Missed opportunities in Trek?

[The Wormhole]

Why would Paramount care about a detail like that? Fans would, but business executives?

I think the reasoning was since TOS movies were still being made, the Constitution should be held in reserve as a "movie only" ship, and that if it was seen on TV, people wouldn't go to the theatres. Paramount pulled the same "logic" a decade later when they decreed not to allow Sovereign class ships on TV.

 

[Finn]

Too bad we didn't get to see a wing of Intrepids come in for an attack during one of the battle scenes during the Dominion War on DS9.

 

[Mojochi]

While I honestly didn't warm well to the Worf/Troi relationship, that they'd had kids in the TNG episode Parallels got my head buzzing with all kinds of cool thoughts about an empathic or telepathic Klingon lol

 

[Tenacity]

Watch Star Trek Beyond.

Timidly dipping one toe in the water in such a way that we weren't completely sure what just happened? Not exactly boldly stepping into the bright gay future.

Offer Kristie Alley a reasonable amount of salary so she would reprise the character of Saavik in TSFS. Never understood why Nimoy didn't want her back.

Fan-gasma, during the fight with the cloaked BOP in TUC, not just Sulu comes to help with his ship, but then Saavik arrive in her ship and more ships keep showing up with people we saw in TOS now in command of their own ships, come to help Kirk. All the actors from TOS that they could both find and afford.

 

[Shawnster]

I've read on here that either UPN or the showrunners were responsible for VOY's reset button each week. I really wanted and expected to see a "Year of Hell" type story carried out over 7 seasons with Voyager slowly (or not so slowly) getting worn down, patched and repaired over the seasons so that the ship that came home was noticeably different from the Intrepid Class ship that left.

 

[TheSubCommander]

The things that have always bothered me the most were:
1. We never saw what happened to Tom Riker
2. Kes was not a recurring character for the rest of Voyager, showing her changing into a Caretaker-like being. We just got that terrible episode Fury.
3. No Earth-Romulan war in Enterprise
4. No season 5-7 for Enterprise, or at least mini-series for Enterprise (see Earth-Romulan war)
5. No post-Nemesis movie with a mixed TNG/DS9/Voy cast...I would have loved to se that
6. No Nichelle Nichols Uhura in any of the spin off series
7. More of a complaint how Kirk was handled in Generations: his fate should have been more ambiguous, and he should have been pulled back into the Nexus somehow
8. I would have loved to see more of the post TUC-Pre-TNG era

I feel lately that Species 8472 should've been the "big bad" in Voyager's final season, and their "help", in a way, is what gets the crew home, instead of using the Borg again.

Yeah, I think 8472 should have been there somewhere in the finale. Maybe even as an ally to defeat the borg?

For a long time I used to I think the Caretaker (you know, the guy who brought Voyager there in the first place, or another of his species), should have been involved with the finale, somehow.

The Stargazer was allegedly supposed to be a Constitution class ship, so the story goes the actors even said Constitution while filming. But then higher-ups at Paramount overruled this and said they weren't going to allow a Constitution class ship on the show, resulting in the lines being re-dubbed to "Constellation class." Ironically, the model of the Constellation class ship in Picard's ready room since Farpoint was changed to a Constitution model for a few season 1 episodes, The Battle being one of them.

This.
But I agree, it would have been a lot cooler if the Stargazer was a Connie, and I thought it was a huge missed opportunity to have basically every class of ship to appear EXCEPT the Connie refit. We had Mirandas and Excelsiors and Klingon BOPs and K'Tingas somewhere in TNG/Ds9/Voy. Even had display models in the back ground of Connie refits and LCARS schematics in the first couple seasons of TNG. But alas, never the real thing.

 

[Vger23]

I think TSFS not filming on location (the original plan was to film portions of the Genesis Planet in Hawaii) was a big miss. Save the budget on the Excelsior model and mushroom Spacedock, reuse the dry dock from TMP, and dump all that (and the money they spent on the internal Genesis set) into location shooting.

ENT not having more direct linkage (design elements, formation of the Federation, conflict with the Romulans) was a miss. Even though, I must admit, that I'm doing a first-watch/re-watch right now (I only watched very sporadically during the first run), and I am enjoying the show MUCH more than I did then when I didn't care at all about it. I tried to do a first-watch/re-watch of VOY a couple of years ago, and just couldn't get through it.

FC was underserved by not having a more dramatic opening battle with the Borg. I think you dump just a little more time and budget into that and you make it a much more epic film than it was.

I wish TNG should have explored two things more deeply:
1. The Conspiracy aliens
2. The after-affect of Picard's experience as Locutus
Either of those could have been very good mini-arcs, and were wrapped up way to quickly.

I agree with what others have said that adding and maintaining younger, different members of the crew during the TOS films would have been very interesting. We never really got to develop Decker, Ilia or Valeris. Saavik had a chance, but was derailed when they were forced to switch performers.

