I just have more time to complain about how Data, Mayweather, and Boimler absolutely got shafted too.
You have one T-800 Terminator, complete with one one-way time travel, to change Star Trek history.
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Send it to 2002 and “disappear” Tom Cruise. Without Tom Cruise, he never brings J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci onboard to Paramount to make Mission: Impossible III. And not only does that movie never gets made, neither do the Kelvinverse Star Trek films and all of its spinoff media, any of the Kurtzman era Treks (DIS, PIC, SNW, LD, PRO, Short Treks, upcoming S31 movie), and even impacts how the Star Wars sequel trilogy is made. Since Abrams's work on Star Wars is based on his work with the Kelvinverse films.
I guess the obvious correct answer would be to infiltrate the USSR shortly after WW2, terminate Stalin, and ensure a transition to democracy across the no-longer-Soviet bloc. With luck, that would prevent WW3, thereby averting the worst loss of pre-Starfleet human life.
I'd have it travel back through time to open up a drapes shop next to Garak's fashion emporium on DS9.
Then using any money from the profits of his shop I'd steal Jake and Nogs thunder by buying all their self-sealing stem bolts, then it would be the T-800 who would win that negotiation for those 7 tessipates of land on Bajor.
Then I'd have the T-800 sell the land to the Cardassian government.
Then using any money from the profits of his shop I'd steal Jake and Nogs thunder by buying all their self-sealing stem bolts, then it would be the T-800 who would win that negotiation for those 7 tessipates of land on Bajor.
Then I'd have the T-800 sell the land to the Cardassian government.
CARL'S DRAPERIES: We won't leave you hanging.
Option 1: I'd go back to 1968 and convince Gene Roddenberry to stick it out with TOS until the end, instead of mentally checking out at the beginning Season 3.
Option 2: I'd go back to 2002, right before pre-production of Season 2 of ENT started, and tell B&B to stop dicking around, get serious, and stop acting like they'll have seven seasons. Then so much wouldn't have had to have been crammed into Season 4.
Option 2: I'd go back to 2002, right before pre-production of Season 2 of ENT started, and tell B&B to stop dicking around, get serious, and stop acting like they'll have seven seasons. Then so much wouldn't have had to have been crammed into Season 4.
TATV never happens. Hands down.
All true, and I dispute none of this. But...
Paramount still would've done a TOS Reboot Movie in the late-'00s. It just would've been made by someone else.
As in a full reboot?
I can only speculate about how they would've done it, but it would've been a possibility during that time. I'd say a full reboot would've been more likely than not. While JJ Abrams and his writers found a way to work in Leonard Nimoy's Spock, that wouldn't have necessarily happened if a different creative team was working on it. Paramount wanted a movie that would do for Star Trek what Batman Begins and Casino Royale did for Batman and James Bond.
TNG's last movie bombed at the box office, and it was the most popular Star Trek series of the Berman Era. So that ruled out a DS9, VOY, or ENT movie. At that point, all you have is TOS as an option, and those actors were either dead or too old, which meant that if you were going to go back to TOS, the tried-and-true, the only way you could've done it was with a reboot.
Today, movies are in a transitional period, and I think they'd have to think way outside the box if they make another Star Trek movie. But 15 years ago? All they had to do was make a reboot and have it fit in with everything else coming out at the time.
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In this case, either head will do.
Option 1: Travel back to 1967 and convince Gene Coon to stick with TOS for longer. I'd also try to get him to quit smoking in the hopes of preventing his death from cancer in 1973. I'd love to see a version of TMP that Coon had a chance to rewrite.
Option 2: Travel back to 1968 and make sure that Bob Justman is named full producer of the show instead of Fred Freiberger. I know Roddenberry had checked out of the show at that point, but I feel that with Justman at the helm, Star Trek would've been in better hands and they would've had a better chance at hanging on to creative personnel like Dorothy Fontana, David Gerrold, Marc Daniels, Joseph Pevney, and Ralph Senensky.
Send the T800 back to replace Data before he is discovered by Starfleet and reactivated. Hijinks ensue.
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