Oh, sure, kick Geordi in the teeth even harder. An android without emotions can get another steady (Don't forget he sampled Tasha's Goodies and also had Michelle Scarabelli as a steady), and there's Geordi, still struggling to a second date
If you could make ONE change to each trek series...
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Keep Tasha Yar through the end of TNG, it is she and not Worf who transfers to DS9, she and Jadzia are the ones to develop a romantic relationship and marry.
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In Space Seed, have the Botany Bay spin on it's long axis to explain the "gravity" aboard the ship.
TOS: More smaller scenes with the secondary characters. The series will always be the three main characters of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, but giving the secondary characters moments here and there to develop them a little bit more.
TNG: Definitely agree with losing the overbearing full of it attitude the characters had. How many episodes did Worf have a line that is basically looking down on who they are fighting because they are sitting on the flagship. Even in the acclaimed Best of Both Worlds, the ship is never really shown in danger.
DS9: Early DS9 was trying too hard to be like TNG. I would have also had the Dominion control of the station is Season 6 last longer. The whole thing with Sisko being promoted to a desk during that season was a bit silly too.
VOY: I would never have put the Maquis, especially those who had never been part of Starfleet, in Starfleet uniforms. Sure you can make them get a long, but don't do it after episode one and don't shove them into uniforms because that's what you have in stock. Additionally, I'd give Harry some PTSD in the first season. He's a brand new crew member on his first mission and he gets flung to the other side of the galaxy and he's fine with it!
ENT: I would've cut out the T'Pol character. As I stated in another thread, I was fine with the crew bumbling through early missions, finding their feet. It would've been real that way. But it was hampered by her holier than thou attitude, where she either tells them they are being stupid at the outset or is sulking through the episode. It would've opened up a lot more for other characters to do, even with a human science officer.
TNG: Definitely agree with losing the overbearing full of it attitude the characters had. How many episodes did Worf have a line that is basically looking down on who they are fighting because they are sitting on the flagship. Even in the acclaimed Best of Both Worlds, the ship is never really shown in danger.
DS9: Early DS9 was trying too hard to be like TNG. I would have also had the Dominion control of the station is Season 6 last longer. The whole thing with Sisko being promoted to a desk during that season was a bit silly too.
VOY: I would never have put the Maquis, especially those who had never been part of Starfleet, in Starfleet uniforms. Sure you can make them get a long, but don't do it after episode one and don't shove them into uniforms because that's what you have in stock. Additionally, I'd give Harry some PTSD in the first season. He's a brand new crew member on his first mission and he gets flung to the other side of the galaxy and he's fine with it!
ENT: I would've cut out the T'Pol character. As I stated in another thread, I was fine with the crew bumbling through early missions, finding their feet. It would've been real that way. But it was hampered by her holier than thou attitude, where she either tells them they are being stupid at the outset or is sulking through the episode. It would've opened up a lot more for other characters to do, even with a human science officer.
TOS: Put more women in command positions
TAS: Improve the animation
TNG: Put the sexy in
DS9: Take the Ferengi out
VOY: Put the sexy in
ENT: Get rid of the awful title music theme
TAS: Improve the animation
TNG: Put the sexy in
DS9: Take the Ferengi out
VOY: Put the sexy in
ENT: Get rid of the awful title music theme
Here is my list:
TOS: Convince Gene Roddenberry to stay involved with the show past the second season, completely bypassing the need to hire Fred Freiberger.
TNG: Convince Gene Roddenberry to end his involvement with the show after Encounter at Farpoint, completely bypassing garbage like The Naked Now.
DS9: Though I'm not a fan, I have nothing against the show, so I wouldn't change anything, as it seemed to be well made and well liked by the fan base.
Voyager: I'm torn between simply not making the series at all, or completely changing the writing staff and instituting a rigidly enforced no-Treknobabble policy.
Enterprise: Hire a group of hardcore fans to review scripts for continuity errors. I mean, there really was no excuse for most of the continuity blunders that were made in that series, the writers had an entire body of established onscreen canon to refer to if they had cared enough to bother.
TOS: Convince Gene Roddenberry to stay involved with the show past the second season, completely bypassing the need to hire Fred Freiberger.
TNG: Convince Gene Roddenberry to end his involvement with the show after Encounter at Farpoint, completely bypassing garbage like The Naked Now.
DS9: Though I'm not a fan, I have nothing against the show, so I wouldn't change anything, as it seemed to be well made and well liked by the fan base.
Voyager: I'm torn between simply not making the series at all, or completely changing the writing staff and instituting a rigidly enforced no-Treknobabble policy.
Enterprise: Hire a group of hardcore fans to review scripts for continuity errors. I mean, there really was no excuse for most of the continuity blunders that were made in that series, the writers had an entire body of established onscreen canon to refer to if they had cared enough to bother.
That's a job I would've liked
I think it's a mistake to consider them errors that should have been caught. I think they were, in cases such as cloaking devices being around a century prior to "Balance of Terror", deliberate retcons.
The Pomposity was kind of annoying, but it fit. Folks from today see themselves as superior to folks from 400 years ago, so it's natural that folks from 400 years from now would see themselves as superior to us. It's only...human.
I mean, Spock was going on about how worthless humans were and no one complained there, because the writers wussed out and always had him be right.
I mean, Spock was going on about how worthless humans were and no one complained there, because the writers wussed out and always had him be right.
I think that was sort of countered in Enterprise, if not chronologically canon, then at least as a result of 21st century television writing. The other Vulcans would also baby or condescend or even outright dismiss humans, and Archer would try his best to step up to plate and prove them wrong.
Come to think of it, such dismissive attitudes, which come from a sense of superiority, also tend to be really colonial -- 'taming the noble savage', as it were. The Vulcans in Enterprise had elements of it, but it wasn't far off from a couple episodes of TNG, where the crew couldn't believe a culture's behavior.
