Stories You Would have Enjoyed Seeing

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I want E2, the mini-series.

THIS THIS THIS

I could have watched that forever. Sooo many things to explore about that timeline. What I really wanted was for E2 to survive the battle, go through the wormhole, and show up in the regular timeline and join the show. Would have been GLORIOUS.

Plus resolving the dangling plot threads of "North Star" and "Damage."

And instead of that waste-of-an-hour "we broke up for no discernible reason" weirdness in TATV, continuing the Trip/T'Pol storyline begun in Season 3 and explored in the last part of S4, giving us a hint of what it might have been like to see a bonded human and Vulcan figure out how to have a relationship without going nuts or killing each other (a metaphor for Earth/Human relations). It would have set up Spock's parents so nicely.



...Yeah, basically everything that drove me to fanfiction.

Oh yes all that stuff is just running through my head.. I would be happy with a great novel of the E2 years. Why can't we have that?

E2 is my favorite ENT ep, and would be in my top 5 favorite Trek eps. I want to know more!!

 

[Willow]

Enterprise had sooooo many stories left untold. One of the real shames of this series is how many shoes were left untied by the many shifts in direction. The Temporal Coldwar, the beginning of the Federation, The Prime Directive, T'pol/Trip and the various moral complications that developed from the Xindi arc. So much potential that was never realized. It would have taken 5 more years to sort out what the dragged out in the first four.

This! I want to see some resolution to these stories. Assuming it reached season 5, we can assume that TATV would cease to exist....so, I'd like to see the aftermath of "Terra Prime", including how Trip/T'Pol handle Elizabeth's death. And, what about all the xenophobia on a planet that supposedly solved the problems of war and disease and whatnot....?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

They didn't solve that stuff until Picard's era, when they had shipped all the unsavoury types off to shithole colonies out by Cardassia and turned earth into a very pleasant park.

 

[eyeresist]

Here's a random thought: who cleaned the uniforms and bedding? (And vacuumed the floors if it comes to that.) We know they didn't have ultrasonic cleaning, because Archer showered with water, so was there a laundry room we never saw?

Where all this is leading is that I want to see an episode called Laundry Day.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

I would have liked to see the Kzin / Patriarchy story, because (obviously) I'm a fan of those ratcats.

 

[IrishNero]

Here's a random thought: who cleaned the uniforms and bedding? (And vacuumed the floors if it comes to that.) We know they didn't have ultrasonic cleaning, because Archer showered with water, so was there a laundry room we never saw?

Where all this is leading is that I want to see an episode called Laundry Day.

...or toilets. Do they not wee in 140 years? Potential spinoff material right there.

 

[Willow]

Here's a random thought: who cleaned the uniforms and bedding? (And vacuumed the floors if it comes to that.) We know they didn't have ultrasonic cleaning, because Archer showered with water, so was there a laundry room we never saw?

Where all this is leading is that I want to see an episode called Laundry Day.

OMG! I was just thinking about these things yesterday! And it wasn't just the laundry...in "Similitude " I found myself wondering how they dressed a young Trip. There were no kids onboard. I was also wondering how they kept a starship running with an initial crew of 86. I didn't realize until recently that the original series had to complement of over 400. No wonder why Malcolm was head of both tactical AND the armory/weapons.

 

[marlboro]

Here's a random thought: who cleaned the uniforms and bedding? (And vacuumed the floors if it comes to that.) We know they didn't have ultrasonic cleaning, because Archer showered with water, so was there a laundry room we never saw?

Where all this is leading is that I want to see an episode called Laundry Day.

...or toilets. Do they not wee in 140 years? Potential spinoff material right there.

Why do you think T'pol was always complaining about the smell?

 

[t_smitts]

I would have liked to see the Kzin / Patriarchy story, because (obviously) I'm a fan of those ratcats.

I heard about that idea, and, frankly, was kind of dubious about it. 1) Because, I grew up assuming TAS wasn't canon, so I'm reluctant to bringing anything that major into the live-action series, and 2) I'm not totally convinced they could've done a large cat-like race convincingly.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Yeah apparently the women we saw with Kirk in StiD were Caitians but they were sadly lacking in FUR!

And they are apparently just about, almost, canon:

A female felinoid seen in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was referred to in backstage information as a "Kzinretti". "Kzinrretti" (with two "r"'s) is actually plural of "Kzinrret", the official term for Kzinti females. Further, a star map seen in several TNG episodes has a planet on it named "Kzin".

