Small things you want to see happen in Trek but probably won't happen

[tim0122]

What are small things you'd like to see happen in a Trek show or movie that you know probably won't ever happen but you continue to hope for?

Personally, I'd LOVE for Sam Rockwell to appear as an unnamed crewman in the cold open of a Trek show and get killed by a lava monster before the opening credits.

 

[Finn]

Why?

 

[Tosk]

Why what?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Them to explain how the economy works in the Federation. Because it seems you get "paid" for a higher position on a Starship by having a room instead of sleeping in a bunk or corridor, then a bigger room. And that's it?

 

[Forbin]

Off-duty clothing. We saw it occasionally, but mostly everybody kept their uniforms on except when sleeping. Probably easier on the costuming dept that way, but it seemed unrealistic.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Off-duty clothing. We saw it occasionally, but mostly everybody kept their uniforms on except when sleeping. Probably easier on the costuming dept that way, but it seemed unrealistic.

That reminds me, H&I aired DS9s "Image in the Sand" last night, and I think, out of all the series, they were the one with the most characters in 'Casual Wear' throughout the series.

 

[BillJ]

A story that doesn't depend on nostalgia as its selling point.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I want to see this alleged ''bowling alley.'' Though it is incidentally nostalgic.

 

[vandevere]

There's no real up or down in space. I would love to see starships meeting each other with wildly different orientations respective to each other...

 

[Avro Arrow]

There's no real up or down in space. I would love to see starships meeting each other with wildly different orientations respective to each other...

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[Dr Helen Noel]

Clarification about the prime directive changing between TOS and TNG. They did the Klingon foreheads, surely they can do this too.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Acknowledgement of different cultures within one species (besides humans). I'm not asking for anything in-depth. I'm just talking about little things, like this line from DS9:

"Grilka is from the Mekro'vak region. It is customary among her people that the man to bring a leg of a lingta to the first courtship dinner."

I'd love more of that sort of thing.

Some possible examples, off the top of my head:

"....Gerron is a common surname among many Bajoran cultures. Only be careful how you pronounce it, because 'Ger-own' means something dirty in the Tomrat region."

(A Trill speaking): "My grandmother was strongly against my getting joined, because in her culture joining is taboo, and she's very traditional. My parents were more open minded though."

(An Andorian) "My first culture shock was when we moved to another continent on Andiria. Where I was born, the norm is to have your magnetic field perfectly regulated in public. So after spending years mastering a perfectly smooth magnetic field, we move to the Lokar continent, where apparently its 'rude' and 'antisocial' not to let your magnetic field fluctuate naturally!"

Cultural diversity can also go worlds to explaining some perceived inconsistencies in alien races. (Maybe the bumpy-fotehead Trill believe the symbiont should be dominant, and train potential hosts to be mentally submissive, while the rest if Trill disagrees.)

Also, more Federation starships with names from worlds other than Earth. Give us a USS Ushaan-Tar, or a USS Surak.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Clarification about the prime directive changing between TOS and TNG. They did the Klingon foreheads, surely they can do this too.

It was the Augment Virus

Them to explain how the economy works in the Federation. Because it seems you get "paid" for a higher position on a Starship by having a room instead of sleeping in a bunk or corridor, then a bigger room. And that's it?

Also the Augment Virus.

 

[Citiprime]

To a degree, you see something like it briefly for a scene at the beginning of the first episode of Picard, but I always thought it might be interesting to have an entire episode be just a news broadcast from the Federation News Service.

I'm not talking about like a MASH or Babylon 5 thing where it's a documentary look at the characters, but Just a day's news broadcast to give a sense of the Federation from both a different perspective and a sense of its media culture, with one of the major stories touching on whatever the main story-arc for the series would be at that point

You could have various "pundits" giving different takes on Starfleet's policy, while the other segments fill in to give a fun sense of what it means to see news from around the galaxy, as well as important issues that extend beyond Starfleet or how the news reports weird shit from beyond the Federation (i.e., how do you explain Q's shenanigans to a news audience?).

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

That could make an interesting comic book.

 

[The Emissary]

I would have loved to see Starfleet and the "adventures" of the crew from the perspective of a civilian or a really low-ranking officer. Not in a cartoony/jokey way, but it's treated so flippantly that "god-like" aliens exist and one race of them tried to end humanity or shape-shifting aliens or cybernetic aliens that want to enslave the galaxy or holograms you're playfully murdering repeatedly while you play Call of Duty part 1000 are actually sentient (or have the potential for sentience) or time travel being such a ubiquitous thing that it could erase your entire life. I didn't even mention that a proven multiverse exists.

Yet, for some reason, the average civilian just trudges along as if existential horrors don't exist in every corner and an inept Starfleet crew could accidentally pluck the wrong temporal anomaly and end your entire existence.

I think this is the only example I saw ... kind of acknowledge it ... and it is treated like he's just being a hypochondriac.

Other than that, they had the prejudiced humans in Enterprise (that threatened Phlox) get angry that Starfleet essentially is pointing Earth to every alien species in the universe. But I don't think they were trying to show that what Starfleet does is actually dangerous but moreso that in the end the benefits outweighed the cons.

It's weird to me (unless they reveal that Starfleet covers most of this up). I get the show isn't meant to be about that, but about the Starfleet crews. However, we've had so many shows, novels, games, etc. and you almost never see civilians express concern that Apollo was masquerading as a god but was really an alien. What does this mean for religions across the Federation world?

Nothing ever seems to come out of these transformative revelations and crazy discoveries by Starfleet.

But I guess ... this wouldn't be a small thing to happen. :P :P :P

How about finally learning what language actually is spoken across the UFP?