Why shunt Reed and Trip together but let the others have solo shows?
If there was going to be a buddy cop series, a Reed and Trip show would be the most likely candidate. Yes, such an idea would be interesting with say, Archer and Shran. But expectations are that Archer will be the West Wing in space show. And Shran might follow a path similar to Archer. That’s all there is to it. I’m not saying that there could not be a show solely about Reed and another show solely about Trip.
And if all these shows were hypothetically greenlit and they all had a single season to them, they all have their own threads to explore where they are all now on the other side of Federation history. That is, instead of its origins leading to its founding, it’s a growing organization that has learned lessons from them.
Archer
- Messy first & second contacts ("Dear Doctor", "Vox Sola" & "A Night In Sickbay", Paragaan II in "Shockwave", "The Communicator", "Cogenitor", Romulans, Klingons, Andorians) leading to official non-interference directive
- Suliban post Temporal Cold War
- Klingons post “Divergence”
- Xindi post “Zero Hour”
- relationship with Vulcans after overcoming bigotry
- relationship with Andorians and Tellarite post Federation founding
- Relationship with Erika Hernandez or a significant other
- Archer pre-Warp Test Program
- Henry Archer/ Sally Archer
- Daniels
- Porthos
- Canamar (mainly the injustice surrounding it)
- Resettling the Skagaraans and Triannon
- Romulans (the minefield, forms alliance with founders of the Federation)
Shran
- Xindi superweapon
- Status compared to other Andorian generals
- Jhamel & other Aenar
- life as a father
- relationship with humans post Federation founding
- relationship with Vulcans post reformation
- Tellarites
- Talas
- Tarah
- Other Andorian traditions
- Romulans (Talas possibly doesn’t die, and Kumari not destroyed without this encounter)
Reed
- friendship with Trip
- relationship with Archer post “Divergence”
- hookup with Vissian tactical officer
- potential chemistry with Talas/offer to work for the Andorian Imperial Guard
- uncomfortable with the casualty count fighting the Xindi (Trip eventually made peace with losses, Reed may not have)
- remaining ties to the MACO
- Section 31 and impact on personal life (general secrecy)
- interest in Ulysses over comic books and science fiction novels
-interest in visiting the year 1588, the English defeating the Spanish Armada
- Romulans (injured by mine, trapped on drone ship with Trip)
Trip
- Friendship with Reed
-T’Pol
- Elizabeth
- Xyrillian child
- Kriosian princess
- Vissian family/Impact of Charles’ death on Vissia
- The Eriksons
- Columbia (Hernandez, Rivers)
- Death and resurrection in “Observer Effect”
- interest in seeing the Horizon/ friendship with Mayweather
- Romulans (nearly died on drone ship)
Phlox
- Valakians, the Menk and Phlox’s (possibly Denobulans in general?) misunderstanding of evolution
- The wives of Phlox and their husbands
- The children of Phlox
- The vibrant, communal & crowded Denobula
- Cogenitor (more for Phlox choosing not to interfere with Vissian culture and attempting to discourage Trip from interfering)
- Denobulan biology (climibs walls without equipment, self defense)
- The Denobulan Science Academy
- Nearly engaging in pon faar with T’Pol
- Denobulan-Antaran relations
- Friendship with Dr Lucas
- Denobulan genetic engineering
- His time in the Denobulan infantry as a medic
- Romulans (treating patients from both minefield and drone attacks)
Mayweather
- Relationship/ambassador to other freighter crews
- Concerned about the safety of the Suliban that were freed in “Detained”
- In the captain's chair in “Vox Sola” and smoothed over issues with the Kretassians
- Being abducted in “Dead Stop”
- Horizon
- Dealing with Orion pirates in addition to Nausicaans pirates
- Azati Prime (near death experience)
- Mentored by Archer
- Being looked after by Phlox
- Friendship with Trip
- Friendship with Hoshi
- Gannet Brooks
- Generally being perfect with no mark against him on record
- Romulans (navigating minefield, freighter ships destroyed by drones)
Hoshi
- Overcoming fears
- Sluggo
- Language lessons with Phlox
- Friendship with Archer
- Fear of transporters
- Ravis ("Two Days and Two Nights")
- Personal experience with the Wisp ("The Crossing")
- Tarquin
- Recovering from Xindi torture
- Death and resurrection in “Observer Effect"
- Hoshi intruding on the bond between Trip & T'Pol
- Visiting prewarp species undercover (Akaali, "The Communicator")
- Family (parents, siblings, children, husband)
- Romulans (injured in minefield, first human to translate Romulan)
T’Pol
- performing mind melds more frequently and that she was healed
- The Tomad mission
- Ministry of Security
- Trellium D addiction
- Trip
- potential romance with Archer (S1-2)
- her identity as a Vulcan after the discovery of the Kir’Shara
- relations with the T’Pau and the Vulcan government in general post Vulcan reformation
- Romulans (Vulcan history with Romulans)
- dealing with the loss of Elizabeth & T’Les
- T’Mir
- Stance on time travel
- Interest in jazz
There's no shortage of ideas. Anyone who says different is uncreative and out of ideas.