Change Three Things About Each Film

[CorporalCaptain]

TWOK:

1. When the Reliant enters the Ceti Alpha system on its search for a planet for the Genesis experiment, have them recognize Ceti Alpha V and the disaster that has befallen the system. Have Terrell and Chekov attempt to render humanitarian assistance to Khan's penal colony, but they get outsmarted and captured by Khan. Things proceed as in the film from there.

2. Instead of taking Preston to the bridge before taking him to sickbay, at that moment have Scotty appear on the viewscreen from sickbay with the same look of anguish that he has in the film, as McCoy attempts to treat Peter in the background.

3. Have Carol hold back a password that's needed to fire the Genesis Torpedo. Carol tells Kirk that Khan wouldn't even know a password was needed until actually trying to detonate the device. Kirk then baits Khan into the fight in the nebula by revealing to him over radio that he cannot fire the torpedo without the password and he lacks enough technical information to safely fix the device so it will work without it. Khan's concern is therefore boarding the Enterprise and capturing Carol. But Kirk doesn't invite Khan for a rematch in the nebula. Instead he acts like the Enterprise is fleeing into the nebula, with the deception as to how repaired the Enterprise is still in effect. Khan thinks that Kirk is only trying to delay him until help arrives, so he figures that he must act quickly and decisively, so he pursues Kirk into the nebula. Kirk then surprises Khan with weaponry that is more operational than Khan was led to believe, which wins the battle without the two-dimensional thinking/zee minus ten thousand meters schlock. But David says that when Reliant explodes it could set off a chain reaction in the Genesis matter that will destroy the Enterprise unless she can warp away. The creation of the Genesis Planet occurs because protomatter was used, which is part of the reveal concerning this in the next film (that's one change for STIII).

 

[Jeyl]

Ooo, this is going to be fun. Here I go!

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1) Restore the Director's Edition to 4K, bring back all the original folks who were involved and complete scenes that they had wanted to finish but didn't have the time and budget.
2) Give the supporting characters more to do. There is no reason why Scotty couldn't have fixed the warp drive with some clever tinkering and Uhura should have been the one to make contact with V'Ger during their encounter. Let the characters who have a job do the work that fits their job description!
3) Change the bloody uniforms. I would say something more akin to Kirk's admiral uniform. Just... we don't need to see that much detail. And kill the brown/gray tones. Bring colors back!

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1) Redo all the stock footage shots from TMP. I'd say keep some things the same like the Enterprise in dry dock, but have it shot a different way.
2) Throw in a line that Acknowledges Carol Marcus was the blonde scientist that Kirk almost married. I just love the idea of Kirk's arc that stems from his first episode and is concluded in The Undiscovered Country.
3) Redo the Reliant explosion. There was a 2D blueprint video made recently that had a very good interpretation of what we got which was having the Enterprise outrun a shockwave that was consuming the Nebula. I can actually picture how this would work in a fish tank full of paint. Like you would have a drain, unplug it, and it would look like the Nebula was being compressed into the Genesis explosion that would form the Genesis planet.

