I'd watch that, I think. Might depend on where the plot went from there, but if I didn't know then I'd definitely be interested in finding out.
And, of course, Lead latches on to Crush rather than Sensei because she's a -hell- of a lot cuter.
Anyway, I think I have a couple concepts like that - although mine have been sort of bubbling away on my brain's back burner for a year or so.
Concept 1:
(opening theme is something quiet, slow, and hopeful, with images from a relic-esque storyboard depiction of the history of human spaceflight, from Sputnik and Gagarin to the ISS to the first slowboats to the creation of the special plane of reference that allows FTL travel and the rise of the first intersteller empires from the semi-fallen colonies farthest from Earth (I have no idea why the effect propagates in reverse - Because The Plot Says So))
Cut to opening scene - a fly buzzes around in front of a fuzzy background, then is snatched out of the air by an eight-legged gecko-frog-starfish thing that tumbles past and reveals that the entire scene is in zero-G. Camera viewpoint spins around it then focuses in to show our Lead character zonked out in one of those Space Shuttle net sleeping bags. Except for having shortish silver-gray rather than long platinum hair, she looks basically like Urd. Only a lot more so.
Something offscreen starts to beep - she grumbles in her sleep and ignores it, until her pet flips off one of the walls and lands on her face.
Beat, beat, outraged howl.
Cut to her climbing into the ship's control seat - awake, now, and obviously not terribly happy about the fact - and we get a good look at 1.) her figure, since she's wearing a Mechanical Counter Pressure suit and precious little else, 2.) the construction of the ship, which is apparently a plant-based bioship along the lines of a Juraiian Treeship, and 3.) the ship's nifty spherical holographic control system. She hits a control and brings up a vid-window of an older guy who's obviously a military higher-up, then, when he asks, briefs him (and, not coincidentally, the audience), on the truly -massive- starship which has arrived in the outer reaches of the same system as her (but -not- him) using a "trailless jump drive" and sent little parasite explorer ships heading insystem. In the process, we also learn that her people are at war with something they call "The Empire", that the Empire uses FTL drives that leave detectable (electromagnetic) trails in real-space, that -her- folks use a combination of slowboats and stargates for interstellar travel, as well as for supplying their warships with energy and reaction mass, and that she's the only picket they have assigned to this claimed-but-as-yet-empty system. Oh, and that the Strangers use sublight drives powered by antimatter anihhilation (which they can tell because the things scatter assloads of gamma radiation all over the place when they're running).
He tells her to investigate one of the parasites, she says 'Yes, sir,' and the conversation ends. We get to watch her plot her intercept course (with handy-dandy graphical user interface, so the audience can see what's happening), and then cut to commercial.
When we get back, there's a quick establishing shot of her ship (which looks like a sequia crossed with a junkyard) and the parasite (which is without a doubt a member of the Valley Forge school of spaceship design) floating in roughly the same orbit of a blue-green-white earthlike world. The newcomer's parasite ship wears an emblem suspiciously like that of the United Nations.
Cut to Lead sitting in her command couch and wearing a sort of brightly-colored sari-like shirt over her spandex^H^H^H^H^H spacesuit, laughing her ass off as her opposite number, whom we shall call Partner, plays charades (read: flirts) over the commlink, while a little display over that window shows that their ships' computers are busy talking back and forth. Partner is a fairly unremarkable looking guy - short brown hair, brown eyes, white jumpsuit with nametag and NASA-style mission logos - but is obviously built a lot closer to Flash Thompson than Peter Parker.
Then the computer SCREAMS at her, followed shortly thereafter by us learning, through the wonders of voice-activation, that an Imperial battleship has just jumped insystem. Then it microjumps in right on top of them, and we get to see an interesting space battle that both involves a realistic treatment of orbits, inertia, and acceleation and has -no sound-, before the battleship destroys both Lead and Partner's ships, then blips away hunting for his mothership.
Only his ship had a lifeboat, so he grabs her and then they start reentry (entry, since that wasn't the planet they came from?) as we cut to end credits.
Next Episode Previews - We learn that neither of them is really prepared to survive on an alien planet, it isn't always the really -big- predators that you need to worry about, Lead can and -will- eat absolutely -anything-, and she and Partner are almost exactly the same height.
For later on in the series, we'd spend a couple episodes doing survival adventures, then four or five on them trading flashbacks and backstories (along with more romantic and sexual tension than you could shake a stick at), followed by the arrival of the Imperial landing party sent to pursue them and eventual defeat and capture thereof, which in turn would lead to their executing a plan to distract the Imperial Battleship and let his mothership get away. Only it doesn't, and decides to kick the Imperials' ass, in the process bailing Our Heroes out of a desperate situation and showing us, the audience, what it looks like when a starship the size of Manhattan kills god-only-knows how many kps of velocity in a single aerobraking pass - when you're standing on the ground underneath it. And, incidentally, -not- finally establishing your relationship with a romantic kiss, since they'd have done that and, um, rather a lot more ten or fifteen episodes ago.
This is out of a standard one season run, BTW.
