That’s probably because they suck 
Actually, isn’t the Defiant a “fighter” by Star Trek standards? Or the Delta Flyer? It seems that a “fighter” is a small-crewed ship with short-term living conditions, while a capital ship is capable of going for years.
I think the Defiant is more of a light cruiser. Fighters are usually manned by only a single person (with an option on 2 in the case of larger ones)
and I’d like to see more Kirk style overacting with excessive dramatic pauses
You know what would be neat? If, at any episode, they see a large nebulous cloud with a mysterious signal emitting…and then… I can see this now…
Captain turns to first officer. Says, “Bugger that- we’ve done this before. Orgy on the holodecks!”
I want to see the Orion slave girls revolt against their masters and claim a new planet, calling themselves the Dryads.
Apparently, not in the Star Trek series. Remember, the Maquis ship that Chakotay and gang were flying in the first episode of Voyager was labeled as a “fighter”, and it had room for a dozen people. In addition, “fighters” are counted among the total number of ships in the Federation’s fleet.
It seems that they consider “fighters” to be small-crewed vessels with little-to-no long-term living arrangements and very little self-sufficient amenities.
Does anyone have a solid definition? Perhaps from a technical manual or something?
Anyway, with regards to the OP… I’d like to see some cooler ground-based weaponry, like tanks or artillery. Heck, even some body armor. SOMETHING other than some crappy little phasers!!
I’d like to see some gay people on Star Trek. Not “androgynous beings with female feelings who comes onto a man.” Not “I was a man in my past life.” Not “mirror universe dyxploitation”. Gay people. Just two crew members holding hands in the background. Maybe a relationship. That’s all I ask.
The Jem’Hadar invaded Betazed in the sixth season of DS9, and since then we’ve seen Deanna Troi twice. I’d like to know if she had any kind of reaction to her homeworld being overrun by ruthless genetically-engineered soldiers.
I’d like to see Voyager showing some wear and tear.
And I want the next series to be more like DS9 than like TNG: where they stay in place, more or less, so they have to deal with prolonged storylines rather than flying on to the next sector, more or less.
The Delta Flyer isn’t a fighter; it’s a shuttle, albeit a big funky one. It’s not heavily armed. As for the Defiant, the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual designates it an “escort”. Other kinds of starships are designated as “explorers” (like the Enterprise and various other science vessels) and “cruisers”; the cruisers are more military, but of course the explorers can definitely hold their own in a battle, as we all know.
Damn, I loved the Galaxy class. At least there are a few more still hanging around. (Three, by my count, the Enterprise, Yamato, and Odyssey having been destroyed; the remaining ones are the Galaxy, Venture, and another whose name I don’t recall having been heard. They were shown in “Favor the Bold” (DS9).)
As far as the Fed “Attack Fighters” go (that’s what they called 'em in the big fleet battle) I seem to recall a squadron taking out a Cardassian cruiser. Not too shabby. Kinda like torpedo bombers taking out Japanese carriers at Midway.
Personally, I’d like to see an all-Klingon series. Featuring Chancellor Martok, maybe. I know - a series where the Emperor Martok assimilates the Federation into the ever-expanding Klingon Empire, setting his eyes next on the Romulans and Cardassians.
I want to see a competent female captain. I want the Voyager to get a long delayed message that says Janeway is a dangerous escaped lunatic, and whatever happens don’t let her set the ship to self-destruct!
I’d like to have seen the Voyager be destroyed, and stay destroyed. Preferably due to Janeway being such a bad captain. It’d be a great way to end the Voyager series.
I’d like to see some attackers board the ship, only to be beamed from the ship to the cold, hard, vacuum of space.
Two words: Orbital bombardment.
Weren’t there a whole friggin’ lot of the Galaxy class? In the DS9 Episode (I forget the name… I can never remember ST episode names) where they’re launching the big counter-attack against the Dominion, it shows a wide panning shot of the whole Federation fleet, and there’re a whole bunch of GCS’s floating around. Or were you referring strictly to the ones that got named?
(Personally, I loved how the Nebula-class ships looked… much more compact and space-saving than the oddly-shaped GCS’s)
I’d like to see them keeping all the improvements that they make to the engine and shields.