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
1) Keep Saavik on the Enterprise and have David visit the Genesis Planet with Carol.
2) Have the Klingon Bird of Prey be a stolen Romulan Bird of Prey.
3) Change the entire reason for the Genesis Planet collapsing. Instead of bringing in Proto-Matter, have the reason for the planet's collapse be because it was formed from a volatile gaseous nebula and not a solid space body. And use Spock's resurrection to give David an awareness that while this planet may be a failure, the potential for what it could do for medicine and science is still revolutionary. This would be something that only he would figure out so that that when he dies, the means to accomplish what he discovered dies with him.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1) Better execution on why the Klingons would vouch for Kruge even though he acted on his own accord. Like have Carol be with Sarek when and have her be the one to tell everyone that Kruge destroyed the Grissom and murdered her son for no reason.
2) Tone down Bones' negative behavior towards the hospital doctors. I know that may take some of the fun out of the sequence, but he of all people should know that these doctors are working with the tools that they have available. When he's explaining how to help Chekov, he should be struggling in trying to explain how he can save him instead of lambasting the surgeon.
3) Have Saavik show up on the bridge as become the Enterprise A's first officer instead of Spock. He's fine just as the science officer.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Uhh.....I think I'm going to need more than three things with this one.)
1) After the main title, have the space footage segway into the forward observatory where the crew are celebrating Sulu's promotion to Captain where he will take command of the USS Excelsior.
2) Sybok is not on a mission to seek out God, but instead is on a mission to reunify the Vulcan and Romulans together. While it will end in failure, it would be a nice little set-up for Spock to carry on this mission after what what the crew were able to accomplish in Star Trek VI. Plus it would give the Romulans some presence. Also, Sybok is not Spock's brother.
3) The Enterprise A is NOT a brand new ship but is the re-christianed Yorktown that was disabled in Star Trek IV and has no technical hijinks.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1) Saavik replaces Valeris but she is not the traitor. Just keep Burke and Samno as the traitors. Maybe have them be cadets that Saavik worked with during their time at the Academy. I don't know. Just don't make Saavik the baddie, ok?
2) When the Enterprise races toward Rura Penthe to rescue Bones and McCoy, they are caught by a Klingon Battle Cruiser. When the cruiser doesn't immediately attack them, it's revealed that the ship's commander is actually Kang. He knows that assassinating is not in his character and that the Enterprise is doing what they feel is best for both parties involved. And after the interrogation, have it be a three way chat with Kang and Sulu where Kang is the one who gives the location of the next peace conference and Sulu is the one who will be there to back them up (Kang would be too far at this point).
3) During the final battle, have it be the Excelsior who has the equipment to detect gaseous anomalies but the Spock having the know how on how to program them into torpedoes. You can add a moment where both ships have to drop their shields at just the right time so they can beam the equipment over to the Enterprise so Spock and McCoy can work on the torpedo like they did in the film.

That's it for the original six. I may tackle the remaining ones later. What do you think so far?

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I love 'what if' threads, there are some great ideas here for movies I wish we'd seen.

 

[Tenacity]

2) Have the Klingon Bird of Prey be a stolen Romulan Bird of Prey.

How about at no point is the small Klingon ship ever referred to as a "bird of prey?"

1) Saavik replaces Valeris but she is not the traitor.

Have both in the movie. And it's Saavik (Alley) who "mind rapes" Valeris.

 

[Jeyl]

How about at no point is the small Klingon ship ever referred to as a "bird of prey?"

Hmm. Now that I think about it, here's another point for TSFS.

Instead of some freighter carrying Valkris with the Genesis information, it's the Romulans who have intercepted the Genesis inquiries that Kirk sent to Starfleet. On their way back to Romulan space, they encounter Kruge who boards them, kills everyone onboard and takes the Bird of Prey for himself. He was pretty content with just stealing the Bird of Prey, but after he notices the Genesis intel that the Romulans had secured, he decides to use the Bird of Prey's cloaking ability and steal the Genesis device instead of simply returning to Klingon space. And given that the Bird of Prey doesn't need as many crew members as his other ship does, Kruge simply blows his own ship up.

You could also use this scenario as a pay off for later events. Like the gunner destroying the Grissom by accident could have been the result of not being familiar with the controls.

 

[Dukhat]

Hmm. Now that I think about it, here's another point for TSFS.

Instead of some freighter carrying Valkris with the Genesis information, it's the Romulans who have intercepted the Genesis inquiries that Kirk sent to Starfleet. On their way back to Romulan space, they encounter Kruge who boards them, kills everyone onboard and takes the Bird of Prey for himself. He was pretty content with just stealing the Bird of Prey, but after he notices the Genesis intel that the Romulans had secured, he decides to use the Bird of Prey's cloaking ability and steal the Genesis device instead of simply returning to Klingon space. And given that the Bird of Prey doesn't need as many crew members as his other ship does, Kruge simply blows his own ship up.

You could also use this scenario as a pay off for later events. Like the gunner destroying the Grissom by accident could have been the result of not being familiar with the controls.

To her credit, in the novelization Vonda McIntyre always referred to the ship as a Klingon fighter, never a BoP. And I've said this before...once the decision was made to make the adversaries Klingons, I think ILM should have painted the model blue to match the K'T'Ingas from TMP, since the whole ship looks way more like a Klingon vessel than the Romulan ship from Balance of Terror, and just called it a Klingon fighter like in the book.

