Things You'd Liked to Have Seen in Star Trek

[Captain Clark Terrell]

I thought about this while watching "Yesterday's Enterprise" the other day. I've always wondered how TNG may have turned out had this story been expanded into an arc of four or five episodes as opposed to one episode.

--Sran

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Another series, for one.

I would have liked Enterprise to have been like season 4 from the start. I would have like more thoughtful analysis of the psychology of being stranded for possibly your entire life in Voyager. In DS9 I would have liked to see more deep exploration of the treatment of genetic augments. Like, how come no augmented children said, screw this, I'm going to go work for the Romulans? Or, if I can't join Starfleet, why don't I just go get rich on Ferenginar?

Some series could have done a Borg origin story.

 

[Melakon]

Some series could have done a Borg origin story.

I actually liked the Borg better the less we knew about them.

I would have liked to see what became of all the 23rd century androids we saw prior to Soong's positronic brain breakthrough. Any other androids that were not Soong models seemed to completely disappear by the 24th century. It's almost as if the writers forgot they ever existed. Voyager almost did it with "Prototype", but those guys were presented as robots.

 

[bbjeg]

Though each series touched on it, I always wanted to see a fleet based series. Multiple Captains, a lead Commodore or Admiral, and episodes that build to an ultimate goal through different point of views. Some episodes could be only one Captain's point of view, while others have multiple stories happening simultaneously, while other episodes clash with each other as ships aid each other or come to the rescue. Even a miniseries would do.

 

[CorporalClegg]

A larger emphasis on the little people.

 

[bbjeg]

^That too.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Though each series touched on it, I always wanted to see a fleet based series. Multiple Captains, a lead Commodore or Admiral, and episodes that build to an ultimate goal through different point of views. Some episodes could be only one Captain's point of view, while others have multiple stories happening simultaneously, while other episodes clash with each other as ships aid each other or come to the rescue. Even a miniseries would do.

Voyager might have been better if they had three or four ships instead of one. Then maybe they could have had an alien ship join the fleet, or have kept the Maquis ship intact, so they were forced to work with non-Starfleet instead of absorbing them into Starfleet. Made it a community with different subcultures and different personalities, and they could have built up to a big moment when one or two of them get destroyed.

 

[foxmulder710]

LOVE this thread. Hm, thinking.

 

[bbjeg]

Though each series touched on it, I always wanted to see a fleet based series. Multiple Captains, a lead Commodore or Admiral, and episodes that build to an ultimate goal through different point of views. Some episodes could be only one Captain's point of view, while others have multiple stories happening simultaneously, while other episodes clash with each other as ships aid each other or come to the rescue. Even a miniseries would do.

Voyager might have been better if they had three or four ships instead of one. Then maybe they could have had an alien ship join the fleet, or have kept the Maquis ship intact, so they were forced to work with non-Starfleet instead of absorbing them into Starfleet. Made it a community with different subcultures and different personalities, and they could have built up to a big moment when one or two of them get destroyed.

I wouldn't have minded Voyager playing a stronger diplomatic role. Playing escort or traveling with ships going in their direction or even pairing with ships crazy enough to join their seemingly impossible journey.

 

[Richard Baker]

Have Voyager retrofitted/repaired with some new alien technologies like the NX-01 generation ship in 'E2'- instead of always having Star Fleet weapons and systems add some cool new ones.

The full on Battle of Wolf 359- we only saw the very beginning (DS-9) and the aftermath (TNG).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

- More Mirror episodes. Ideally involving a 'real' MU where the Terran Empire still existed. Closest we got was "Living Witness"...which may have been exactly that!

- Something that dealt with World War III. This would probably be better suited to the novels, but you take what you can get. I don't mean offhand comments by characters in ST:FC about "factions" and all that crap, I mean a full-out SHOWING of the war, who started it, who these "factions" were, how it ended, and more importantly, how exactly the hell Earth managed to recover from a nuclear war in only a HUNDRED YEARS...

- MORE DEPARTMENT OF TEMPORAL INVESTIGATIONS

 

[BillJ]

More TOS. Specifically what drove Spock to Kolinahr and why Kirk left for a desk job. I always felt the novels did a poor job when dealing with these issues.

 

[2takesfrakes]

I would've loved to have seen much more interesting camera work, overall, throughout the series. This sort of standard "House Style" way of shooting STAR TREK didn't cut it. I want to see artistry in the cinematography, that's all. Film STAR TREK television like it was a commercial for a luxury car ...

