If I owned Star Trek...

[uniderth]

If I owned the Star Trek franchise these are the developments you would expect to see. These ideas aren't completely fleshed out yet but this is the basic idea.



Here are my concepts for future Star Trek series:


Valiant
A short series that depicts the first faster than light human voyage beyond the solar system. The first season would show the crew of the Valiant as a cargo ship just as the worst parts of World War 3 is happening. We would see the fall of earth that leaves the solar colonies stranded. Occasionally earth would be visited but things are pretty. The Solar Fleet would struggle to maintain control as the solar system quickly descends into lawlessness. It would have quite a wild west feel to it. The crew would be taking on odd jobs and trying to survive as life in the Solar System is much preferable to life on Earth.


The second season would be a few years later with earth starting to recover. There would be more contact with earth and some great story potential about triumph over devastation.


The third season would be in 2065 as the Valiant is refitted with a warp engine. The crew count is upgrades to about eleven so there will be more character dynamics. This season we would see a couple episodes as the Valiant goes on a relief mission/maiden voyage to help the solar colonies. They are now officially representing earth and there will be some interesting stories as we see some of the crew's past actions catching up with them and they now have to be official. Also the solar colonies would really hate and distrust earth for leaving them stranded all these earths. After a couple of these episodes and the maiden voyage is complete The Valiant will return to earth to resupply before finally setting off on mankind's first faster than light reach out to the stars. We would meet many near earth alien species for the first time. It would be pure strangeness and excitement in exploring these new worlds. There is no prime directive so we would even see some episodes with humans completely contaminating a society and the fallout from that. Because of the distance and speed of the Valiant we would also see some stories while they are mid voyage.


The fourth season would be more exploration and story arcs from the third season, finally culminating in the disaster that destroyed the valiant.


The first two season of this series would have sort of sort of a Firefly meets Jericho feel. The third and fourth would be more of a Firefly meets Defying Gravity.


Untitled
Set in the early 2000s. A possible miniseries that would show mankind's exploration to uncover the mystery of evidence of alien activity in the Solar System. It would feature Colonel Shaun Jeffrey Christofer commanding the Lewis and Clark in the first mission to Saturn. This series would be full of mystery and adventure. Imagine a better than Defying Gravity version of Defying Gravity. It would be really tempting to make this miniseries in the found footage format like Europa Report


Enterprise
This series would replace the existing Enterprise series. It would feature the S.S. Enterprise (ringship) commanded by Captain Jonathan Stiles. One of the great things about this series is that it would illustrate the difficult transition from humanity as it is today to the “enlightened” humanity of Kirk's era. It would examine all aspects of what it means to be us and our place in the universe but it would do this through the adventure stories we like to see. It would have to avoid getting preachy like the plague.


We would slowly see the build up to the Romulan War and the mysteries surrounding it. About mid series would be the Earth-Romulan Wars. However these would be depicted in three full length feature films. Or maybe perhaps a parallel with the films and the series. The last couple seasons would be the founding of the Federation. The series would be renamed “Star Trek: Enterprise” and the ship would become the U.S.S. Enterprise XCV-330.


Star Trek
This series would start with and movie of the same name which would replace the JJ Abrams film. We would see the launch of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 under the command of Captain Robert April and it's first voyage. The first season would pick up after this and we would have five seasons of Captain April. Perhaps with a feature film in between each season to replace Trek Into Darkness. Then we would have a ten season set with Captain Pike.


Finally we would finish Kirk's mission with the first season finale being Where No Man Has Gone Before. We would add an episode to the second season of Kirk(currently the first season) to help transition. Then we would see the “second” season as depicted. The original special effects shots would be replaced with cgi that actually closely replicates the original effects rather than the crappy cgi we have in the Remastered Edition. There would be episodes added to the “third” and “fourth” seasons to make the episode numbers the same.


The fifth season would depict the Animated Series episodes in live action but with the set and costume updates to more closely match the look of Phase II.


