This is probably going to sound harsh, I'm sorry...
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Originally Posted by SLagonia  Any questions or concerns should be posted here, at the Cardinal website, or directed to our official e-mail at ST-Cardinal@hotmail.com. |
What are you going to do exactly? Produce a two hour long episode and then hope CBS will be impressed and make a TV show out of it?
Did you already ask CBS / Paramount if they even think about producing a new Star Trek show? I heavily doubt the answer was even a "Maybe".
There are hundreds or thousands of fans making proposals for this, and I bet all of their stuff is ditched without reading.
And then you're lowering your chances heavily, because the entire thing is already exposed on the web. Why? EVERYONE can come up now, yelling: "BUT I DID THIS, YOU STOLE IT!!!", because everyone was able to read it.
Read the submission guidelines for Star Trek novel proposals on Simon & Schuster to get an idea of how "it" works. They are strict as hell. No breathing room for non established writers. Same will definately go for any proposal of a new TV show (!).
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Submissions
Then, regarding your character descriptions... well I don't know how you plan on writing the proposal, but... If your proposal didn't already land in the trash can, it definately will after lines like "My first choice is Gary Sinese, who I picture when writing Captain Winters." (a totally unrealistic choice, which questions your credibility), "Rumors have abounded that her father is a Cardassian we have seen before on DS9... Whether or not that's true, I can't say." (either you know it or you don't. You wrote this thing, and you're trying to sell it, so DO you now know or not?)
You'd need a clear, well-defined, completely unbreakable roadmap for this. Characters that are very well thought out ("James Kirk, Han Solo, Malcolm Reynolds and Lt. Dan all rolled into one." is usually not the way you describe a character to an editor), characters that are totally unique (Naomi Wildman and an EMH are a total no go), with a clear and reasonable choice of actors, a budget plan, storyboards, concept artwork, etc...
Gene Roddenberry took his idea for Star Trek to dozens of studios and his chances of being successful were almost none. You are limited to one studio.
Seriously, before you start wasting a ****load of money and time on this, make this bulletproof. It doesn't seem like that right now.
This is fan-fiction right now. Ask yourself the question: Why is YOUR fanfiction better than any fanfiction already out there? Why should any studio take this into consideration? Why should the editor not stop reading at the line "Proposal for a new Star Trek series"? Why is your proposal the Holy Grail?
But well, maybe I'm wrong about this. You claim to have the experience on your site, so you should know how hard (or easy?) it is.