"mere peace-keeping force"

TV TrekMovie has extracts from Bryan Singer's pitch document for his revival of Star Trek as a tv series in 2006. It's a continuation rather than a reboot, plunging the Federation into a rather bleak future:

"Earth’s Humans have become "fat and happy" but this has led to complacency where humans are "giving up exploration for incremental colonization and focusing more on the rightness of their own cultural view over all others"  Many younger members of the UFP have left, eschewing this "human-centric" Federation.

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Starfleet has been reduced to a "mere peace-keeping force" protecting fringe worlds from aliens and from fighting each other, with starships that are old and spread out too thin."

The idea was to more specifically reference a latter day Roman Empire in a series which follows the new storytelling structures of nu-BSG and The West Wing. There are a few good ideas; one of the characters is called The 76th Distillation of Blue which has nu-Who written all over it and the ship's sentient computer is named M.A.J.E.L. which is a nice kiss to the past.

Mostly it's a horrible attempt at turning Star Trek into something it's not.  The portrayal of religious belief is heavy handed and the initial storylines lost me at "the obelisk". Star Trek's had its fair share of Big Dumb Objects in its time but in the best stories they've always been a mcguffin. In this version they are the story.  Luckily, it didn't reach the point of being looked at by anyone with the powers of decision making.