We've had this discussion before ...
When we finished off the Boskone War, we had a long discussion about what we would do for Season 2. I proposed "The Great Age of Exploration" - and rather quickly got shot down. Nobody else offered anything, so I suggested "The Great Age of Exploration" again, modifying the idea to include exploration of the human condition, the Whole Fenspace Catalog, and the planets in the inner Solar System. That was accepted. Then nobody did anything with it other than create some background notes (myself included, I'll grant).
So ...
Write the stories that you want to write, as long as you don't step on anyone else's toes. Since nobody else is exploring interstellar space in any big way, you won't be stepping on anyone else's toes if your characters go on a proverbial Five-Year Mission.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
When we finished off the Boskone War, we had a long discussion about what we would do for Season 2. I proposed "The Great Age of Exploration" - and rather quickly got shot down. Nobody else offered anything, so I suggested "The Great Age of Exploration" again, modifying the idea to include exploration of the human condition, the Whole Fenspace Catalog, and the planets in the inner Solar System. That was accepted. Then nobody did anything with it other than create some background notes (myself included, I'll grant).
So ...
Write the stories that you want to write, as long as you don't step on anyone else's toes. Since nobody else is exploring interstellar space in any big way, you won't be stepping on anyone else's toes if your characters go on a proverbial Five-Year Mission.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012