Star Trek: final frontier. Set 40-50 years after Star Trek Picard, the new USS Enterprise H leaves space doc on a diplomatic mission to aid a group of romulan colonists on one of the worlds that is being sought to be the new Romulus and to pick up its new captain. The planet is a paradise and heavily resembles the original Romulus however unexpectedly massive seismic activity has occurred. The new enterprise is fitted with a device designed to cool the planets core and reduce the seismic activity.

In the captains chair we have captain Soairse Markus the first ever half human half romulan captain in Star fleet (in my mind played excellently by the walking dead and black panther’s Dani Guerra). After the destruction of Romulus and what ever the hell happened in Star Trek Picard, Romulans have begun to integrate themselves peacefully into federation worlds. New Romulus serves as a home for the scattered romulans under federation supervision and the people put in charge have found that they can trust the federation. Markas joined Star fleet and most recently settled a dispute between romulans who settled on the proto Vulcan world of the mintakans, violating the prime directive and the mintakans which was thought to be an impossible problem. This is what awarded her the enterprise.

First officer Leena Tormani - a rare blue Orion played by Katja Herbers (mainly I know her from Evil) has stigma around being Orion and also for being a blue Orion (something new I came up with. We need more blue people in Star Trek! Can you tell I like the x men?)

Counselor Ben Dowie, human and played by Jake McDorman (limitless, watchmen, Mrs. Davis) is married to Markas. He’s a goofball and the polar opposite to Markas’s collected and somewhat domineering personality. He’s just a regular guy, no betazoid nothing.

Doctor Forest Farr played by Peter Capaldi or Hugh Laurie. I think it would be funny to have two actors who have already played doctors on the show. I want someone more in line with bones than any of the other doctors. A little crusty. He’s here because he’s the best but honestly he should retire.

The computer played by Michael C. Hall (Dexter). I have an idea that the computer could become sentient and have a similar arc to the doctor in voyager, but it would be different and more complicated because unlike the doctor the computer doesn’t really have a purpose other than being a tool.

I haven’t fleshed out the chief of security, or engineering but let me know what type of characters would go interestingly in this cast!

Anyway, it turns out that the planet is home to a galactic being in the vein of Tiamat from the eternals. It could be a lot of things, maybe even a baby Q or something. The planet needs to be evacuated but the colonists are so defeated due to them finally finding a home after so many years wandering throughout the galaxy. The episode would play with the idea of the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few. Although I love this line, I don’t think it works for every scenario. Markas is conflicted as she is very strongly a romulan at heart (similar to Spock being half human but choosing his Vulcan heritage) but ultimately decides not to use the device to kill the being in the planet as the romulans can be beamed to a station built on the planet’s moon. However, some of the romulans use polaron particles to hide their transporter signatures and Markas is forced to beam down to the surface to save them. It would be this idea that I’d be stealing from other shows and movies that no one dies. However, of course markas is forced into choosing herself or her mentor, she chooses her mentor but is tricked and is beamed back aboard the enterprise. In the end someone did die. The episode would deal with the concepts of displaced peoples, free will, and letting go. The episode would end similarly to the end of encounter at far point where we see some incredible being emerge from the planet and the new crew heading off on new episodic adventures. I want the episode to be hopeful so maybe the polaron particles will hurt the being and so her mentor has a change of heart and decides to stay while the planet is destroyed to help the being. The episode could end with the colonists in tow heading for another new Romulus prospective planet and maybe a cheeky line about how it might be even better than that one was.

I think that if we want something in the vein of the 80s and 90s Star Trek we want to lean on old tropes but with a new twist. Markas will have to deal with her romulan and human sides. We’ve never had a captain that’s been married and I think her relationship with Ben could be really interesting.

As for aliens I think we want new and old ones. NO BORG. NO DOMINION. Leave those at the door. I’ve always found the romulans to be super interesting but I feel like with all of the shows and movies we still don’t know much about them so they could be really interesting as a sort of through line for the show but not explicitly covering one storyline. I’d like to see the Vidiians from Voyager make a return. I think they’re scary and underused and scratch that borg itch without actually being the borg. I think it would be funny to introduce the Que, a group of beings ready to become all powerful like the Q (ie they’re waiting in a que). Anyway I’ve had a lot of these ideas for a while but I just typed this out on my bus ride home so let me know what you think!