no it doesn't, but I like the idea of a regular guest star starship as the ship in charge of hunting down the renegade ship and crew. Could be the enterprise, from a different perspective.
Actually, I always liked the thought of Riker being the advesary. Still a captain, work for starfleet, the Fed, trying to do the right thing, even though he also recognizes the growing flaw (whatever it is) in the federation. Have him in charge of the hunt for the renegade ship, until a couple seasons in, where he becomes a active protagonist. A semi regular thing.
this way they can play that standard game of cat and mouse hunt, then riker begins to suspect that the renegade crew might be more important than he was lead to believe... eventually Riker being forced to give up the hunt and help them, for the sake of the federation. At this point, more devilish and higher up villains will have surplanted Riker as the antagonist etc.
I like the idea of a consultant criminal, turned captain, to lead a new (standard issue Harry Kim nerd/dork like) crew, when they are branded renegades for doing the right thing. The crew would resist the new captain's ways for a while, and there'd be conflict... but they'd realize after a season or two, that his way of thinking is the only way they will survive to save the federation. The issue with trek, is that the characters have always assimilated into the standard trek formula for a crew member within the timespan of an episode. Voyager is the perfect example of what not to do... all these Maquis criminal/rebels, were suddenly like any other starfleet crew, within the timespan of the premier... and their pathetic single serving episodes trying to play the social conflict up, were pretty poor, and few in number.
It also allows one to look at the underbelly of the STU, as well as a ship starved for supplies and fuel. Always on the run. (Voyager attempted to do this, but failed miserably, as their arcs never lasted for more than what, 3 episodes at the most, then everything went back to standard STU happy town by the end of the episode/short arc).
and what would be my wet dream, is if the events of a story like this one, lead into the events that resulted in the creation of Abrams new universe/timeline... Spock 'dying' to save the galaxy. It is also my hope that Andy Dick and Robert Picardo are ever present in any post voyager central timeline series in the STU.