Right, but what i'm saying is that Enterprise had, thanks to the benefit of more modern writing, humans who were more willing to stand up to those Vulcans not through antagonism or escalation or ego, but simply by getting up to prove themselves up to the challenge.
It didn't carry on to TOS simply because it's 1960s writing vs. 2000s writing, so it can't progress like, say, warp drive improvements for how Malcolm's inventions are used in Kirk's era. But out of universe, the writing was more nuanced to address pompous, dismissive attitudes.
As another example, consider that TOS talked about racism with the subtlety of a sledge hammer, but in DS9 (at least the clearest example in my mind), they had the time to afford a more critical and nuanced look into ethnic, racial, and cultural differences; Quark's little speech about humanity and root beer, being one example.
TOS: Take out the 'This planet is just like Earth in some previous time period' episodes.
TNG: More Romulan arcs in the later part of the series.
DS9: No Vic Fontaine.
Voyager: Bigger, more prominent secondary cast.
Ent: Make the fourth season the first season and continue from there.
When Spock talked about humans being flawed it came off as Spock being playful and contributing to a running joke he had with Kirk and McCoy. Like, McCoy would say something like "Can any feeling penetrate that thick Vulcan skull of yours?" And Spock would then say something like "They were so savage, so perfectly human". With Spock it was always in the spirit of friendly jiving. In Enterprise it was more like "No, seriously, you people are savages and we don't trust you to go out into the galaxy".
TNG: More Romulan arcs in the later part of the series.
DS9: No Vic Fontaine.
Voyager: Bigger, more prominent secondary cast.
Ent: Make the fourth season the first season and continue from there.
When Spock talked about humans being flawed it came off as Spock being playful and contributing to a running joke he had with Kirk and McCoy. Like, McCoy would say something like "Can any feeling penetrate that thick Vulcan skull of yours?" And Spock would then say something like "They were so savage, so perfectly human". With Spock it was always in the spirit of friendly jiving. In Enterprise it was more like "No, seriously, you people are savages and we don't trust you to go out into the galaxy".
TOS
Other than fix continuity errors, not sure I would change much.
TNG
Would have had more Sela episodes
Will Riker killed off, Tom Riker replaces him in cast.
Troi in uniform the whole time, made her more useful.
Guest appearances from Pulaski
No Kayless clone.
VOY
More Tension between Masquis and Starfleet crew members.
Kes would have "ascended" as before, but would have made guest appearances, much like Daniel Jackson in SG1 season 6, to help Voyager crew. She ultimately would have become the new Caretaker, and assisted with helping them get home, and past the borg.
Chakotay should have been a member of a real tribe, like Hopi, Navajo, or Apache.
DS9
No Mirror Universe episodes!
Suzie Plakson cast as Dax, Farrell recast as human character.
Fate of Tom Riker revealed, if Tom didn't replace Will Riker.
No Ezri Dax
Enterprise
I most of all wanted to see the Earth Romulan Wa!
T'Pol revealed as a half Romulan. Would have been a nice echo to Sins of the Father, and also Styles' resentment of Spock in Balance of Terror.
Temporal cold war arc should have been wrapped up.
No These Are The Voyages.
Other than fix continuity errors, not sure I would change much.
TNG
Would have had more Sela episodes
Will Riker killed off, Tom Riker replaces him in cast.
Troi in uniform the whole time, made her more useful.
Guest appearances from Pulaski
No Kayless clone.
VOY
More Tension between Masquis and Starfleet crew members.
Kes would have "ascended" as before, but would have made guest appearances, much like Daniel Jackson in SG1 season 6, to help Voyager crew. She ultimately would have become the new Caretaker, and assisted with helping them get home, and past the borg.
Chakotay should have been a member of a real tribe, like Hopi, Navajo, or Apache.
DS9
No Mirror Universe episodes!
Suzie Plakson cast as Dax, Farrell recast as human character.
Fate of Tom Riker revealed, if Tom didn't replace Will Riker.
No Ezri Dax
Enterprise
I most of all wanted to see the Earth Romulan Wa!
T'Pol revealed as a half Romulan. Would have been a nice echo to Sins of the Father, and also Styles' resentment of Spock in Balance of Terror.
This. Would have had a shorter Xindi Arc, too. Some stories could have been recycled for a Romulan War Conflict.
Temporal cold war arc should have been wrapped up.
No These Are The Voyages.
I don't think Similitude would have worked outside the Xindi arc. Without the moral imperative created by the danger of Earth being blown up, there's no justification for creating a life form just as an organ bank.
Actually, I'm changing my DS9 answer.
DS9: Dr Bashir is NOT GENETICALLY ENHANCED.
DS9: Dr Bashir is NOT GENETICALLY ENHANCED.
I think you deserve a round of applause there.
TOS: All of the space hippies die. Before the opening credits.
TNG: Give Riker a ship in the 4th or 5th season, and make him a recurring character with recurring plot lines.
DS9: That Pah'Wraith thing was pretty stupid.
VOY: The ship is never in perfect shape at the beginning of every episode, and resources are difficult to come by.
ENT: Porthos is captain and the ship is crewed by dogs. Everything else stays the same.
TNG: Give Riker a ship in the 4th or 5th season, and make him a recurring character with recurring plot lines.
DS9: That Pah'Wraith thing was pretty stupid.
VOY: The ship is never in perfect shape at the beginning of every episode, and resources are difficult to come by.
ENT: Porthos is captain and the ship is crewed by dogs. Everything else stays the same.
The whole crew is dogs? Surely Phlox would need to be something else (a lizard of some kind is the first thing that popped into my head) as would T'Pol (she'd definitely need to be a cat). Other than that, great idea
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