For those characters that we have already seen before, cgi (like that in Tron: Legacy) would be used to replicate the original cast's faces. In conjunction with body doubles and matching voice actors.


Star Trek: Phase II


This would be set during Kirk's five year mission after The Motion Picture.


Star Trek: Destiny
Set in the 31st century or something close. We would see advanced technology, time travel, ships that are bigger in the inside. Think Star Trek version of Dr. Who.


Star Trek: Eternity
Set in the mid 3rd millennium. The Metrons have returned and are here to help aid mankind(which has now merged with many other species) in the transition to godhood. Technology would be on the level of Thor. Many humans would possess telepathic, telekinetic, and other powers. Starships, at least as we understand them, are obsolete. Travel to all galaxies in the universe is becoming a reality.


In this series we would get to see another inspiring story about what is means to be human. Similar to how Enterprise would have depicted the transition to advanced humans. I know most people think that technology becoming so advanced is a bad thing. But it is only a bad thing if you are framing your stories within a certain technological framework. These stories would have little use for technology and would mostly be interaction stories and clashes of beings with powers. These stories have been done successfully before. Think Thor and ancient mythology.

 

[2takesfrakes]

If I "owned" STAR TREK, as in controlled it, I would follow the money, to be really honest. And spend it, as well ...

And as an artist, I would expect there to be experimentation, in that regard, allowing for some kind of rotation of Art Directors, every season. I also want magical devices like the transporter to have a very surreal effect. Vast CGI corridors will lead into vast CGI chambers. As far as the crew goes, I'm looking at a minimal compliment on the bridge, all under 30. There will be plenty of T&A, and to spare. All aliens shown will be new and, insofar as presentation, artistically meritorious in concept and design and completely CGI. Their ships will be highly imaginative and all-original. Familiar alien species will be rarely mentioned in dialogue, but never shown, onscreen.

Planet scenes will never show the same CGI vistas twice. And the music will be sparse, but elegant and tasteful. Not bombastic, at all, except for the fight and battle scenes. And the costumes will be sumptuously designed by the best Fashion Artists in the industry. Props will be few and multifunctional, even overlapping. For example, a comm badge can also be used as a phaser, that sort of thing (business end pointed away from the face at all times, of course). And Product Placement will feature heavily. Under my auspices, STAR TREK will thrive as it never has before. Hell, my name might even be placed right beside Gene Roddenberry's as one of STAR TREK's Greatest Visionaries ...

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

If I owned Star Trek...

TOS would've followed more in line with "The Cage", with Pike remaining as Captain and Number One as XO. Tyler, Colt and Spock would also stay in their roles. McCoy would be the ship's Doctor, Sulu the helmsman, Scotty as Chief Engineer, and comm officer Uhura.

DS9 would've continued for at least another season, dealing with the aftermath of the war and Bajor moving forward with its entry into the UFP. Sisko would still be present, now promoted to the Admiralty. There would be a lot of focus on the Alpha Quadrant and rebuilding what was lost, dealing with the defeated Cardassians, as well as new political turmoil on Bajor and the fallout of Kai Winn's fall to the dark side. The season would end with the Bashir-Dax wedding, Sisko going AWOL after confronting Winn and Dukat, and Bajor being signed into the Federation, with Kira becoming Captain of the station.

In order to fund this big season, VOY would have been cut back to just five years. Kes would've been kept onboard, Kim would've been the one removed from the cast to make room for a male Seven. Neelix would be written out to join the Talaxian colony and never heard from again, with Chell coming back as a recurring character in the mess hall. Chakotay would've been killed off, which would see Tuvok in red as the new XO and Ayala being promoted to new Security Chief.

ENT would never have happened. Trek would've gone on hiatus for a few years, let batteries recharge, hire on new talent, and hash of a really good idea with which to continue--even possibly a full reboot. JJ wouldn't have gotten anywhere near my Trek.

