My favorite remains the First Contact uniform. Though I admit the outfit could've used a bit more color.
New TNG
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The miniskirts are still the best for women, reminds the viewers they're looking at different time and culture. The coveralls/jumpsuits were okay for the men, but only okay.
I always loved Deanna's flowing blue dress, now THAT would make a fantastic formal dress uniform for the female officers. Different colors by division of course.
The mess uniforms from the begining of "Insurrection" would be something to hold on to in a new Trek series.
Every day uniform, "class B's,", there's are scenes in TMP in which Kirk has on a white shirt with trousers and boots. Very nice for the males.
I would have liked it better if they had had a bit more character development and continuity throughout the series.
Shorten the title: Star Trek: Next Gen
- Make Picard about fifteen years younger.
- Eliminate Riker, the character was just redundant.
- Data as First Officer, perhaps as a long lived android created after the original Enterprise visited EXO III.
- Deanna Troi as a 'Contact Specialist'. Existing outside the chain-of-command but having the power of command should the situation warrant it.
- Worf as Security Chief. But have him join Starfleet when he is older and already dishonored for his families actions.
- Tasha Yar as the helm/ops officer, much of her back story remains the same.
- George LaForge as Chief Engineer. Think of him as a mix of the current Geordi and Wes Crusher. Warp theory is his thing. And sometimes it gets him in trouble.
- Beverly Crusher continues on as CMO. There is no past between her and Picard.
The stories would be more arc based and focused on the search for the Preservers. Which would be the reason why a young Picard was chosen to command the mission.
There would be no children living on-board and the Enterprise would be smaller and would lose the the NCC-1701 identifier.
My version would definitely be a darker take on TNG.
- Make Picard about fifteen years younger.
- Eliminate Riker, the character was just redundant.
- Data as First Officer, perhaps as a long lived android created after the original Enterprise visited EXO III.
- Deanna Troi as a 'Contact Specialist'. Existing outside the chain-of-command but having the power of command should the situation warrant it.
- Worf as Security Chief. But have him join Starfleet when he is older and already dishonored for his families actions.
- Tasha Yar as the helm/ops officer, much of her back story remains the same.
- George LaForge as Chief Engineer. Think of him as a mix of the current Geordi and Wes Crusher. Warp theory is his thing. And sometimes it gets him in trouble.
- Beverly Crusher continues on as CMO. There is no past between her and Picard.
The stories would be more arc based and focused on the search for the Preservers. Which would be the reason why a young Picard was chosen to command the mission.
There would be no children living on-board and the Enterprise would be smaller and would lose the the NCC-1701 identifier.
My version would definitely be a darker take on TNG.
My quick take on TNG:
2364:
-Picard has an estranged family, wife and children, who left him because of his loyalty to Starfleet.
-Riker's the same
-Troi is blonde/blue-eyed, wears the blue dress more often, or a skant
-Worf, Data, and Geordi are the same
-Crusher is a bit younger, has Wesley and Leslie, fraternal twins (or just Leslie)
-Yar is a bit younger, is from Nordic heritage on the colony world she came from
Yar doesn't die, but is transferred off-ship to a new starship. Worf becomes Chief Tactical then. He was assistant Tactical officer from the beginning. Geordi was in training to be engineer, and was promoted mid-season. Uniforms like I showed before, and a better shuttlebay than the redress of the cargo bays, so it looks more in line with the model. Engineering would be a bigger, 2-deck set so it looks more appropriate to a Galaxy-class vessel. We see Troi's sister a successful Starfleet officer and the jewel of her mother's eye, while Deanna still gets babied. Riker gets promoted off-ship after Wolf 359, Shelby becomes first officer till she gets put on Riker's ship (Titan). Data then becomes first officer. Show more lower deck characters every so often, show them making valuable contributions to the ship. A (Very) quick take, but I'll expand it at some point if I get the time.
Uniforms:
Out of jacket
Female
Female with skirt
Dress uniform
Alternate uniform
vest
Admiral
Captain's alt
Engineer, Doctor
Counselor (1, 2)
2364:
-Picard has an estranged family, wife and children, who left him because of his loyalty to Starfleet.
