From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: weberm{at}polaris.net
Subject: CBS developing new CSI and NCIS related Star Trek television shows

A CBS insider leaked to us an announcement about shows in development 
for the fall 2014 season line up. Due to increased demand for Start Trek 
to be back on TV after the new JJ Abrams movies, CBS is once again 
boldly going where no one has gone before. According to our source not 
one but two Star Trek related shows are in development.
Star Trek CSI and EMS

A new Starship
The first of the shows is a Police Procedural based in the Star Trek 
universe. The working title is Star Fleet Investigative Section, or 
SFIS, which promises to be a sci-fi version of CSI or NCIS.

The plot outline we were given is that the show will follow the exploits 
of the star ship Edmund Locard. For those not familiar with forensic 
science Edmund Locard was a French Scientist who is responsible with the 
development of the first modern Crime Lab. The outline said the USS 
Locard would likely be a oDefiant classo type smaller starship.

Star Fleet Investigative Section would follow a basic police procedural 
template. Each episode would have a ocrime of the weeko. The crew of the 
USS Locard would then be dispatched to warp in and solve the crime. 
Utilizing futuristic forensic skills the fearless crew will usually 
successfully solve the crime and restore order.

The breakdowns of plot lines have episodes taking place on other star 
ships, space stations, asteroid mines, alien planet and back here on 
Earth. While many plot lines will involve murders, the crew will also be 
looking into kidnappings, cargo pirating, sabotages, alien spies, and 
space age war crimes.

In the second show Star Trek will be taking on a medical/rescue drama 
theme, with a working title of Star Trek: Pierce. It is unknown based on 
the outline if the name Pierce is in honor of the Fire Engine 
Manufacture or the US Navy Corpsman who received the Medal of Honor in 
WWII.

This second show will follow the crew of the USS Pierce, a heavy rescue 
star ship. In the outline we got, the USS Pierce is described as being a 
new breed of starship with a prototype owarp Jump driveo. The warp jump 
is able to open an artificial wormhole between to wormhole generators. 
Starfleet vessels in the show have emergency beacons that contain one 
half of the wormhole generator. The USS Pierce also caries deployable 
probes that make up the other half of the wormhole generator.

The typical episode plotlines will have some ship, space station or 
other exotic location befall some disaster or unknown medical outbreak. 
Our heroes will then be dispatched to this emergency event. Using the 
warp jump they get to any emergency in minutes. In some shows they will 
use futuristic versions of the Jaws-of-Life and emergency medical 
techniques to complete their rescues. In other shows the onboard medical 
lab might be used to develop a cure for a new illness or virus. Other 
episodes might call for the crew to race in to save a VIP with an 
emergency surgery, such as a transplant or an experimental procedure.

CBS seems positive they will be able to air multiple Star Trek shows. 
They currently air multiple versions of CSI and multiple versions of 
NCIS. Also given that these shows have different central plots, one 
police related the other EMS/Rescue related, fans should be happy to 
have two Trek shows on the air. No word on when production will start, 
nor was there a mention when in 2014 the pilots will air.

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