 

[Dukhat]

If I owned Star Trek...

I would have green-lighted Phase II after TOS ended, expecting it to run for longer than the three years of TOS. Obviously, TMP would never have happened, but eventually there would have been some feature films if Phase II got popular enough.

Then eventually there would have been TNG, but not the way it turned out in real life. First of all, I would not have given Gene Roddenberry any creative control of the show at all, I would not have had either kids (Wesley), androids (Data), or ship's counselors (Troi) on the ship. I would have debuted it in the '90's, not the mid '80's. I would have made the show much more character-based from the get-go, as the usual formula of planets-of-the-week would have already been covered by Phase II. Some of the ideas that Gene shot down (such as the conspiracy within Starfleet that he instead turned into an alien-infiltration cop-out) would have had more exposure. There would also have been a much larger budget so that such things as new models, costumes, props, etc. would have been more viable instead of re-using old stuff, which IMHO always made Star Trek look cheap. And I would have ignored the way the Klingons were presented both in TOS (cardboard Snively Whiplash clones) or in STIII (leather-clad, long-haired thugs) and made them more believable as a spacefaring alien race.

And there would have been no need for any spin-offs, because my version of TNG would be so awesome that that wouldn't be necessary.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

First of all, I would not have given Gene Roddenberry any creative control of the show at all, I would not have had either kids (Wesley), androids (Data), or ship's counselors (Troi) on the ship.

Sounds interesting, totally agree on the Wesley front. Who would be your characters then?

 

[BillJ]

If I owned Star Trek...

I would sell it to the highest bidder then go live on a tropical island.

 

[Mudd]

If I owned Star Trek I'd remake TOS along the lines of nuBSG. All the tech and the ship designs would be rethought from scratch (seriously, dudes walking around talking into cellphones?). Spock would definitely be a woman.

 

[dansigal]

If I owned the Star Trek franchise these are the developments you would expect to see. These ideas aren't completely fleshed out yet but this is the basic idea.



Here are my concepts for future Star Trek series:


Valiant
A short series that depicts the first faster than light human voyage beyond the solar system. The first season would show the crew of the Valiant as a cargo ship just as the worst parts of World War 3 is happening. We would see the fall of earth that leaves the solar colonies stranded. Occasionally earth would be visited but things are pretty. The Solar Fleet would struggle to maintain control as the solar system quickly descends into lawlessness. It would have quite a wild west feel to it. The crew would be taking on odd jobs and trying to survive as life in the Solar System is much preferable to life on Earth.


The second season would be a few years later with earth starting to recover. There would be more contact with earth and some great story potential about triumph over devastation.


The third season would be in 2065 as the Valiant is refitted with a warp engine. The crew count is upgrades to about eleven so there will be more character dynamics. This season we would see a couple episodes as the Valiant goes on a relief mission/maiden voyage to help the solar colonies. They are now officially representing earth and there will be some interesting stories as we see some of the crew's past actions catching up with them and they now have to be official. Also the solar colonies would really hate and distrust earth for leaving them stranded all these earths. After a couple of these episodes and the maiden voyage is complete The Valiant will return to earth to resupply before finally setting off on mankind's first faster than light reach out to the stars. We would meet many near earth alien species for the first time. It would be pure strangeness and excitement in exploring these new worlds. There is no prime directive so we would even see some episodes with humans completely contaminating a society and the fallout from that. Because of the distance and speed of the Valiant we would also see some stories while they are mid voyage.


The fourth season would be more exploration and story arcs from the third season, finally culminating in the disaster that destroyed the valiant.


The first two season of this series would have sort of sort of a Firefly meets Jericho feel. The third and fourth would be more of a Firefly meets Defying Gravity.


