which STAR TREK series deserved another season??
James_Picard
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-in a hypothetical world -which of the 5 trek shows would u like to have seen given another season?? this was a poll on the star trek website about a year or so ago and interestingly enough (the usually maligned) Enterprise won.
-If you could envisage an additional season to the 5 trek shows how would it go? how would you pitch it? DS9 & VOY are somewhat harder given the complete finality they achieved with their endings. I can't really think of an epilogue for those. but I think u could make a decent case for TOS, TNG & obviously ENT having additional seasons.
hypothetically how would you pitch the season(s).
THE ORIGINAL SERIES:
In the final year of Kirks 5 year mission the enterprise further into the unknown regions of our galaxy discovering even more civilisations. during this time first contact is made with the Deltans and the Ferengei. hints of a powerful cybernetic alien race on the other side of the galaxy are also alluded to as well. the final episode sees Kirk appointed to admiral and the Enterprise is called into spacedock for an refurb which will take several years.
THE NEXT GENERATION:
after resolving his long standing relationship with Q - the final TNG season features a season long story arc which sees the federation at war with borg. the impending dominion war is also alluded to and a number of crossover episodes with DS9 occur. Effectively this hypothetical season 8 might have replaced the movie 'First Contact' in a roundabout way.
(NOTE: this obviously would have been done at the time of the 1994-95 TV season and ignores later continuity i.e the TNG movies)
ENTERPRISE:
Well this one is straight forward and infact was already scripted by producers before ENT was cancelled in 2005. a season long story arc of the war with the romulans. obviously this was alluded many years earlier in the classic TOS episode 'balance of terror'
DS9: ???
VOY: ???
-If you could envisage an additional season to the 5 trek shows how would it go? how would you pitch it? DS9 & VOY are somewhat harder given the complete finality they achieved with their endings. I can't really think of an epilogue for those. but I think u could make a decent case for TOS, TNG & obviously ENT having additional seasons.
hypothetically how would you pitch the season(s).
THE ORIGINAL SERIES:
In the final year of Kirks 5 year mission the enterprise further into the unknown regions of our galaxy discovering even more civilisations. during this time first contact is made with the Deltans and the Ferengei. hints of a powerful cybernetic alien race on the other side of the galaxy are also alluded to as well. the final episode sees Kirk appointed to admiral and the Enterprise is called into spacedock for an refurb which will take several years.
THE NEXT GENERATION:
after resolving his long standing relationship with Q - the final TNG season features a season long story arc which sees the federation at war with borg. the impending dominion war is also alluded to and a number of crossover episodes with DS9 occur. Effectively this hypothetical season 8 might have replaced the movie 'First Contact' in a roundabout way.
(NOTE: this obviously would have been done at the time of the 1994-95 TV season and ignores later continuity i.e the TNG movies)
ENTERPRISE:
Well this one is straight forward and infact was already scripted by producers before ENT was cancelled in 2005. a season long story arc of the war with the romulans. obviously this was alluded many years earlier in the classic TOS episode 'balance of terror'
DS9: ???
VOY: ???
which show should have had another season?? 90 votes
TNG
22%
20 votes
ENT
41%
37 votes
TOS
14%
13 votes
DS9
15%
14 votes
VOY
6%
6 votes
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I quite liked some of the follow up novels to Voyager but i'm not sure that a post 'going home' season would have worked with the wider public.
Understandable why Enterprise won the poll given that it was only four seasons long and had plenty more opportunity to explore Trek history. I can't say i'm that bothered that it didn't though.
Seeing as I only made it half way through the second season of TOS i'm not sure I can really comment on that one.
I know this wasn't the question - but if they decided to continue any of the series today (with a 10-20 year gap) I would go for DS9. From interviews I've seen, Avery Brooks is far too 'gone' to reprise his role but wouldn't it be great to see the rest of the crew come back. Maybe Kira is now the head of the Bajoran Militia and calls on some of her Starfleet friends to assist with a major crisis affecting Bajor. As part of it they decide to pull DS9 out of mothballs and Miles O'Brien is finally forced to become and office and take command
A) why is kira not head of the station? does bajor need a militia with cardassia now in ruins?
P.S: i'm not having a dig at STD by the way ;-)
I never really got to grips with Enterprise but there's a case to be made that it could have grown if it had been given at least one more season.
I know the 2 parter explored it a little bit, but that was ultimately a redundant alternative future.
In my story DS9 was decommissioned as a part of a deal with the Dominion to have a 'neutral zone' around both entrances of the wormhole. Kira was promoted to head of the Bajoran Militia when it closed.
Presumably Cardassia would have (at least) partially recovered by 20 years after the war. Even so, Bajor would always maintain a defence force given it's strategic position and the threat from other races.
I'm also assuming that Bajor decided to not join the Federation after the war as it wanted to retain it's independence after everything that happened.
