Create a new series premise

[Nate the Great]

Ooooh, how about something akin to Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (bear with me). Our heroes are temporal researchers, most likely from the 29th century. However, they went back to our time using a primitive version of the time transporter. There was an accident, and our heroes are stranded. They can still communicated with the future, but the accident tagged their molecules with something that prevents 29th century tech from beaming it. They manage to jerry-rig a more primitive transporter that can beam them around the planet, if not to the future. The computer database was damaged, so our heroes no longer no everything that's going to happen. Our heroes must find a way home without interfereing TOO much with the present. Perhaps they encounter one of the Vulcan researchers that was active in our time period and swear them to secrecy. Maybe there were other alien races directly interfering with our development which our heroes must either help or hinder. Maybe Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln (now getting up there in years) and their assistants (or even-gasp!-children) help out our heroes from time to time. You could have the Eugenics Wars in the background, supporting it with real-world events (think the Eugenics Wars books, which I enjoyed). Henry Starling! Plexicorp! The Botany Bay project! Heck, Buck Bokai as a child! Just why did baseball die? The possibilities are endless!

[AKAArzosah]

A new series... hmm...

How about... people spontaneously developing superpowers! No wait, that's been done, what, 6 or 7 times now?

OR... people on a space ship! Wait, um, approximately 9400 times?

How about... someone is kidnapped from Earth in the 18th/19th/20th/21st Century and has to learn to survive 'out there'. What, about... 4 times?

Maybe... aliens will invade and try to kill/enslave us all! Oh right, 86 times.

Ok, so, people who are on a spaceship together (because they were all kidnapped from different times) begin spontaneously developing mutant superpowers and everyone hates them until aliens try to invade and kill us all and the mutant super heroes become the first last and only line of defense against the worst scum of the universe.

[Nate the Great]

As all of the people who keep remaking public domain classics will tell you, just because it's been done a zillion times doesn't mean that a new spin can't be put onto it. Just look at West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet.

[AKAArzosah]

Hey I was serious. I'd watch that show!

I watch SGA (remake of SG1, and sort of similar to Voyager if you think about it)

I watch Heroes (practically a remake of X-Men, and there was Mutant X)

I watch Scrubs and House (ER, Chicago Hope - though neither were as funny)

I watch Battlestar Galactica (If you don't know what that's a remake of, I'm not telling you)

And every Star Trek is basically a remake of the one before, set in a different time or place. And there's DEFINITELY nothing wrong with that!

[AKAArzosah]

http://www.bash.org/?221128

[Nate the Great]

That's the odd part, I don't think anybody actually calls it SGA, they call it Atlantis. There's not a reason in the world why you couldn't say SGA, but I'm still not seeing it. Weird...

[NAHTMMM]

^ Personally, "SGA" makes me think of some sort of student organization.

Originally Posted by mudshark

There must be a way to manage it, though, and then you may have your series premise. Has there ever been one before in which the main character gets murdered every week? It'd be sort of Quantum Victim, or something.

There was one in chat once, starring Top Hat Man's counterpart John as a private eye who investigated his own death each week.