/strek/ - Star Trek ★

Space: 1999

They'll have to call it Space: 2099

>>19574

>Wanting a modern, good, Star Trek

>Life is pain

I'd like to see a good sci fi series based around believable near(ish) future tech. No FTL, no teleportation, it's all inside our solar system, travelling between a planet takes months at best, combat is governed by DeltaV and takes place with cannons and missiles fired at targets a few thousand miles a way (3-400 miles is seen as retardedly close range). Plot revolves around a future colonial rush with various World powers trying to secure resources across the planets of our solar system and slowly trying to terraform the worlds and moons in question, politics and wars in space are run on an understanding that 'what happens in space, stays in space' as it was the only way to avoid global thermonuclear war.

Ideally this setting would have 3 linked shows running concurrently split between three main groups; a colonial mission on Titan (focused mainly on survival and people coping with incredibly tight living conditions), a combat vessel escorting resource convoys going both ways and swapping out for raiding duty (tense combat missions and general military sic fi), and a diplomatic team back on Earth trying to smooth over the tension caused by their latest raids on their rivals colonies, gather intelligence on their opponents, and living in constant fear that things will get out of hand and the nukes will leave the silo. The plots of each show will be linked and running through the same general story.

A sci-fi series where humans rightfully crush pathetic xenos under their boots!

>>19585

Are you writing hard sci-fi novels?

You should be.

>it's all inside our solar system, traveling between a planet takes months at best

I'd love to see more sci fi franchises that limited themselves to just the solar system, but making travel between planets take months is basically saying you want a space series to only ever be about one planet.

Even Cowboy Bebop realized they needed a ftl macguffin to get the gang to other planets because weeks of empty space travel between point A and B is just dull as fuck and huge pain to write around.

Well if we're on the subject of games, fuckin' Colony Wars. I have so much headcanon for that game.

For anybody who didn't play it, it's reasonably soft sci-fi in a Star Wars / Battlestar Galactica* vein. Only they can only travel interstellar distances through a limited number of warp gates, which are held open by big warp stations.

It's a multi-ending game with a fairly generic "rebel agsinst the evil empire" plot… except for one of the 'bad' endings, which is actually the canon ending, and a really brutal twist.

>>19585

I have a comic in the works somewhat like that, but kind of flipped. People in space help each other out and cooperate, because it's harsh and unforgiving up there, while the factions on Earth are at each other's throats over really petty bullshit.

It has hard sci-fi tech but not much will be made of it, nor will there be any space combat. Also they'll actually develop FTL during the course of the story and take the most important step humanity has ever taken, to another star system… while their governments back home start screeching at them to put each other in the brig because Mars just declared independence and only some Earth factions have recognised it.

*

Good guy capital ships = Battlestar Galactica

Good guy fighters = Babylon 5

Bad guy capital ships = Star Trek

Bad guy fighters = …just look like "spacified" modern military jets, to be honest.

>>19720

It's a shame CoD Infinite bombed to hard (and was such a shitty game inandof itself), killed any chance of the Colony Wars franchise getting revived. Fucking cod babies throwing a fit if their game isn't filled with dull ass present day tacticool bullshit

More Arthur C Clark adaptations. The City and the Stars or Rendezvous with Rama could be real good if handled correctly. I actually quite liked the Childhood's end adaptation from a few years ago.

A Judge Dredd animated show.

Doctor Who handled by anyone better than the BBC (see Big Finish for an example of what could have been).

More Lexx, maybe in comic form, because the cast are getting old now.

>>19724

>Judge Dredd animated show

While there isn't an animated show coming, there is a Judge Dredd television series in the works.

>>19724

I loved Rendezvous With Rama. It made me want to read more hard sci-fi, something I never got around to.

>>19725

And that'll be cool, but I think the goofy cartoony elements of Dredd would be best represented in animation. This one off short was pretty well done.

>>19726

I can strongly recommend Childhood's End and The City and the Stars.

>>19713

I've tried a few times. Whenever I start writing it all goes well until I read back through the first few pages and start editing …

>>19728

I wish we'd get some good gritty and fun animation again.

>>19585

I read Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars by Robinson….I do not think it would be good content to turn into a TV series or movie though.

And by "good", what I really mean is profitable, or marketable. It sucks, but that's the way it is.

>>19755

I got about a quarter through Red Mars and stopped caring, but that was back in middle school. I found it pretty boring and was pissed that I'd gotten so far into the book and basically nothing had happened except for some people pairing off and fucking. Maybe now that I'm twice as old I might like it, but I'm skeptical.

I've thought of a trek series in which the main captain gets back stabbed due to section 31 bullshit or something like that, and so takes his highly advanced ship to join the Orion syndicate.

The premise is based around him striking back at the conspiracy bit by bit to prove his innocence, while balancing a life essentially as a career criminal. The char development going a wide eyed federation idealist, to a jaded half criminal half conspiracy fighter.

>>19765

Mecha anime is one of those things that could be adapted so well, but almost certainly wouldn't be.

>>19765

Battletech would make a pretty damned interesting setting for a /television/ show, especially since there is a lot of depth to the universe. Hell you could have a series based off the politics alone. Problem is making it would be expensive and it'd be full of poz.

>>19774

Battletech isn't really anime. The robots are treated like tanks, not a large guy in samurai armor with a rifle, they are piloted by highly trained soldiers, not angsty teenagers, fielding the same kind of armor and weapons tanks do, prototype equipment is extremely rare and highly unreliable, and rely on military tactics and usually work hand in hand with other military units.

So the closest you'd get to Battletech in anime is F.L.A.G.

Besides, what makes the battletech universe stand out is the history and depth of the politics between all the various factions, each having around 1000 years of history and old wars with the other major superpowers. For most factions, its hard to explain who they are without delving into several hundred years of history. Just try to summarize who Comstar is beyond "the interstellar phone company" without turning it into a history lesson.

>>19774

>>19816

He was probably thinking of Gundam

I used to play the Battletech SEGA games, and there was a Western cartoon with the same setting.

They are similar in that they are both futuristic military science fiction but one has mech more like robots and the other has mechs more like tanks.

Space/mech stuff isn't really popular in today's anime culture, it's all about magical teens with ruffled hair. Other than Code Geass I can't think of any fairly recent similar show, though I'd be very happy to be proven wrong if I am.

>>19817

Surely there is a wiki….I haven't even searched yet but there must be.

>>19819

www.sarna.net

Though I was writing one for anon consumption to give a decent introduction guide

>>19818

I was refering more to LotGH. I guess that's not mecha exactly, although it basically is just Gundam without the robots.

>>19818

>Anime mecha where angsty teens pilot samurai robot suits with guns

/m/ funny enough died because that's all anons were allowed to discuss there. If you dared discuss anything different there would be sperging out.

Heinlein's "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" is a movie that I've wanted to see for a very long time.

Heinlein's "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" is a movie that I've wanted to see for a very long time.

>>19825

>>19765

>>19776

>>19816

>>19817

To think, Battletech was at one point bigger than 40k.

>>19822

/m/ is beyond shit. Even if you try and revive it nobody there will show any indication of support.

I remember the gamenight on /v/ for the Mechwarrior 4. It was full of /m/unters bitching about it being the wrong game saying that MWLL was better which after trying was clearly not the case.

>>19824

>>19825

Nice to see the site working normally.