-Riker's the same
-Troi is blonde/blue-eyed, wears the blue dress more often, or a skant
-Worf, Data, and Geordi are the same
-Crusher is a bit younger, has Wesley and Leslie, fraternal twins (or just Leslie)
-Yar is a bit younger, is from Nordic heritage on the colony world she came from
Yar doesn't die, but is transferred off-ship to a new starship. Worf becomes Chief Tactical then. He was assistant Tactical officer from the beginning. Geordi was in training to be engineer, and was promoted mid-season. Uniforms like I showed before, and a better shuttlebay than the redress of the cargo bays, so it looks more in line with the model. Engineering would be a bigger, 2-deck set so it looks more appropriate to a Galaxy-class vessel. We see Troi's sister a successful Starfleet officer and the jewel of her mother's eye, while Deanna still gets babied. Riker gets promoted off-ship after Wolf 359, Shelby becomes first officer till she gets put on Riker's ship (Titan). Data then becomes first officer. Show more lower deck characters every so often, show them making valuable contributions to the ship. A (Very) quick take, but I'll expand it at some point if I get the time.
Uniforms:
Out of jacket
Female
Female with skirt
Dress uniform
Alternate uniform
vest
Admiral
Captain's alt
Engineer, Doctor
Counselor (1, 2)
I would not have ended season 2 with a clipshow.
I would've provided a better explanation for the Crusher/Pulaski transition.
Sela and Tomalak would have been the same character.
I would have done followups to "Conspiracy," "Unification" (the storyline could still continue without Spock, that's a big movement with a lot of followers) and "The Lower Decks."
I would have adapted Peter David's Q-In-Law as an episode, perhaps hiring David himself to write it, if he were game.
I would have done more serious Q episodes, like Tapestry, tying Q to some kind of ultimate destiny Picard has. And I wouldn't have snubbed him from the film series. Quite frankly, it's pretty much impossible to do an Undiscovered Country style sendoff for Picard without him.
I would've provided a better explanation for the Crusher/Pulaski transition.
Sela and Tomalak would have been the same character.
I would have done followups to "Conspiracy," "Unification" (the storyline could still continue without Spock, that's a big movement with a lot of followers) and "The Lower Decks."
I would have adapted Peter David's Q-In-Law as an episode, perhaps hiring David himself to write it, if he were game.
I would have done more serious Q episodes, like Tapestry, tying Q to some kind of ultimate destiny Picard has. And I wouldn't have snubbed him from the film series. Quite frankly, it's pretty much impossible to do an Undiscovered Country style sendoff for Picard without him.
First, I'd do away with the families on the ship idea. For one thing, It's stupid and dangerous, even in the high tech 24th Century. Another thing is this. If a Starfleet officer isn't psychologically prepared to be apart from their loved ones, then they aren't ready for the rigorous demands of serving on a starship.
Then, I would make such concepts like Q and the Borg more than just wisecracking know-it-alls and moustache-twirling villans. Space, as the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy says, is big. It should also be exotic and dangerous. I think the Borg and Q should reflect that. The Borg shoudn't even be seen as individual drones. Just show the ships (and NO QUEEN!). I think Q shouldn't even be embodied by any one person. I don't know how it can be done, but Q should be more of presence that is felt through everything and everyone rather than seen and heard. Q shouldn't just be in the ship when it could be the ship, or a planet, or a nebula.
I think that a rebooted TNG is a wonderful oppurtunity to explore some real out there concepts that TNG 1.0 either only touched upon or abandoned altogether and go beyond the bumpy forehead of the week.
Then, I would make such concepts like Q and the Borg more than just wisecracking know-it-alls and moustache-twirling villans. Space, as the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy says, is big. It should also be exotic and dangerous. I think the Borg and Q should reflect that. The Borg shoudn't even be seen as individual drones. Just show the ships (and NO QUEEN!). I think Q shouldn't even be embodied by any one person. I don't know how it can be done, but Q should be more of presence that is felt through everything and everyone rather than seen and heard. Q shouldn't just be in the ship when it could be the ship, or a planet, or a nebula.
I think that a rebooted TNG is a wonderful oppurtunity to explore some real out there concepts that TNG 1.0 either only touched upon or abandoned altogether and go beyond the bumpy forehead of the week.
