what would u of liked to see n in a fourth season?

[Warped9]

No episode sequels or rehashes (as much as I enjoy Continues, it does this far too much), no big changes to the fabric of the show (as the Phase II revival was to be). Just more larger-than-life Star Trek adventures.

Fan productions can't seem to resist doing followups and callouts. It's certainly easier than coming up with something new. And no matter how polished something may be it's clear strong writing makes a huge difference.

 

[Irishman]

But it certainly tugged the nostalgia strings to see Apollo again, even if much older.

 

[Warped9]

But it certainly tugged the nostalgia strings to see Apollo again, even if much older.

Meh.

 

[Spock's Barber]

How about an episode where ALL the major characters fall in love with someone at the same time?

 

[UnknownSample]

Given what Mr. Freiberger did to the second season of Space:1999 (at the time just 6 years after his Star Trek stint) - I'd say the criticism he gets is well earned. Personally I also never thought GR himself was good for Star Trek. IMO the person who really made the majority of the original Star Trek most know and love is: Gene L. Coon. <--- If they could have gotten him back for a 4th season...

I agree completely with all of that. I hereby appoint you to be another me, NoNameGiven. Maybe if you did give your name, I'd find out that are in fact me. Wouldn't that be an existential kick in the head.

Yeah, just look at Sp:99 where G Anderson just naively handed the whole thing over to FF... on the basis of FF having worked on ST! Anderson is on record as saying he was told FF had worked on one of the "good" seasons,1st or 2nd, he thought.

At least on ST s3, there was a dedicated, experienced team or infrastructure set up for ST, which saved episodes even from their own bad scripts sometimes, to a large extent, limiting the damage a tasteless, creative oaf like FF could do. I'll give him credit for wanting both his shows to be good. I think he believed in the projects he was mistakenly put in charge of. He did better than a lot of devoted fans would have done in his position.
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I'll say it this way: I don't blame Ed Wood for being Ed Wood. FF is science fiction TV's Ed Wood. I would have been interested in a show he came up with, and therefore could not ruin.
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Sp:99's "The Rules of Luton" was HIS idea. Including the name. Luton is the name of a well-known London suburb. He saw the name on a motorway sign, in the commute to work, and thought it sounded cool for a planet name. For an American, think "Anaheim" or "Shaumburg" or "Yonkers"... Again, this comes from Gerry Anderson himself.

 

[Drusilla's valet]

Another Guardian/travel into history and a forced return to Delta Vega to clear up some outstanding (though assumed complete) business.

 

[CrazyMatt]

If TOS had gone to a fourth season it means that they had more success in the previous seasons to justify a fourth.

From that then maybe the budget wouldn't have been slashed.

So...
- some other non human Starfleet officers.
- a female starship Captain or starbase command officer or Starfleet Command Commodore or Admiral.
- some other different Starfleet starship design(s).
- other sections of the Enterprise.
- seeing some of the secondary cast get a bit more to do like they did in early 1st Season. A good Uhura centric story.

Yup. This pretty much says it for me.

 

[Harvey]

Mission: Impossible also had its budget slashed by the studio (Bruce Geller was ultimately banned from the Paramount lot due to his spending habits on that show -- he just couldn't keep the costs down).

Granted, Mission had more network support, since it was both a critical and (eventually) commercial hit, but even if Star Trek had been more successful, money still would have been tight and the budget would still have taken some kind of hit once Paramount took over.