Here's my new pitch:
Star Trek: Omnia Exidunt
Jonathan Louis Duckworth (Omega Vision)
Concept: These six issues chronicle the first voyage of the starship USS Mithradatha (“The Datha”), a Yu Di-Class exploration vessel, as it journeys deep into the Beta Quadrant on an urgent diplomatic mission to the Thra’ha’khen Empire.
As the Thra’ha’khen Empress draws her final breaths and her generals begin to make plans for seizing the throne, powers from both quadrants eye the empire’s vast supplies of neutronium. Already at war with the Tholian Assembly, a beleaguered Starfleet has only one ship to spare when a Thra’ha’khen grand general requests the Federation’s aid in mending the fractured empire: the Mithradantha. Her captain, Choi Seoyong, and her inexperienced crew will have to contend with enemies both within and without the empire, the natural hazards of the Beta Quadrant, and the less than noble designs of some of their own superiors…
I intend for this to be something like a Star Trek television miniseries—nothing too fancy or lofty, but at the same time with a strong emotional core, humanistic themes, and an ensemble cast of characters.
Setting: The Beta Quadrant of the Star Trek Milky Way Galaxy, a heretofore mostly unexplored (and thus very open to interpretation) part of the galaxy. Specifically most of the action takes place within the Thra’ha’khen Empire, a vast (5,000 lightyears at its widest) stretch of space centered on a gas cloud known within the empire as Ha’noth, a gas cloud filled with micro-pellets of super-dense neutronium. The date is 2395, so Romulus has been destroyed, but much of the Romulan fleet still exists, albeit as pirates and mercenaries. The Federation has expanded and now includes most of the former Cardassian Union and Bajor.
Characters:
*Captain Choi Seoyong: Captain Choi cut her teeth as an ensign fighting in the Dominion War, distinguishing herself in a number of engagements including First Chin’toka and the Battle for Cardassia Prime. Her command style is authoritative and cool, and some of her subordinates believe her to be without a sense of humor, but she nonetheless gains the respect and loyalty of her crew early in the mission thanks to her quick thinking and grace under pressure. According to her superior, Admiral Chandresekhar, Choi was selected to lead this mission simply because he couldn’t “imagine any other officer as qualified to bash bickering aliens’ heads together.”
*Commander Ratna “Gears” Yolnak: The Mithradantha’s Cardassian First Officer, one of Starfleet Academy’s first Cardassian graduates. Yolnak has a snide sense of humor and an unctuous gift for flattery that the captain abides due to Yolnak’s tactical brilliance and his efficiency. That same efficiency has earned him the ire of many a subordinate on the Dantha, who privately compare him to an antique watch, nicknaming him “Gears”, a nickname that he has fully embraced, sometimes even answering to “Commander Gears.”
*Lieutenant Commander Derrick Nielsen: The ship’s brash, bon vivant tactical officer, a Kirk-esque ladies’ man and frequent offender of almost every Starfleet regulation up to and including the Prime Directive. He advocates “hot and heavy” approaches to almost every situation, and frequently recommends that the Dantha take the first shot in standoffs with hostile or unknown alien vessels. His belief that Starfleet should abandon the Thra’ha’khen Empire and instead attempt to harvest all the neutronium it can puts him at odds with the captain, but he is for his faults a loyal Starfleet officer.
*Lieutenant Mark Soong: Real designation “Soong Type Android Mk II” is the “son” (or alternatively younger brother) of the Enterprise’s Commander Data, having been built with an advanced emotions chip. He serves as the ship’s chief medical officer, able to work full-day shifts for weeks on end without tiring. He is quiet and bookish, and during his rare times of leave he can be found in the ship’s holodeck fulfilling mundane fantasies such as asking Ensign Shran to dinner or of raising a condor from an egg.
*Ensign Umek Shran: The ship’s Andorian helmswoman. Shran shares her famous ancestor’s hotheaded temperament and is an expert in a dozen forms of martial arts, often sparring with Lieutenant Commander Nielsen in the holodeck. She resents having been assigned a diplomatic mission when there is a major war going on, and hopes to be transferred to a ship on the Tholian front when the mission is over.