I keep thinking back to The Wrath of Khan, when Reliant ambushed the Enterprise, and Spock said "They knew exactly where to hit us." If that Enterprise had a nursery/childcare center, and Khan had fired on it. How would his crew have reacted to such an order? And how many on the Enterprise would've been like "OMG you fucking monster." Ultimately though, that situation stands out to me as a prime example of why all those kids on the Ent-D was a bad idea.
I'll raise you, I would've still had the drones, but I would've had it so that the cubes themselves are AI lifeforms, with the drones serving them. It's kindof like the Reapers in Mass Effect, where a Reaper describes its race as "we are each a nation." The ship itself is a living machine, with a crew of mindless "husks" serving it, with no will of their own.
In terms of a pure insectoid race, I would picture their ships as large spacefaring hives, with the queen of each hive serving as a captain. Kindof like the Cybermen in Doctor Who, where each patrol of Cybermen had its own Cyber-Leader.
As an energy being, Q can assume any form, but at the same time, it is understandable that he would have a primary form for the benefit of those he regularly interacts with. He might look like John De Lancie for most of his dealings with Picard, but he would have a different form were he to interact with Kirk or Sisko. For example, the prophets assuming the form of Sisko's mother for his convenience. But assuming other forms as tests for the Enterprise is definitely something that could be played with, Zeus once seduced a woman by assuming the form of a shimering golden energy, Poseiden occasionally assumed the form of a giant squid or a pillar of water. They way I see it, the various versions of the Enterprise are "sailing" the stars, so Q should be to space what Poseiden is to the ocean. Instead, he ended up coming off more like Hermes.
- The uniforms get changed to something more like the First Contact uniforms.
- The Enterprise gets a second impulse engine in the Stardrive. (Am I the only one who sees that as a tactical disadvantage?)
- Wesley isn't so damn perfect all the time, nor does he have all the answers like some kind of walking encyclopedia.
- Wesley also acts more like a Teenager and occasionally rebels. He becomes closer to Data because they are both oddballs/social outcasts on the ship.
- Wesley is put to work down in Engineering instead of at Navigation. Teenagers should not be behind the wheel of the fleet's ultimate Cadillac Pimp-mobile. Period.
- The Borg stay as mysterious and scary as possible. The less we know of them, the better.
- Those creatures from Conspiracy make a horrifying return. Feel free to use your imagination here...
- Troi gets more to do and is much more fleshed out as a character. Perhaps she has a background doing Psych Warfare for Starfleet Intelligence?
- Troi wears one of the actual uniforms.
- Picard is a little less of a diplomat. That means he won't bother hailing a Cardassian when they open fire, he'll just have Worf blast them, preferably to disable them.
If I were re-imagining STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION...
CONTINUITY
I would have set it in the same Universe as TOS, with Capt. Kirk's exploits being part of their history. That does not mean they would've been genuflecting to TOS all the time. Most continuity comes from simply avoiding contradictions with what has been done before. Picard and company would not be looking at a "hole in space" as they did in "Where Silence Has Lease" and pondering it as if nothing like it had ever been seen before ("The Immunity Syndrome").
DIFFERENT TONE
The cast of NuTNG would've been somewhat different than TNG. It's a starship, exposed to hazards in deep space, not a daycare center. There would be a substantial civilian presence of expert astronauts and scientists on board, some of them permanently stationed there, others mission-specific. No psycho-babble from Troi: she would not serve as "ship's counselor", but as the ship's senior civilian scientist and liaison to the captain and XO. And Troi and Riker would not have had a history. Instead, Troi would enjoy being alternately a thorn in the side of the ship's top brass, and being an aggressive team player in getting missions carried out. In essence, Troi is a seasoned professional civilian astronaut and scientist, a driven career explorer, has a long history of rough-riding in space, and she loves her job.
Picard and Dr. Crusher would likely not have a romantic history, but instead may have met on past missions/assignments as ladder-climbing officers. I'm not sure I would want her son aboard.
