FWIW, I started plotting out a reboot of Space: 1999 (called Space: 2099) that had some elements of Christopher Nolan's Intersteallar and Star Trek - Deep Space Nine.
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.
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.
Quote from: MickQ on 07/23/2017 01:26 amSpace: 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.Wish there was a Blu Ray of this.I'd pay real money to see a faithful adaptation of Starship Troopers. Or Have Spacesuit Will Travel.
Could we justify Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom with just a bit of time travel?Or to put it another way, how Barsoom-like could Mars have been at the very beginning, when it very possibly had oceans, a thicker atmosphere and more oxygen than today? That is really the question I want to delve into.(The method of travel to Mars was clearly just a plot enabler. The hero travels there in a drug induced dream from memory. It could easily have been through time as well as space. I think there was only one mention of telescopes on Mars seeing people on earth. Apart from that there was no interactions between the planets. Time travel could also explain human-like martians alongside more alien varieties. Humans from earth could have been scattered across various time periods, some far enough to have evolved significantly to the planet, others differing by little more than skin color.)(edit: some links mentioned in following posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_ocean_hypothesisEarth 4000 million years ago