 

[Vger23]

The things that have always bothered me the most were:

5. No post-Nemesis movie with a mixed TNG/DS9/Voy cast...I would have loved to se that

Agree with a lot of what you said except this. This to me was always the stuff of fanwanky fantasy and bad fan fiction. I would have been extraordinarily disinterested in a mash-up film trying to pander to the fans and bring everyone together. Yuk.

 

[Tracy Trek]

6. No Nichelle Nichols Uhura in any of the spin off series

Chekov wasn't seen in any of the spin-offs either, right?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

He was in Generations, if that counts. But yeah, too bad he wasn't in a TV episode...

 

[Tracy Trek]

He was in Generations, if that counts. But yeah, too bad he wasn't in a TV episode...

Oh yeah, that's right. I completely forgot about that.

For some reason I was thinking the only thing I'd seen him in was the fan film on Youtube Renegades.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

He also appeared in one of the other fan serieses, didn't he? Dreaming of aging or something?

 

[Tenacity]

But I agree, it would have been a lot cooler if the Stargazer was a Connie

While I would have like to have seen a Connie from time to time, ocassionally substuting for a Excelsior, I wouldn't have made Picard's first command one. It would have been too "small universe," and we did get to see a well thought-out and different design.

Saavik had a chance, but was derailed when they were forced to switch performers.

What do you mean "forced to switch?" As I understand it, Nimoy as director (for whatever reason) didn't want Alley to reurn. By contact they had to offer her the part, so they offered her an absurdly small amount of money so she would refuse. Which she did.

I agree with what others have said that adding and maintaining younger, different members of the crew during the TOS films would have been very interesting.

In the TNG films as well.

ENT not having more direct linkage (design elements, formation of the Federation, conflict with the Romulans) was a miss.

Would have been nice to have had suggestions of the Romulans right from the start. Archer and crew wouldn't always know it was the Romulans, but the audience would.

I would have liked it if Earth's interstellar inferstructure was much more built up when the ENT series begins. Dozens of well established colonies (which could be visited), a interesting collection of alien allies (some friendlier than others), minor enemies (to scrap with), trade (routes to be jealously defended).

Instead of the Vulcan holding Humanity back for a century, Humans are repeatedly seen to humorously run the "superior" Vulcans in circles.

There would be several hundred "Boomer" cargo ships all over the place, and through Travis Mayweather they would be a important source of interstellar intelligence to Captain Archer.

While the NX01 would be new hot thing in the fleet, Starfleet already has a fair sized fleet out in the galaxy.

 

[Tracy Trek]

He also appeared in one of the other fan serieses, didn't he? Dreaming of aging or something?

I'm not sure, I've only seen just the beginning of Renegades. However, Nichols appeared in another one of the fan films Of Gods and Men.

 

[Nerys Myk]

ENT not having more direct linkage (design elements, formation of the Federation, conflict with the Romulans) was a miss.

I guess you haven't got to season four yet.
The ship has several TOS elements in it's design both on the exterior and the interior. From the gold balls at the rear of the nacelles to the gold dish at the front.

 

[Hey Missy]

Re: Species 8472 (don't feel like quoting)
If they had held off "In the Flesh" for the final season, and had Voyager stumble upon their Alpha Quadrant takeover plot then, they could've had Voyager follow them or something through their fluidic space rifts (I'm assuming that's how the three-legged monsters would've done so)

 

[TheSubCommander]

Chekov wasn't seen in any of the spin-offs either, right?

True, but at least he got to be in Generations.

Would have been nice to see an aged Checkov and Uhura briefly speaking to Scotty via view screen in Relics.

 

[The Wormhole]

Uhura really did get the short end of the stick in the 90s. She's also the only TOS character who doesn't even get mentioned in Generations. Maybe that's why the Abrams movies have promoted her to the "Big Three," to make up for being neglected after TUC.

While I honestly didn't warm well to the Worf/Troi relationship, that they'd had kids in the TNG episode Parallels got my head buzzing with all kinds of cool thoughts about an empathic or telepathic Klingon lol

The kid could kick someone's ass and feel sorry for them at the same time.

 

[The Old Mixer]

FWIW, Chekov didn't get in Generations by design...he and Scotty were substitutes for Spock and McCoy, because Nimoy and Kelley wouldn't do it.

 

[Armus]

What do you wish the writers could have done, or what they would have rather done (in some cases where they came up with other ideas in which to take the shows)?
Personally, I'd have liked to see the Voyager writers take on the "Silver Blood" cliffhanger they had planned for season 3... but instead used it for season 4, as I can't imagine a world without Scorpion I & II.

I would have liked to have seen the other types of Borg that Maurice Hurley hinted at when he said the Borg in "Q Who" represented only one type of the Borg. Since The Borg were supposed to represent insects each type of Borg would have had a specific function in the hive.