Tasha Yar would not be a tom-boy stereotype. I wouldn't mind seeing a woman who looks like Denise Crosby (I'd actually love to see a lady champion a revival of Crosby's 80's hairstyle) but I would want to see Yar less as a failed-colony-victim-turned-tough-girl and more like a young, up-and-coming James T. Kirk. I'd want to see her as a command-track candidate, learning the ropes from Picard and Riker. Maybe a little touch of Shelby in her.
Worf and Klingons would have a more alien dimension to them, like Spock had as a Vulcan in TOS. I never liked how TNG made Worf and Klingons out to be some caricature of Gen. Urko from the 1970's "Planet of the Apes" TV show. I would bring some of the characteristics of Klingons from TOS; I liked the kind of cold-blooded logic exhibited by Kor and Kang, kind of like anti-Vulcans. DS9 did a great job making the Vorta, Jem'Hadar and Founders so alien. I would expect the nuTNG Klingons to be the same way. There would be more than one Klingon stationed aboard the Enterprise, but Worf would be the senior Klingon officer aboard ship. (It would be very interesting if Picard would report to a Klingon Starfleet flag officer once-in-a-while.)
It would also be interesting to correct an omission made by TNG's makers early on ("we don't do antenna") by including an Andorian in the the cast of characters.
Picard would be on-track to a fleet command after five years aboard the Enterprise-D. He would not become a permanent fixture aboard the Enterprise, nor would Riker. Both characters would be important, and may appear throughout the series run, but there would be much greater emphasis on the other characters right from the get-go. That's part of TNG's mistake. Patrick Stewart was great as Picard, and that was of course no surprise. But over-emphasizing Picard hurt other characters and the whole scope of the show from the get-go. Witness Yar's and Crusher's departure.
I won't hide my love for Dr. Pulaski. Maybe she should either be CMO over Beverly or be the base CMO Beverly has a regular dialogue with. Pulaski's wit and sarcasm reminded me of Dr. McCoy from TOS, my all-time favorite character in TREK. I liked that Pulaski in TNG was a full commander. That gave her extra clout with Picard, and I really liked how she talked back to Picard right from the moment they met. She came across as a confident, highly professional doctor and command-grade officer who wasn't afraid to speak up when necessary. Having both Kate and Beverly aboard a NuTNG Enterprise-D could present new story opportunities. Pulaski could be a ship-based character, having a close alliance with Troi, while Crusher would be the one who goes on away-missions.
Data would be portrayed by a younger man. Data may be looked upon with some skepticism, and may not be more than a senior lieutenant. I would not be opposed to a nod to Lal, by making the Data character female.
I always had a soft spot in my heart for Geordi LaForge. I enjoyed the whole blind-guy with prosthetic eyes thing. I would be tempted to make him a sighted person with no prosthetic, just a junior officer who enjoys tinkering with technology. (Maybe Geordi got his start in the shipyards, involved in building Galaxy-class starship components.) That's one thing I would borrow from ENT: starship senior-grade officers would have a career history in starship technology, development and construction. One of Picard and/or Riker's previous posts may have been to help supervise the construction of the new, prototype Enterprise-D. (The E-D would be only the second or third ship of her class built.)
I would also like to see the NuEnterprise-D have a port, or ports, of call. Maybe an evolving Space Station K-7 could be one, as a nod to TOS. Another could be a starbase. Picard and his Enterprise would report there occasionally to pick up cargo or new personnel and give their mission status report to fleet command.
The whole '80's actors-and-actresses-in-tights thing would go bye-bye. I much preferred the less-vain-looking jumpsuit uniforms in DS9 and ENT. Troi would wear either a plain uniform or 24th century business attire. No catsuits, please.
(SOMEWHAT) DIFFERENT SHIP
Also: when it comes to style, no fake bark on the ship, please. I agree that the E-D main bridge did look a little too much like a hotel lobby. Viewers and the cast deserved better.
And the ship should've had a better design as well. There were elements of both the Enterprise-D and -E that I liked. The best-looking ship in TNG never made a direct on-screen appearance, though. Probert's forgotten Enterprise-C looked more interesting. The NuE-D would need better embarked craft. TNG's shuttles looked wimpy in my opinion. One thing VOY did right was give us the Delta Flyer. NuE-D would need a better-looking and more usefully-designed fleet of shuttles and runabouts. The undercut on the underside-aft of the secondary hull would also serve as a docking port for an escort-type mini-starship like the Defiant. Having an escort that could go on long-range away-missions would open up numerous story possibilities. It would also give the Galaxy-class starship a better military stature.
