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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hopeless" data-source="post: 5671071" data-attributes="member: 36349">Star Trek the new horizons...I personally thought Voyager was a mistake my dad loathed the captain, me I thought they went the wrong way. I actually had this idea of it being set on the distant side of federation space except they tended to use the place as a dumping ground for those personne star fleet and the federation wanted rid of and couldn't find a legitimate reason for either dismissing them from the fleet or imprisoning them lawfully. A rough and ready crowd who come across as perfectly normal for a fringe society with no place to go and little prospects as the area was considered of little interest. However it does border a nebula and occasionally an exploration ship heads there to test new sensors in hopes of solving the reason why their technology doesn't work so well inside the nebula such that they haven't tried seriously exploring it due to them belieiving it to be barely forming its own star systems within. This time the exploration ship is accompanied by an outdated escort manned by crew from the starbase and to waylay ill feelings between the respective crews (they had a bar fight whilst docked) a few of the crews on each ship are exchanged so both can see the benefits of cooperating. However they encounter a disabled alien spaceship and send an away team aboard to investigate.Another ship is detected exiting the nebula and this time the galaxy class ship moves to intercept and tried to hail them.The ship is promptly blown apart and as it does the disabled ship suddenly comes to life and raises shields preventing anyone aboard from beaming off the ship... I see this as a two parter with the second part revealing the two alien ships are enemies and a surviving crew member is trying to evade the away team aboard her ship as she tried to repair the ship so she can use it to escape their pursuer meanwhile the escort is doing its best to evade their attacker but things prove more difficult when the survivng crew member is confronted and she appears to be klingon in origin. The universal translator doesn't work, the away team's phasers and equipment don't work aboard the alien spaceship they're trapped aboard BUT Escort's primitive grappler does meaning its trying to stay ahead of the attacker with the alien ship still attached and using that ship's shields to block the attacks from their pursuer! I see this ending with them using their towed ship as an improvised bomb so their escort can blow up their attacker however this requires the away team to actually manage to succeed in persuading the surviving crewmember and escaping aboard an escape pod which is also blown up by the explosion but the transporter aboard the escort manages to beam them aboard in time. I see this in the view point of that survivor where we see how things work in the Federation from her viewpoint and how the new cast copes with life on a frontier that has become decidely dangerous with the nearest help at least a decade away since their means of communications is reliant on passing ships and not instantaneous communication with the rest of the Federation as it was never seen as necessary... Not so perfect society, more like the world at present and more importantly the long thread can deal with who their new friend is, who their attacker was and why after so long is the nebula suddenly full of inhabitants that by all rights shouldn't be there?! First season I'd see them trying to deal with the ramifications that they have to hold out until help comes along, have their new friend try to cope with gradually learning a new language since the universal translator doesn't work and have that become a subplot where you eventually discover WHY it doesn't but have them try to send a message home via any passing ship except in many cases it will take them even longer to get that message there and in some cases they either part of another subterfuge by enemies of the federation who are becoming aware there something important going on here or are silenced by the enemy they know almost nothing about! I figure the secret about the nebula's new inhabitants being linked to the Borg running rampant in their part of the galaxy being a good enough link without having them get involved as well as reveal the refugees aren't entirely as benevolent as their new friend who turns out to be the only survivor of her race because they sacrificed themselves letting the refugees escape the Borg and she only survived because of a misjump that meant her ship wasn't destroyed like the rest of her peoples were. Sorry hope that made sense!</blockquote>

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