Like the title says, what would you like to see in the next Star Trek? It can be either the next movie or another TV show.
Movie 1: Pick up where Spock and Nero went into the black hole. Have a real unification with the remaining Romulans going back to Vulcan. Have Picard on the Enterprise-E with several new crew members on the bridge. Figure out a way to get Data out of B4. Have Riker and the Titan assist in the big battle against whoever the enemy is. Have people from DS9 and Voyager make cameos or even be on the crews of the Enterprise and the Titan.
Movie 2: Since the first one is just a wish, this is what I’d like to see using the current cast. The entire crew goes into their more traditional roles and lose the angsty attitudes. I guess they have to relocate the remaining Vulcans to a new planet. The Klingons played a large role in several deleted scenes from the last movie, so I’m sure they’ll be an enemy in this one. It’s hard to think of a new situation to put them in, since I’ve already seen what happens to this crew. I like the Borg, but if they show up in the current franchise…
Series 1: The obvious one for me would be following Riker on the Titan. I don’t know how they could make it different from TOS, TNG, and Voyager, but I never got tired of those.
Series 2: I have always wondered what a series based closer to Earth would be like. Maybe show students in Star Fleet Academy or people building ships in the shipyards or working in the orbiting space stations or something. Maybe all three, maybe something completely different. Just something closer to Earth.
You know how at the end of Voyager, Voyager gets decked out with fancy tech from the (farther) future and steamrolls a few Borg ships? I want to see the long-term consequences of that. Maybe a timeline where the Federation outfits its whole fleet with those fancy weapons, wrecks the Borg, and then, drunk with power, goes all warmongery. Suddenly, the Federation doesn’t seem so shiny and happy (or, perhaps, it seems unsettlingly shiny and happy). They’d be the bad guys of this series. There could be an anti-Federation coalition that managed to get their hands on stolen Federation tech, setting the stage for a protracted war.
Ditch the “reboot” entirely. Pick up after the first part of Generations - Kirk is dead(-ish), the Klingon empire is descending into post-Praxis chaos and the commanding officer of an Excelsior-class vessel, Captain Saavik (played by Kate Beckinsale), must deal with the political realities of the day, including mopping up remaining pockets of Klingon warriors willing to kill and die to make some point about religion.
The Maquis were always my favourite thing in the Star Trek Universe (well, that and Hoshi Sato.) I would LOVE for them to reform and do something like this.
I know this is just me, but I don’t count the Star Trek movies as canon. I consider them just bread and circuses for the proles. *Real *ST is on the television, as it requires the long-form series format to get into any real meat.
That said, I’d like to see one or both of two new series:
Series 1: A Star Fleet Academy series, with students actually graduating and moving on each year. The instructors can be played by old warhorses like Miles O’Brien and Geordi, and stay on from season to season.
Series 2: A series set in the Mirror Universe. This one should be definitely made for cable, as it would require plenty of lesbian sex. I don’t think Nana Visitor is too busy to do her part.
Hey, you gave me an idea: have four interwoven casts. One week would be a Klingon ship and its crew, with a story-of-the-week, but also contributions to an overall arc. The arc could be about an upcoming war or at least a skirmish, or maybe some long-term brewing political struggle.
The next week would be a Romulan ship and crew, with their own weekly story, and also contributions to the series arc which they share with the other three casts.
The third week would be, I don’t know, a Bajoran or Dominion or Ferengi ship and crew, etc. Maybe it would even be on a planet or a starbase, just for variety.
The fourth week would be the human crew on a Starfleet vessel. After that, the cycle would begin again.
All four ships would be caught up in the same long-term story arc, which would take several seasons to resolve. Occasionally, we might have a crossover between the four crews, probably via communicator screen.
I hope ‘like the reboot’ is referring to the action scenes as the reboot definitely didn’t have an intelligent script. It had to have had the most nonsensical plot with erratic characters behaving completely ridiculously to move the plot along.
Strangely I still managed to enjoy it. It just was a very very very dumb movie.
I disagree. The reboot had some glaring plot holes and coincidences, but all in all, it was pretty smart for big-budget SF, and the script was witty and well-paced.
If I were Spock, I’d get my ass to the Guardian of Forever (guarded by the Harlanbeast) and try to fix things up.
Meanwhile, Kirk should get his ass kicked, because the original Kirk was a great captain (especially in the first season) because he had learned humility. How is it Kirk without going through the experience of Kodos the Executioner and losing his Captain to the gas creature?
Mirror Universe vote, starting with Empress Hoshi Saito I. And reboot it so when Kirk comes back from the universe where Spock is clean shaven, he executes Spock so he can’t destroy the evil federation. Plenty of lesbian sex is a must.
Unless it has something along the lines of “to boldly go where no one has gone before” in the opening credits, it ain’t Star Trek. Follow that theme and it should be good.
So long as the movie following said credits is about them boldly doing where no man has gone before, and not rehashing old places, races and plot elements.