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Hear me out, but I actually think that the title “Deep Space Nine” hobbled the series and restricted its audience appeal. It just sounds offputtingly dorky. “Deep Space” and a number, I mean seriously; it sounds like a 1950s B-movie. And Deep Space, seriously, what a snoozer. Needed something...

Agreed. I’ve always thought that. I saw the film when it was released, which wasn’t that long after BBC2 showed All Good Things. The film’s whole dark, grey look, the character actions, the vibes of it, it didn’t feel TNG at all, sort of generic mid budget sci-fi with Trek characters and...

Star Trek V actually has fewer toe-curlingly mega-cringe moments than three of the four TNG movies, or either of the two Abrams-directed movies.

TWOK is better from a 2020s perspective if you take Khan’s boasting about superior intellect and superior genetics to be hollow self-delusions, and that’s he more like an alt-right, MRA YouTuber type, overly theatrical and lacking any self awareness. That makes him a creepier villain from a...

Back to the original question, Starfleet would need more ship types than we see during TNG, but much fewer than we see in STO or Picard.

FWIW, if the original Fuller version of Discovery had been produced, an anthology set in different time zones with subsequent USS Discoveries, I reckon we’d have seen the post-TUC era at some point in that hypothetical series. What could’ve been…

Going back to the representation issue… TBH, as a white British guy living in Britain, I thought the series was a step backwards from ‘90s Trek even back in August 2001, when the first solid details about the series were being reported about online. Theres, said it.

The post-TUC era has a lot of story potential, and it pretty much a blank page other than in terms of where we all know it ends up. I can’t see it being appealing to the casual viewer, however, and I can’t see there being any official Trek series ever using that timeframe.

Generally not a fan of STO ship designs, but at least they look like they would be part of the design lineage with late 24thC and early 25thC Starfleet ships, unlike direct recycling of ship designs which are pushing 130-160 years in-universe.

Christ, yeah, I know, seeing as a I’m a grown adult and British. I said commercial-free, not “free” anyway. The model for television in the developed world outside of America is to have a public broadcaster paid for by a licence fee, government subsidy or combination of, so; yeah. Anyway...

Shame that Americans don’t have their own equivalent to the BBC, with its completely commercial-free television and radio.

Bear with me a moment, as I haven’t throughly (re)watched TOS in great detail since 2002. I just had a thought: Isn’t the whole concept of the United Federation of Planets actually a huge retcon? I remember unspecified “federation” is only mentioned as few as three times in the entire series...

TBH though, I’d rather have had a flawed prequel series like ENT than a 24th c. Starfleet Academy series, which would’ve been the easier and cheaper option for Berman & co.

Yeah, I remember being disappointed around August ‘01(?) reading the earliest online reports about the series. Seemed like the TPTB weren’t 100% committed to the prequel concept other than in the lightest, least imaginative sense. Wondered early on if the temporal Cold War and Klingons stuff in...

It sort of is, but is also isn’t, because of all the continuity references in all of them (self explanatory in ‘09 and Into Darkness, and Beyond also has significant callbacks to ENT, for example). The Abramsverse films are a mass of contradictions.

Already have. As of last week, Twitter no longer allow you to look at directly linked tweets if you don't have a Twitter account. So as I've closed my Twitter account a few months ago and refuse to use the service as it is now, I can't see the links that @Mark_Nguyen has posted.

It was a Good Thing that ENT never attempted the Romulan War, because that would’ve killed the series sooner – regular viewers aren’t interested in the Romulans, and nerdy superfans would’ve been constantly raging with all the continuity violations required to make the conflict viable as a...

I think it could’ve gotten 7 seasons even with the Star Trek fatigue issue hanging over it had some of the issues been addressed during initial production. A fifth Trek series was never doomed to inevitable failure.

Rewatching Enterprise now, first time I’ve ever rewatched any of it since it first aired (in the UK on satellite television). It’s horribly sexist compared to DS9 and VOY. The decon scenes are horrendously cringeworthy and would’ve turned off more of the potential audience than it turned on, so...

No they wouldn’t have. No one cares about Romulans and the Earth/Romulan wars other than Trek nerds. ENT’s writers had the right idea in creating a new bad guy alien for the series. Unfortunately, the Suliban just weren’t interesting or compelling enough for us fans, let alone the regular mass...