Star Trek peeves

[T'Girl]

Star Trek series in which people get promoted, killed, and transferred off the show, with new actors and new blood every few seasons could be an interesting change of pace.

You would run into the chance of losing a gifted actor who is favored by the audience, and replacing them with a actor who (for one reaon or another) simply doesn't work out.

Of course the opposite could happen as well, lose a okay character and supersede them with someone the fans simply love.

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[Captain Rob]

Regarding "Dr Who". As a fan of the new series. Since there's been thirteen iterations of the Doctor. It doesn't make any sense for someone that's many centuries old to have to regenerate every three years or so. That would mean literally hundreds of Doctors.
As for promotions and job changes. I could see alot of junior officers being promoted and moved around. But wouldn't the senior officers stay in their posts longer?
In real life how long does a Captain of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier hold his posting? Or the embarked Admiral? (Task Force Commander) I would think that Captains, Commanders, and Lt Commanders would remain in their postings a little longer.

 

[The Wormhole]

In real life how long does a Captain of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier hold his posting? Or the embarked Admiral? (Task Force Commander) I would think that Captains, Commanders, and Lt Commanders would remain in their postings a little longer.

In the US Navy even higher ranking officers including captains get moved around to a different ship/posting at least once a year. And that's just while staying at the same rank, a transfer usually also comes with a promotion as well.

 

[LessPerfectThanLore]

"Hmm, there's nothing about this phenomenon in the existing scientific records..."
I have a theory that Spock is secretly a fraud who knows nothing about science, because he says something like this every other time he's called upon to offer expert scientific advice on something (I know, I know, there would be no stories to tell if everything could be easily explained and immediately solved.)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Regarding "Dr Who". As a fan of the new series. Since there's been thirteen iterations of the Doctor. It doesn't make any sense for someone that's many centuries old to have to regenerate every three years or so. That would mean literally hundreds of Doctors.

I'm sure the Doctor has a lot of adventures we never see. Seasons aren't exactly (pardon the pun) real-time.

 

[f14peter]

When someone is dismissed by the Captain in his/her readyroom, there is an abnormally high chance there's actually one last thing the captain wants to say to that person before he/she leaves the room. And these captains always seem to wait until the last moment, right before their victims go through the door.

holy shit ... my wife is a starship captain!

 

[J.T.B.]

In real life how long does a Captain of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier hold his posting? Or the embarked Admiral? (Task Force Commander) I would think that Captains, Commanders, and Lt Commanders would remain in their postings a little longer.

Average is about two years for the captain. For the admiral, more like 18 months.

 

[Richard Baker]

You would run into the chance of losing a gifted actor who is favored by the audience, and replacing them with a actor who (for one reaon or another) simply doesn't work out.

Of course the opposite could happen as well, lose a okay character and supersede them with someone the fans simply love.

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Not a main cast replacement, but I would like to see a new character introduced every so often that is just a 'real' crewmember. No pivotal story based on them or their death, nothing weird or special, just filling out the ship's crew a bit ever so often. Dr. Selar was one case like this.
Every time we see somebody new we can usually assume they will be either killed, have some special backstory critical to the episode's plot or will have some relationship with a main cast member which will not last very long..

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I would like to see a new character introduced every so often that is just a 'real' crewmember. No pivotal story based on them or their death, nothing weird or special, just filling out the ship's crew a bit ever so often. Dr. Selar was one case like this.

Who was in a grand total of one episode, and then mentioned a lot thereafter.

Although, if "Schizoid Man" writer Tracy Torme had had his way, Dr. Selar would've eventually had a romance with Worf.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

It would be interesting to see more cast rotation. It worked for House because House had a really solid lead who could effectively head the show no matter who surrounded him. Maybe a Star Trek show could have a 'Big three' with great chemistry and then a rotating group of minor characters who are allowed to evolve and move on with their careers rather than continuously finding excuses to preserve the status quo.

I hope it wouldn't automatically mean death for all the minor characters because shows can get tedious and hard to invest in when deaths become predictable and contract-driven.

 

[E-DUB]

MASH and Law and Order handled cast changes pretty well. With MASH, virtually every change was an improvement and the original L&O turned over the entire cast.

 

[FormerLurker]

MASH got off to a bad start, though, by killing off the first cast member to leave. And the BTS between seasons replacement of Trapper John did little to make up for killing Colonel Blake. At least Trapper got to make it home, but it was too little too late for what it was.

 

[Captain Rob]

Anyone remember "Trapper John, MD"?
Didn't think so.

 

[Triskelion]

Anyone remember "Trapper John, MD"?
Didn't think so.

Oh yes, living in an RV in the parking lot of a hospital. A weird character cross-genre leap from primetime sitcom to late soap drama.

Hey Captain Rob, how do you keep your Wayback Machine from leaking oil?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Can't speak for Mash and Law & Order but CSI was never the same without Grissom.

 

[Hutchy01]

Regarding "Dr Who". As a fan of the new series. Since there's been thirteen iterations of the Doctor. It doesn't make any sense for someone that's many centuries old to have to regenerate every three years or so. That would mean literally hundreds of Doctors.
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Off the regular subject but the doctor did get more adventurous after he "borrowed" his TARDIS and started going places meaning it is believable that the 1st lasted 700 years (even the day of the doctor showed 400 years between 8 and 11)

 

[Jetboogieman]

Holodeck... Always disengaging safety protocols.

Come on!

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I'll never understand why the holodecks don't have a function to automatically end the program if the safety protocols are disabled, unless specifically overridden by an officer.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Well, to be fair, the mere act of disabling those protocols IS an override (which, IIRC, requires confirmation). So they shouldn't need another one.

 

[Richard Baker]

Anyone remember "Trapper John, MD"?
Didn't think so.

Remember 'After MASH'?