AHC: Perpetual (or Nearly Perpetual) Star Trek

theReturner said:

Your challenge, should you chose to accept it, is to have Star Trek run in some form from 1966 until the present, with a POD sometime after the original show first aired. Note that it doesn't have to be the same series from then until now, spin-offs are still allowed, but the idea is that new episodes of a Star Trek series will always be on TV. If that's too much, I'll allow for three, three-year periods during which no series is on TV (A total of nine years, but never at the same time). Movies and other things are still allowed to be made.

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The USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk is sent on a secret mission. Kirk is to take a Klingon warrior named Ksia to the Klingon homeworld. Ksia was once the tutor of the reclusive ceremonial ruler of the Klingon Empire, the Kitumba. But Ksia defected to the Federation in order to prevent the imminent all-out attack of the Klingons on the Federation. This attack was conceived by Malkthon, who is the Klingon Warlord, the actual political ruler of the Empire. Ksia plans to convince the adolescent Kitumba to speak out against the imminent attack as Ksia is convinced that the resulting war would destroy both the Federation and the Klingon Empire. (Star Trek: Phase II - The Making of the Lost Series)

An Alternate Klingon Empire
The episode "Kitumba" would have established a Klingon Empire which differs from the canon Klingon Empire in some notable respects.

• The home star of the Klingon Empire is orbited by two M-class planets, the innermost planet being the Sacred Planet of the Kitumba, while the second planet, the actual homeworld, is called Ultar. The canon homeworld of the Klingon Empire is called Qo'noS.
• Ultar and the Sacred Planet feature no defense systems since the Klingons believe in their invincibility.
• "Klingon" is not the name of the species. Only members of the warrior caste are called Klingons. There are two further castes, the technos, which is the caste of scientists and technicians, and the subjects.
• The Klingon Empire is not ruled by the Klingon High Council and its chancellor. There is a ceremonial head of state, the Kitumba, who is revered as a near-god and resides in seclusion on the Sacred Planet. All political and military authority lies with the Warlord, who resides on Ultar.
• The Klingon government in "Kitumba" would have been based on Imperial Japan, much like how the Romulan Empire was based on the Roman Empire. The Warlord would have been analogous to the shogun, who held the real political power in Japan for centuries, while the Kitumba, like the Japanese emperor, would have been relegated to a ceremonial role. (Star Trek: Phase II - The Making of the Lost Series)

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