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What would you give up Trek wise for 2 extra seasons of TOS?

posted 2 years ago by bozo_500 (13105)
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We're talking 2 extra seasons of TOS (seasons 4 and 5 filmed in 69/70/71) Roddenberry coming back to oversee, plus Gene Coon, DC Fontana , Lucas, Justman etc .. About 52 episodes including more Klingons, Romulans, time travel, sequels to various eps (more Mudd, Gary? Charlie? Gorn? Guardian? Mirror-verse? Khan?*) and a final ep of the Enterprise returning home (*maybe not as wouldn't want to jeopardise TWOK in 82)

In exchange for that wed have to be talking a pretty big price Trek wise*.. I don't just mean like 2 seasons of Voyager, im talking the ENTIRETY of Voyager and ALL of DS9, and perhaps a couple of Trek movies as well (TFF and Insurrection lol). Think id leave Enterprise as liked s3/4 (might've been more had there been no excessive 90s Trek)

*How it works is everything in exchange gets erased from history including your own memory so in my case DS9/VOY would be gone and itd be as if i or anyone had never have seen them (I haven't anyway mostly lol) then I go order TOS season 4/5 blurays or P+ (or maybe they just magically appear in my existing TOS blu sets) and binge watch all 52 eps

[–] JosephQCat (706) 2 years ago

The original series is absolutely my favorite but I am not sure what I would give up. DS9 is quite a bit better than the last season of the original. I think we would all be disappointed in a 4th and 5th season. Just not the budget to do the things which were done in TNG and DS9 in terms of sets and props. The Klingons and Romulans were apt substitutes for certain Cold War powers but that was it. The Ferengi certainly would not fit or any anti-capitalist society. Characters such as Garak would not fit the template of what would be clearly good or bad. I think that what could be done in terms of stories or characters was done. The sad part of what is a great episode The Corbomite Maneuver is you can only do it once. How many different ways could a first contact episode be done? The Gulliver's Travels type episodes such as The Return of the Archons or A Taste of Armageddon did not have a whole lot more variety to explore given television (restrictions) standards back then. Like Seinfeld it was better to go out while people still had an appreciation versus a fatigue for the show. The bottom line is I am not seeing a 4th or 5th season that would keep audiences satisfied.

[–] CountJohn (602) 2 years ago

I was going to ask what quality level we are talking here. Because in real life it's probably fine that it ended when it did with how the quality was declining. But for two more seasons at the quality of seasons 1 and 2 I'd ax everything post TNG, which is really what is good anyway.