Quote from: KelvinZero on 07/22/2017 12:49 amI also keep thinking of Space 1999 reboots, and like a lot of posts here Im always thinking about how a hardSF tv series could work.For Space 1999 I had a couple of ideas that I admit are not very hard SF.---(1)---The first was just to replace the astronomically implausible notion of an explosion that sends the moon carreening through space to orbit a different earthlike planet every week. The show had such great somewhat plausible models, and potential for all round plausibility, then they gave it to the pilot and he threw it out the window.A minimal change would be to just say "It was aliens". It is a cop out, a blatant plot generator like the stargate, but then everything else could plausible human technology. I was thinking that the collision that formed the moon from the earth could have been with some huge almost indestructable alien machine, say 100km across, and the moon formed around it. Humans find it and this triggers a vast international scientific project, with bases from different nations sort of like Antarctica. There is also a lot of political intrigue and suspicion of spies embedded in the teams.Our alien plot generator gets triggered, and the moon begins to jump to unknown destinations, similar to the stargate plot generator. It always replaces a singularity or other body of the same mass at the destination, so the destination is not disrupted by the gravity.So you actually have 3 plot generators:(1) The stargate plot generator(2) Alien secrets still hidden within the moon itself.(3) All the cooperation and intrigue between the various bases that are now cut off from earth.---(2)---The second idea could be slipped into (1). What if it was a parallel earth that found this alien artifact, not us. Suddenly the moon in our sky is replaced with a colonised one. The culture on that moon is pretty much the present day as envisioned by people in the 1970s. There would be some comedy, with 1970s culture next to ours, but also they would represent what we could have been. They were the ones that made it.Gee, I like yours and BenTheSpaceBrit's ideas better than mine. You both should come up with a plot synopsis for a pilot episode. I too had thought about Alien_Technology™ being hidden inside the Moon - perhaps even deep below Moonbase Alpha itself - and that could even be the Big Secret - the hidden reason why the Moonbase was established, with nearly everybody on Earth being kept in the dark about this.Your idea of connecting it with the collision that originally formed the Moon sounds cool. That would make for a very large and nearly-indestructible alien spacecraft/structure. Alternatively, using the other origin theory of the Moon having been a wandering satellite that was captured by Earth's gravity, could then make for Space1999-in-reverse (ie. a Moon that had previously wandered through other solar systems and perhaps collected various things from them) It also creates the possibility that the Moon somehow selected the Earth as a destination, perhaps deliberately sent to Earth with the goal of fostering life/intelligence (a la 2001 monolith)Having a large alien spaceship/structure embedded inside the bowels of the Moon reminds me a bit of that old movie Forbidden Planet, which featured highly advanced technology hidden deep underground by a lost civilization.Maybe investigation/examination of the Alien Technology beneath the Moonbase inadvertently triggers some signal/beacon, which then summons who-knows-what from parts unknown. Or maybe it accidentally triggers some kind of doomsday device, or awakens a bunch of frozen aliens who have their own agenda.
I also keep thinking of Space 1999 reboots, and like a lot of posts here Im always thinking about how a hardSF tv series could work.For Space 1999 I had a couple of ideas that I admit are not very hard SF.---(1)---The first was just to replace the astronomically implausible notion of an explosion that sends the moon carreening through space to orbit a different earthlike planet every week. The show had such great somewhat plausible models, and potential for all round plausibility, then they gave it to the pilot and he threw it out the window.A minimal change would be to just say "It was aliens". It is a cop out, a blatant plot generator like the stargate, but then everything else could plausible human technology. I was thinking that the collision that formed the moon from the earth could have been with some huge almost indestructable alien machine, say 100km across, and the moon formed around it. Humans find it and this triggers a vast international scientific project, with bases from different nations sort of like Antarctica. There is also a lot of political intrigue and suspicion of spies embedded in the teams.Our alien plot generator gets triggered, and the moon begins to jump to unknown destinations, similar to the stargate plot generator. It always replaces a singularity or other body of the same mass at the destination, so the destination is not disrupted by the gravity.So you actually have 3 plot generators:(1) The stargate plot generator(2) Alien secrets still hidden within the moon itself.(3) All the cooperation and intrigue between the various bases that are now cut off from earth.---(2)---The second idea could be slipped into (1). What if it was a parallel earth that found this alien artifact, not us. Suddenly the moon in our sky is replaced with a colonised one. The culture on that moon is pretty much the present day as envisioned by people in the 1970s. There would be some comedy, with 1970s culture next to ours, but also they would represent what we could have been. They were the ones that made it.
Quote from: jgoldader on 07/23/2017 10:22 pmI'd pay real money to see a faithful adaptation of Starship Troopers. Or Have Spacesuit Will Travel.There was a CG-animated series adaptation of Starship Troopers, called Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. It had the power-armor, Marauders and everything.
I'd pay real money to see a faithful adaptation of Starship Troopers. Or Have Spacesuit Will Travel.
Space: Above and Beyond. Originally planned to run 5 seasons but cancelled after only one due to poor ratings.I liked it and I thought it had great potential. Rebooted with 20 year newer technology it might be a winner.
Once the drive is deactivated, it is determined that they are on course towards another solar system. after running the numbers, they find, by warping towards the star system, ans using the gravity of the system, they can steer a course back to the solar system. But, they will have to steer the moon through a long wide loop, taking thousands of light years of travel, and dozens of solar system pass throughs, and decades of travel, to get back home. At least that's how I'd write it...
Niven's Man-Kzin Wars reminds me a lot of Wing Commander and its Kilrathi antagonists -- yeah, I know, Niven was first. (Mark Hamill's Commander Blair was his best sci-fi role after Luke Skywalker and Batman's Joker.)
A couple of reboots that I would watch would be:Star Cops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_CopsA series based on Enemy Mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Mine_(film)Something based in Iain M. Banks culture universe, although that would be a boot, rather than a reboot.And if we are going to allow boots then a series based around House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds could be amazing.