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I suppose they could wrap it up as alternate reality, easter egg, or something else, but yeah that's the idea I was under. Now if there is some Ghost, Rainbow, or even Echelon stuff cooked into the narrative now I'm more interested.

Super Show was a closer adaptation to the source material, even if I have to drop some points for the live action and Legend of Zelda bits, but I liked the crazy stupid of Captain N, the death run through Mega Man's game was pretty cool even if Mega Man himself was crazy and his "friends" and Dr. Light were some of the worst monsters in the history of anything. To be clear, the live action bits of the Super Show (and not the 90's reboot even if THAT gave me some of that sweet Photon action) were pretty cool in an incredibly cheesy low budget way.

I'm hoping for some interesting mods to come out. A superhero one I suspect will be made, I'd like a few of the options that got put in Xenonauts (more loadouts and things like shields). I wouldn't mind an EW type expansion even if their narrative to this point wouldn't really allow for it.

Prime universe. Time jump another 100 years. Large ship. Large enough to really sell the Ent-D's city in space idea rather than the hotel lobby it got snarked into. Hell, have an ep start in an outdoor filming location and you pan out and realize its INSIDE the ship. Give a reason for families and kids on such a dangerous posting. A Galaxy class ship on a continuing mission going to Farpoint Station on its first outing sorta implies these people aren't coming back anytime soon (even if TOS Ent came back to Earth despite being on a 5 year mission).

That would allow for you to do something somewhat radical and have two shows set on the same ship. Big problem with Trek was needing to film 26 eps a seasons to spread out costs, but then they went and kept setting spinoffs in completely different places requiring all new sets, costumes, makeup, and even CGI. Maybe a "best of the best" show following the command crew and a passengers/lower decks show where the schlubs and no names on your standard Trek show are ubergenius Olympic athletes to your normal folks. Same amount of Trek, but fewer fillers, more opportunities for strange characters and episode pairings that made DS9 so cool. Might allow for a broader base of actors/actresses as well without the commitment 26 eps require.

Stop introducing so many aliens of the week and flesh out what you already have a little more. Spock and Worf speaking so definitively about what their respective species believe and do should be the realm of madmen, especially as we have so much footage and dialogue that inevitably contradictions have taken place (Worf commenting on Klingons and their views on fear for example). Species have relative predilections based on genetics and culture, but not monolithically so unless a very good reason is provided (Vulcans have a decent one). This also goes for the naming conventions of human crewmembers where a collected list reads like an Anglo xenophobes dream.

Move past going back to TOS era threats for nostalgia's sake. Cardassians (or heck even the Ferengi) could have been sold a lot better had they conquered a TOS era threat rather than trying to compete with them for mindshare and predictably coming up short. Sure, the Kelvans are still out there, the Tholians are up to some real end game type shenanigans and maybe a god alien now considers the "modern" Federation an actual threat, but no more Klingon and Romulan threats as more than regional issues. If this is to be an optimistic setting about peace ultimately being the way, then those guys are way on the backburner. They simply couldn't keep up even when they did a tech exchange once upon a time. I'd say the same for TNG's threats, but they left large outs for why even the defeated Dominion could still be a threat let alone the Borg and 8472.

I like the faster action of JJ Trek. A solid break from iterative improvement of 60's TV sci fi capabilities. Like with Superman, if you aren't using Trek technology it should be SCARY fighting them. Not for their power (though that is not inconsiderable). But because of how suddenly you can be defeated when fighting it. Not even a blur, things just appear and stuff starts blowing up. Combat should not be lazy rolling puttering torpedoes, it should be fractions of lightspeed jousting.

Keep the morality plays, keep an eye to the future with a mind on predictable human foibles, make it big and make it good.

As I still visit io9, I find going to Kotaku a reasonable sojourn for that kind of info. I still haven't gotten used to visiting GS on even a semi regular basis, and never really visited anywhere else (that still exists, RIP Joystiq).

Obviously, The Division 2: Smallville would have PLENTY of interesting things for a few spec ops to have to deal with.

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I'd add Cyberpunk 2077. We are rapidly approaching 4 years since the original announcement (with presumably SOME time spent working on it before that to get the original creator on board and selling it) with no idea when it will be out. Given the source material and the quality of their past work, I think it will be gloriously praised by a segment of the population and have sharp edges that others will dislike. As an example, people have already complained about the fact there will be unsubtitled dialogue in foreign languages that will require cyberwear to translate, but if you, the player, know the language you can just respond (of course this being the internet the "right" selections will likely come out regardless). Design decisions like that can be super awesome to some and annoying to others.

Cool, I made an Amy Wong (from Futurama) in XCOM using an Asian female base and giving her the OG XCOM hair (that looks like Guile) and a pink outfit. I just wish I could recruit aliens to get a Zoidberg to go with my MEC Bender.

@edgaras1103: The tabletop game had all kinds of ridiculous and wacky fun, but a whole lot of horrible. If it is at all true to the source it will be plenty dark and gritty, like the abduction of teens to act as pregnancy surrogates for wealthy families, with the quirky nod like two old electronics guys named Steve running kiosks in the Megaplex Mall of Night City (set a bit south of Silicon Valley) with a fruit fetish.