Enterprise-F series

[Skywalker]

I just don't really see the point, especially if they are indeed making a show about Pike and his Enterprise. Picard already has the "modern era" of ST covered. The stories and characters don't need to be set on a ship called Enterprise to be made valid.

I just feel like ST is bigger than the Enterprise, and has been for most of its lifetime now.

 

[Go-Captain]

Speaking of: when is the Orville coming back??? I've always felt like I'm watching Season 8 of TNG with the Orville, except it brings the energy and intrigue of Seasons 3-4.

Orville is on hold due to COVID-19, even without it it would not have released until near the end of year, now we can count on it releasing next year at the earliest.

Star Trek hasn't been able to decide that for fifty years.

DS9 was pretty good about its world building and sticking with it. But going by DS9 a Starfleet city ship would just be a military dictatorship too.

 

[STEPhon IT]

I haven't been on this site in awhile, so I apologize if this has been covered already.

But a new series that takes place after the events of Picard with a new crew aboard the Enterprise-F would be cool.Plenty more stories to tell. It would be a nice change from prequels, and alternate timeline stories.

1701-F I believe would be too close to PICARD and it needs to be some distancing from Picard's era, maybe push the letters in the alphabet further to give the series some breathing room. Maybe a 1701-G or H or an I would be best to give the vessels some historical context, but I guess this could be done with 1701-E and has one already in place.

 

[Boris Skrbic]

The F should be skipped because it sounds like a failing grade, and then it could become an Odyssey-class background model. Enterprise-G sounds fine; H and I, not so much.

 

[Ralphis]

I don't know if it has to be the "Enterprise-F", but I have thought a lot lately that I kind of would like something somewhere in between Picard and The Orville. Like, sometime in the early 25th Century set on a Starfleet vessel with a mission of exploration (but not the flagship - an intermediate class ship), and throw in some mystery and thriller elements.

 

[Shamrock Holmes]

I would build the whole thing around the idea of the crew regularly rotating due to death and promotion onto and off of the ship. It would not be happening every few episodes, but after a few years the captain would definitely be promoted off and a new one would come in. It wouldn't be about any particular person for the whole show, but major arcs might belong to one or more people.

IMO, the easiest way to accomplish this is on a tv series would be to make more of the secondary characters. It's just about possible that some of the "big posts" (CO, CMO, maybe ChEng, maybe ChSciO) would be largely static as these post-holders could conceivably have hit the "top of their game" and this sort of Starfleet would have enough capacity that the Peter Principle isn't enforced by mandate/law as it can be in the modern militaries due to "up and out", but secondary characters (bridge crew, medics, engineers, hospitality etc) particularly if they are enlisted or junior officers are much more likely to move onto the "next best thing" and even the ones that don't will -- particularly the JOs -- get shopped around different shifts and departments allowing for world-building and character development.

The key to making it work is deciding if it is a military dictatorship, as in it is a Starfleet city ship run by Starfleet personnel with only minimal or no passenger input, or is it a civilian ship run by Starfleet, where the passengers have in some capacity the powers of commander in chief and it is up to Starfleet personnel to decide how to act on those orders.

No civilian ship would ever run on the latter system. It's just about possible that the captain would accept "on the fly request" changes to the itinery subject to ship's safety, available resources and navigational/travel advisories, but the single most important rule of the sea (and indeed aviation) is that the Captain (or Pilot in Command)'s word is LAW and this is no different on a civilian ship than a military one. A private charter vessel for a single person or small group might be a bit more flexible, but AFAIK there would still be no giving "orders" by anyone other than the Captain/PiC.

 

[Mudd]

But what if

Spoiler

Starfleet doesn’t have an Enterprise as of 2399 and isn’t planning to make another one?

Doesn't matter what "Starfleet" plans - just what makes sense to CBS.