From memory, I can remember them making the sheilds 20% stronger and various other percentages better as well. Despite this and all the Borg Technology, a peashooter will rip a hole through decks 5 through 7.
Has anyone noticed that these are the most dangerous decks to be on. It’s almost as bad as being the unknown crew member on an away mission.
Belana and various Aliens (including Wesley) are always making the engines more efficient and yet they can’t make the things go any faster.
But the thing that I would most like to see is a Captain that can’t do every single job on the ship. Janeway is always suggesting improvements to the warp core or the shield matrix. What the hell are the engineers doing - why didn’t they think of that.
But then it turns out that the captain is an expert on neuro-muscular diseases, whilst having a thorough knowledge of 20th Century history and geography and a co-incidentally benefical intrest in Antarian folk music. Captains have the best timing on the ship, did you ever hear a crew member say “on my mark”
The captain’s only minor deficiency, as far as I can see, is that he/she can’t hack borg encryption systems.
Another thing I can’t stand is why if there is a photon torpedo the size of Venus heading towards the ship, a crew member with the Helm controls in front of him has to wait until the captain says something like “take us out of here”. With the mumber of near misses that those starships have, it’s only a matter of time before the captain coughs or is distracted for a second, and then it’s all over. If I had helm control, the captain would say something like “wow, that photon torpedo missed us by two light years”
Next time they have to switch off the environmental controls on the ship, i wiould get into one of those bio suits that they have in all the shuttle craft.
Given that captains are so intelligent, it would probably only take a minute or two to develop a self aiming phaser. Another idea would be to put a little wrist strap on the hand held phasers so they can’t get knocked out of your hands.
I want to see people boldly going where no one has gone before, instead of boldly going where everyone’s gone before (ST:TNG), boldly staying where no one has stayed before (ST:DS9), or boldly running away from where no one has gone before (ST:V).
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[li]A return to miniskirts for the females[/li][li]Recurring children characters that don’t age at two to three times the normal rate. Naomi Wildman was born at the end of season two, but looks about 10 at the beginning of season 5. Alexander Rozhenko was about 17-ish when he had been born only about 10 years before.[/li][li]Warp core ejectors that work after the ship has been shaken up[/li][li]Holodeck programs that don’t go off safety mode[/li][li]Non-humanoid life forms that aren’t microscopic. Something along the lines of the Horta, maybe[/li][/ul]
Some real things I’d like to see on ST:
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[li]Origin of the Borg. (Why did some race think that sticking implants all over their body was a good idea? Is this where body piercing will take us? :D)[/li][li]Early career stories of established characters, a la Picard’s run-in with the Nausicaans in episode “Tapestry”.[/li][li]More children on Voyager. I think Naomi was conceived before they got hijacked to the Delta Quadrant. But surely other crew members have paired off and conceived.[/li][li]With a new series planned, hopefully it will be based on the StarFleet Academy.[/li][li]A DS9 or a Voyager movie.[/li][/ul]
I’d like to see Janeway take that piece of Berilium Neelix acquired from the space junkyard dealer in the episode with the ship that connected to Paris through Neuro-whatevers and really buy an entire fleet of ships like Seven said could be done.
Then, I’d like to see that entire fleet of newly acquired “Federation” ships in the Delta Quadrant take on the Hirogen and claim a victory in war in the Delta Quadrant and take a few planets for the Federation.
I’d love to see Seven just lose herself completely and go buck wild for Kim, and Bellana should wear swim suits more often…
And I second the orgy on the holodek thing. Cheers to that one. 
Janeway dead.
'nuff said… I can’t stand that horrible bitch. Anytime something goes wrong, even if it’s her fault, what’s her answer?
DEMOTE TOM PARIS!
sigh
Tom’s a good guy, he doesn’t deserved the shit she gives him.
We’ve seen that the Bajorians practice, but what about the rest of the Federation, et al? Has Christianity died out? Islam? Judeism? Buddhism, etc?
What are the spiritual and/or moral guidelines of the 24th century? Or is it DavidB’s wetdream of the future with a whole galaxy of atheists?
Hard-core Roddenberry fans would object to digging up old earth religions, since his view of the future involved them all being gone…
I think it’s been said indirectly before, but I’m gonna go with the out-front reply:
Seven of Nine’s tits.