This was ENT-creator Rick Berman's idea of the Earth/Romulan war: A movie about Kirk's great(?)-grandfather as a space fighter pilot, written by Erik Jendresen.
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I really think the Discovery team would do a far better job. They made me care about those characters.
Here’s what I would do:
- Create a whole new show. Adopt the original idea of Enterprise – set it on Earth for at least 6 months – but under the United Earth Stellar Navy in 2155 after the Terra Prime incident. It would also allow for certain planned ENT stories to be mentioned (Kzinti, Stratos, Denobula, first contact with the Trill, first starbase, NX refit, Shran serving on the NX-01 – they would read reports of these missions/events) while the UESN deals with local matters like Mars Independence Movements. And would allow us to see how the various United Earth organizations interact with each other (Cargo Authority, Diplomatic Corps, Starfleet, Space Boomers, United Earth government). And allow for whispers of war with the Romulans to develop and build before it happens.
- Rather than have Tiberius Chase be surrounded by Nazi tech, have him be influenced by Colonel Green and Optimum instead, considering his influence on the Terra Prime movement and Chase’s views aligning with them. Kind of sick of Nazis in Star Trek at the moment. And Colonel Green is supposed to be just as bad as Hitler or Khan anyways.
- NX-Omega:
1) the Earth -Romulan War was fought by sublight ships, and so Earth ships shouldn’t be going past Warp 2 or 3, unless they’re the NX Class ships that can go to Warp 5.2
2) Warp 7 is supposed to be the capability that Starfleet attains by the end of the war, not Warp 8.
3) It would have to be a top secret ship to explain the delay from Warp 7 to Warp 8.
4) Is it going to be a Ships of the Line design, or an original design?
- Treat the new series like Transformers treat the Bumblebee movie – both as a prequel AND a reboot. In Star Trek’s case, it would allow for select stories of the various missions of the Enterprise NX-01 to be mentioned, but since that ship and crew won’t be seen during the show (aside from cameo appearances), it would allow the new show to be seen as the true prequel to TOS/ the TOS era and allow for everyone to wipe their hands clean of the various inconsistences within Enterprise. Enterprise can then be considered as part of the FC - ENT - DIS - TATV timeline.
- Spread it out over 5-6 seasons, twelve episodes each, with each episode correlating with a month & year (i.e. January 2155, February 2155, March 2160, January 2160, etc.).
- The various ideas like the NX-01 crew being on Risa in 2159, Romulan attacks of various Earth cities, Shran commanding an Andorian fleet, Ambassador Skon, and Chase’s romance with Penelope Gardner can still be used. Those seem alright.