 

[bbjeg]

...
- Something that dealt with World War III. This would probably be better suited to the novels, but you take what you can get. I don't mean offhand comments by characters in ST:FC about "factions" and all that crap, I mean a full-out SHOWING of the war, who started it, who these "factions" were, how it ended, and more importantly, how exactly the hell Earth managed to recover from a nuclear war in only a HUNDRED YEARS...
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Some great ideas in this thread, but I have always expected to see something referring to the finer details of earth's greatest war in a time-travel episode or hear them talk about Vulcan's cleaning efforts or something. We got hints and FC's side step 'well, we know what happened so why go into further detail' response but the who, where, and how were barely answered about that war.

 

[Nebusj]

I wouldn't have minded Voyager playing a stronger diplomatic role. Playing escort or traveling with ships going in their direction or even pairing with ships crazy enough to join their seemingly impossible journey.

I thought what Voyager really needed was to spend some time around a multi-species liberal-democratic government, something that shared the Federation's core values, or at least enough of them that people could plausibly feel like they were at home. There's a good meaty choice to be made about whether going home is a matter of going to a particular patch of space and time, or whether it's finding people who value the things you do and accept you for who you are, and only Voyager could really have done it.

 

[TheSubCommander]

More TOS. Specifically what drove Spock to Kolinahr and why Kirk left for a desk job. I always felt the novels did a poor job when dealing with these issues.

I shockingly agree with you on that, actually. End times must be nigh.

Especially on Kirk. He was in his early 40s when he made admiral, and still actually could be said to still be in his prime as a Starfleet officer. I'd like to know if it was ambition he later regretted that motivated him to accept the admiralty, or maybe just the Powers that Be promoting a space cowboy to get him out of the way and keep Kirk under their thumb. It just seems so out of character for Kirk to go that route, and I would like to know why he did it. As for Spock, he always wanted to rid himself of his human half, so it is more expected, but I think it would have been an interesting story to follow. And, i think the fact Spock later embraced his human side to a degree post-death & resurrection, that I think his embracing his human half would have made a nice bookend to his earlier quest to rid himself of emotion.

Here are other things I think might have been cool:

1. Earth Romulan Wars, either during Enterprise IN LIEU of the Xindi mission, or on a season 5, or a Post-Enterprise Miniseries, similar to how Alien Nation returned as a miniseries, after the show's cancellation. I always thought that was a missed opportunity. The Xindi arc had a lot of good episodes, and the Xindi themselves were interesting, but I would have liked to see the Romulan war instead.

2. I would have liked to see a better send off to Tom Riker, than in "Defiant." He deserved at least one more episode, IE rescue, or chance at redemption, or something. They set it up like Kira was going to rescue him, but it's never mentioned again.

3. A better send off for Kes, than Fury. Really, I think Kes should have been seen as a semi regular, at least once a season, each time growing more ascended\evolved, similar to how Danial Jackson was featured in SG1 season 6, with Voyager season 7 finale depicting her as the "new caretaker." I would have liked to see her involved somehow in the return of Voyager to the AQ, and the escape\defeat of the Borg.

4. I would have liked some follow up with Spock's unification movement. I suppose its moot now since Romulus is gone in the Prime timeline, but that was one story I wanted to see more of, or at least hear about in a scene, even in a couple throwaway lines.

5. I know this is more a nerdy fanboy wish, but I wish the Constitution class appeared either in TNG or DS9. I get that the official reason is they didn't want the Constitution class on TNG while they were still making TOS movies, but during the Dominion War, since the Mirandas were still around, it would have been nice to see some Connies dragged out of mothball and put on the front line.

 

[Amaris]

Some series could have done a Borg origin story.

I actually liked the Borg better the less we knew about them.

I would have liked to see what became of all the 23rd century androids we saw prior to Soong's positronic brain breakthrough. Any other androids that were not Soong models seemed to completely disappear by the 24th century. It's almost as if the writers forgot they ever existed. Voyager almost did it with "Prototype", but those guys were presented as robots.

Agreed. I'm Borged out. For me, there was just too much exposure to them. I remember when I first saw them, and chills ran down my spine, but by Voyager, anytime the Borg would come up, it was just exasperating (not to take away from Seven of Nine, who was a great character).

 

[BillJ]

More TOS. Specifically what drove Spock to Kolinahr and why Kirk left for a desk job. I always felt the novels did a poor job when dealing with these issues.

I shockingly agree with you on that, actually. End times must be nigh.

Your conversion to the dark side is almost complete.

 

[CorporalClegg]

There was I time Bill and I couldn't agree on anything, either.

Shit happens.

I blame Obama.

Or maybe Orci.

 

[TheSubCommander]

Human sacrifice, cats and dogs living together. Mass hysteria!