The Galaxy-class starship herself would be similar, but it would have a shape that would borrow a little from Kirk's Enterprise. The nacelle pylons and secondary hull especially. I preferred the glowing nacelles of the TNG Enterprise over the TMP refit, but the blue wraparound grille on the E-D was overdone. Too much eye candy. Tone it down. The ship's hulls also looked pock-marked with too many windows. And I liked the original E's glowing saucer domes and block-lettered hull nomenclature much more.
STORY ARCS
To cement a different tone into place, there would be greater in-series continuity. I would want to see STARGATE SG-1-style story arcs. Q would be one coherent story arc, but it would be portrayed by more than one actor. Q might only appear once every two years. The Borg and Romulans would be there, but they would be used more wisely. They would not be one-dimensional aliens that appear gratuitously once every so often just to give the cast heartburn. They would have story arcs and their place in the NuTNG universe would have purpose. They could be a security threat, but the stories would give them motive, not just a mindless appetite for body-count. I was intrigued by the brief appearance of the Husnock in "The Survivors". Too bad they were all killed off. Thier use of anti-poroton beams seemed to link them technologically to the builders of "The Doomsday Machine" in TOS.
A potentially extremely interesting story arc would have the NuE-D discover a stable wormhole to a distant galaxy or another universe entirely, and Picard and company be assigned to explore where the wormhole leads and report back. And what if they find more Husnock or Planet Killers there???
There are elements of TOS, TNG, DS9, ENT and maybe even VOY that would be great fun to explore in a TNG reboot. More on this later.
CONTINUITY
I would have set it in the same Universe as TOS, with Capt. Kirk's exploits being part of their history. That does not mean they would've been genuflecting to TOS all the time. Most continuity comes from simply avoiding contradictions with what has been done before. Picard and company would not be looking at a "hole in space" as they did in "Where Silence Has Lease" and pondering it as if nothing like it had ever been seen before ("The Immunity Syndrome").
DIFFERENT TONE
The cast of NuTNG would've been somewhat different than TNG. It's a starship, exposed to hazards in deep space, not a daycare center. There would be a substantial civilian presence of expert astronauts and scientists on board, some of them permanently stationed there, others mission-specific. No psycho-babble from Troi: she would not serve as "ship's counselor", but as the ship's senior civilian scientist and liaison to the captain and XO. And Troi and Riker would not have had a history. Instead, Troi would enjoy being alternately a thorn in the side of the ship's top brass, and being an aggressive team player in getting missions carried out. In essence, Troi is a seasoned professional civilian astronaut and scientist, a driven career explorer, has a long history of rough-riding in space, and she loves her job.
Picard and Dr. Crusher would likely not have a romantic history, but instead may have met on past missions/assignments as ladder-climbing officers. I'm not sure I would want her son aboard.
Tasha Yar would not be a tom-boy stereotype. I wouldn't mind seeing a woman who looks like Denise Crosby (I'd actually love to see a lady champion a revival of Crosby's 80's hairstyle) but I would want to see Yar less as a failed-colony-victim-turned-tough-girl and more like a young, up-and-coming James T. Kirk. I'd want to see her as a command-track candidate, learning the ropes from Picard and Riker. Maybe a little touch of Shelby in her.
Worf and Klingons would have a more alien dimension to them, like Spock had as a Vulcan in TOS. I never liked how TNG made Worf and Klingons out to be some caricature of Gen. Urko from the 1970's "Planet of the Apes" TV show. I would bring some of the characteristics of Klingons from TOS; I liked the kind of cold-blooded logic exhibited by Kor and Kang, kind of like anti-Vulcans. DS9 did a great job making the Vorta, Jem'Hadar and Founders so alien. I would expect the nuTNG Klingons to be the same way. There would be more than one Klingon stationed aboard the Enterprise, but Worf would be the senior Klingon officer aboard ship. (It would be very interesting if Picard would report to a Klingon Starfleet flag officer once-in-a-while.)
