Indeed, I’d get some new writers. Ones who’d take some more “risks” with stories.
And, to keep fans happy, I’d probably find some way of saying, offically, that Enterprise is taking place in an altered timeline. Even if that means writing the series finale so that the “temporal cold war” is resolved by erasing the NX-01 from history, and resetting the timeline back to the TOS-TNG original.
For that matter, there would be a ban on any “time travel” episodes being filmed more than once per season.
I’d make Trip gay. Yeah, the Southern engineer. Like I’m the only one who sees it.
No more “reptilian” aliens, unless they have a full snout. Instead of “generic bumpy head” aliens, I’d either have ones that looked completely human, or that were played by actors with an “unpleasant to look at” physical condition.
I wouldn’t add photon torpedos to the Enterprise’s arsenal, like they’re going to do in the upcoming season…I’d give them nukes. Big, dirty, nukes. Like in “Balance of Terror.”
Add more “cerebral” storylines, but ones that didn’t rely on incomprehensible technobabble. I’d balance these with episodes where they send down companies of Starfleet Marines to “resolve” diplomatic or cultural disputes.
Write episodes that deal with some major social-issue or another…but don’t present any sort of snappy “solution” to said problem.
To hell with “Will they or Won’t They?” sexual tension subplots that stretch the length of the series but never get acted upon or resolved…I’d have Archer and T’Pol have a full, torrid affair.
Come to think of it, I’d probably have T’Pol decide to reject logic about a season and a half before the series ends…and stick with it through the finale. Just to see if I could do that with a main character. I’d have the storyline lead up to that happening for about a season beforehand, of course, so it wouldn’t seem like it was something written up overnight.
OK, maybe it wouldn’t be better…but it’d be a lot more fun.
