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By Joshua Tyler | Published
The best science fiction universes work according to a set of rules, rules that make them what they are.
Battlestar GalacticaFor example, it operates in a sandy world based on the complex human dynamics and issues of faith and belief.
Star Wars It operates as a classic adventure movie. The original film is often used by instructors as a way of teaching students about the best way to structure a classic heroes.
In a previous video, which you can find linked in the description of this, we dig in the Star Trek rules. These rules are what make Star Trek feel like Star Trek, and include things like an approach to human progress and technological consistency and stories told around groups of people who explore the unknown.
But Star Trek’s real productions, owned by Star Trek, are not the only things that use rules.
Some of the best trek ever produced are not Star Trek at all.
To demonstrate my point, I would like to start talking about the great Galaxies search It is, except that we demonize each time we discuss Galaxies search.
Fortunately, Galaxies search It 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 warp unit, or turn on your quantum flow unit, or simply display your candles.
This is the best Trek Star that is not Star Trek!
The last ship
Inspired by William Brinkley’s novel of the same name, The last ship It was a 2014 television series focused on the USS Nathan James crew, a navy destroyer that went on his own after a global pandemic eliminates all governments and military.
The show focuses on Captain Tom Chandler, played by Eric Dane, a captain -style character Kirk leading his crew on a mission to save the world.
In The last ship First season, when Nathan James is totally alone and travels around the world seeking scientific discoveries to cure the plague, the program takes place exactly as a great season of Star Trek.
In later seasons The last ship It becomes something else, but that first is a great modern military version of Star Trek aesthetics and it is worth seeing as an autonomous story of a single season.
Lost in space
The original Lost in space debuted on television in 1965, a previous year Trek. Like Trek, the show follows a small crew on a journey through the galaxy.
The biggest difference between them is in the dynamics of the crew. Lost in space It focuses mainly on the Robinson family, part of a colonist group that deviates from the course, emphasizing a survival narrative in unknown environments about exploration.
There were 90s Lost in space Film starring Matt Leblanc, who is probably not worth watching, and the original series is now quite outdated.
Fortunately, Netflix recently achieved a rather fantastic restart of the series, which captures a lot of what they both did Trek and the original Lost in space So great.
Stargate
The 90s Stargate Movie launched a complete television franchise based on the adventures of humans traveling through Stargates to visit unknown worlds.
Apart from visiting alien worlds, STARGATE SG-1 It is quite different from Star Trek. It is not set in the future and is more militaristic.
However, the two Stargate shows, Stargate: Atlantis and Stargate UniverseCapture one more environment of Star Trek.
Atlantis of Stargate It develops in a futuristic lost city, which the crew uses as the basis for exploration and discovery. Touches many of the family issues that make Star Trek great.
Meanwhile, Stargate Universe Follow a group of humans trapped aboard an old spacecraft in a distant galaxy without any way home. The series reaches many of the family dynamics of the crew that Star Trek fans love most.
Fantastic trip
Only a few months before the arrival of Captain Kirk on the screen in 1966, Disney released a different history of exploration called Fantastic trip.
Instead of exploring the outer space, it takes the crew of a small ship inside the human body, boldly going where no one has gone before in its own way.
Fantastic trip It was the technical wonder of his day. The original trailer of the film announced it as “a new type of film experience”, and for once, that was not hyperbole. It was a fact.
As Trek, Fantastic trip It stands out as a turning point in science fiction by exploring a new environment that had never been made on this scale before. It still remains a technical advance and a fun adventure.
Seaquest DSV
Steven Spielberg’s science fiction series Seaquest DSV first launched in 1993 in NBC with great hopes and with the intention of placing the popularity of programs such as Star Trek: The next generation and Deep space nine.
Take the Star Trek formula and apply it to the near future where humanity has developed new technologies to explore underwater.
Seaquest It follows the crew of a futuristic submarine while exploring the depths of the ocean, and also occasionally involved in time travel pranks or, in a really strange turn, they end on an alien planet.
Roy Scheider plays the adorable and very similar to Captain Nathan Hale Bridger. There is also a parliamentary dolphin called Darwin, a precursor to Cetacean’s OPS browsers shown in Star Trek: lower mallets.
Prometheus
The Ridley Scott 2012 movie Prometheus It is a prequel to Foreign and part of the alien franchise. And there are not much less Star Trek than alien films.
Except for this, which is, in a very strangely specific way, in fact a stealthy remake of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
The history of both Prometheus and Star Trek v It implies a search for the creator on a trip led by scientists who have abandoned logic in favor of faith and blind belief. Both films depend on a betrayal of the critical crew to move the plot.
Even Prometheus‘Production design resembles The final border. The planets they visit seem the same place, and we find the two scientific characters from the film by digging in a desert.
And, of course, in the end, the gods who find in both films are idiots murderers. Embrace the mysterious similarities observing The final border and Prometheus backwards.
The Orville
The Orville It is the most program of Trek to get to television from the cancellation of CompanyAnd that is a creator of the Vibe series, Seth Macfarlane, fostered on purpose.
However, it is not Star Trek, so here it is.
It is a crew of explorers that roam the cosmos, they find the wonders of the universe and challenge the human spirit. You know, exactly what Star Trek was when they had the bald boy in charge of the ship. When I was still fine.
The Orville The Star Trek itching that has not been satisfied with the current Trek de Paramount offers and sometimes, especially in the first season, is also very funny.
Master and Commander: The distant side of the world
Based on the book series by author Patrick O’Brian, the film Master and Commander: The distant side of the world Follow Russell Crowe as Captain Jack Aubrey, a British Naval Officer during the Napoleonic wars. He and his crew have the task of pursuing a French boat much more powerful than his.
That may not sound very Star Trek, but it is a film about a ship that sails towards the unknown, exploring strange places that make scientific discoveries, while it is also locked in the battle with another ship.
Jack Aubrey by Russell Crowe is a perfect captain Kirk and Paul Bettany, as the ship’s doctor, develops as an amalgam of Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock.
Basically, it is all that you will see in a good Star Trek movie, it happens in a winding ship, instead of a warp nucleus.
If we were allowed to talk about Galaxies searchIt could have been number one on this list.
But do not hesitate to punish us for excluding it anyway.
