How about a Star Trek that correctly represents the demographics in the year 2100+, i.e. mostly African?
How about a Star Trek that assumes there will be a singularity between now and 2100+, i.e. all or most of the cast are AI robots?
How about a Star Trek in the far distant future where run-of-the-mill characters accidentally create star systems by just burping?
Or even better, how about a Star Trek that features a group of colonists on a planet that due to some monstrous event have lost much of their technology. They have to combat occasional visitors while attempting to develop their technology to a point where they can leave the planet or at least send an SOS probe toward Earth. Sort of like Star Trek meets Gilligan's Island.
Whatever happens: PLEASE NO TIME TRAVEL, PLEASE NO TACHYON BEAMS, PLEASE NO DEUS EX MACHINA of any sort.
“Or even better, how about a Star Trek that features a group of colonists on a planet that due to some monstrous event have lost much of their technology. They have to combat occasional visitors while attempting to develop their technology to a point where they can leave the planet or at least send an SOS probe toward Earth. Sort of like Star Trek meets Gilligan’s Island.”
That is actually not a bad idea
Time travel has been done to death and deus ex machina is a crime.