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Paramount, CBS, listen up. If you want to be on the leading edge of entertainment, and go where no one has gone before- you need to be prepared to embrace a new paradigm, a new frontier in production. You wouldn’t have to spend any money on writing teams. You’ve have already demonstrated that your people don’t know Trek, or can’t write Trek, or simply just don’t care.
In the history of television, know other show has generated as much fan love and fan fiction than Star Trek. There is better written Star Trek fan-fiction than there are books published by the traditional guard. A youtube channel recreating the mood and feel of the original Trek holds better quality than all of your high cost productions. The new frontier is Fan Fiction, and if you don’t get on board, they’re going to beat you worse than Reddit Stock market scheme.
By going to existing fan work, and bringing them into the fold, perhaps producing mini series that reflect the best of the fans would more than just boost your ratings, you would send message to all the other media platforms that your fan base is the most important asset you have. You have people in your ranks that want you to fail. You have people in ranks that have already been accused of plagiarizing other people’s work. Why not just get ahead of the curve and accept some of your fans actually know your product better than your staff. And they care.
I have been of fan of Trek since the 70s, watching it in syndication. I have watched ever series, every movie, read every book, read a lot of fan…
