Your trek "supergroup".

[Xhiandra]

I thought we could engage in a little silly fantasy. If you had to pick elements from each Trek series (or even movies) to form your "ideal" Trek, which would they be?

Writing (plot):
Writing (dialogue):
Main characters:
Secondary/recurring characters:
Acting (regulars):
Acting (guests):
Worldbuilding:
Visuals/production values:
Fight choreography (ground):
Fight choreography (space):
Ship:
Theme song:
First episode:
Last episode:
Anything I forgot:

Feel free to have a anti-supergroup (worst elements instead of best) as well.

Here's mine.

Writing (plot): TNG writers.
Writing (dialogue): TNG writers.
Writing (humour): TOS
Main characters: TNG cast
Secondary/recurring characters: DS9
Acting (regulars): PIC
Acting (guests): VOY
Worldbuilding: TNG
Visuals/production values/special effects: ENT/DSC/PIC
Fight choreography (ground punchies and/or pew pew): TOS, of course. Nothing beats Kirk-Fu!
Fight choreography (space pew pew): DS9
Ship: Entreprise-E
First episode: ENT/PIC
Last episode: TNG
Theme song: VOY


Antisupergroup:

Writing (plot): DSC
Writing (dialogue): DSC
Writing (humour): DSC
Main characters: DSC cast with Neelix replacing Saru ... or even worse: a shipful of Neelix clones
Secondary/recurring characters: TNG (if only for Lwaxana)
Worldbuilding: DSC
Acting (regulars): DSC
Acting (guests): PIC (if we consider Harry Treadaway and Peyton List to be guests)
Visuals/production values/special effects: TOS/TFF
Fight choreography (ground punchies and/or pew pew): TOS. Kirk-Fu might be hilarious, but it wasn't intended to be
Fight choreography (space pew pew): TMP, maybe?
Ship: Pasteur
Theme song: ENT
First episode: DSC
Last episode: VOY

 

[1001001]

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

Forget the website - THAT'S TrekCore!

 

[XCV330]

Supergroups usually don't work out. You can like Yes and Genesis and like Asia, but GTR sucked.

 

[Danja]

Supergroups usually don't work out. You can like Yes and Genesis and like Asia, but GTR sucked.

There was Power Station:

Robert Palmer
Tony Thompson, Bernard Edwards (Chic)
John Taylor, Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)


Star Trek: Picard is the closest thing to a Trek supergroup right now:

There's Jean-Luc Picard, Seven of Nine, Data, Riker, Troi, Hugh (with Guinan -- and possibly the EMH from Voyager -- coming aboard in S2).

 

[XCV330]

There was Power Station:

Robert Palmer
Tony Thompson, Bernard Edwards (Chic)
John Taylor, Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)


Star Trek: Picard is the closest thing to a Trek supergroup right now.

There's Jean-Luc Picard, Seven of Nine, Data, Riker, Troi, Hugh (with Guinan -- and possibly the EMH from Voyager -- coming aboard in S2).

Picard has my current favorite Trek writer, as well, Chabon.

I wont go into a full mix of favorites but I would have liked to have seen Harlan Ellison write for DS9.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Supergroups usually don't work out. You can like Yes and Genesis and like Asia, but GTR sucked.

Asia was a supergroup: members of Yes, King Crimson, the Buggles and ELP.

 

[Replica Picard]

I'm including some cheats in my list:

Supergroup:

Writing (plot): Diane Duane, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, David Mack, AC Crispin, Una McCormack, Keith RA DeCandido, Howard Weinstein, Greg Cox, Margaret Wander Bonanno
Writing (dialogue): The Orville writers
Writing (humour): John Ford
Main characters: TOS: The DC Comics Era
Secondary/recurring characters: TOS: The characters created for the novels
Acting (regulars): TOS
Acting (guests): Orville, Discovery, Star Trek Continues (especially Michele Specht)
Worldbuilding: Diane Duane and John Ford
Visuals/production values/special effects: Star Trek Beyond
Fight choreography (ground punchies and/or pew pew): Discovery
Fight choreography (space pew pew): Star Trek Beyond
Ship: The "Discoprise" with hits of the blue from the bridge of Excelsior in Star Trek VI
First episode: Script is based on DC Star Trek issue #1: "The Wormhole Connection", but allows room for tweaks from my writing team.
Last episode: Star Trek VI
Theme song: An abbreviated version of the Star Trek 2009 end credits theme featuring Leonard Nimoy doing the opening monologue

