Part 2 was about Star Trek: Legacy and Star Trek: Equinox and how they fit into the picture. That said, I totally forgot another reason making for Star Trek: Equinox, namely....the Enterprises ! That's right, plural.
Not only could Equinox show what wasn't Worf's fault - aka whatever happened to the Enterprise-E - it could also show the launch of Enterprise-F and fill in some of her story. IMHO the Enterprise-F got a pretty raw deal in Season 3 of Picard. Equinox could put a bandage on this. But now, let's move on to...
Clearing the Air
I am not a fan of either Star Trek: Discovery or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The problem is not the actors, who are doing
the best with the materials they are given. The problem is that the writers of these shows do not know how to write science fiction. And that the producers are not fans of Star Trek. They don't understand the franchise and the philosophy behind it.
This results in negative, depressing and dumb Trek. Another problem is a lack of in-story professionalism from the characters. In the every Discovery episode, somebody suffers a breakdown because of their 'oh, so, tragic background.' Let me put it this way....
...If this happened on NCIS, would you believe that Alden Parker and his team are professional, FLETC trained Federal Agents ? Or if CSI: Vegas was written this way. Would you believe that these are professional Forensic scientists ?
I wouldn't. And on Discovery and SNW I don't believe it either. Meaning that I simply can't help thinking...
~These people wouldn't make it through Starfleet Academy in a million years.~ Any instructor worth their salt would kick them out in the first year. But again, it's not the actors fault. It's the producers and the writers mucking it up. So I would replace them and then go ahead with....
Trek of the Past
Set aboard the USS New Jersey - which was seen in the fleet museum in Picard Season 3 - this show would run parallel to TOS. Besides confirming that Star Trek: Enterprise is part of the repaired timeline, this show would expand the TOS era 'sideways'.
Another thing this show could do, is salvage characters from both Discovery 1.0 and SNW. Because the timeline was repaired, you not be tied to any of the (tragic) backgrounds provided by those shows. Nor the events that took place in them.
The crew of the New Jersey would be a mix of Discovery and SNW characters, showing where these people were supposed to end up. (And why should the actors take the fall for the producers and writers incompetence.) I would also add several characters - such as Yeoman Colt, Doctor Boyce and the real Captain Lorca - that have fallen through the cracks in the Disco-verse.
What Disco 2.0 could also do, is fix inconsistencies that have come up over the years. A famous example is Kirk saying that there are only twelve Constitution-class ships in Tomorrow is Yesterday. That episode takes place on 3113.2 from Kirk's point of view.
I would start Disco 2.0 on Stardate 3115.0 with a shot of the New Jersey in dry-dock, having just received a minor update. (Explaining why it looked a bit different then the classic Connie in Picard.)
Besides the New Jersey, the shot would show several other vessels in other docks, including several other Constitution-class ships under construction. To show that this is the repaired timeline, I would not use any of the Discovery designs. Instead, I would use Star Fleet Technical Manual designs.
One of the issues with the Discovery designs is that some of them were reused in Picard. By replacing them in the TOS era, this is fixed and Picard is made more solid.
Another thing about these designs is that the writer of the manual - Franz Joseph - was smart enough to establish that these ships all share layouts. The bridge, main engineering, etc, are all the same. Basically, it's the same trick the SNW tried with the Sombra-class, but dialed up to 12.
All of these designs - Hermes, Saladin, Federation, Constitution and Federation class - could therefore be represented by one set of...well, sets. Not to mention the merchandising opportunity. And by having several Constitution-class ships under construction, the Constitution-class inflation could be taken down a notch or two.
And that's just one fix Disco 2.0 could pull off.
Conclusion
Well, Alex, this was a long one. I was planning to do some concluding thoughts here, but they ended up in the Clearing the Air part of this entry. So, take care and...
Regards,
Ruben A. Hilbers (Commander Nash)
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