How would you "fix" Star Trek?

[chequita guevara]

I'd hire the writing staff from Battlestar Galactica, and tell them to use the source material from FASA's Start Trek Role Playing Game. No Klingons, no Romulans, no time war, etc. Just a good old fashioned space western with the four founding races of the Federation.

[St Leo]

I think Star Trek needs more of both kinds of music. Country and Western. The Enterprise theme was a good start, but we need more twang, more misery, and more inappropriate religious references.

[Ted Striker]

double

[Ted Striker]

USA!

[Drake Tungsten]

It's simple. Bring back Shatner and let him fight and **** his way across the galaxy.

[ravagon]

Something else I'd like to see - more 'big' episodes.

Star Trek is Space Opera - no harm in reminding viewers exactly what that means every once in a while.
Knock out all the stops and blow out the SFX budget sort of thing.

- B5 had several such episodes every season in which you were reminded just how big the setting really was, with large sections of the story arc being revealed (many of the 2-part episodes), large fleets coming together in epic firefights, etc. More to the point you saw the universe change because of it.
ST (DS9 aside) has done precious little of this ...

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
It's simple. Bring back Shatner and let him fight and **** his way across the galaxy.

Shatner is busy.

[mrmitchell]

Give it a vacation. It needs it.

[MRT144]

sue the hell out of fanfic made webisode

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by ravagon
Something else I'd like to see - more 'big' episodes.

Star Trek is Space Opera - no harm in reminding viewers exactly what that means every once in a while.
Knock out all the stops and blow out the SFX budget sort of thing.

- B5 had several such episodes every season in which you were reminded just how big the setting really was, with large sections of the story arc being revealed (many of the 2-part episodes), large fleets coming together in epic firefights, etc. More to the point you saw the universe change because of it.
ST (DS9 aside) has done precious little of this ...

DS9, like B5, hit a sweet spot between setting and special effects. TNG had a setting where large battles were possible, but were not economically feasible. Voyager was about a single ship far from home, so huge battles had to be few and far between. Enterprise was so early in history that Earth would have been crushed in any massive campaign.

Only DS9 and B5 had the setting to allow for huge campaigns, and the tech for the studio to economically pull it off (and remember, B5 sucked in the tech department for at least the first year).

[Edan]

A couple of possiilities for interesting Star Trek shows:

A show based on Section 31
A show based from the Romulan perspective (with more politics/backstabbing)

That said, I don't want Star Trek to lose it's optimistic vision or start making huge radical changes - otherwise it really wouldn't be star trek,

[ravagon]

B5 wasn't just a special effects extravaganza though - season 1 in particular didn't have large scale fleet engagements but did have many very very good episodes that hinted at what was to come - 'Midnight on the firing line' (No really big fleets fighting it out but it did show off the Narn war machine and introduce the Narn-Centauri feud in a major way), 'Mindwar' (that closing scene with nothing more than an ant on a flower still gives me chills), 'The coming of shadows', 'A voice in the wilderness' (well, this did have a few FX thrown in but very low-grade by the later seasons standards) were huge episodes.

JMS just managed to hit on a near-perfect blend of story-telling, mysticism and FX that produced one of the best sagas of all time.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by ravagon
Something else I'd like to see - more 'big' episodes.

Star Trek is Space Opera - no harm in reminding viewers exactly what that means every once in a while.
Knock out all the stops and blow out the SFX budget sort of thing.

- B5 had several such episodes every season in which you were reminded just how big the setting really was, with large sections of the story arc being revealed (many of the 2-part episodes), large fleets coming together in epic firefights, etc. More to the point you saw the universe change because of it.
ST (DS9 aside) has done precious little of this ...

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Edan

more politics/backstabbing

What's section 31?

[Ted Striker]

By the way, what happened to the space marines, I thought they were going to be a big part of the show but they just like show up for 10 seconds and get shot every once in a while.