What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[fireproof78]

Enterprise should've gotten one more season so we could see the Earth-Romulan War. Paramount's been dancing around it for too long; at least give us a movie or miniseries

I think the statute of limitations has expired on it

I want something new that stands on its own feet, without the baggage of legacy characters

This. History and continuity are great but the holding on to the past is getting tiresome.

 

[Nerys Myk]

There's nothing wrong with prequels as long as they honor canon and continuity. ENT was questionable in this respect, but DIS is the most blatant offender.

Nah.

 

[Turtletrekker]

There's nothing wrong with prequels as long as they honor canon and continuity. ENT was questionable in this respect, but DIS is the most blatant offender.

Not really.

 

[cooleddie74]

I have a lot of issues with DSC but it actually goes out of its way to reference canonical events and dates in the 23rd century and even beforehand. If you want to say it's visually inconsistent with the era be my guest but "not honoring the canon or continuity"? That's not what I see and DSC is my least favorite Trek series.

 

[fireproof78]

I have a lot of issues with DSC but it actually goes out of its way to reference canonical events and dates in the 23rd century and even beforehand. If you want to say it's visually inconsistent with the era be my guest but "not honoring the canon or continuity"? That's not what I see and DSC is my least favorite Trek series.

I think "honoring continuity" is one of the biggest strawmen that Star Trek has to fight against right now and it's frustrating. I get the desire for things to tie together but this attitude strikes has increasingly inflexible in how it's treated.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Especially when it came to specifics, TOS had a malleable continuity, pretty much all the way through the run.

 

[cooleddie74]

Hell, it wasn't even "the Federation" until "Arena." And they were still placing the events of TOS as late as the 28th century even in "The Squire of Gothos," the episode immediately preceeding that one.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Hell, it wasn't even "the Federation" until "Arena." And they were still placing the events of TOS as late as the 28th century even in "The Squire of Gothos," the episode immediately preceeding that one.

Things didn’t really begin to tighten up until TNG and even then it was loose for the first few seasons.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Spock goes from being extremely tight-lipped about pon farr in "Amok Time" because it's very private, to discussing it freely with Droxine in "The Cloud Minders."

 

[cooleddie74]

In-universe you can always conjecture that Spock's tight-lippedness over the mating cycle is broken after he fears he killed Kirk in "Amok Time" so he no longer cares about keeping details confidential, but it is jarring how the series treats some subject one way and then one or two seasons later just regards it in a different light. I think even Leonard Nimoy complained to the producers that he didn't think Spock would be so open with an alien woman about his mating cycle but they just told him not to worry about it.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Especially when it came to specifics, TOS had a malleable continuity, pretty much all the way through the run.

I actually prefer that. Where they kept things vague a bit, such as when TOS actually took place. I've been developing a sci-fi pilot for a few years now. I've kept the worldbuilding vague on purpose. Only one or two things in the show are spelled out. I want to leave room to play.

Spock goes from being extremely tight-lipped about pon farr in "Amok Time" because it's very private, to discussing it freely with Droxine in "The Cloud Minders."

Man, Spock is so off book in that episode. I can't believe he'd ever be into someone as vapid as Droxine.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

In-universe you can always conjecture that Spock's tight-lippedness over the mating cycle is broken after he fears he killed Kirk in "Amok Time" so he no longer cares about keeping details confidential, but it is jarring how the series treats some subject one way and then one or two seasons later just regards it in a different light. I think even Leonard Nimoy complained to the producers that he didn't think Spock would be so open with an alien woman about his mating cycle but they just told him not to worry about it.

Well, Spock had said in "Amok Time" that it's a part of Vulcan culture to be tight-lipped about mating. You'd kinda have to believe Spock became a Sybok-level rebel giving the finger to Vulcan culture to believe he'd be so open about it on the same five-year mission*, I think.

* - Keeping it only this specific, because the sequence of events and how much character time passes between episodes aren't locked down either.

 

[Qonundrum]

There's nothing wrong with prequels as long as they honor canon and continuity. ENT was questionable in this respect, but DIS is the most blatant offender.

If there's reasonable care, but there will inevitably be oversights. Even in the tv show that becomes such a big hit*, there are continuity blunders between its early years as well. Or even if you make a show and spend a ton of time covering every possible nuance and finally get green-lit to produce, get the actors for, and so on -- if the audience hates it or wane away before the saga can properly close, then the time invested to craft a bulletproof saga** ends up wasted as big changes are made, if not the show being axed due to ratings.


* that someone will try to do a prequel to keep things going (like "Caprica") Or better yet, "Star Wars" which features Leia saying "I've always known" a couple of chapters after the ones where she's clearly frenching her bro big-time as if the bed is just beyond the door there and who she's going at it with clearly has no clue that it's his own sis doing it***...
** like Babylon 5
*** eww

 

[Toril Toran]

I generally like prequels.
I would like to see a prequel ( or sequel ) that goes in a new direction.
Maybe do a series with a new ship, new crew, that at some point (maybe season 4 or 5) encounters something that they can't overcome, and the ship / crew gets destroyed.
Then another known crew starts an investigation into what happened.

 

[Farscape One]

They could easily do that with the Archon, Essex, or Valiant.

 

[cooleddie74]

I wouldn't mind an Earth-Romulan War series set aboard a ship we've never before seen.

 

[Toril Toran]

They could easily do that with the Archon, Essex, or Valiant.

Great idea!!!

 

[Paul755]

Especially when it came to specifics, TOS had a malleable continuity, pretty much all the way through the run.

I’m typically more forgiving of the “mistakes” in TOS because they were making things up as they went along.

 

[Birb-of-Prey]

I wouldn't mind an Earth-Romulan War series set aboard a ship we've never before seen.

That would be the best way to do it, rather than trying to age Scott Bakula in reverse.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'd like to see a series set immediately after First Contact with the Vulcans showing how life on Earth changed and evolved to become the baby Federation and its first steps.