It would also be interesting to correct an omission made by TNG's makers early on ("we don't do antenna") by including an Andorian in the the cast of characters.
Picard would be on-track to a fleet command after five years aboard the Enterprise-D. He would not become a permanent fixture aboard the Enterprise, nor would Riker. Both characters would be important, and may appear throughout the series run, but there would be much greater emphasis on the other characters right from the get-go. That's part of TNG's mistake. Patrick Stewart was great as Picard, and that was of course no surprise. But over-emphasizing Picard hurt other characters and the whole scope of the show from the get-go. Witness Yar's and Crusher's departure.
I won't hide my love for Dr. Pulaski. Maybe she should either be CMO over Beverly or be the base CMO Beverly has a regular dialogue with. Pulaski's wit and sarcasm reminded me of Dr. McCoy from TOS, my all-time favorite character in TREK. I liked that Pulaski in TNG was a full commander. That gave her extra clout with Picard, and I really liked how she talked back to Picard right from the moment they met. She came across as a confident, highly professional doctor and command-grade officer who wasn't afraid to speak up when necessary. Having both Kate and Beverly aboard a NuTNG Enterprise-D could present new story opportunities. Pulaski could be a ship-based character, having a close alliance with Troi, while Crusher would be the one who goes on away-missions.
Data would be portrayed by a younger man. Data may be looked upon with some skepticism, and may not be more than a senior lieutenant. I would not be opposed to a nod to Lal, by making the Data character female.
I always had a soft spot in my heart for Geordi LaForge. I enjoyed the whole blind-guy with prosthetic eyes thing. I would be tempted to make him a sighted person with no prosthetic, just a junior officer who enjoys tinkering with technology. (Maybe Geordi got his start in the shipyards, involved in building Galaxy-class starship components.) That's one thing I would borrow from ENT: starship senior-grade officers would have a career history in starship technology, development and construction. One of Picard and/or Riker's previous posts may have been to help supervise the construction of the new, prototype Enterprise-D. (The E-D would be only the second or third ship of her class built.)
I would also like to see the NuEnterprise-D have a port, or ports, of call. Maybe an evolving Space Station K-7 could be one, as a nod to TOS. Another could be a starbase. Picard and his Enterprise would report there occasionally to pick up cargo or new personnel and give their mission status report to fleet command.
The whole '80's actors-and-actresses-in-tights thing would go bye-bye. I much preferred the less-vain-looking jumpsuit uniforms in DS9 and ENT. Troi would wear either a plain uniform or 24th century business attire. No catsuits, please.
(SOMEWHAT) DIFFERENT SHIP
Also: when it comes to style, no fake bark on the ship, please. I agree that the E-D main bridge did look a little too much like a hotel lobby. Viewers and the cast deserved better.
And the ship should've had a better design as well. There were elements of both the Enterprise-D and -E that I liked. The best-looking ship in TNG never made a direct on-screen appearance, though. Probert's forgotten Enterprise-C looked more interesting. The NuE-D would need better embarked craft. TNG's shuttles looked wimpy in my opinion. One thing VOY did right was give us the Delta Flyer. NuE-D would need a better-looking and more usefully-designed fleet of shuttles and runabouts. The undercut on the underside-aft of the secondary hull would also serve as a docking port for an escort-type mini-starship like the Defiant. Having an escort that could go on long-range away-missions would open up numerous story possibilities. It would also give the Galaxy-class starship a better military stature.
The Galaxy-class starship herself would be similar, but it would have a shape that would borrow a little from Kirk's Enterprise. The nacelle pylons and secondary hull especially. I preferred the glowing nacelles of the TNG Enterprise over the TMP refit, but the blue wraparound grille on the E-D was overdone. Too much eye candy. Tone it down. The ship's hulls also looked pock-marked with too many windows. And I liked the original E's glowing saucer domes and block-lettered hull nomenclature much more.
