At a Lower Decks panel.
Q: “If they offered you a Star Trek police procedural, would you do it?”
Tawny Newsome: “yes but the first episode would be them all quitting being cops.”
Give this woman the keys to Star Trek now please.
Q: “If they offered you a Star Trek police procedural, would you do it?”
Tawny Newsome: “yes but the first episode would be them all quitting being cops.”
Give this woman the keys to Star Trek now please.
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But if they all quit being cops in ep 1? I'm in!
That person GETS IT! ^^
Would mind a series about federation bureaucracy with heavy Futurama influence.
Seeing how respecting each member culture while getting it all to work.
why not reintegrate the victim of war crimes into the Odo Great Link? would have been such an easy move and a nod to ds9 fans...
Janeway in retirement in her neighborhood. Neighborly stuff but weird crime shenanigans and using Starfleet experience to go after them. Plus each week past star trek cast member maybe stopping by each week for coffee with Janeway.
Like his character is off doing. I haven't caught up with Star Trek Prodigy to give a good suggestion. 😅
And love Lower Decks. So sad it’s over. Wish another studio would pick it up. The animation was awesome too.
Make the first episode a flash-forward and allow us to see the gradual buildup of disillusionment with the Police!
Similar to the same one in Hannibal Season 2!
Do you have any 3s?
I doubt any of the suits at Paramount could even get their heads around the concept, though.
Even sci-fi writers sometimes have a hard time thinking outside the box. 😕
Starbase 80/Anaximander
Harry Mudd
SNW spinoff with Captain Kirk filling in the gaps/continuing on from TOS
Captain Uhura/USS Leondegrance
The Next, Next Generation with Captain Seven
Department of Temporal Investigations
Not sure if parody or dumb...
Really understood the spirit of Trek.
Starfleet medical drama.
(Kinda like this idea now.)
and his team on a quiet world that’s been settled for 50 years or so, having to deal with rancher disputes, native wildlife predation, arguments and a local alcoholic, with seasonal visits from an overzealous sector head more concerned with finding problems.
Or every episode we watch another cop quit then get a flashback montauge of the things that made them quit.
Who when there isn't a Dominon War on undertake - amongst other things - policing & counter insurgency missions.
Voyager started with the latter against the Maquis.
It was never released, much to my disappointment, but put that in the Federation and you...📜
Police procedural is a format not particularly related to actual police. House is a police procedural (and no, it’s not a medical drama or even a medical procedural) because of its storytelling—I’m sure Newsome could make any variation of that work so long as they aren’t literal Starfleet cops.
Almost all suspects would be Klingon....
I've not see any of the new spin-off series because they are behind paywalls. One of these days I might subscribe for a month to watch a series or two
(But honestly, looking at his life/career, I'm really jealous of everything he's done and how he's still fucking alive and kinda healthy)
The 'something' she knew is that all cops are bastards 🖖
Plus lets not forget that Gene Roddenberry himself was a cop at one point (not meant as a gotcha mind you)
A trek police procedural can work but tweak it.
I wouldn’t really just hand a cop the weapons systems, but Tuvok handle phaser banks and lead an investigation to any threats to the ship or crew.
And a very shady black ops division.
Heck we could use trek to explore law enforcement in ways something pro cop like blue bloods cant such as being more nuanced and thoughtful.
They're more heavily armed than most cops here in Great Britain where I live.
With how Picard goes, Star Trek was starting to fracture in it's goodness
Also we see A LOT of homicide on screen in Star Trek itself for that matter.
I mean I have tackled this issue personally with my "Verndari" concept from my Teknabunnies project who are more like star-fleet security than police.
Its fun playing with this kind of thing
So a comedy version of the FBI, I guess lol
it was called The Inspectors!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inspectors
There is a pleasure to the mystery,that doesn't need to be about state monopolies on violence
Q creates "Law and Order: Final Frontier".
Murder and mayhem ensue.
Cops
Are
Barred from space travel
Because of plot armour, but maybe because of how important Quark is for the DS9 economy?
