If you could make ONE change to each trek series...

[rhubarbodendron]

TOS: would kill Kirk in episode 1 and made Spock Captain.
TNG: less women for Riker, more for Picard and Worf!
DS9: drop that whole story arc about the war.
VOY: the red thread is lacking. The whole series is imo mostly a chain of standalone episodes. I'd introduce some kind of continuing theme that connects the episodes to one big story arc.
ENT: would have continued the whole series in the general style of the first 10 episodes

Suzie Plakson cast as Dax, Farrell recast as human character

That's a splendid idea. Farrell initially struck me as somewhat too soft to be friends with Klingon warriors. I guess they never even thought of Plakson for that role because in the audience's memory she'll always be K'Ehleyr.
On the whole, casting counter-type was surely a challenge for both actress and audience but the outcome was imo surprisingly good.

 

[Dukhat]

There are LOTS of things I would have changed for each series, but perhaps that would be better served if someone posted another thread about individual shows. So if I'm forced to name just one change...

TOS: I would not have had a third season.

TNG: I would not have let Gene Roddenberry have creative control of the show at the outset, or actually any input at all.

DS9: I would not have made the whole "Sisko's mom is actually a wormhole alien" stupidity, which was inconsistent with how the aliens were portrayed throughout the entire series.

VOY: I would not have had the point of the show to be about returning to Earth. I would have stuck the crew in the Delta Quadrant in one area and kept them there throughout the series.

ENT: I would not have had the same writers and producers of VOY be in charge of that show, or let UPN mishandle the show as they did.

 

[Sindatur]

DS9: I would not have made the whole "Sisko's mom is actually a wormhole alien" stupidity, which was inconsistent with how the aliens were portrayed throughout the entire series.

Except Sisko's Mom wasn't a Wormhole Alien.

A Wormhole Ailen possessed Sisko's mom, steering her to a marriage with Sisko's dad. It was a real Human who conceived and gave birth to him, just one under the influence of a Prophet, and when The Prophet left her to her own devices, that's when the marriage broke down.

 

[T'Girl]

The whole crew is dogs? Surely Phlox would need to be something else (a lizard of some kind is the first thing that popped into my head) as would T'Pol (she'd definitely need to be a cat). Other than that, great idea

An idea I had a while back was that at some point it would have been revealed that Porthos was a shapeshifter like the cat that was partnered with Gary Seven, he was assigned to watch over and subtlety guide Archer, without Archer knowledge.

I don't think Similitude would have worked outside the Xindi arc. Without the moral imperative created by the danger of Earth being blown up, there's no justification for creating a life form just as an organ bank.

I see your point, it would be a shame to lose the episode though, debatably it was Enterprise's best episode.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

TOS: Add 3 more dollops of K/S subtext, there's a good dear.

TNG: Riker dies on his way up to the ship in the pilot. This occurs offscreen and the actual character is never seen. Shelby replaces him.

DS9: Ro Laren instead of Kira YES.

VOY: Janeway and 7's fireside chats become regular filler/debrief scenes replacing every single Chak and Janeway filler/debrief scene.

ENT: Archer does NOT threaten to knock T'Pol on her ass in Broken Bow thus making him at least 3% better than what we got.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

TOS: Add a Marine contingent like Gene Roddenberry once said the Enterprise had.
TNG: Eliminate Deanna.
DS9: More Cardassians.
VOY: "Year of Hell" an entire season, like they wanted to do.
ENT: Have the Earth ships look like this.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Totally agree about Year of Hell, though my VOY change still stands!

I think we will have 7 give Janeway that pocketwatch..

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I wouldn't want YOH to last the entire *series*. That's what nuBSG basically was. And I never want Trek to be THAT depressing.

Season, yes. Series, no. Let them reset YOH like they did, just do it as a season finale.

Oh, and have Annorax act a little more like Red Forman. "Give my regards to Captain Dumbass!"

 

[Dukhat]

DS9: I would not have made the whole "Sisko's mom is actually a wormhole alien" stupidity, which was inconsistent with how the aliens were portrayed throughout the entire series.

Except Sisko's Mom wasn't a Wormhole Alien.

A Wormhole Ailen possessed Sisko's mom, steering her to a marriage with Sisko's dad. It was a real Human who conceived and gave birth to him, just one under the influence of a Prophet, and when The Prophet left her to her own devices, that's when the marriage broke down.

That's true, but that's just semantics. The outcome is the same.

 

[Cmdr.Druss]

VOY - no reset button. I wanted to see the ship/crew change over the series.
Battle damage would have been repaired with whatever tech was available or maybe not repaired at all - See Rom style bodge jobs. Supplies/weapons/shuttles would have been used more sparingly and replaced with alien variants.
While im not a massive fan of Kes, it would have been cool to see her age over the course of the series. Maquis would have taken longer to settle into the Starfleet way. DS9-calibre supporting cast.

 

[Dick_Valentine]

TOS: Give them a budget. Maybe don't make it in the 60s so the cheesy campery is reduced and the heart and morals of the stories and characters can come to the fore.

TNG: reduce Gene's influence and get the melting pot that made the 3rd series such a classic cooking earlier.

DS9 End the Dominion war midway through series 7 and lets have half a series of resetting the universe and characters post war.

VOY: Bring the Ship back to the Alpha Quadrant early in the final season and explore the adaption that'll require to ship and crew

ENT: It's THE Enterprise, you jerks.