STORY ARCS
To cement a different tone into place, there would be greater in-series continuity. I would want to see STARGATE SG-1-style story arcs. Q would be one coherent story arc, but it would be portrayed by more than one actor. Q might only appear once every two years. The Borg and Romulans would be there, but they would be used more wisely. They would not be one-dimensional aliens that appear gratuitously once every so often just to give the cast heartburn. They would have story arcs and their place in the NuTNG universe would have purpose. They could be a security threat, but the stories would give them motive, not just a mindless appetite for body-count. I was intrigued by the brief appearance of the Husnock in "The Survivors". Too bad they were all killed off. Thier use of anti-poroton beams seemed to link them technologically to the builders of "The Doomsday Machine" in TOS.
A potentially extremely interesting story arc would have the NuE-D discover a stable wormhole to a distant galaxy or another universe entirely, and Picard and company be assigned to explore where the wormhole leads and report back. And what if they find more Husnock or Planet Killers there???
There are elements of TOS, TNG, DS9, ENT and maybe even VOY that would be great fun to explore in a TNG reboot. More on this later.
I would certainly take full advantage of current CGI effects to create more "less-human looking" aliens (ie; 1 head, 2 arms, 2 legs) similar to what VOY did with Species 8472. They were probably the coolest looking aliens out of all the STAR TREK shows & movies. That's one reason I started losing interest during the run of DS9 (one of many). The aliens started to look alike.
The Kazon looked like a cross between a Rasta, a Klingon & a Cardassian. The Ferengi were just ridiculous looking (they looked a LOT better in conceptual art).
The days of the "bumpy-headed" alien are gone.
Another thing I'd do is re-design the Enterprise-D. I grew to accept the ship but, never really liked it, preferring the Enterprise-A (my fave) & E (very sleek & fast-looking). Of course, I'd get rid of Wesley. I think the reason most fans disliked Wesley was in part due to the actor himself & what the writers did with the character. He was a stop-gap. I'd of liked it a LOT better if Roddenberry had stuck with the original idea of making Beverly's kid a girl (her name would have been Leslie). I always thought the cast was too "male-centric" & needed more women, which was one of the better things about DS9 & VOY. They kind of got away from that a bit with ENT (only watched a few of those) & should, in future productions, balance out the genders a bit more.
At least with the new batch of Abrams movies, he can do that. Personally, I'd like to know if Yeoman Rand is gonna show up in the next one.
The Kazon looked like a cross between a Rasta, a Klingon & a Cardassian. The Ferengi were just ridiculous looking (they looked a LOT better in conceptual art).
The days of the "bumpy-headed" alien are gone.
Another thing I'd do is re-design the Enterprise-D. I grew to accept the ship but, never really liked it, preferring the Enterprise-A (my fave) & E (very sleek & fast-looking). Of course, I'd get rid of Wesley. I think the reason most fans disliked Wesley was in part due to the actor himself & what the writers did with the character. He was a stop-gap. I'd of liked it a LOT better if Roddenberry had stuck with the original idea of making Beverly's kid a girl (her name would have been Leslie). I always thought the cast was too "male-centric" & needed more women, which was one of the better things about DS9 & VOY. They kind of got away from that a bit with ENT (only watched a few of those) & should, in future productions, balance out the genders a bit more.
At least with the new batch of Abrams movies, he can do that. Personally, I'd like to know if Yeoman Rand is gonna show up in the next one.
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Admiral
Macha Hernadez must appear!
It had one already.
Maybe reimage the 1701-D with less beige in the decor.
I'd actually go in the opposite direction that many have purposed - instead of making TNG even more "trek like" or rather, like TOS, I'd put focus on this being the next generation of the Star Trek concept itself. I'd go full post-human, wild future as we can imagine it today. Remember that in the 60's, Star Trek was fairly cutting edge science fiction. But that was the 60's.
I'd have Data much as he is, as he's too good of a character to drop. But have him be a surviving first generation artificial citizen -and have half the crew be AIs, machines, custom engineered life forms, etc. Have the ship itself, be a character and run by an AI that shares command with the captain of the ship. The command structure is designed to let the machine side deal with what it does best, while the human (or posthuman) captain deals with the human side.
Have the Federation evolving rapidly, at a dizzying pace, with a combination organic/machine culture working out the issues of its growing pains.
