TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Quantum Leap?

How about you do a new show in the TNG / DS9 timeline, PLEASE.

New crew, new ship, none of the lens flares, no dumb pew pew pew, have intelligently written episodes, focus on positivism which we all need.... Make real star trek again!

Take a lootk at "The Orville", especially season 2. THAT is what I want, that is great star trek. Please please please!

Everyone is always focused on a new ship and crew. DS9 proved you don't need that to make a great Trek.

A well written show about how the Admiralty handles this early situations like the Earth Romulan War on a larger scale, that then sometimes dives down into those early Startleet officers trying to handle those directly would be a unique perspective really only DS9 and a handful of scenes in SNW sort of scratched the surface with.

I also like Archer in Enterprise, despite most of the fandom really not liking him.

I feel it's completely unrealistic to expect him to be as much of a polished and perfect Starfleet officer as, say, Picard or Pike are.

He's doing all of this stuff for the first time, with completely inadequate training, very little in the way of standard procedures imposed by the Earth government, etc. he also doesn't have captain's logs from others to pore through and learn from.

He's an ex test pilot who's been given command basics that are completely inadequate for interplanetary exploration and diplomacy, and he's expected to learn on the fly.

People complain that he's out of his depth half the time, but that's the entire theme of the show.

It's actually somewhat fun - as a one off for a Trek series - to see humans not be hypercompetent and perfect, while at the same time trying to be. You can see that they're not at the level of evolved sensibilities that we see in TNG, but they want to be. That's their goal. They're trying to be. And not half-arsed trying either, they're genuinely putting as much effort as they can to better themselves as a species. They're risking their lives to be a positive force in the galaxy, only to end up making a mess of it and sometimes making stuff worse, but it works as a series because you can see it comes not from malice, but from a desire to do good. They're trying to impose good morals on a galaxy full of realpolitik and shades of grey. It's like watching Superman, except unlike Superman they don't have might to back themselves up, quite the opposite, they're small fish trying to impose goodwill onto the great whites. I find that very endearing.

I miss Enterprise. It's a great shame we never got to see the Earth-Romulan war and more of the political back and forth between the Federation founder worlds.

The beginning of the Federation is a unique space to look closer at. Sort of similar to how Starfleet Academy clearly won't be following a ship's adventures. Take a more DS9 approach to it, focusing on the innet working of the Admiralty and Day to day operations at the command level, and it could work despite being a prequel timeframe.

One of the reasons Enterprise worked as well as it did was because it wasn't as beholden to the existing canon. It was far enough removed in the timeline that it didn't need to address most existing canon events. The ship wasn't fast enough to get to far flung regions, and it allowed us to see the start of humanity's exploration without the corrupted Admiralty of Starfleet in the TNG/DS9/VOY era.

SNW is great, but it is limited by the tight confines of its place in the chronology. Similar to Disco before its leap forward, except Disco had the added complexity of a magical propulsion system no one outside the crew could really know about.

Getting from here to there

what do you mean with one season of sexually transmitted disease?

Strange New Worlds is pretty good overall

Have you taken a look at Star Trek: Resurgence at all? It’s a recent Telltale-style Star Trek adventure game taking place in the post-Dominion War Star Trek universe. It follows a new cast of characters on a random science vessel getting into Star Trek shenanigans. There’s some small lore callbacks and cameos, but it’s mostly just trying to tell its own 12 hour story.

So is Jason Isaacs. But I checked out long before he did. Star Trek has lots of great actors. What they need currently is great writers that want to tell a star trek story.

SNW works despite the callbacks and familiar cast, not because of it. Uhura could be a different named character and the show would not change. Spock is the only part that would need to change. He's good in itz the actor and is his character, but they could explore the same themes and plots with a different romulan if they wanted to. It would be different without falling back on the half han part, but the difference would be more interesting.

Have a romulan that was not half human and was more conflicted in emotion than Spock.