 

[Tenacity]

a little big for a fighter
too small for a frigate.

maybe a corsair?
i like the sound of that name.

 

[Vger23]

a little big for a fighter
too small for a frigate.

maybe a corsair?
i like the sound of that name.

A Kilingon yacht?
A Klingon canoe?
How about a Klingon fishing troller?
I know...a Klingon dinghy!
...or cabin cruiser!

Yes...these would all get Star Trek III to the next level. What was Harve Bennett not seeing here????

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

2) Tone down Bones' negative behavior towards the hospital doctors. I know that may take some of the fun out of the sequence, but he of all people should know that these doctors are working with the tools that they have available. When he's explaining how to help Chekov, he should be struggling in trying to explain how he can save him instead of lambasting the surgeon.

Bones forgets himself- he's used to lambasting alien (medical practitioner)s for their barbaric actions, not people. They should have developed a warning signal to alert someone when they're acting out of character for the century.

3) Change the bloody uniforms. I would say something more akin to Kirk's admiral uniform. Just... we don't need to see that much detail. And kill the brown/gray tones. Bring colors back!

They could have had a combination of color and non-color - enlisted and officers.

 

[Tenacity]

^ Which would get to be vibrent and colorful, and which dull and ... boring?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I guess it depends on the job. You could even have, depending on which function of their job they're currently doing, dully dressed Kirk if he's heading down on a pre-warp planet landing party (think camo) and brightly colored if he's making first contact.

 

[XCV330]

TMP:
1: Tighten the scenes up. Speed up the fly-arounds.
2: Write some kind of mentorship role for Kirk, even if the relationship with him and Decker is strained. Don't make Kirk a jerk. Kirk being a secondary antagonist served no function.
3: Remove the "vow of chastity" or whatever Deltans have to take, or at least explain why. That was wierd. Even for Roddenberry.

TWOK:
Honestly, I can't suggest anything but the most minor of changes.

TSFS:
1: less replayed footage.
2: more "heist movie" planning an antics of how the crew sprung McCoy and stole Enterprise. This could have been the Oceans 11 of Star Trek.
3: Kirstie Alley.. whatever it took. Or make the new Vulcan some other character.

TVH:
1: maybe explain how only one mating pair of whales will make a difference the NEXT time the probe stops by
2: explanation of how NO other starship around 001 could have avoided the probe and tried the same manouver.
3: More Jane Wiedlin.

TFF:
1: Better special effects.
2: Too many script changes to list here.
3: Don't make Sybok spock's brother. Leader or some Vulcan Cult? sure? Near Super-vulcan abilities? By all means.

TUC:
1: No purple blood, or if so.. better purple blood.
Honestly, like TWOK, I cant offer too many helpful suggestions.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

TWOK
1 Ricardo Montalban is still tanned.
2 Kirk is still just a captain
3 Khan doesn't lose the final fight because of 2 dimensional strategy

TSFS
1 Make the genesis planet less brown.
2 Make the Klingons less stupid.
3 More Maltz.

TVH
1 Nothing
2 Nothing
3 Nothing

TUC
1 Remove 'Mothballing the Starfleet'
2 Remove klingon translating scene
3 Remove 'Inalienable human rights'

GEN
1 Ditch Lursa and B'Etor. Generic original characters would've been better than they ever were.
2 Show an actual uplifting life in the Nexus. Not just a generic christmas and a sedate horse farm with no one around.
3 Any climax that doesn't revolve around a generic fistfight on a generic planetary surface and crashing the Enterprise for no particular reason.

FC
1 Remove drunk Deanna
2 Tone down raging Picard
3 No Borg Queen/Data seduction scenes

INS
1 Clarify what the particles are actually useful for and exactly how they're supposed to help people
2 Provide an explanation for how the prime directive doesn't apply that isn't utter nonsense and completely full of holes
3 Actually expose Admiral Dougherty to the Federation council to show the audience unequivocally whether the Federation was on his side or Picard's, and what that ultimately means for our heroes.

