My Pitch to Television 2011, Part 2

Hello, people, and welcome to my second posting of the week, also part two of the shows I would pitch to television if given the chance.  Feedback is non on yesterday's posting, so please let me know what you think of these concepts I'm bringing to you, the public, before I take them to a major network.

I have a feeling that today's pitch is a short but sweet one.  The second show I would pitch to a network is one that needs to return to where it began 45 years, one week, and six days ago.  I'm talking about "Star Trek" and like many of my fellow trekkies, I've come up with a concept.  This pitch would be given to CBS only, as they currently hold the rights to the show, so go where the Trek is.

My pitch would be to use the universe created by the latest Trek movie two years ago and bring the original Trek characters back to television.  After all, the cast consisted mainly to television actors, so working on a weekly television series would not be a strain to them.  It'll be a means of continued employment in a bad economy.  All my concepts create jobs, which I do to fulfill the President's request for such.

For the return of Captain James T. Kirk and Spock to the small screen, I plan to use Harlan Ellison's original draft script for "The City on the Edge of Forever" as the pilot, because the cornerstone of my Trek concept is to make it a 21st-century show.  Life in the current century needs a Star Trek to make us look at our actions.  Drug dealing and nefarious characters seem to be 21st century television fodder, so let's feed them into the Star Trek filter and see what comes up.

Following from that, hiring the best of our modern science-fiction writers, who grew up on the original adventures of Kirk and crew, to write inventive stories seems to be in order.  It worked for Roddenberry and I'll make it work for me.  I can only wonder that the scripts that would come from people like Stephan Baxter, Kin Stanley Robinson, and many others, along with more recent Trek writers, taking a turn writing about their heroes.

The subject matter for this Trek is very current.  With the recent events in the Middle East, the bad economy, and the rise of the Tea Party (re: Nazis), Star Trek is the perfect means of showing those issues in a light where they can learnt from.  After all, if we are to learn that an Arab Spring can happen anywhere, it needs to be put on a planet where democracy is slowly being destroyed in the name of freedom.

Once Star Trek returns to television, a new generation of fans will emerge and make sure that the show continues into its second century just as strong as it was in its first one.  Believe it or not, my pitch is done for the day.  Tomorrow is our regularly scheduled posting of "The Life of Oddley".  Then, on Friday, I conclude my pitch week with a very useable concept.

Yours truly, John Maxwell.