If Firefly was treated like Star Trek...
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"I love my Captain!"
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Trek and Firefly are two different animals. Done right, it could work.
A non-Starfleet crew. A civillian captain with issues about Starfleet (perhaps he was rejected by the Academy, or maybe he had a close encounter with Section 31, or he's a former Maquis. . . Yeah, the former Maquis angle would work perfect). Assorted non-fleet characters (there's gotta be a Jayne-like Klingon out there somewhere, they can't all by high-bred warrior-poets), a girl with a secret (and there're plenty to go around).
So:
Mal: human, ex-Maquis. His people were abandoned by the Federation, his home bombed by the Cardassians, his fellow rebels massacred by the Jem'Hadar, then he was denied shelter by the Bajorans 'cause he wasn't one of them (they took in some Maquis survivors after the war).
Zoe: also ex-Maquis (so likely either human or Bajoran, or maybe Vulcan or Andorian). Part of Mal's cell, and the only other survivor. She'll follow him to Hell and back.
Wash: ace pilot, any species, washed out of Starfleet Academy for discipline problems.
Jayne: renegade Klingon. Low birth, low education. Honor's for soldiers, he's just lookin' to get paid, drunk, and sexed.
Kaylee: any species (likely human or Bolian). A gifted tech, but from a border world --too far away from the Federation core to have any chance of getting to the Academy.
Inara: a Deltan prostitute, but with a mysterious past.
Book: a Bajoran Prylar. His mystrious past isn't; pretty much every Bajoran alive was involved in the Resistance in some way. He's planted his fair share of homemade bombs and stolen his share of military ordnance. Mal doesn't like him much, but develops a grudging respect --the Prylar isn't the one who left him out in the black.
Simon: River's brother. He rescued her from Section 31. They're on the run now, not knowing who to trust or how far the conspiracy extends. For all they know, all of Starfleet could be in on it.
River: a broken, panicked human girl. She was part of a Section 31 experiment to create a super-soldier capable of going toe-to-toe with Jem'Hadar. Like all after-birth genemods, she's mentally unstable. She also has a full range of Augment abilities, unmatched since Khan's heyday.
Didn't they make this one... I'm sure they did! They called it 'Star Trek:Voyager' - Only Capt Jane wasn't originally Marquis - she just invited them on board... gave them positions of trust...
Wash was renamed Tom Paris... yes that's his profile exactly!!
Jayne and Kaylee were combined into one character - ever fiesty and ready to go into battle, but brilliant with a thingamy-divett and a coupling-whatsit.... and I think Inara was that cute little alien who was in love with Tom Paris but couldn't committ, esp as her life-span would be less than the entire season! (5 or 7 years???)
Yeah - it's coming back to me now... I never did get into Voyager like I was into ST:TNG or DS9 - DS9 was my favourite!
"I love my Captain!"
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I have been sick and got to watch this whole firefly series, ONLY ONE series, sob....here in Oz, we don't get a lot of Sci Fi series, hey, we made 'Farscape' and it got canceled.
The stories were interesting, and the people really clicked. ER...no sex in any star trek I've seen (not a real fan), and this had me checking that it was not a european production there was ...well... xes, and a grown up sort, not teenage.... but I loved the costumes, the chinese (as an applied linguist, I've pondered this, and it will be Spanlish, more Spanish with English rules and Please Please, Spanish spelling, then thrown in a little Chinese, like the numbers, and a few ideograms in leiu of icons) I loved the costumes too. Where can I write a fan story for it?
Carole
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I did really enjoy Trek and Next Gen, but Firefly absolutely blows them out of the water. I think Babylon 5 is much closer to Firefly than Trek is. Which may be why they barely managed to get their five years and then had their spinoff cancelled after a couple of episodes.
Oh ... and Firefly stills blows it out of the water
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Quote:Ah, but Janeway ensured that Voyager remained a Starfleet ship, with a predominantly Starfleet crew (even if Chakotay's entire cell had survived the Caretaker's abduction, they'd still only be able to make up less than a third of Voyager's complement). Even Chakotay himself was a former Starfleet officer, as was B'elanna (well, B'elanna was at the Academy. Don't know if she actually graduated before getting kicked out).
Originally posted by magdalena:
Didn't they make this one... I'm sure they did! They called it 'Star Trek:Voyager' - Only Capt Jane wasn't originally Marquis - she just invited them on board... gave them positions of trust...
Wash was renamed Tom Paris... yes that's his profile exactly!!
Jayne and Kaylee were combined into one character - ever fiesty and ready to go into battle, but brilliant with a thingamy-divett and a coupling-whatsit.... and I think Inara was that cute little alien who was in love with Tom Paris but couldn't committ, esp as her life-span would be less than the entire season! (5 or 7 years???)
Tom Paris wasn't as much of a funnyman as Wash --plus he had all his unresolved father issues (trying to live up to dad's impossible/unreasonable standards, in a career Tom didn't even get to choose). And technically, Tom didn't wash out, he quit to join the Maquis, then quit the Maquis and got himself arrested. Tom's arc (from womanizing rebel and layabout to respectible officer, husband, and father-to-be) was one of the series' high points.
And there's nothing Kaylee-like about B'elanna Torres --she's pretty much exactly what you'd expect a half-Klingon Starfleet-trained rebel engineer to be. Torres' technical aptitude isn't instinctual, but the result of training and years of having to make do with whatever she could beg, borrow, steal, or scavenge.
Kes is about as unlike Inara as could be --she's actually more like Kaylee or River. And she was never romantically linked to Tom (though he and Neelix did fight over her). She first appeared as Neelix's (wholly-dedicated) lover, then grew apart from him as she explored her psychic powers (she was kept as a slave by the Kazon before Neelix rescued her, and she needed to learn to stand on her own strengths and not as someone's appendage --however compassionate and supportive that someone may have been). Neelix's feud with Tom was what finally broke them up (he was getting possessive, and she had to make a clean break), though they remained friends until Kes "Ascended."
Aside from the Borg and the last episode, Voyager was actually pretty good. Nowhere near as good as DS9, of course, but it doesn't really deserve the rep it had when it was on the air.
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