NEM
1 The Remans should've been an underclass of Romulans forced to work in slave labor mines - not dracula ripoffs.
2 Ditch the Picard Clone entirely. Shinzon should just be a Reman leader out to destroy the Romulans.
3 Earth or even the Federation being a target should never come into the story at all. Focus on the Enterprise cementing the Romulan alliance by defending Romulus, not Earth.
4 Ditch B4 entirely
5 No Dune Buggies
6 No mind rape subplot


ST09
1 Give Kirk actual, clear moments of intelligent leadership, not just delegating and being able to interpret information.
2 Give Leonard Nimoy better writing. His entire appearance was a waste of one of the finest actors in the franchise.
3 Make Spock permanent captain of the Enterprise. The whole point of this movie is that all bets are off and anything can happen. That's why they destroyed Vulcan. And the 'what if' factor is the biggest, most interesting concept this entire soft reboot concept has going for it. So, instead of forcing Kirk into a ridiculously unbelievable position just because, show us an actual twist on the franchise with Captain Spock and Commander Kirk.

STID
1 Don't make Khan and Marcus repeatedly act in ways that are blatantly contradictory to their own stated goals.
2 Don't pretend to demote Kirk in recognition of story problems in the first movie and then completely gloss over the whole thing five minutes later.
3 Remove any and all 'homages' to TWOK from the final act. No magic blood. No Kirk rip off of Spock's sacrifice frame by frame. No 'KHAAAAAN!'
4 Fire whatever idiot thought 'cold fusion' was a good description for an anti-volcano device. Because volcanoes are hot and therefore one must use something cold. Moron.

BEY
1 Give Uhura and Sulu back their own subplots that were cut, which should hopefully also include Uhura getting an actual say in the ongoing plot point of her own relationship rather than having that entire side of the story be driven entirely by Spock and McCoy.
2 Give Krall a few more scenes to better develop his mindset and motivation.
3 Let Sulu actually kiss his husband.

 

[thribs]

What was wrong with the Deanna being drunk scene?

 

[Grendelsbayne]

What was wrong with the Deanna being drunk scene?

Honestly I was probably reaching a bit on FC. I don't think there's any particular part of it that I seriously dislike. But I do feel like that scene doesn't really serve much of a purpose beyond watching Marina act silly.

 

[thribs]

I thought it was to give a better idea on what the character of Cochrane was like, to that he was completely different to what the crew expected.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

It was funny. Funny is entertaining. Funny is good.

 

[Terok Nor]

The Motion Picture

1. Better story
2. Faster paced
3. Better acting

The Wrath Of Khan

Wouldn't change anything.

The Search For Spock

1. T'Pau revives Spock's consciousness
2. Kirstie Alley plays Saavik

The Voyage Home

1. More screen time for Chapel and Rand

The Final Frontier

1. Better special effects

The Undiscovered Country

Wouldn't change anything

Generations

1. Kirk doesn't die
2. Enterprise isn't destroyed
3. More screen time for Beverly

First Contact

1. More screen time for Beverly
2. Other DS9 cast members on the Defiant

Insurrection

1. Make it a 2 part episode of the tv show. This is not movie worthy.
2. Restore Quark's deleted scene
3. More screen time for Beverly

Nemesis

1. Restore all the deleted scenes including Beverly's
2. Cast someone else as Shinzon
3. Don't kill Data

Star Trek 2009

1. Cast someone else as Scotty
2. Explain wtf the Romulans did for 30 years waiting for Spock to arrive
3. Redesign the iBridge of the iEnterprise

Into Darkness

1. Erase this movie from existence

Failing that

1. Don't cast a white Englishman as Khan
2. Don't make Carol Marcus an airheaded bimbo (also from England wtf?)
3. Don't bastardize the iconic KHAAAAAN scene from TWOK
4. Cast someone else as Scotty

Beyond

1. Better and more original villain
2. Cast someone else as Scotty
3. Don't blow up the Enterprise again. It's been done to death.

 

[Danlav05]

Okay, what about a stand alone Kirk movie. He reconnects with Spock and Scotty, and they roam the galaxy righting wrongs and fighting injustice?

This.

Having Kirk die just to "pass a torch" (if that was the reason) was stupid. Kirk could have survived the end of Generations and in no way of interfered with further TNG movies, or stole thunder from Picard. We last see Kirk standing next to Picard as the shuttle comes into view. the rest of the movie plays out as it did.

Kirk both lives and disappears after Generations, no problems.

If Kirk had survived Generations it's almost certain on TV or film they would have brought him back at some point!