 

[T'Girl]

TNG, owing to the events of Fist Full of Data's, Data is irreversible changed, for the rest of the series and on into the movies Data speaks like Bob Wheeler.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6brM24yIA[/yt]

 

[HIjol]

TNG, owing to the events of Fist Full of Data's, Data is irreversible changed, for the rest of the series and on into the movies Data speaks like Bob Wheeler.

sooo funny!!!!!!!

"...Jeudg, I ternt 'round an thet Star Ship wuz jist ghoun...!"

 

[C.E. Evans]

TOS: Give them a budget.

TOS was one of the more expensive shows on the air at the time.

Maybe don't make it in the 60s so the cheesy campery is reduced and the heart and morals of the stories and characters can come to the fore.

If the show hadn't been made in the 60s, it wouldn't have been made at all--it was a case of many things lining up behind the scenes (including the right people) at that time that made it even possible. And the "cheesy campery" is really what made the show popular.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

TNG, owing to the events of Fist Full of Data's, Data is irreversible changed, for the rest of the series and on into the movies Data speaks like Bob Wheeler.

sooo funny!!!!!!!

"...Jeudg, I ternt 'round an thet Star Ship wuz jist ghoun...!"

I think Data should speak like Lawrence Welk.

"Tank you for dat funky tüne, dat funky music, will drive de starship till de dawn. Let's go, let's boogaloo till we puke. Play dat funky musik, white boyce!"

 

[Warped9]

TOS: Give them a budget.

TOS was one of the more expensive shows on the air at the time.

Thats something of a fallacy that a lot of us have bought into over the years. Star Trek's budget wasn't really out of line with other shows being done at the time. The problem was the series was sold to NBC too cheaply and the budget wasn't adequate for the kind of show Star Trek was. If Star Trek had been budgeted for $200,000 per episode rather than $185,000 in the beginning they would have had more breathing room. And, of course, the budget got reduced from $185,000 and things got worse. Mission: Impossible went over budget far more often and by more on average than Star Trek, but that series wasn't held to the same standard and their base budgets weren't that different. But CBS paid more for M:I than NBC did for Star Trek and CBS would even kick some extra money to Desilu for M:I because it was considered a prestige series and getting lots of good press. That said the real villain here wasn't NBC, but Desilu itself because a lot of Desilu brass didn't like Star Trek. They were willing to support one expensive show and M:I was the one they preferred simply because it was something they more easily understood. And possibly because CBS was easier to get money from.

 

[C.E. Evans]

TOS: Give them a budget.

TOS was one of the more expensive shows on the air at the time.

Thats something of a fallacy that a lot of us have bought into over the years. Star Trek's budget wasn't really out of line with other shows being done at the time. The problem was the series was sold to NBC too cheaply and the budget wasn't adequate for the kind of show Star Trek was. If Star Trek had been budgeted for $200,000 per episode rather than $185,000 in the beginning they would have had more breathing room. And, of course, the budget got reduced from $185,000 and things got worse. Mission: Impossible went over budget far more often and by more on average than Star Trek, but that series wasn't held to the same standard and their base budgets weren't that different. But CBS paid more for M:I than NBC did for Star Trek and CBS would even kick some extra money to Desilu for M:I because it was considered a prestige series and getting lots of good press. That said the real villain here wasn't NBC, but Desilu itself because a lot of Desilu brass didn't like Star Trek. They were willing to support one expensive show and M:I was the one they preferred simply because it was something they more easily understood. And possibly because CBS was easier to get money from.

My point was that it wasn't an inexpensive show for its time. The real fallacy is an idea by some that it was cheap to make and it just wasn't ($185,000 per episode was nothing to sneeze at back then as there were shows less expensive to make than Trek at the time--for example, Lost In Space cost $165,000 per episode during its third season and that was considered fairly expensive at the time).

 

[JirinPanthosa]

DS9 End the Dominion war midway through series 7 and lets have half a series of resetting the universe and characters post war.

I like that idea, but remember that basically describes season 5 of Babylon 5.

Instead of half a season I would give it six episodes after the end of the war, but I would have moved the Pah'Wriath arc to those six episodes.

And I would also apply that to Voyager. Get them home with six episodes left to see what they do afterward. But also have some lingering threat come home to them so it's not too anticlimactic.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

TOS: I've always liked the storyline surrounding Kirk's promotion to a desk job (and away from the Enterprise) and would have made this a prominent plot thread in the third season, perhaps by featuring an episode where Kirk's possible promotion to admiral is discussed. It would have set the stage nicely for TMP and the movies that followed.

TNG: I would have either killed off Picard during "The Best of Both Worlds" or given Riker his own ship. There was no reason to keep both of them on the Enterprise after the start of the fourth season. Riker could still have had a significant role in the series by participating in joint missions with the Enterprise.

DS9: I would not have killed off Jadzia at the end of the sixth season. Although Terry Farrell wanted to leave the series, there's no reason why she couldn't have been brought back as a recurring character on a one- or two-episode basis. Her being alive would not precluded bringing Ezri to the station, as an unjoined Trill would still have made an interesting character.

VOY: I would like to have seen Voyager return home sooner, perhaps at the start of the seventh season. It would have given us a chance to see the repercussions of their time in the Delta Quadrant and would have provided a greater sense of closure for the characters.

ENT: I would have included the start of the Romulan War in the series and would have ditched the Temporal Cold War. Although time travel stories are among my favorite and I liked the story-arc itself, I don't think it had a place in the series and raised too many questions about how Enterprise fit with the other series.

--Sran

 

[Push The Button]

TOS: Add a Marine contingent like Gene Roddenberry once said the Enterprise had

I'm picturing Jim Nabors and Frank Sutton playing 23rd century versions of their Gomer Pyle USMC characters. Hey, they were all working for Desilu at the same time.