Why was there never a show set on the Enterprise B or C, and what would a show with those ships have been like?

[HotRod]

It would be difficult to come up with any new series that hasn’t already been done.
Or done to death.
Maybe another prequel dealing with the life of Zephram Cochrane? How he meets Lilly?.
I c as n’t think of anything else

A series during the very early days of the Federation has been tossed around by a few people, myself included.

A setting still recovering from the Romulan War would be filled with opportunities for drama and teen angst, being they are constantly trying to attract a younger audience.

Young characters would be picking up the pieces of their fractured lives, while following in the footsteps of their parents, killed or wounded during the war, while rebuilding after the devastation and still trying to reach out into the stars.

It'd be an era of grand expansion and an opportunity to truly examine the roll of Starfleet. Are they a military, or are they explorers?

A this mixed with the political intrigue of the various cultures learning to work together and forming the lasting bonds that made the Federation what we know it became.

Certainly something I'd be interested in watching.

 

[Toril Toran]

It sounds good. I’d watch that.

 

[Snowdrop82]

A series during the very early days of the Federation has been tossed around by a few people, myself included.

A setting still recovering from the Romulan War would be filled with opportunities for drama and teen angst, being they are constantly trying to attract a younger audience.

Young characters would be picking up the pieces of their fractured lives, while following in the footsteps of their parents, killed or wounded during the war, while rebuilding after the devastation and still trying to reach out into the stars.

It'd be an era of grand expansion and an opportunity to truly examine the roll of Starfleet. Are they a military, or are they explorers?

A this mixed with the political intrigue of the various cultures learning to work together and forming the lasting bonds that made the Federation what we know it became.

Certainly something I'd be interested in watching.

How about a series set even before Enterprise?

 

[HotRod]

How about a series set even before Enterprise?

There wasn't exactly a lot of exploration going on before the NX-01.

 

[Snowdrop82]

There wasn't exactly a lot of exploration going on before the NX-01.

Would be interesting to focus a lot more on the Vulcan-Human relations on Earth and how that went in the earlier years.

 

[HotRod]

Would be interesting to focus a lot more on the Vulcan-Human relations on Earth and how that went in the earlier years.

Might be interesting to a few Trekkies, but at its core Star Trek is about going out into the great unknown. A series about the 90 years of Vulcans holding back humanity would get pretty boring, pretty quickly.

 

[Snowdrop82]

Might be interesting to a few Trekkies, but at its core Star Trek is about going out into the great unknown. A series about the 90 years of Vulcans holding back humanity would get pretty boring, pretty quickly.

The great unknown is not only going out into Space, but exploring relations with others and learning about yourself. I'd suggest the idea of the series taking place in the immediate aftermath of First Contact.

 

[HotRod]

The great unknown is not only going out into Space, but exploring relations with others and learning about yourself. I'd suggest the idea of the series taking place in the immediate aftermath of First Contact.

I don't think that's going to have any kind of mass appeal.

 

[The Wormhole]

The period before Enterprise seems like it'd be more appropriate for tie-in material like novels and comics. It's the kind of thing which would only really appeal to the fans, might as well do it in a medium which primarily serves the fans.

 

[Sketcher]

Given this is the ship Kirk was killed on, I always thought it would be interesting to make the Enterprise B start out as an underdog of a ship nobody in Starfleet really wants to serve on. Then over the course of a series the Enterprise moves from its reputation as an unlucky ship, to something more heroic.

 

[knightgrace]

No, not really.

Getting very good scripts, is another matter.

Star Trek on the whole requires top notch writers, that are all on the same page.

For example, the trope about the small child going through air ducts, has been done to death, as my father pointed out the corridors ARE the air ducts. In terms of life-support, you want the possibility of easy access.

In terms of safety, you want some way to seal off, a section of corridor - immediately, with out requiring power.

So the ideal is that at the moment of lost power everything shuts. Immediately.

 

[Arpy]

I mean, any ship, any idea, works or doesn’t depending on the execution. The quality of the writing, and the acting and effects, are what make or break any show. You could do series on the Enterprise E, F, G, H, I, etc and it wouldn’t matter the format.

The B and C eras had a lot going on during them. I mean the C era included about 20 years when there was no Enterprise! (How about a show about that other flagship?)

But they could have touch on: multiple wars with the Tzenkethi, Talarians, and the Cardassians; the fallout of the Praxis explosion in STVI and near war with the Klingons if not for the Enterprise-C; attacks by the Tholians (one that nearly killed Riker’s dad); the Tomed Incident, the treaty of Algeron, and the mysterious disappearance of the Romulans for 50 years; the Betreka Nebula “incident” between the Cardassians and the Klingons that lasted 18 years; an interstellarly renowned if caste-based Bajor, then its annexation and Occupation by Cardassia; first contact with the mysterious Ferengi, Jarada, Miradorn, and others; the end of “cowboy diplomacy,” ships becoming twice as fast, families on starships (including smaller ones like Sisko’s Saratoga), and a lot of other things.

Each of the TOS crew/characters could have had a send off. And we could have witnessed the breakup in relations between Spock and Sarek over the Cardassian issue. Plus maybe snippets from the early lives of characters like Chakotay (with Captain Sulu), Picard before and on the Stargazer, Marta Batanides, Walker Keel, Worf and Mogh; Soong, Juliana Tainor, Ira Graves, B-4, and Lore; the decline and fall of Tasha’s home colony Turkana IV; the mad life of Curzon Dax….