I'd most probably turn Enterprise into "battle-capable diplomatic courier",operaing in Neutral Zones,commonly dealing with conspiracies,pirates,and so on...
Also, I'd like not to make humans "ideal".That seems strange to me.
What you think?
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First, I'd go with the "The Cage" version of Trek (which was named 'too cranial'...), because I still think "The Cage" is one of the best episodes ever, even if the tech was a bit weird.
And I would've never made the Nazi and the Communist episodes. They were ugly. And Wesley Crusher would've gone out the door immediately.
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Seeing how huge Star Trek has become...I think I would've created it with more of a story arc feel than a week-to-week kind of thing. We've got so many points of view now, so many different time periods...it'd be nice if they all worked together somehow. It'd be rewarding.
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I proably would only have gone about twenty years beyond the movies for The Next Generation, instead of 78. That way, it would be more credible for TOS guest stars to appear without the use of age-enhancing makeup which always looked fake, IMHO.
For the Enterprise lineage, I would only have had one other ship between the Enterprise-A and the newest one (so I guess my TNG ship would have been the Enterprise-C). When you consider that the Excelsior class Enterprise-B's sister ships are still around while the Enterprise herself has been destroyed three times over, that's not such a good track record. Also, my Enterprise probably wouldn't have those Bussard collectors (too TOS'ish for me).
ANd I would NEVER have hired William Ware Theiss to design the Starfleet uniforms.
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I would have found someone to created a reliabled system for stardates, dating the age of starship classes, and just named classes solidely. I would have added in Marines, and kept the semi-militaristic tone of the later TMP-era. Starfleet's goal is to explore, yes, but I wouldn't have let the fact that it's also there to protect the Federation slip away so easily.
I would have never let ST5 be made.
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To those who would make humans less than ideal, add marines, etc.: what you wish to create is not Star Trek. In your changes, you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It would be (sci-fi)style without subtance. The subtance of Star Trek is that ideal humans peacefully explore the galaxy. If you do not like it, go back to playing your armchair-general, "how Hitler could have won World War II," military scenarios.
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Umm...humans are *NOT* ideal beings. They never will be. That's what Star Trek portrays as the defining and inspiring quality about us. We are imperfect and always will be, and can therefore continually strive to be better than we are. Knowing that, your satement makes no sense.
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Erm... Cadet said Trek portrays humans as perfect. Monkey said Trek portrays humans as imperfect. How are they in agreement?
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From what I read, they both agree that turning Star Trek into something like Star Wars or Starship Troopers is not making it "Star Trek". Am I right, or did you guys switch sides while I wasn't looking?
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I wouldn't mind seeing maybe a mini-series "set" during TOS, which would take place on a smaller type of cruiser or what-not, and focus on the Neutral Zone ...
...but as far as TOS goes, no, I think I'd leave it pretty much alone.
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If I was allowed to be anally nit-picky, I'd remove the year of the Eugenics War in Space Seed, all mentions of UESPA, and change "Lithium" to "Dilithium" in early episodes.
And I'd destroy "And the Children Shall Lead" for being very, very silly.
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