tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post8332406865482336523..comments2024-03-22T00:20:38.510-07:00Comments on Adam Riggio writes: If I Could Journey to the Farthest Stars, Jamming, 06/03/2015Adam Riggiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-131176101033192232015-03-06T20:32:19.879-08:002015-03-06T20:32:19.879-08:00The image of the world-ship of Jewish exiles has b...The image of the world-ship of Jewish exiles has been floating around my head for about six months now, as well. Its name, Khohav ben Zion, means a Zion of the stars. Adam Riggiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-23875251652049421312015-03-06T17:58:34.614-08:002015-03-06T17:58:34.614-08:00The underlying concept behind my idea of Capt. Baj...The underlying concept behind my idea of Capt. Bajwa is kind of simple, but also very subversive of Star Trek paradigms: What if someone with the impish sensibility of Doctor Who (particularly Hartnell's, Troughton's, McCoy's, and Capaldi's) was the captain of the Enterprise. He'd take the lead in all the adventure-of-the-week plots, as the Captain does, but when it comes to character arcs, he acts primarily as a catalyst in the narratives of the other characters, nudging them in the progressive directions appropriate to Star Trek's utopianism on an individual level.<br /><br />It's interesting that you latched onto P'Trell, because she's the character that I haven't actually thought too much about yet. I imagine she'll have a regal bearing toward most people, kind of haughty. Maybe there would be a running gag every few episodes where people would mistake her for the captain because she acts more like she's a superior. I expect that she'd be from a rather well-off family too. But she's much more relaxed when her guard is down. I imagine a close friendship would have already been established between P'Trell and Bondar. I imagine a lot of frequent trips to holodeck shooting galleries for them. <br /><br />I expect the canon problem will be important once you eventually get to cover Enterprise on Vaka Rangi, as I found that the three biggest problems the prequel series faced was 1) having to constrain the possibilities of its stories so they conformed to canonized Trek history, 2) the horrifying temptation to fanwank stories which they gave in to far too often, and 3) that the show's producers weren't capable of maintaining Star Trek's utopianism in the face of 9/11 themes. But that's for another time.Adam Riggiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-10437968581198976352015-03-06T12:51:42.138-08:002015-03-06T12:51:42.138-08:00Niiiice. Good stuff, man!
I love your thematic id...Niiiice. Good stuff, man!<br /><br />I love your thematic ideas, character concepts and headcasting. I'm particularly taken with the characters of Bajwa and P'Trel. It's neat to see how you went to the extent of making your own Star Trek spin-off with brand new characters and everything: I'll admit I've done this little mental exercise a fair few times myself, but I tend to limit myself to redeeming the cast and core ideas of TNG and DS9 through my own "Parallels"-esque takes on those shows-I guess I'm too connected to and invested in those specific characters and settings for me to get bolder with the concept.<br /><br />What's always bugged me about Star Trek is twofold: The canon issue, as you're so good at pointing out, and the increasingly problematic weight of Starfleet and the Federation's militaristic roots. I think a lot about ways to combat that in Star Trek, and, if I may say so myself, I feel my own recent Trek jamming session produced some workable results. Maybe I'll share some of that at some point somewhere...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828341842948036592noreply@blogger.com