The One Thing You Could Change, TNG Edition...

[Vger23]

Maybe people talk like that in the future?

I hope not. It's stilted and very unnatural.

 

[JesterFace]

I hope not. It's stilted and very unnatural.

Well, we won't be there to hear it and be annoyed by it.

 

[NigellaDeanna20]

This is what I'd do In relation to Troi: instead of focusing too much on her empathic abilities like they did in that first season, write her as an actual character. Deffinately agree with making her Chief Science Officer and Ship's diplomatic officer. I'd have also focused more on the Troi, Riker reationship as established in EAF and then in AGT, I'd have had them getting married.

 

[Forbin]

Technobabble must die.
I popped on TNG the other night for a few minutes, and those few (5?) minutes were entirely Geordi spouting technobabble solutions. I honestly couldn't even tell which episode it was without checking. I rememebered why I never watch my DVD set any more, and turned it off in disgust.

 

[Lt.Smokey]

Have Riker leave for his own command after The Best of Both Worlds. It would give you the opportunity to introduce a new character, either a new XO such as Shelby or a new Ops Chief if you promote Data.

Plus, you can always have Riker pop up a few times thru the end of the run and on DS9 without being married to the Enterprise.

I love Riker, but I see the merit in this idea. He really took over scenes and other characters may have been able to grow more if he wasn't around as much. Plus, it would have made more sense in universe than having such a highly decorated first officer on a flagship vessel stick around rather than moving up the ranks.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

How about this:

Have Tasha be Ro. Have her be Bajoran and introduce the whole species and the Cardassians as early as Season 1. It would have added a bit more to Tasha's character.

Love that idea!

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I don't mind technobabble when it's used for decoration, and not used to push the plot forward or exclusively solve a problem. I see it as part of the worldbuilding.

I love the idea of making Tasha Bajoran too, but I worry if Cardassians were added in the first season they'd be jumping around like monkeys too.

Maybe they could have added Tom Riker after BoBW, so Will Riker gets his own command and Tom Riker joins the Enterprise.

 

[Mojochi]

I might change having it called "The Next Generation". It's just dumbly confusing, & I always thought it was bland, unimaginative, & misplaced, as in not the generation following Kirk's, not even the next ship called Enterprise. (Which I'm perfectly overjoyed with as a premise) The only thing it's the next generation of, is the next generation of Star Trek stories.

So, WE'RE the next generation, the Star Trek viewers, literally. My dad's generation watched Star Trek, & my following generation watched Star Trek: The Next Generation. The title doesn't apply at all to the premise. Hell, "The Next Century" applies more. Having a title that doesn't apply to the premise takes you out of the premise, in a way. We have all overlooked it, because the show was good, and we were able to immerse in the premise despite the fact, but that doesn't erase the reality.

Every other Star Trek show has a title with direct correlation to the premise, & as the time passes & the franchise grows... to even include prequel eras, it makes TNG's title that much more oddly misplaced.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

One change I would love to see would be to have aliens onboard the ship. The Federation flagship with other 1000 people onboard and the only (named) alien characters included:

• 2 Androids (not alien but at least non-human)
• 2 Bajorans
• 1 Benzite (on temporary officer exchange)
• 1/2 Betazoid (I'm discounting Walter Pierce as he was just part of Troi's hallucination)
• 1 Bolian
• 1 Canopian (aka Nara's species)
• 1 El-Aurian
• 3 3/4 Klingons (includes 2 on temporary officer exchanges and Alexander)
• 1/2 Napean
• 1/4 Romulan
• 2 Vulcans

Whilst unnamed background aliens consisted of just:

• 4 aliens (of different unnamed species)
• 1 Bajoran
• 6 Bolians
• 5 Tyrellians (only mentioned in dialogue)
• 10 Vulcans

Most series suffer from a lack of diversity in species (I know it all comes down to budgets, though DS9 managed to fill its universe with a wide assortment of aliens), but it just makes ships look pretty dull and almost as though there is some unwritten policy of segregation or that humanity has become such a blight on the universe that there's no room for other species to get in.

