Johnny Ringo said:

pretty much all of the officers came up through the ranks in the war and have the mindset of combat troops seeing everything as a threat plus they will have to get along with races they were fighting in the war,the central question will be how do you ask these people to move from a war mindset to a mission of peace.

I DO like this idea but they did kind of touch on that stuff already in Star Trek 6 -

Gorkon said: You don't trust me, do you? I don't blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.

So the only superpowers are the Federation and the Romulan star empire...and then Romulus is destroyed by the Hobus star, right?

What happnes next could be very interesting...or very boring.

The Gamma Quadrant is largely a blank canvas at this point, so setting something there could prove interesting, or at least fresh.

One thing we often see in Star trek is a crew of Humans with one or two aliens in the mix.

What if we were to flip things around and have a token 'human' that is the odd man out.

Would that be an interesting enough premise?

Yeah I like that idea. Maybe the captain is the only human on a ship mostly populated by alien races that have only held supporting roles in older series so we get to learn about new races as well as the characters and the captain is the outsider this time.

I think the Romulans are powerful enough that their empire would survive the blow of their home world blowing up and they would still be in better shape then the Klingons who seemed to be on their last leg at the end of DS9.

I know the idea was touched on in Star Trek six but i think there is room to expand on it and use it to create contrast between the captain and his crew and give us stories where they would have to learn to trust each other.

Yeah it always bugged me that we didn't get to see too much of the Gamma quadrant on DS9 so I would love the chance to go there and really explore it.