Ah, Star Trek: Enterprise. What can I say about it that hasn't already been said? The horrible writing, the boring direction, the racism, the genocide, the sexism, the overall idiocy...
More than a few excellent fanfiction writers have taken the shit Berman and Braga delivered to us over four years and turned it into gold. My favorite is taralon's excellent "Star Trek: Enterprise: The Open Door" I highly recommend it, you can read it here.
So, in my usual way of encouraging people to write when I can't, I open this thread for speculation about how you would have done Star Trek: Enterprise. Keep the same actors and characters, or lose them. Keep the setting the same or alter it. I'd just like to see your ideas.
For my own? Well, they borrow heavily from "The Open Door", for the most part, but here are a few:
-Just roll with the Alternate Universe thing. The Borg ship debris in the North Pole would've worked perfectly as an explanation for the more advanced technology.
-Andor and Vulcan in a cold war with Earth in the middle, but have the Tellarites more involved from the beginning as either a third player or perhaps a client race of the Andorians. The Denobulans are an insulated, semi-xenophobic race that sends the "soft" members of it's society out to explore the universe and confirm their views of their superiority. This explains Phlox's really twisted views very well.
-Have an actual Starfleet out there. With the knowledge from the crashed Borg ship that there are probably plenty of big bads out there they can't handle, you get a more defensively thinking Earth who is committed to defending it's people and it's neighbors. the NX series doesn't have to be it's best armed ships or even it's biggest, just it's fastest and most advanced.
-Vulcan moving away from it's roots in Surak due to a politically minded few is also very good, so run with it. Have the Andorians plotting to influence Earth, who has been building up it's infrastructure extremely quickly in preparation for the Vulcans to finally let up. Once that happens, humanity will spread out among the stars even faster than they already are.
-Have the majority of ships in Starfleet resemble rockets with warp engines attached. It hasn't been until relatively recently that they've moved away from those old fashioned vessels into sleeker models influenced by tech and even knowledge from the future, but they're building them fast enough that soon those old fashioned vessels will be out.
-If you insist on doing the "Broken Bow" story, have it stretched out over a season's worth of episodes. If you don't, a couple of other ways to get Enterprise out there do exist. Distress call from a small colony that's being attacked by a mysterious enemy to lead up to a story arc towards revealing the Romulans, tensions between the Andorians and the Tellarites, maybe first contact with the Betazoids over their being used in the Andorian/Vulcan Cold War... You just need to think a little, and the possibilities easily present themselves.
So, go for it.
More than a few excellent fanfiction writers have taken the shit Berman and Braga delivered to us over four years and turned it into gold. My favorite is taralon's excellent "Star Trek: Enterprise: The Open Door" I highly recommend it, you can read it here.
So, in my usual way of encouraging people to write when I can't, I open this thread for speculation about how you would have done Star Trek: Enterprise. Keep the same actors and characters, or lose them. Keep the setting the same or alter it. I'd just like to see your ideas.
For my own? Well, they borrow heavily from "The Open Door", for the most part, but here are a few:
-Just roll with the Alternate Universe thing. The Borg ship debris in the North Pole would've worked perfectly as an explanation for the more advanced technology.
-Andor and Vulcan in a cold war with Earth in the middle, but have the Tellarites more involved from the beginning as either a third player or perhaps a client race of the Andorians. The Denobulans are an insulated, semi-xenophobic race that sends the "soft" members of it's society out to explore the universe and confirm their views of their superiority. This explains Phlox's really twisted views very well.
-Have an actual Starfleet out there. With the knowledge from the crashed Borg ship that there are probably plenty of big bads out there they can't handle, you get a more defensively thinking Earth who is committed to defending it's people and it's neighbors. the NX series doesn't have to be it's best armed ships or even it's biggest, just it's fastest and most advanced.
-Vulcan moving away from it's roots in Surak due to a politically minded few is also very good, so run with it. Have the Andorians plotting to influence Earth, who has been building up it's infrastructure extremely quickly in preparation for the Vulcans to finally let up. Once that happens, humanity will spread out among the stars even faster than they already are.
-Have the majority of ships in Starfleet resemble rockets with warp engines attached. It hasn't been until relatively recently that they've moved away from those old fashioned vessels into sleeker models influenced by tech and even knowledge from the future, but they're building them fast enough that soon those old fashioned vessels will be out.
-If you insist on doing the "Broken Bow" story, have it stretched out over a season's worth of episodes. If you don't, a couple of other ways to get Enterprise out there do exist. Distress call from a small colony that's being attacked by a mysterious enemy to lead up to a story arc towards revealing the Romulans, tensions between the Andorians and the Tellarites, maybe first contact with the Betazoids over their being used in the Andorian/Vulcan Cold War... You just need to think a little, and the possibilities easily present themselves.
So, go for it.