 

[Ocanain]

I’d push Troi into the background and develop the Data/Pinnocio arc more thoroughly.

 

[RAMA]

I would have wanted it more dangerous!! I would have liked it to challenge more preconceptions, and anger more people! Certainly, they did some of this, but I'd have liked it sharper and more frequent!

RAMA

I decided on a thought exercise for myself, and wanted to see what other people would come up with. I am going to do this for each series, except DISCOVERY and PICARD, as they are still currently in production.

Come up with only ONE thing you would change about a series. It can be something about a character, a storyline, or even something physical, like a different ship design. It can be anything you like, provided it would be used for more than just one episode.


For TNG, I would like to have seen more focus on La Forge. LeVar Burton is a good enough actor that he can be given more meaty material, and as proof, he handled technobabble very convincingly. Possibly the most convincing of everyone in the franchise.

But we didn't see a great deal of him on a personal level outside his friendship with Data and a string of failed romances. I know Troi and Crusher were also criminally underused, but I can only pick one thing.

How about you all?

 

[Mark 2000]

It seems I have a comic for all of your “things you’d change” threads. And it wouldn’t be just one thing. @Ryan Thomas Riddle and I wrote a story line that tried to bring TNG back to its sexy, sleek, exploratory roots while amping up the diversity. You can find it here: http://trekcomic.com/comic/2018-07-13/

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

One change I'd loved to have seen would be to have the Generations bridge be the one used throughout the show.

 

[ThankQ]

I'd make the cast more of a modern style cast where people come and go. Riker gets promoted, but still may pop up from time to time. Maybe you keep the people rotating you get a Law & Order style 20 years out of the show.

 

[JesterFace]

One change I'd loved to have seen would be to have the Generations bridge be the one used throughout the show.

I completely disagree, sorry....
However, in 'Yesterday's Enterprise' the bridge is something like the one in 'Generations', captain sits higher up and there are stairs in front of him. Also there were computer stations on both sides of the bridge in both 'Yesterday's Enterprise' and 'Generations', right?
Perhaps the movie bridge idea came from 'Yesterday's Enterprise'?
I wonder, might there have been a discussion after 'Yerterday's Enterprise' that some producers want to keep this alternate timeline bridge but had to go back to the original. (fortunately) Then 'Generations' came around and they got to make "movie changes".

Also, darkness. Everything was so dark....

 

[Farscape One]

At least Worf finally got to sit down after all those years.

 

[Angry Fanboy]

I adored the Generations bridge - the stations replacing the equipment lockers on either side looked terrific.

 

[Orphalesion]

I think the Generations bridge was a good compromise between the elegant, homey style of the TNG bridge and the more utilitarian bridge designs of series.

Plus Worf finally got a chair. I wish they would have kept the Enterprise D for the show, I've never been a fan of the Enterprise E.

 

[Maurice]

I HATED the side stations added in Generations. They look like what they are: grafted on and not part of the design.

 

[Maurice]

It seems I have a comic for all of your “things you’d change” threads. And it wouldn’t be just one thing. @Ryan Thomas Riddle and I wrote a story line that tried to bring TNG back to its sexy, sleek, exploratory roots while amping up the diversity. You can find it here: http://trekcomic.com/comic/2018-07-13/

CLICKABLE!

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Have Shelby become First Officer from Season 4 onwards.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

I completely disagree, sorry....
However, in 'Yesterday's Enterprise' the bridge is something like the one in 'Generations', captain sits higher up and there are stairs in front of him. Also there were computer stations on both sides of the bridge in both 'Yesterday's Enterprise' and 'Generations', right?
Perhaps the movie bridge idea came from 'Yesterday's Enterprise'?
I wonder, might there have been a discussion after 'Yerterday's Enterprise' that some producers want to keep this alternate timeline bridge but had to go back to the original. (fortunately) Then 'Generations' came around and they got to make "movie changes".

Also, darkness. Everything was so dark....

They could always brighten it up with blinding halogen lights and lensflares