No, because you're still ignoring the thread's premise. The quality didn't suffer because the show was past its expiration date, the problem was that the writers were out of ideas and needed to be replaced. With fresh blood in the writers' room and some new characters the show could have easily kept going.
With Picard and Data gone I'd ditch Will too, he finally becomes captain but not of the Enterprise, starfleet would not give the flagship to someone who never had a command before. I'd bring back Tom Riker as the new operations officer, that way Frakes can stay.
New characters:
Captain: A human woman in her late 40s/early 50s with a science background
First officer: A bajoran man in his early 30s, born on an earth colony where his parents
Pilot: Ro Laren, in this reality Michelle Forbes decides she wants to be a series regular after all, there's some tension between her and the new first officer because he didn't grow up as a refugee, his family was part of a group who emigrated from Bajor before the occupation.
Troi becomes second officer, by the end of the series she almost felt more like the second officer than data anyway with her doing crew evaluations with Riker, just make it official. This also justifies her having one of the center seats more.
With Will out of the picture Deanna and Tom become a couple and eventually get married making him Thomas Troi (because Betazed was described as a matriarchal society and also because Tom resents being "the other Riker"). Certain parts of the fandom exploding because a man takes his wife's name would also have been really funny which might be the real reason I'd do it.Seriously, why is this an issue in many English speaking countries?
Not customary as far as I know but it feels like a man talking his wife's name is often ridiculed in English speaking countries according to many people from those countries saying their coworkers of friends would make fun of them. I live in Germany and while a woman taking her husbands name is more common a man taking his wife's name isn't that unusual and is just something that happens and definitely not something anyone jokes about. "Have you decided what last name you'll use?" is a common question when people get engaged, it is not assumed that the husband's name becomes the name for both. What is unusual is both partners keeping their own names while that seems to be more common in English speaking countries, pretty much everyone will assume that one spouse will change their name.
Not customary as far as I know but it feels like a man talking his wife's name is often ridiculed in English speaking countries according to many people from those countries saying their coworkers of friends would make fun of them. I live in Germany and while a woman taking her husbands name is more common a man taking his wife's name isn't that unusual and is just something that happens and definitely not something anyone jokes about. "Have you decided what last name you'll use?" is a common question when people get engaged, it is not assumed that the husband's name becomes the name for both. What is unusual is both partners keeping their own names while that seems to be more common in English speaking countries, pretty much everyone will assume that one spouse will change their name.
And you know how certain people on YouTube react if anything "woke" happens on Star Trek, some heads would have exploded if Tom Riker had become Tom Troi.
Neither do I, I literally said that.
I didn't say that but it seems to be a bigger issue in English speaking countries than it is in some others I'm familiar with. That doesn't say that it's not seen negatively in other countries as well.
That's factually wrong, in many parts of the world it's unusual but not abnormal.
Pissing off some fans won't hurt anyone's business. Not every fan's opinion should be respected, it's perfectly fine to ridicule people who are racist, sexist, homophobic etc. and figuratively (or literally) tell them to suck it.
Have you seen what some fans have complained about the last few years?
OK newbie, cut the personal criticism. Not strong enough for a flaming warning but you're on my radar.
That’s the thing…if the consciousness arose from a ship designed to serve its crew, maybe it’s like a Vorta who underneath it all only wishes to serve its Founder. Maybe it has Asimov’s Laws of Robotics underwriting everything else, so wherever else the story unfolds…where it might look like it’s heading into rebelling Cylon territory…maybe it’ll come around to make sense at the end as the ship acting in the best interests of the crew. Maybe the episode ends with like Moya from Farscape or Andromeda…from Andromeda…where the ship becomes another character and part of the crew.