To torment you..

It has been recently disclosed that if Star Trek: Enterprise had been renewed for a fifth season, Manny Coto wanted to do a Kzinti episode. Much of the concept for the episode "Kilkenny Cats" (which was based on a story by Neal and Jana Hallford) was to draw from the earlier concept Star Trek: Lions of the Night by Jimmy Diggs. D.C. Fontana and André Bormanis were also involved in the editing of the script.

All from: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kzinti

 

[t_smitts]

To torment you..

It has been recently disclosed that if Star Trek: Enterprise had been renewed for a fifth season, Manny Coto wanted to do a Kzinti episode. Much of the concept for the episode "Kilkenny Cats" (which was based on a story by Neal and Jana Hallford) was to draw from the earlier concept Star Trek: Lions of the Night by Jimmy Diggs. D.C. Fontana and André Bormanis were also involved in the editing of the script.

All from: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kzinti

Yes, I was aware of that. That doesn't necessarily mean it would've made it to screen. For every one of the 600 or so live action Star Trek episodes that actually got filmed there's a story that they couldn't quite get to work and ultimately abandoned.

Some of the season 5 ideas I read about showed promise. This one (and the one idea where Alice Krige plays some Starfleet officer who gets turned into the Borg Queen) I just didn't care for.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The Enterprise trying to rescue the "real" ECS Kobayashi Maru. Seeing the real event which inspired the famous command test from Wrath of Khan (and later Star Trek) would be awesome.

Of course, for it to work and the Enterprise survive, they'd have to come up with one hell of a deus ex machina. Could the writers do justice to the concept?

That's a very interesting idea. I think there is a way to do the story justice without resorting to a deus ex machina ending.

Archer was portrayed as being a bit naive and overly optimistic in the early seasons of the show. Have this be the episode where the reality of what it means to be a captain smacks him in the face. Just because you have a test called the "Kobayashi Maru" doesn't mean that you have to actually have a ship with that name. You just need a scenario featuring an enemy, a ship in distress, and a no win situation. Have Archer make his decision (obviously it would need to be the one that didn't end up with the destruction of the Enterprise) and have it be such an impactful moment that it becomes a standard part of Starfleet training.

I always thought it'd make for a good grand finale. Imagine the final minutes of the final episode, where after saving the day Hoshi picks up a distress call and it's the exact one from the KM test in Wrath of Khan. Archer orders an intercept course, and we fade out on a shot of the Enterprise warping to the rescue...

 

[IrishNero]

I don't know how it would have jived with the timeline, but it would have been nice to have wrapped with a lead-in to TOS. Abrams kind-of, sort-of did that by making the Kelvin's bridge look more like that of the NX-01, and even the uniforms worn by the Kelvin were quasi-similar. I don't know if that was their intent or if I was just reaching for ways to see a timeline continuance.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

IrishNero your avatar makes me think of this youtube

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0YsIADqZQQ[/yt]

 

[The JediVulcan]

II know everyone enjoys speculation threads.

I read somewhere that the writing team had ideas regarding what they wanted to do if Enterprise entered a fifth season. Manny Coto and crew did a great job with season 4 so it would have been interesting to see what they would have done. I for one would have liked a little more backstory on Dr. Phlox, and I think they could have explored Malcomb's background a bit more. I heard they wanted to bring the Andoreans and other species closer together to begin forging the Federation. What would you like them to have done?

Watching the Federation come together and witnessing the early days was on of the main things I was looking forward to when this show came out. I think it was a great loss that Enterprise was cancelled before it happened.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I think that might have involved too many meetings.

 

[IrishNero]

IrishNero your avatar makes me think of this youtube

 

[Amy Grugan]

I would've loved to have seen mre Hoshi and Travis especialy if they wound up falling in love by the end of the series.

 

[2takesfrakes]

It would've been great, seeing Hoshi and Travis together. They both seemed really nice, I'm sure they would've been a fun couple.

I don't have any particular story ideas in mind for -ENT- that we didn't get to see, but I would've definitely liked to have seen the tonality of Season 3 continue. I thought it was very strong and that the show had finally found itself. Another 4 years of that would've hit the spot, for me ...

 

[Amy Grugan]

I would've especially liked to see Hoshi and Travis in Dead AStop after he is rescued. That could've been the start of their romance since she had a second chance.