Especially TNG, VOY and DS9. 7 seasons is perfectly adequate for any television. It's when you begin to go on longer is when the show ends up losing decline.
Although ENT was not a show I liked in either it's original concept or the warfest it became.
TOS was about the ship (and crew) on a five year mission, we only got to see three of those (right?) I guess fans of TOS back then would have liked to see another two series. The Voyager final came out of nowhere; there was no lead up to it. One moment they were flying through space on their way home, and the next they conveniently found their way home at the expense of the Borg. I didn't like it.
Season 5 of Enterprise was going to introduce more Gorn, the Tzenkethi, Knziti, more episodes on Travis, Malcom, Hoshi and Phlox, and they were going to bring Shran in as an ambassador (of sorts); I'd have watched Season 5 purely for that character alone!
TNG ended with a nice flow, as did DS9; I don't think there was much more to tell there, and whatever stories that followed came by the way of the TNG films.
The Next Generation was still as strong in season 7 as it was in Season 4 and probably could have lasted for at least another 3 seasons. As much as I enjoyed Generations, I often wondered how epic a Seasons 8-10 of The Next Generation would have been with the revamped Generations sets, Data's emoticon chip and with (potentially) William Shatner either joining the cast or guest starring.
Deep Space Nine definitely ended at the right time, although it changed so much from season to season, I often wonder what an 8th season would have been like, with the Federation dealing with the aftermath of the dominion war, with Sisko gone and with Worf as ambassador. That said, had an 8th season been planned, it probably would have meant more of the darker dominion war episodes as opposed to the golden era of DS9 Seasons 3-5.
Voyager (I think) went on for too long. I enjoyed the first 3 seasons but soon after Seven of Nine came along, it became far too character focused for my liking, with less of an uptight military vibe and more of a relaxed soap opera feel. The Federation/Maquis dynamic was virtually ignored and characters went from having distinctive and enjoyable personalities to being lacklustre. Unlike other Star Trek series, Voyager failed to evolve much beyond Season 4 and I doubt a Season 8 would have been any different.
My vote goes to The Original Series. It was an unintentional phenomenon back in the 70s, 80 and 90s, with every episode today seen as golden and brilliant. It ignited the entire Star Trek franchise. Imagine how great a Season 4 would have been? The last episode Turnabout Intruder was definitely not one the series should have ended on.
Every episode?
What still shines through is the warmth of the main three characters and the intelligence of many of the stories.
Adventure! Space lasers! Ships blowing up! A thousand elephants! Stuff breaking and not having a magic fix! Maybe that was the appeal, a smaller ship meant they didn't have an endless supply of redshirts. Voyager sort of had that not-unlimited principle which is one of the reasons I didn't hate it.
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comnpletely agree with your rationale. also TOS did have 6 movies- which kinda gave it some finality.
excellent read this thread. I admit I succumbed to my HUMAN emotions and voted TNG. purely because it is my fav
but if I was to be a Vulcan and be more logical I think the answer is definitely enterprise. ENT was getting brilliant in its final season- but more so than that it had so much more to offer and it had so much more to explain in the entire star trek continuity, I think of the TOS episode 'balance of terror' where u had spock and the prejudiced officer whose grandparents died in the romulan wars- and I think... how good would it have been to explore those wars. ENT and bakula were warming up nicely by its cancellation- personally I think they could have delivered a cracker of a 5th season.
they could also have tied up a few other things
Agreed. I would add that it was from Janice Lester's own twisted and distorted point of view.
Yes, we did not see any female captains or admirals, but that largely reflects attitudes in the real world towards women in the sixties. We did see strong female characters, as prosecuting attorneys, scientists, aliens and other ranks. Unfortunately, in reality, many (but not all) such characters were female to give Kirk a "romance", I suppose. And we also saw the "traditional" hysterical female role and the weak (willed) female whom Kirk (or Khan) seduces.
Roddenberry had tried in the first pilot with Number One, but, the story goes, many women in the audience did not accept a female first officer with reactions like "Who does she think she is?".
It is of its time.
Watching the odd episode and I see what a missed opportunity it was. I probably didn't notice when it first aired.
Poor Chakotay. Started off a major character, ended up as Lt Leslie.
The Original series was Ok but a little dull in places. I wouldn't have given it any more than 1 more season.
Enterprise I think needed to grow more but it had 4 seasons. Not much growing to if you can't get it right in 4.
It was a missed opportunity - to inject real character development and dramatic conflict into the crew of a Starfleet vessel. The concept was fine. The execution was lamentable. They chose to forego character and credible situations, going instead for scifi concept of the week. It made for some intriguing and entertaining individual episodes (and some really lame ones) but taken as a whole, a poor series. And, oh yes, the way they made the homecoming a non-event character-wise shows just how little that side of story telling mattered to them. Even Braga says the writers were exhausted by that point. A situation that continued into the beginnings of Enterprise.