Ja, -n
(BTW, Drogn? 'Friend')
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
And, of course, Lead latches on to Crush rather than Sensei because she's a -hell- of a lot cuter.
Anyway, I think I have a couple concepts like that - although mine have been sort of bubbling away on my brain's back burner for a year or so.
Concept 1:
(opening theme is something quiet, slow, and hopeful, with images from a relic-esque storyboard depiction of the history of human spaceflight, from Sputnik and Gagarin to the ISS to the first slowboats to the creation of the special plane of reference that allows FTL travel and the rise of the first intersteller empires from the semi-fallen colonies farthest from Earth (I have no idea why the effect propagates in reverse - Because The Plot Says So))
Cut to opening scene - a fly buzzes around in front of a fuzzy background, then is snatched out of the air by an eight-legged gecko-frog-starfish thing that tumbles past and reveals that the entire scene is in zero-G. Camera viewpoint spins around it then focuses in to show our Lead character zonked out in one of those Space Shuttle net sleeping bags. Except for having shortish silver-gray rather than long platinum hair, she looks basically like Urd. Only a lot more so.
Something offscreen starts to beep - she grumbles in her sleep and ignores it, until her pet flips off one of the walls and lands on her face.
Beat, beat, outraged howl.
Cut to her climbing into the ship's control seat - awake, now, and obviously not terribly happy about the fact - and we get a good look at 1.) her figure, since she's wearing a Mechanical Counter Pressure suit and precious little else, 2.) the construction of the ship, which is apparently a plant-based bioship along the lines of a Juraiian Treeship, and 3.) the ship's nifty spherical holographic control system. She hits a control and brings up a vid-window of an older guy who's obviously a military higher-up, then, when he asks, briefs him (and, not coincidentally, the audience), on the truly -massive- starship which has arrived in the outer reaches of the same system as her (but -not- him) using a "trailless jump drive" and sent little parasite explorer ships heading insystem. In the process, we also learn that her people are at war with something they call "The Empire", that the Empire uses FTL drives that leave detectable (electromagnetic) trails in real-space, that -her- folks use a combination of slowboats and stargates for interstellar travel, as well as for supplying their warships with energy and reaction mass, and that she's the only picket they have assigned to this claimed-but-as-yet-empty system. Oh, and that the Strangers use sublight drives powered by antimatter anihhilation (which they can tell because the things scatter assloads of gamma radiation all over the place when they're running).
He tells her to investigate one of the parasites, she says 'Yes, sir,' and the conversation ends. We get to watch her plot her intercept course (with handy-dandy graphical user interface, so the audience can see what's happening), and then cut to commercial.
When we get back, there's a quick establishing shot of her ship (which looks like a sequia crossed with a junkyard) and the parasite (which is without a doubt a member of the Valley Forge school of spaceship design) floating in roughly the same orbit of a blue-green-white earthlike world. The newcomer's parasite ship wears an emblem suspiciously like that of the United Nations.
Cut to Lead sitting in her command couch and wearing a sort of brightly-colored sari-like shirt over her spandex^H^H^H^H^H spacesuit, laughing her ass off as her opposite number, whom we shall call Partner, plays charades (read: flirts) over the commlink, while a little display over that window shows that their ships' computers are busy talking back and forth. Partner is a fairly unremarkable looking guy - short brown hair, brown eyes, white jumpsuit with nametag and NASA-style mission logos - but is obviously built a lot closer to Flash Thompson than Peter Parker.
Then the computer SCREAMS at her, followed shortly thereafter by us learning, through the wonders of voice-activation, that an Imperial battleship has just jumped insystem. Then it microjumps in right on top of them, and we get to see an interesting space battle that both involves a realistic treatment of orbits, inertia, and acceleation and has -no sound-, before the battleship destroys both Lead and Partner's ships, then blips away hunting for his mothership.
Only his ship had a lifeboat, so he grabs her and then they start reentry (entry, since that wasn't the planet they came from?) as we cut to end credits.
Next Episode Previews - We learn that neither of them is really prepared to survive on an alien planet, it isn't always the really -big- predators that you need to worry about, Lead can and -will- eat absolutely -anything-, and she and Partner are almost exactly the same height.
For later on in the series, we'd spend a couple episodes doing survival adventures, then four or five on them trading flashbacks and backstories (along with more romantic and sexual tension than you could shake a stick at), followed by the arrival of the Imperial landing party sent to pursue them and eventual defeat and capture thereof, which in turn would lead to their executing a plan to distract the Imperial Battleship and let his mothership get away. Only it doesn't, and decides to kick the Imperials' ass, in the process bailing Our Heroes out of a desperate situation and showing us, the audience, what it looks like when a starship the size of Manhattan kills god-only-knows how many kps of velocity in a single aerobraking pass - when you're standing on the ground underneath it. And, incidentally, -not- finally establishing your relationship with a romantic kiss, since they'd have done that and, um, rather a lot more ten or fifteen episodes ago.
This is out of a standard one season run, BTW.
Ja, -n
(BTW, Drogn? 'Friend')
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."