Everything I love about the myriad of races and culture in Star Trek were, in my opinion, ruined. I understand it’s supposed to be set in the future, and that future brings change we can’t anticipate, but it would be destroying Star Trek as we know it.
I see your point - and that may have been one of the reason it didn’t move forward.
Still would have been interesting to see (IMHO)
It sounds a bit like the Star Trek: Phoenix premise.
Its an interesting idea, but I agree that the species changes are too drastic. It also sounds a lot like Babylon 5, right?
I like the ambition of it. And I agree that Star Trek is at its best when it’s reflecting back on the society that’s watching it.
Star Trek TOS : The struggle of late 1960s Cold War, Viet Nam, Social Upheval, Race issues.
Star Trek Next Generation: Reflected the time of late 80s and early 90s when America was wealthy and strong and the future looked limitless.
Star Trek Voyager: Late 90s a time when Americans—like the Voyager crew – began to see that our resources are limited and future uncertain and we didn’t really know if we’d make it to where we wanted to go.
Star Trek Enterprise: This could have reflected our post 911 world, but the show was conceived pre 911. They tried to capture a bit of that with the Xindi attack on Florida, but it wasn’t a fundamental aspect of the show.
So to make Star Trek: Federation about the falling empire in to reflect our falling American Empire of today…I like the notion …but I think it was in need of much tweaking.
…And to jump to the year 3000. Um…didn’t the Jonas Brothers already cover that time period…predicting that we’ll live underwater 
Anyway, at the time Enterprise was winding down I think the culture in general had become “meh” with Star Trek. So I doubt a new Star Trek series could have taken off regardless.
The TV / Movie audience had become over-saturated with Star Trek. I had too at that time, to be honest.
…And if I had not discovered GWC my interest in Star Trek probably wouldn’t have been rekindled.
I stand corrected. I did not know about Singer’s pitch. Thanks for the info, Operator. Now, if you could un-earth the supposed Shatner pitch for a new Star Trek series…
You are most definitely right about that. And now, thanks to the JJ Abrams film, the new, younger generation has really accepted it and are wanting more.
I can imagine middle-aged folks talking about this exact same thing when TNG was first released…
I think they were more forgiving because at least TNG was the same timeline and in the future. Trek 2009 was a (near) total reboot. Problem I had (not that I call myself middle-aged) was that all my Trek knowledge would be rendered moot. Similar to what Michael Bay did to Transformers.
Indeed. The JJ Abrams Trek was so well done that it became the “Hail Mary” pass that saved Star Trek from obscurity.
The era when TNG emerged was different though. At that time, the Star Trek TOS movies were doing great and were very well received. People were hungry for more Star Trek.
I was 23 when TNG aired. And I was all over it— I remember gathering with my friends to watch the pilot. We chose the house of the one of us whose parents had the biggest TV. Very exciting moment seeing the Enterprise D first appear on screen. Granted in hindsight Encounter at Farpoint was a weak episode, but… you can only imagine how major Star Trek fans like me felt getting an actual new TV series!!
As the Star Trek Federation post says, maybe we’ll need three successful rebooted Star Trek movies before the audience is ready to consider a new TV series…or maybe it’ll never happen …who knows.
I hear you on that one. And while it would appear that Michael Bay had a traumatizing encounter with an explosion as a child, JJ Abrams had an equally traumatizing childhood encounter with a temporal causality loop within four separate dimensions.
I tend to think of myself as a traditional Star Trek fan, and while JJ Abram’s movie was quality entertainment, it was a horrible Star Trek movie.
Maybe. Whatever happens with television Trek in the future, it had better be good. I’m pretty sick and tired of seeing low-budget, amateur films/8min webiodes with bad acting and horrible special effects (even for an amateur film).
I find it more likely that JJ was traumatized with flares. d:
I enjoyed Trek 2009. I wouldn’t call it a horrible Trek movie, but it was way outside what I believe Roddenbery had envisioned. But, then again, one could say the same for Khan, but no one would call WoK a bad Trek movie.