For fun.
You've come across a time machine and figured out how to work it, at least enough to make short jaunts. With the lessons of time travel in Star Trek firmly in mind you still want to give it a try even while you know you mustn't do anything that could alter history as you know it.
Still...
You love TOS and you'd love to visit the studio while the show was being made. And while you're there you get the idea of trying to make a suggestion or whisper in someone's ear for them to do something a little differently. You don't want anything radically different, but you want to suggest something you think would be appreciated by the generations of fans yet to come.
What might it be?
Maybe there's something from a future Trek series or film you'd like to have seen on TOS? Or from a different SF film or series?
For myself I immediately think of a few little things.
1. At least once throughout the run could Kirk say, "Lt. Uhura, you have the con."
2. In like manner, just once, could we see Kirk communicating with a Starfleet Commodore or Admiral who was played by a woman. Or maybe one of the roles like Commodore Mendez or Wesley could have been played by a woman. (and later, without changing a thing in "Turnabout Intruder," it would totally cement Janice Lester as a bitter nutbar."
3. It would have been fun if TOS had done something similar, just once, to TNG's "Lower Decks" where the supporting cast of Uhura, Sulu, Chekov and Chapel were the focus of the story. We got something remotely like that with TAS' "Slaver Weapon," but Spock was still prominantly there.
Anyone else?
You've come across a time machine and figured out how to work it, at least enough to make short jaunts. With the lessons of time travel in Star Trek firmly in mind you still want to give it a try even while you know you mustn't do anything that could alter history as you know it.
Still...
You love TOS and you'd love to visit the studio while the show was being made. And while you're there you get the idea of trying to make a suggestion or whisper in someone's ear for them to do something a little differently. You don't want anything radically different, but you want to suggest something you think would be appreciated by the generations of fans yet to come.
What might it be?
Maybe there's something from a future Trek series or film you'd like to have seen on TOS? Or from a different SF film or series?
For myself I immediately think of a few little things.
1. At least once throughout the run could Kirk say, "Lt. Uhura, you have the con."
2. In like manner, just once, could we see Kirk communicating with a Starfleet Commodore or Admiral who was played by a woman. Or maybe one of the roles like Commodore Mendez or Wesley could have been played by a woman. (and later, without changing a thing in "Turnabout Intruder," it would totally cement Janice Lester as a bitter nutbar."
3. It would have been fun if TOS had done something similar, just once, to TNG's "Lower Decks" where the supporting cast of Uhura, Sulu, Chekov and Chapel were the focus of the story. We got something remotely like that with TAS' "Slaver Weapon," but Spock was still prominantly there.
Anyone else?
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