Untitled
Set in the early 2000s. A possible miniseries that would show mankind's exploration to uncover the mystery of evidence of alien activity in the Solar System. It would feature Colonel Shaun Jeffrey Christofer commanding the Lewis and Clark in the first mission to Saturn. This series would be full of mystery and adventure. Imagine a better than Defying Gravity version of Defying Gravity. It would be really tempting to make this miniseries in the found footage format like Europa Report

Not that these are per se bad ideas, they could be good, but why would you need to own star trek to do any of this? This is just general scifi type stories, there really isn't anything uniquely Trek about them at all

 

[JarodRussell]

If I owned Star Trek, we would have better merchandise.

 

[C.E. Evans]

If I owned Star Trek...

TOS would have continued the uniforms, props, and set designs from "The Cage," although as a television caveat, I would have had optional miniskirt uniforms for female personnel.

TNG would have had Worf as chief of security from the start, no Troi, and Wesley as a first-year Starfleet midshipman slightly miffed that his first time in space is with his mother.

DS9 would have wrapped up the Dominion War half a season earlier, no Worf & subsequent Klingon mini-prewar, and would have ended with Bajor joining the Federation and Sisko leaving Starfleet to become the ambassador there.

VOY would have been "Star Trek: Outland" and would have been about a small (smaller than the Defiant-class) Starfleet vessel assigned to patrol a distant corner of Federation space where things are more rough & tumble and Starfleet isn't always viewed favorably by some of the colonists there.

ENT would have been called "Space Trek" and would have been set around the year 2121 aboard a more rocketship-looking S.S. Yorktown. No Starfleet, no phase pistols, no photonic torpedoes, no transporters, no universal translators, no Klingons or Romulans, and definitely no Temporal Cold War.

Star Trek XI would have been a straight-forward reboot, although Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner would both appear as different characters. Nero would be a Romulan terrorist fueled by hatred towards Earth for almost a century of his people being "penned up" by the Neutral Zone.

 

[BigJake]

If owned Star Trek... drat, someone stole my idea:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIkgcWtK_rQ[/yt]

 

[Dukhat]

Sounds interesting, totally agree on the Wesley front. Who would be your characters then?

The original premise for TNG (before Roddenberry was given creative control) was of the Enterprise-G in the 25th century, and dealt mostly with cadet training. While ultimately I think Roddenberry's idea to make the show not that far into the future was a good one, he also had some weirder ideas, like that there shouldn't even be a ship at all and the crew should beam everywhere.

Anyway, I'd basically have much the same dynamics as TNG, but with more focus on the characters and their interactions with each other. No aliens of the week that people don't give a shit about. The dynamics between the older, more seasoned captain and his younger XO counterpart; the sexual tension between the captain and the medical officer, juxtaposed with the same thing for the XO and his ex-girlfriend; the friendship between two lower officers (the Geordi and Data dynamic); and the Klingon loner who has trouble fitting in.

I'd also have the show be a bit closer in time to TOS, say around the 2320's or 30's. That would probably mean that the ship would be the Enterprise-C, but really, we never needed the the Enterprise-B anyway in TNG, so in my version it's the Ent-B that features in YE, not the C. That way there woudn't have been such a large passage of time and characters from TOS could more believably be involved in the show.

 

[Admiral2]

If I owned Star Trek...

-I would have done exactly what NBC wanted and got rid of the guy with the ears. Trek would be about Humans in space.

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TOS would've followed more in line with "The Cage", with Pike remaining as Captain and Number One as XO. Tyler, Colt and Spock would also stay in their roles. McCoy would be the ship's Doctor, Sulu the helmsman, Scotty as Chief Engineer, and comm officer Uhura.

Agree, but of course i'd go further as in there'd be no Kirk era actors at all. This would be a Pike series, period. (And of course, as i said above, no spock.)

-There would be no Voyager. (Warp would work like hyperspace in Star Wars so none of this trapped 70 years away nonsense). DS9 and TNG would be unrecognizable to fans of the original versions.

