Star Trek

I have yet to find an agent willing to open his books to unsolicited work that didn't charge a fee up front.

And CBS has a policy on record that it will not accept amature work.  Not all companies are like this, but CBS/Paramount Television will not accept anything amature, no matter how well you prepare it.

Then you're not looking in the right places. Use Jeff Hermann's guide and Writer's Market as starters. For anyone you look into, you need to look them up at Predators and Editors and maybe also Absolute Write Water Cooler and see what the buzz is on that agent. What are their likes, preferences of subject matter and submission policy. What have they repped in the past and how long ago was that? (This will tell you if they've moved on from that subject matter.) Also, how successful was that project? If it came out last year and bombed, don't compare yourself to it no matter how similar the project. Differentiate yourself as widely as you can. LOL Keep all this data in a spreadsheet. Don't rely on your memory.

I would also recommend The Essential Guide to Publishing Your Book, though you may be trying to break into Hollywood and not publishing. It's a very similar process and the authors do approach the topic of Hollywood. Also, one of the authors is an agent, so it's an invaluable guide.

There are people willing to take a chance on amateur work, but they're not likely to be the people sitting behind the desk. You need the doormen. Good luck!

If you publish your own work as an amateur, give copies to people you know are avid sifi readers and they will tell you if it's good or not; go to flea-markets and sell the books cheap because what you want is the general public to read your work and spread the word that there's a new kid in town. It may take a while but the word will eventually reach Hollywood, if it's any good.

I think the Cardasians. Romulans and Klingons should all be part of the Federation in the next series. And it being based decades after TNG (after all it is almost decades already). Recreating the TNG style ships won't even be possible. But the BORG and some other hostile Robot-crystall intelligence should still be in the game, and maybe huge ships trying to invade from an other Galaxy as third rival, something that looks like Lizard-crocodiles, but wear masks? The shows should however focus on first contacts, strange phenomenas, strange planets, strange specieses, strange cultures. And please Klingons should be pale skin also, while the Romulans and Cardasians should be able to have blond hair. Scientifically it is just not likely that a planet can have a species with one shade of brown due to planetary tilt there will always be pale skinned people. But I agree there should be a lot of more exotic species. Also TNG was still sexist and Voyager too. There should be an equal share of females and males on the ship, and including homosexuality and bisexuality. TNG had a lot of good stories, more of such stories should be part of the next Star Trek series, but why not also inklude more Kirk Style shows? And new designes - after all there is always new design in the different Star Trek epochoes. And with the time travel now involved that leaves for a few shows to.

But whatever you do, make sure what you're selling is non-derivative work because otherwise you'll end up with cease-and-desist letters at your door and the wrath of fandom coming down upon you.

I think there are a few ways to go. Obviously the popular choice would be to carry on from the new films, which would be great.

My own litle idea would be a Borg origins series, so, starfleet goes on the back burner this series, but we would get to see the borg battle a new species each episode, sometimes winning, sometimes getting destroyed. There could be new technology, and it doesn't really have to fit into any small timeline gaps with the other series, because it's very delta quadrant in its location. Another one for me would be a Klingon series.

It'll never happen though. There won't be another series for at least another 5 years, the studios will want to get as much box office revenue from a couple of more films before they think of doing a series.

No more prequel/reboot bullshit...just keep going forward. That’s what JJ should have done.

And I want Nicole DeBoer to play Captain Ezri Dax on the Warship USS Benjaminmotherfuckingpimphand and making Admiral Janeway drink in envy and torture Nelix at the end of every episode.

And please no more Kheses and 7-of-9's.

I would hate a new seies. Starfleet Academy is animated format.

i have a new star trek tv show idea base year or two after voyager came home i call it star trek bounty it,s about a crew of federation bounty hunters not starfleet so the starfleet rules don,t apply so there are endless species we can hunt even us

Bounty was/is a chocolate bar - they came in search of paradise ...

It was also the scrawl McCoy painted (with a fine sense of historic irony [I think is the quote]) on the Klingon Bird of Prey during their stopover on Vulcan in STIV-TVH (see HMS Bounty).

I do hope your captain will be called William Bligh and his first officer Fletcher Christian.

And then they will settle on Pitcairn Island and their descendants will have lots of little inbred babies.

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Wow, I guess I hit a nerve, ha ha. I meant no disrespect. While yes the stories, can be very impressive and very good. The aliens introduced, for the most part, are limited to the ones already known within the current universe. They really will not be able to create too many more.

I am merely arguing the new movie changes enough that, different civilizations may have stepped up to fill the gap the vulcans left when their planet was destroyed. A fresh universe opens up more options, no matter how you look at it."

Sure, it even could open up a new universe for vulcans.  Both Romulus and Vulcan had colony worlds, emigrants and dissident sub-groups.  Plus, canon established that there were other vulcan descent cultures in the galaxy.  When new Spock said there were only a few thousand vulcans left he meant peole who followed Surak's philosophy.  Great potenial for a newly thought Vulcan culture.

One series could cover the period not long after the flight of the phonix but before Enterprise and would be around a warp 1 friegter and its crew.  Been thinking about that since the Enterpise eppisode where they met up with one.  No transporters, no universal translators, no shields etc.  Just living out on the new fronteer.  Then again I loved Firefly which this would prob be like, except without the wild west motif.

Agreed UFP2009 but there is also the time frame between Undiscovered Country/beginning of Generation to the first season of TNG.  Then the open future from Nemesis on where we can speculate that Bajor and the Cardassian Union have joined the UFP and the destruction of Romulus might make the Romulans even more isolated or so weak that they opt to join the Federation.  Regardless, some very interesting ideas.  

With regards to a new TV show, I think Paramount and CBS, whenever they are ready should make a series in the original universe but in the future.  The premise behind Star Trek Online is wonderful, in a future beyond Nemesis but not something unfamiliar like 500 years into the future.  50 to 200 years past Nemesis would be a world of wonder.