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How would you change or Re-Write TNG?
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Or that like any innate ability, some are naturally better at it than others, with peaks of heightened ability during certain circumstances, such as using a device/method (which has bad side effects, possibly cumulative, so only in extremely necessary moments), when pregnant, etc and valleys where it bottoms out, such as illness, when under the influence of something, etc.
(A "Star Wars" side note: one thing I imagine regarding the force is that pregnant non-force sensitive women become temporarily able to wield the force under duress to protect their force-sensitive pre-born children.)
More TOS style episodes.
Less technobabble.
More data centric episodes as his actor can act(too lazy to google his name right now).
No wesley crusher. I hated that character and wished him harm(not the actor though I can separate fiction from reality).
Have the Enterprise-D be destroyed in the series finale. To give a sense of finality.
Less technobabble.
More data centric episodes as his actor can act(too lazy to google his name right now).
No wesley crusher. I hated that character and wished him harm(not the actor though I can separate fiction from reality).
Have the Enterprise-D be destroyed in the series finale. To give a sense of finality.
True, but it's fun to think about. - even nigh on four decades later.
Ironically, season 1 and - to a lesser extent - season 2 both come closest to doing TOS-style episodes. Especially season 1. Season 2 is wholly underrated and fleshing out the new style that 3 would be acclaimed for. 2 set up the basics and 3 just did refining, which is no small feat given the production problems behind the scenes. 3 being such a gem is definitely impressive...
Season 2 did it the best. Not too strongly, but some similarities remained. Season 1 just tries too hard to be like TOS, especially with dumb references to "The old Enterprise" (uh, which one, yours is the "D"... "D" for "Duh"?!), not to mention old Ertl models of the 1701 and the original shuttle in various rooms for absolutely no other reason and then flaunting references for the "Hey, remember meeeeeeeee?" sake of it. (at least Lower Decks knows how to use references for humorous results, the joke is that their references are knowingly taking overt jabs at this easter egg stuff.)
TNG defined Treknobabble, and for a while it was so well used that it felt authentic - much respect to the actors who had to memorize all of that, and ditto for the script writers who did a ton of handling and refining! But even in the tail-end of the TV show they were clinging to it more and more.
Brent Spiner rules, but if the material isn't there, he alone can't save it. A lot of the lesser season 1 episodes aren't always saved by the cast rising above the clunky stuff either. Ironically, "Datalore" has Spiner working not just overtime but double time and somehow does save it, making Lore truly menacing - but even "Descent" shows how plopping Lore into any old thing doesn't improve it. That story didn't even need Lore to work...
Wesley was mishandled in season 1, not unlike how he, Ro, and too many others were mishandled in season 7. Seasons 2 and 3 thankfully ground the character with some tact, but in comes season 5 and "The Game" brings it all back again. Followed by "The First Duty", designed specifically to trash him. Then season 7's entry that makes less sense than if he popped up in a commercial selling insurance products.
The TV finale lets the ship survive, to hint at greater and grander adventures. Then we get "Generations", the one Leonard Nimoy balked at after using some choice words against the script. I suppose "D" had to go boom boom, I guess. But it just looked so good on the big screen, and then they use the inversion of "plot armor" to destroy the thing because the plot says so. They really felt a need to shove in Kirk and that probably attributed to a lot of the script not being fleshed out where it was needed to be the most. But who didn't want to see the captain of the 1701-B, who - five years later - would be Carter Heywood's nemesis as Stuart Bondeck.
Apologies for replying to your over-a-year old post, but I really like your idea
-Pulaski and Data are the new McCoy and Spock
- Doohan gets tired after 2 years and quits. La Forge takes over engineering
- Bennett and Winter still get to make a fifth film, The First Adventure prequel idea
- Shatner probably leaves in Season 3? Riker takes over
- Spock would definitely be Locutus
- I’d say Chekov and Uhura stay to the end with Riker, Troi, Pulaski, Worf, Geordi and Data
- if this is a new five year mission it wraps after the 25th Anniversary?
- leads to Excelsior spin off Starring George Takei
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