Abolish the police, we have replicators ffs lol
They could just do sector general but star trek, they wouldnt even need to go as in-depth as White did because star trek
elected by the phds
and political officials(often highly reputable) come on spread fast
"Not since those Klingon laxatives, Captain"
Most of these stories would work just fine with Starfleet as the focus.
Fuck your stats that's where we at!
https://youtu.be/1bskD5Lddfo?si=oJZLkC7VmFZn2UJ7
I apologise in advance to anyone who is about to remember Space Precinct.
But really, all we’d end up with is a normal cop show in Trekface, where they just say Latinum instead of Money.
Because the writers don’t seem to grok what the setting is supposed to be.
Remove Odo & you probably wind up w/a Bajoran or Federation office Mr filling the role
A big point of DS9 was addressing this, where the Federation is a system where these kinds of bad actors are weeded out by the system. Like an inverse of cops where the good ones are kicked out by a system of bad people.
Play on stereotyping, racial profiling, poverty etc. Could hit really hard.
Section 31 exists and its foundation is built on the bigoted idea that species that join the Federation might have ill intentions and want to ursurp human-centric power.
Mariner is issued a fedora and leather bullwhip and gets a new tagline "It doesn't belong in a museum!"
Ke Huy Quan hired to voice the archivist who helps liberate artifacts.
Crime stats are considered pretty unreliable for sexual offenses. At the other end, some surveys suggest multiple percentages of people have raped or been raped.
b) Mayo Clinic cites among its causes “life situations, especially neglect and abuse”
c) nothing here is showing that that is a primary or even common cause of crime
d) the eugenics piece is your argument that something inherent in people causes crime
I'm guessing you're basing this claim on incidents of well-off people committing crimes.
Have you considered there are forms of scarcity other than the strictly financial? Nutritional, neurochemical, social, emotional, etc.
A) antisocial personality disorder--a broken brain--does not create special needs in the person with the disorder; and
B) the majority of criminals have antisocial personality disorder?
The overwhelming majority of crime is done by people who are not mentally ill. They are simply either desperate, or alienated from their communities
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1525086/#:~:text=Three%20percent%20of%20the%20violent,such%20as%20schizophrenia%20or%20depression.
That said, I'd say a Federation prison is leaps and bounds more focused on rehabilitation than anything we have in modern society.
Of the folks we so go there, crimes like "treason" get you 18 months max.
Sometimes a crime did happen, but entirely by accident due to very odd confluences of events.
Or someone tried to recreate a historical period on a planet again.
People have tried stealing and smuggling artifacts.
Quark is Quark.
Some people are just assholes that like to hurt or lord power over people, *even if all their other needs are met*, so a post-scarcity society wouldn't change that.
But still they grasp for more and are oft happy to hurt others to do so.
I think you'd still have crime. Because while a lot--perhaps even most!--crime is born of deprivation and circumstance, some people's motivation for hurting others really is 'just because I can'.
“He did what? Tried to start a war with the Klingons, you say? That’s the third admiral meddling with the Romulans this week!”
I want this as a episode
There's a huge difference between locals protecting their community and policing systems that are fundamentally built on catching runaway slaves.
It would be excruciatingly boring.
We’re talking about the same people who think Helldivers was unironic, think Walter White was the good guy, and think RAtM is suddenly political.
Kurtzman needs to go.
Spacedock is in space for a reason.
That would make a good mix, IMO.
I suspect Patrick Stewart and the rest of the cast would have had a blast doing it, too.
Do a Captain Mariner series.
I definitely want more of her in the franchise. She loves the source content and is just a brilliant entertainer, which is a helluva combination.
Every cop got their position by being crooked but they're proud of it. Police work is about bribery, leverage, loyalty, revenge, family, and prestige. It'd be an interesting twist.
Cleanup crew: yes!
Also, what we need is a Star Trek COURT procedural. Measure of a Man! Ad Astra Per Aspera! Tribunal and Rules of Engagement! Veritas!
"What would Space Law be like?" is SUCH fertile ground!