-Enterprise would still be the prequel series, but the ship wouldn't be in starfleet, because Earth's Starfleet MY Way would be a military organization and the NX-01 would be a purely civilian project with, again, a solely human crew.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

TOS would've followed more in line with "The Cage", with Pike remaining as Captain and Number One as XO. Tyler, Colt and Spock would also stay in their roles. McCoy would be the ship's Doctor, Sulu the helmsman, Scotty as Chief Engineer, and comm officer Uhura.

Agree, but of course i'd go further as in there'd be no Kirk era actors at all. This would be a Pike series, period. (And of course, as i said above, no spock.)

So would it be Andorian Ensign Thelin instead?

 

[2takesfrakes]

If I owned Star Trek I'd remake TOS along the lines of nuBSG. All the tech and the ship designs would be rethought from scratch (seriously, dudes walking around talking into cellphones?). Spock would definitely be a woman.

Go on. I'm listening ...

 

[Admiral2]

TOS would've followed more in line with "The Cage", with Pike remaining as Captain and Number One as XO. Tyler, Colt and Spock would also stay in their roles. McCoy would be the ship's Doctor, Sulu the helmsman, Scotty as Chief Engineer, and comm officer Uhura.

Agree, but of course i'd go further as in there'd be no Kirk era actors at all. This would be a Pike series, period. (And of course, as i said above, no spock.)

So would it be Andorian Ensign Thelin instead?

So...you just missed all that "humans only" stuff in my post completely, huh?

 

[Mudd]

While ultimately I think Roddenberry's idea to make the show not that far into the future was a good one, he also had some weirder ideas, like that there shouldn't even be a ship at all and the crew should beam everywhere.

Some of that was probably blue skying about budget issues. There was also a brief notion that the ship design might look incredibly like the ST:TMP Enterprise, on the premise that a lot of stock footage of the ship was available from the movies.

The decision to finish the series on video, using video technology rather than film for compositing and other post effects, expanded the show's possibilities.

 

[Ralphis]

If I owned it, I imagine things would have went the way they already did because I can't control networks and people.

Though, if I had Q-like powers and were able to change things the way I see fit, here's what I would do...

TOS aired just as it did.

The Motion Picture would instead have been the planned Phase II TV show, though I would use mind control to make Nimoy be a part of show, at least for the first two or three seasons.

Since I now control the universe with my Q-like powers, I would keep the Phase II show on for several years; and TWOK, TSFS, and TVH would be absorbed into Phase II as episodes of the series, with the series itself wrapping up in about '86.

I would then green-light TNG, but only have it set about a decade after the end of Phase II.

TFF never happened. Shatner wanted too much money.

TUC was a made-for-TV movie. It was mostly as it was. Shakespeare quoting Klingons and everything.

TNG kept going far beyond the seventh season, with a few new characters here and there.

DS9 aired mostly as it was, but seasons one and two were better.

TNG movies never happened.

VOY aired, but Riker was the captain, and Janeway the first officer. Don't argue with me. This is what I want. I am Q.

ENT was actually a show based on the early voyages of the Enterprise NCC-1701 with Robert April as her captain.

Since Star Trek never became a film franchise in my universe I control, there was no need for JJ. Yes, I know he works in TV too, but I said 'no' and that's final.

Though, I did do a 'preboot' TV show with the TOS characters played by new actors. I wanted to go back to those characters because I love them so much, but I didn't want the cardboard sets and the computers. that. talk. like. this. It's a huge hit. It still has the soul of TOS; it's the same house grandpa built all those years ago, just with new siding and wiring.

I'm keeping Star Trek away from the movies because I think it works much better as television.

Price of these thoughts of mine? Two cents.

And I made Kirsten Dunst love me.

 

[Ralphis]

I'm not even sure if I agree with some of the stuff I wrote above. I'd edit my above post, but it wont let me.

 

[BigJake]

^ Really, dude. Kirsten Dunst is so 2004.