Antisupergroup:

Writing (plot): Whomever wrote "Threshold", whomever wrote "Saints of Imperfection", Peter S. Beagle, whomever wrote "Star Trek: Nemesis" and "Star Trek: Insurrection", and whomever wrote "These Are The Voyages".
Writing (dialogue): Star Wars, the Prequel Trilogy
Writing (humour): Joe Piscopo
Main characters: VOY without Janeway, add Eddington, and make sure to keep Seska and never bring Seven on.
Secondary/recurring characters: Any Q not played by John de Lancie.
Worldbuilding: ENT except Manny Coto.
Acting (regulars): VOY
Acting (guests): PIC (not counting Stewart or Ryan)
Visuals/production values/special effects: "Manhunt in Space", 1954
Fight choreography (ground punchies and/or pew pew): TOS
Fight choreography (space pew pew): TMP
Ship: Inquiry Class from Picard
Theme song: PIC
First episode: VOY
Last episode: VOY

 

[Vger23]

Supergroup:

Writing (plot): TOS Films
Writing (dialogue): TOS Films
Main characters: TOS or DSC
Secondary/recurring characters: DS9
Acting (regulars): PIC
Acting (guests): TOS Films
Worldbuilding: DS9
Visuals/production values: TOS Films
Fight choreography (ground): DSC
Fight choreography (space): TOS Films
Ship: Refit Enterprise 1701
Theme song: TNG / TMP
First episode: DS9
Last episode: TNG



Antisupergroup:

Writing (plot): VOY or ENT
Writing (dialogue): TNG
Main characters: ENT
Secondary/recurring characters: TNG
Acting (regulars): VOY
Acting (guests): VOY
Worldbuilding: ENT
Visuals/production values: ?
Fight choreography (ground): TNG
Fight choreography (space): VOY
Ship: NX-01
Theme song: DSC
First episode: VOY
Last episode: ENT

 

[Nerys Myk]

 

[publiusr]

Then Yoko showed up and...

 

[Tim Thomason]

Supergroup:
Writing (dialogue): The Orville writers

Antisupergroup:
Writing (plot): Whomever wrote "Threshold", and whomever wrote "These Are The Voyages".

Sweet. Brannon Braga gets to be in both groups.

 

[Danja]

Sweet. Brannon Braga gets to be in both groups.

No wonder the retro-Trek people love The Orville. Brannon Braga is about as retro-Trek as they come.

Talk about trying to re-animate a corpse.

 

[Xhiandra]

Supergroups usually don't work out. You can like Yes and Genesis and like Asia, but GTR sucked.

I know, I was going to mention that, in fact. Sometimes, they do work, though.

 

[Vger23]

Sweet. Brannon Braga gets to be in both groups.

The best of times and the worst of times, apparently.

 

[Vger23]

I'll add a little to this, because it's admittedly fun. Took this to a direction looking more at visuals and design...

Tricorder Design:
Phaser Design:
Phaser Effect:
Communicator Design:
Title / Credits Font:
Warp Drive Effect:
Transporter Effect:

Here are my adds:

Tricorder Design: TOS
Phaser Design: TOS / TFF (tied)
Phaser Effect: TWOK
Communicator Design: TNG (gotta admit, I almost went TMP wrist communicators here, but badge communicators was a pretty badass idea)
Opening Credits Montage: VOY / ENT (tied)
Title / Credits Font: DS9
Warp Drive Effect: TMP
Transporter Effect: TNG

Here's my anti-group:

Tricorder Design: Kelvin films
Phaser Design: Kelvin films
Phaser Effect: Kelvin films / DSC (tied...I hate pew pew pop gun phasers. Bring back the beam weapons!)
Communicator Design: TWOK (hard call....it's both cool and ridiculously clunky all at the same time)
Title / Credits Font: TNG
Warp Drive Effect: TOS films 3-6 (just bland streaky animation)
Transporter Effect: TMP (and not just because poor Sonak and random lady got turned inside out)

