Heyyyyy guess who just mysteriously spilled green tea in her Macbook trackpad? The same trackpad that was replaced a mere four months ago after a mineral water incident? OH GOD APPLECARE DON'T KILL ME. (They gave me a free new powercord just last week!) Cry!

so here we are on an ... eMachine. With Vista. let us not discuss that any further.

What I do want to discuss though is Star Trek. Specifically, the hypothetical next television series. Yesterday I finished my watchthrough of Deep Space Nine (SUCH A GOOD SHOW, GUYS, SUCH A GOOD SHOW) and while I am in no way equipped to write out all my thoughts & feelings on that matter in a DWth text box on an eMachine that is not mine, I would really like other people's opinions on what the next Trek show could be and I think this is a good time to ask. DS9 being both political and Alpha Quadrant-based it is in some ways the obvious jumping-off-point for the continuing larger story of Trek despite having Voyager, Enterprise, and two movies coming in after.

We have, as left off in DS9: the entrance of Bajor into the Federation, the rebuilding of Cardassia, possible radical restructuring of the Klingon Empire, Section 31, and a closer relationship with the Romulans than ever before.

As left off in Nemesis, which takes place a few years later: a closer look at the Romulan Star Empire than ever seen previously, including the existence of Remus and the subjugated Remans.

And as left off in Star Trek XI: ROMULAN SUPERNOVA.

There have been three regular Vulcan castmembers. There have been two Klingons. There has even been a Borg. DS9 took time to show the good in their Nazi analogue, Cardassia. But there has never been a major Romulan; they have been shown only as villains in the last two Trek movies, and (particularly considering their close family ties to Vulcans) it's long past time. So I knew I wanted a Romulan, and not a Spock/Worf-style outcast, in my imaginary new Trek. But it wasn't until I realized that Nero's supernova occurs a mere FOURTEEN YEARS after the end of the Dominion War that it started coming together for me.

This show would take place, although over a century years later and mostly taking its cues from DS9 (since Vulcan was not a huge player in the Dominion war we can fudge it and say that turned out basically the same except for what we want to be different), IN THE AOS VERSE. Vulcan is long dead; the colony Spock Prime founded is thriving or whatever, and Romulus is evacuating from its now well-forewarned supernova! That's our in! The Romulan character can be on a mission to find a new planet, which will bring up issues of colonialization as well as the class divisions between Romulans and Remans since they may need to now share a planet. And being AOS verse allows us to be a little more stylish and bright, and with much better alien designs (NO MORE QUILTED GRAY BOX UNIFORMS, NO MORE BOWLCUTS, NO MORE WEIRD FACIAL STRUCTURE FOR VULCANS AND ROMULANS!!1).

You know I'm extremely #overinvestedinradicalstartrekpolitics. I do dream of a Star Trek series that isn't Starfleet POV (which DS9 accomplishes to some extent in its latter seasons). And when I first brought my Romulan dream and my annoyance with TOO MANY HUMANS up with Rawles she and her brother proposed a series where there is one white human guy and he dies in the first episode, an idea which I love. But I'm not sure of anything and I haven't gotten far enough with my "pitch." I don't know what kind of characters my cast should include! So this is why I ask -- what -- and WHO -- would you propose for the next and awesomest Star Trek?

:DDDDD

P.S. What Trek should I watch next (I saw all of TNG as a child)? Show your work.