*Ensign Sonok: A Vulcan junior officer with the role of steward—essentially a glorified tour guide and bellboy, tasked with giving tours of the ship to visiting dignitaries, showing them to their quarters, and seeing to their needs. He is quiet and reserved, even by Vulcan standards, and seems infinitely patient. Once a petulant young guest stabbed him in the forehead with a fork, and Sonok finished cutting the child’s steak before removing the utensil.
*The USS Mithradantha: A shining new vessel, long and sleek and equipped with some of the newest Federation technical advances. Built for speed, maneuverability, and comfort over offensive power, the ship is something of a return to the pre-Dominion War Starfleet gestalt, albeit with more punch. It is smaller than a Galaxy or Intrepid-class ship, about twice the size of a Defiant-class.
*Grand General The’kar: The most powerful of the Thra’ha’khen Empire’s nine Grand Generals, The’kar controls a fleet of over ten thousand Kesh’tir-class dreadnoughts. A giant of a man at over eight feet tall, The’kar is surprisingly soft-spoken and slow to anger, with a powerful affinity for the literature of all cultures. He puts the well-being of the empire above all other concerns, and for this reason he reached out to the Federation for help despite the two powers barely having any prior contact, having heard of the Federation’s reputation as a mediator and ambassador of good will.
* Grand General Nat’yis: The second most powerful Grand General, Nat’yis is prepared to make alliances with anyone who she thinks can help her become the next Empress, and to wit has already employed Romulan mercenaries in skirmishes with The’kar’s forces. She has also been known to consort with the intelligence operatives of the Kadian Systems, the Thra’ha’khen Empire’s traditional enemy. Very early in the Mithradantha’s mission she identified the Federation ship as a threat to her plans and has sworn to destroy it.
*Teysr Tavr (First name Tavr, Family Name Teysr): Head of the Teysr Interstellar Corporation, Tavr has a stranglehold over the political system of the Kadian Systems and sees in the Thra’ha’khen Empire’s neutronium deposits not the resources to build an unstoppable fleet of ships as “less creative minds” would, but rather the means to flood the Alpha and Beta Quadrants with unreplicatable neutronium products, which (as Captain Choi notes) could potentially undermine the Federation’s entire economic model, returning it to a resource driven, currency-based society, one more amenable to Kadian influence.
*Teysr Telk: One of Teysr Tavr's hundred "daughters" (technically the daughter of one of her nineteen co-wives), Telk commands a Vylnx-Class battlecruiser tasked with protecting the Teysr Corporation's interests within the Ha'noth. She is cool-headed and reasonable, and though unenthusiastic for her mother's aggressive and meddlesome foreign policy, she believes in doing her duty and following orders.
* Commander Pask: Commander of a Tholian raider, Pask has been sent on a long range mission to open a second front with the Federation, possibly by enlisting allies within the Beta Quadrant, to that end he will attempt to forge partnerships with any willing faction, be it the Kadians, the Romulan pirates, or one of the Grand Generals. Pask stands apart from most Tholians in that his pragmatism outweighs his xenophobia, and his ship even features a “cool chamber” for hosting guests.
Originally posted by Endless Mike
Uh isn't the Klingon empire mostly in the Beta Quadrant?
It was considered an Alpha Quadrant Power for the purposes of the Dominion War. The thing is that a quadrant is a big place, and this would be taking place more toward the far end of the quadrant seeing as Earth is pretty close to the Alpha-Beta border.
Well generally the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, etc. are close to the border between the Alpha and Beta quadrants, and most of those quadrants are unknown to them, since it takes like 100 years to cross the galaxy with traditional warp drive.
Originally posted by Omega Vision
thanks
Lots of fancy words 😛, but I liked it. Sounds like you have a slightly dysfunctional crew in terms of personalities, so It'll be interesting to see how they gel.
It did remind me of my fanfic writing days, though, as my captain in those was a veteran of that same war.
Originally posted by -Pr-
Lots of fancy words 😛, but I liked it. Sounds like you have a slightly dysfunctional crew in terms of personalities, so It'll be interesting to see how they gel.It did remind me of my fanfic writing days, though, as my captain in those was a veteran of that same war.