 

[Lord Garth]

Super Group
Writing (plot): TOS Films
Writing (dialogue): PIC
Main characters: DSC
Secondary/recurring characters: DS9
Acting (regulars): PIC
Acting (guests): TOS Films
Worldbuilding: DS9
Visuals/production values: DSC or PIC
Fight choreography (ground): PIC
Fight choreography (space): DS9
Ship: Refit Enterprise, Enterprise-A, or Discovery
Theme song: PIC
First episode: PIC
Last episode: TNG

Anti-Super Group
Writing (plot): VOY or ENT
Writing (dialogue): TNG Films
Writing (humour): TNG Films
Main characters: ENT
Secondary/recurring characters: VOY
Acting (regulars): ENT
Acting (guests): VOY
Worldbuilding: VOY
Visuals/production values/special effects: ENT
Fight choreography (ground punchies and/or pew pew): TNG, VOY, or ENT
Fight choreography (space pew pew): TNG
Ship: Kelvin Enterprise
Theme song: ENT
First episode: TNG
Last episode: TOS

 

[JRoss]

Okay.

Writing (plot): Nicholas Meyer, Manny Coto, Ronald D. Moore and Ira Stephen Behr
Writing (dialogue): Whomever did most of Garak combine with whomever did most of Guinan
Main characters: TNG
Secondary/recurring characters: DS9
Acting (regulars): DS9
Acting (guests): DS9
Worldbuilding: ENT, really, or maybe TOS
Visuals/production values: NuTrek films
Fight choreography (ground): JJ films by a country mile
Fight choreography (space): TWOK, NuTrek, DS9
Ship: Enterprise-E, with Defiant coming in second
Theme song: TNG, just barely beating out TOS
First episode: TOS. None of the others were really very good.
Last episode: TNG, beating out DS9 by fraction of a hair's breadth

Anti-Super Group
Writing (plot): STD
Writing (dialogue): STD or VOY
Main characters: STD
Secondary/recurring characters: None, really. TOS had the fewest, but they included Sarek, which prevents them from losing
Acting (regulars): STD
Acting (guests):VOY, tho TNG was filled with sluming C-listers for a long time
Worldbuilding: STD or NuTrek
Visuals/production values: Considering budget and when they were produced, probably VOY
Fight choreography (ground): It's really all bad
Fight choreography (space): Not counting TOS. probably TNG
Ship: STD
Theme song: DS9
First episode: STD, with the others not far behind
Last episode: ENT

SUPERGROUP ADDS:
Tricorder Design: ENT
Phaser Design: First Contact
Phaser Effect: TOS. Blue is better than orange. But it'd have to be redone to look sharper
Communicator Design: FC/DS9/VOY
Title / Credits Font: TNG
Warp Drive Effect: NuTrek
Transporter Effect: Star Trek Generations

ANTI-SUPERGROUP ADDS:
Tricorder Design: TOS
Phaser Design: TNG
Phaser Effect: None, really
Communicator Design: ENT
Title / Credits Font: DS9
Warp Drive Effect: STD
Transporter Effect: DS9

Okay. Here are some others:

Warp Core:

Best: VOY or TMP
Worst: TOS

 

[JRoss]

I'm including some cheats in my list:

Supergroup:

Writing (plot): Diane Duane,

FOr a second I thought this said Diane Carey and I was like what?

 

[Ralphis]

SUPERGROUP
Writing (plot): middle seasons TNG, and TOS films (it's a tie)
Writing (dialogue): PIC (aside from the gratuitous F-bombs)
Main characters: TOS
Secondary/recurring characters: TOS films
Acting (regulars): Kelvin timeline
Acting (guests): PIC
Worldbuilding: TNG & DS9 (it's a tie)
Visuals/production values: Kelvin timeline & DSC (it's a tie)
Fight choreography (ground): Kelvin timeline
Fight choreography (space): TOS films
Ship: DSC Enterprise
Theme song: I don't know if it counts as a "theme", but James Horner's opening theme to TWOK speaks to me everytime.
First episode: PIC
Last episode: TNG
Anything I forgot: Wardrobe: Kelvin timeline; Make-up: Kelvin and DSC (it's a lot of the same people)