The Trek road not taken

[Ziriath]

I wish there was more Spock in command in movies. He is a captain, he should have got his own ship and do not still serve under Kirk. Yes, he was captain of Enterprise in TWOK, but it still was Admiral Kirk, who lead the mission.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Yeah, but that would have deprived audiences of what they really wanted: great character moments between the big three.

 

[Ziriath]

What about two ships and two captains in co-work?

 

[Admiral Shran]

But that would mean the Enterprise couldn't be the only ship in range.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

There's always that.

Besides, it's more of a stretch to have two crews overcome whatever they're supposed to be overcoming together, plus character development....one of the captains would totally go "meh, screw you guys, I'm going home".

 

[milo bloom]

I wish they would have made space more dangerous.

Instead of people surviving by some cliched plot-device or whathaveyou... Kill off characters on a regular basis.

Oh hey look they killed Worf... Now we have to deal with that... AND integrate his replacement. Do we try to make said replacement feel like one of the team (maybe the first couple of times... twice max) but after the third or forth we now have an outsider trying to be part of the surviving "core" team and not being accepted.

More like real life than "thank god a timely injection of medicbabble and a trip through the technobabbler was able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again."

I'd love to see this too. One way I've thought of would be to start a new series focusing on a "lower decks" type character. As the show goes on, you can have them moving up in the ranks and joining and leaving different departments, and character deaths above them could explain their promotions.


Along those lines, one of my biggest pet peeves was the missed opportunity in the TNG ep Second Chances to have William Riker finally take the captain's chair on another ship, but leave Thomas Riker behind to let Frakes stay on the show. Move Data up to first officer, and have Thomas be the new ops person or something.

 

[Mysterion]

Being tha tthey were 70-thousand light years away from the nearest Starfleet repair base, we should have seen Voyager get progressively more worn as that series went on. Little things at first, like scuffs in the walls or something being bent-up. And then as things progressed, missing wall panels and stuff being held together with whatever the 23rd century equivilent of duct tape is. And when the series ended, they would be in a state where they're just barely making it across the finish line before half the ship spontaneously suffer explosive decompression or some such thing.

 

[22 Stars]

Being tha tthey were 70-thousand light years away from the nearest Starfleet repair base, we should have seen Voyager get progressively more worn as that series went on. Little things at first, like scuffs in the walls or something being bent-up. And then as things progressed, missing wall panels and stuff being held together with whatever the 23rd century equivilent of duct tape is. And when the series ended, they would be in a state where they're just barely making it across the finish line before half the ship spontaneously suffer explosive decompression or some such thing.

I totally agree, and we know that RDM agreed too, and that's why he couldn't work on the show. So instead he made the hugely popular and superior BSG.

 

[22 Stars]

Having the Irena character in "The Way to Eden" be McCoy's daughter, as originally planned, would have been far more interesting.

No having Joanna in filmed Trek has always disappointed me too, maybe Orci/Kurtzman will introduce her sometime!

 

[Satyrquaze]

Being tha tthey were 70-thousand light years away from the nearest Starfleet repair base, we should have seen Voyager get progressively more worn as that series went on. Little things at first, like scuffs in the walls or something being bent-up. And then as things progressed, missing wall panels and stuff being held together with whatever the 23rd century equivilent of duct tape is. And when the series ended, they would be in a state where they're just barely making it across the finish line before half the ship spontaneously suffer explosive decompression or some such thing.

This.

This is what Voyager should have been. I believe its almost verbatim the show that they were talking about when they were attempting to sell the show to the fans before it premiered. Seriously, BSG is what Voyager should have been.

 

[Galileo7]

Being tha tthey were 70-thousand light years away from the nearest Starfleet repair base, we should have seen Voyager get progressively more worn as that series went on. Little things at first, like scuffs in the walls or something being bent-up. And then as things progressed, missing wall panels and stuff being held together with whatever the 23rd century equivilent of duct tape is. And when the series ended, they would be in a state where they're just barely making it across the finish line before half the ship spontaneously suffer explosive decompression or some such thing.

This.

This is what Voyager should have been. I believe its almost verbatim the show that they were talking about when they were attempting to sell the show to the fans before it premiered. Seriously, BSG is what Voyager should have been.

I think the Voyager two part episode "Year Of Hell" was the closest they came to that.

 

[Satyrquaze]

^True dat.

 

[xortex]

1) Berman being in total control over every aspect of production for 18 yrs from the details to the decision making processes to superimposing and pushing his 'subtle' vision and will over all others when Trek could not lose and had everything to gain by taking risks.

Enterprise ep. 'Unexpected' where trip gets pregnant by aliens. He should have given birth.

The Ent. emotional vulcans ep. Wow, they missed a big opportunity here to use the Romulans. What were they waiting for? They should have showed up and protected the Vulcan outcasts from their vengeful race and taken them in at the end. In fact the whole Vulcan/Human friction was unneccessary and the Vulcan/Romulan tension and antagonism should have been wratched up many notches instead. Their bitter rivalry and hatred should have been with the Romulans instead of us. This would have left the writers open to explore turning the Vulcans against us later with ther leverage as founding members of the future Federation and exert power and control over us concerning the Romulans (whoever they are) which would have left us to wonder who the bad guys really were for a while, but that wasn't be possibly if they were contantly wavering, fluctuating and flip flopping.

There are too many other Ent. eps to go into. Suffice to say I stopped watching after Coto got there and 'Similitude' which I feel was what killed Star Trek.