The symbiotic Federation culture is seen as a threat by many other races who don't believe in artificial life rights or are afraid of "new" forms of life replacing their original organic roots.
The Borg are much as they already are, but serve as an example of what could go wrong and give the avant gard, super advanced Federation something to think hard about and contrast themselves against. Also, have it that /only/ the Federation is technologically advanced enough to take the Borg down due to being the most /like/ the Borg, and this makes them uneasy allies with the rest of the Alpha Quandrant including those who hate them and would prefer to be enemies of the Federation. The Feds must defend everyone else from the Borg out of a sense of moral responsibility, even those people who would otherwise destroy the Federation.
I'd follow more of the logical rammifications of the Federation's increasingly godlike technology to their conclusions ruthlessly, even if that got very uncomfortable. The take on new Star Trek's ethos might be that yes, we now have gotten the message it's nice and all to unify and put our differences aside. How about we take a look at our responsibility to use our power and technology wisely? If Star Trek is largely atheist under the hood, why shouldn't it explore how to find meaning in a post-everything world? How do we preserve the human element in a sea of technology - including when we're under the specter of living with our own creations that "replace" us?
I'd have Data much as he is, as he's too good of a character to drop. But have him be a surviving first generation artificial citizen -and have half the crew be AIs, machines, custom engineered life forms, etc. Have the ship itself, be a character and run by an AI that shares command with the captain of the ship. The command structure is designed to let the machine side deal with what it does best, while the human (or posthuman) captain deals with the human side.
Have the Federation evolving rapidly, at a dizzying pace, with a combination organic/machine culture working out the issues of its growing pains.
The symbiotic Federation culture is seen as a threat by many other races who don't believe in artificial life rights or are afraid of "new" forms of life replacing their original organic roots.
The Borg are much as they already are, but serve as an example of what could go wrong and give the avant gard, super advanced Federation something to think hard about and contrast themselves against. Also, have it that /only/ the Federation is technologically advanced enough to take the Borg down due to being the most /like/ the Borg, and this makes them uneasy allies with the rest of the Alpha Quandrant including those who hate them and would prefer to be enemies of the Federation. The Feds must defend everyone else from the Borg out of a sense of moral responsibility, even those people who would otherwise destroy the Federation.
I'd follow more of the logical rammifications of the Federation's increasingly godlike technology to their conclusions ruthlessly, even if that got very uncomfortable. The take on new Star Trek's ethos might be that yes, we now have gotten the message it's nice and all to unify and put our differences aside. How about we take a look at our responsibility to use our power and technology wisely? If Star Trek is largely atheist under the hood, why shouldn't it explore how to find meaning in a post-everything world? How do we preserve the human element in a sea of technology - including when we're under the specter of living with our own creations that "replace" us?
No psychologist (at least among the main cast).
First Contact Specialist makes sense (but firmly within the standard chain of command). Possibly XO; Riker's not the most interesting. Or just Science Officer, but Historian/Political Scientist/Sociologist. They're making First Contact, meeting new species, these are important fields! Data remains the lead on the physical sciences, of course.
Worf is in a non-stereotypical field (anything but security/tactical: probably engineering). Therefore Yar has to remain.
Maybe Geordi and Worf split the engineering duties - this is a huge ship with complicated systems, this isn't too much of a stretch - and Geordi works with Worf, as well as Data, on what it means to be human - because Worf, raised among humans, isn't 500% pure Klingon culturally. And the contrast between Worf's and Data's different misunderstandings could be fun, maybe even insightful.
First Contact Specialist makes sense (but firmly within the standard chain of command). Possibly XO; Riker's not the most interesting. Or just Science Officer, but Historian/Political Scientist/Sociologist. They're making First Contact, meeting new species, these are important fields! Data remains the lead on the physical sciences, of course.
Worf is in a non-stereotypical field (anything but security/tactical: probably engineering). Therefore Yar has to remain.
Maybe Geordi and Worf split the engineering duties - this is a huge ship with complicated systems, this isn't too much of a stretch - and Geordi works with Worf, as well as Data, on what it means to be human - because Worf, raised among humans, isn't 500% pure Klingon culturally. And the contrast between Worf's and Data's different misunderstandings could be fun, maybe even insightful.
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