By Joshua Tyler
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The best science fiction universes work according to a set of rules, rules that make them what they are.
Battlestar GalacticaFor example, works in a grainy world based on a complex human dynamic and questions of faith and belief.
Star Wars Works like a classic adventure film. The original film is often used by instructors as a way to teach students the best way to structure a classic journey of heroes.
In an earlier video, to which you can find linked to the description of it, we have dug the rules of Star Trek. These rules are what makes Star Trek resemble Star Trek, and they include things like a concentration on human progress and technological coherence and stories told around groups of people exploring the unknown.
But real Star Trek productions belonging to Paramount are not the only things using rules.
Some of the best Star Trek never produced is not at all Star Trek.
To prove my point, I would like to start talking about how Galaxy Quest is, except that we are demonetized each time we discuss Galaxy Quest.
Fortunately, Galaxy Quest is not the only example of something that captures the essence of Star Trek, without being Star Trek.
Some of the best Star Trek are not even science fiction!
Activate your chain reader, or supplies your quantum flow player, or simply place your sails.
It’s the best star trek that is not Star Trek!
The last ship
Inspired by the novel of the same name by William Brinkley, The last ship was a 2014 television series focused on the crew of the USS Nathan James, a destructive of the navy who remains alone after a world pandemic destroys all governments and soldiers.
The show focuses on Captain Tom Chandler, played by Eric Dane, a Kirk captain style character leading his crew on a mission to save the world.
In The last ship First season, when Nathan James is totally alone and traveling the world looking for scientific discoveries to cure the plague, the show is played out exactly as a big season of Star Trek.
During the following seasons The last ship turns into something else, but this first is a great modern military vision of Star Trek’s aesthetics and which is worth watching as an autonomous story.
Lost in space
The original Lost in space made his debut on television in 1965, a year before Star Trek. As a trek, the show follows a small crew on a trip through the galaxy.
The biggest difference between them lies in the dynamics of the crew. Lost in space Concentrates mainly on the Robinson family, which is part of a group of colonists who deviates, emphasizing a survival story in unknown environments on exploration.
There was a 90 Lost in space Film featuring Matt Leblanc, which is probably not worth watching, and the original series is now quite dated.
Fortunately, Netflix Recently made a fairly fantastic restart of the series, which captures a lot of what made both Star Trek and the original Lost in space So great.
Stargate
The 90s Stargate Movie launched a whole television franchise based on the adventures of humans traveling through stargates to visit unknown worlds.
Other than visiting stranger worlds, Stargate SG-1 is quite different from Star Trek. It is not in the future and it is more militarist.
However, the two Stargate spin-off shows, Stargate: Atlantis And Stargate universeCapture a more starry atmosphere.
Stargate Atlantis takes place in a lost futuristic city, which the crew uses as the basis of exploration and discovery. He tackles many familiar themes that make Star Trek Super.
In the meantime, Stargate universe follows a group of humans trapped aboard an old vessel In a distant galaxy without any way to go home. The series arrives on many familiar crew dynamics that Star Trek fans like the most.
Fantastic journey
Only a few months before the arrival of Captain Kirk on the screen in 1966, Disney published another story of exploration called Fantastic journey.
Instead of exploring the space, he takes the crew of a small ship inside the human body, boldly going where no one went before in his own way.
Fantastic journey was the technique wonder of his time. The original trailer of the film announced it as “a new type of cinematographic experience”, and for once, it was not a hyperbola. It was a fact.
As Star Trek,, Fantastic journey stands out like a turning point in science fiction By exploring a brand new parameter that had never been made on this scale before. He always holds like technical progress and a fun adventure.
DSV Seaquet
The Steven Spielberg SCI-Fi series DSV Seaquet Launched for the first time in 1993 on NBC with great hopes and with the intention of adapting to the popularity of shows like Star Trek: The next generation And New deep space.
He takes the Star Trek formula and applies it to a near future where humanity has developed new technologies to explore underwater.
Beach Follows the crew of a futuristic submarine as they explore the depths of the ocean, and sometimes get involved in time travel in time or, in a really strange touch, find themselves on an extraterrestrial planet.
Roy Scheider plays the adorable and very Picard captain Nathan Hale Bridger. There is also a speaking dolphin named Darwin, a precursor of the Cetacean operated navigators shown on Star Trek: Lower discs.
Prometheus
The film Ridley Scott 2012 Prometheus is a prequel to Stranger and part of the extraterrestrial franchise. And there are not many things less Star Trek than extraterrestrial films.
With the exception of this one, which is, in a very strangely specific way, makes it a furtive remake of Star Trek V: the final border.
The story of the two Prometheus And Star Trek V Implies a search for the creator in a trip led by scientists who abandoned logic in favor of blind faith and belief. The two films depend on a betrayal of the critical crew to advance the plot.
Even Prometheus‘The design of production looks like The final border. The planets they visit resemble the same place, and we meet the two scientific characters in the film who dig in a desert.
And of course, in the end, the gods they find in the two films are deadly tremors. Kiss the strange similarities while looking The final border And Prometheus back to back.
The Orville
The Orville is the most star trek show to hit television since the cancellation of BusinessAnd he is a creator of the Vibe series Seth MacFarlane favored expressly.
It is not Star Trek however, so here it is.
It is a team of explorers wandering through the cosmos, meeting the wonders of the universe and challenges the human spirit. You know, exactly what Star Trek was back when they had the bald in charge of the ship. At the time when it was still good.
The Orville Will scratch Star Trek itching which have not been satisfied by the current hiking offers from Paramount and sometimes, especially in the first season, it’s also really funny.
Master and commander: the gap in the world
Based on the series of books by author Patrick O’Brian, the film Master and commander: the gap in the world follows Russell Crowe As Captain Jack Aubrey, a British navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. He and his crew are responsible for chasing a French ship much more powerful than theirs.
It may not seem very star trek, but it is a film on a ship sailing in the unknown, exploring strange places making scientific discoveries, while being locked in a battle with another ship.
Jack Aubrey by Russell Crowe is a perfect Captain Kirk And Paul Bettany, as a doctor of the ship, plays as a McCoy and M. Spock.
Basically, that’s all you will see in a good star Trek film, this happens on a ship powered by the wind, instead of a chain nucleus.
If we were allowed to speak of Galaxy QuestIt could have been number one on this list.
But do not hesitate to punish us for having excluded it anyway.
