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We've got [what is currently known as] the JJfilms (even though he's not directing the third one), and as enjoyable as the films are; they succeed in their entertainment factor. Both consistency and continuity are somewhat lacking (ie; Kronus/Qo'nos being that close to the Neutral Zone, and the fact that (whilst in orbit of Earth and falling down toward it, the Enterprise wasn't aided by other Starfleet ships that should have been in orbit - etc).
Regardless, if you were given the position to reboot Trek, and were given a three-feature contract (three films) to do it with, what stories would you tell, and who/what would your crew be?
My first film would be setting the tone; building up the characters. It would likely jump a little through time too, such as having Kirk (and others) graduate from the Academy, his ranking up on the Lexington(?) and his transfer to the Enterprise. The film would focus on an internal conspiracy within the Federation that ultimately brings the crew of the Enterprise closer together; the film would end with Pike giving command of the Enterprise to Kirk.
My second film would focus on the Klingon Empire (these would briefly be mentioned in the first); it would somewhat follow the path outlined in the Undiscovered Country; the Federation trying to make peace with the Klingons, whilst various houses within the Empire wanting war. The film would start similarly to that Star Wars film (episode III?) where there's that big space battle over the planet; except it would be a generic space battle. The Enterprise wouldn't be involved here, although we would see the destruction of a Constitution Class.
My third film would focus on various aspects of Trek, one of which would be the revelation that the Romulans are related to the Vulcans, and I'd be tempted to have a scene or two involving the Tholian. The end of the film would have the Enterprise undergo a refit ready for her next voyage.
Key Points:
* The crew(s) of the Starfleet ships would consist of known species only; Human, Vulcan, Andorian, Tellarite, Caitian, Saurian & Deltan. No Orion, No Androids, and No Fabricated Species.
* Earth would never be under direct threat; there would always be other ships in the sector.
* I would redesign the Klingons (or just use the ones featured in Into Darkness)
* There would be No Time Travel
On to you...
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They aren't bugs, they are features. Locations are as close as they need to be for plots, especially in TOS. Earth having no other ships around it is such a time honoured tradition they would't dare mess with it.
Anyway...
If I were to reboot it would be for the first time, JJTrek isn't a reboot, it's an alternate universe, many already exist in ST.
I'd continue in the same fashion with changes. (oh, and no Old Spock)
Film 1: Starts in the 24th century, Hobus goes nova, key planets to the RSE are destroyed (Praxis type situation on a larger scale). RSE sends back agents to the ENT era to expand the Empire before the nova so it will have enough worlds to survive in the future, this kicks off the Temporal Cold War.
The past is changed to ENT (why it has more advanced tech then TOS), the stuff with Nero still happens and he goes through at the Kelvin era. But with no Kelvin. The ship is captured by the Klingons but distress signals reach the RSE of the AU. They pick up the Nerada and reverse engineer it and conquer the Klingons. The war between the Klingons and Romulans keeps them occupied but the Federation uses the time to prepare, capturing Romulan scouts and whatnot, militarising for the inevitable war.
This is going on in the background whilst Kirk is on a 5 year mission (in a simalar way to the TOS Fed-Klink war). The film ends when the Enterprise gets home to see the Romulans have launched a Breen or Xindi style assault on Earth and wiped out SanFran.
Film 2: Kirk and co travel around the quadrant trying to build an alliance of non-Federation worlds to stand against the RSE. Meanwhile the Federation is in all out war with the RSE. The Alliance (including Klingons) arrives in the nick of time, beats the Romulans back and forces a surrender.
Film 3: Starts with the signing of the Kitomer accords (between the Alliance and the RSE) when a fleet of Klingon warbirds glass Kitomer and are conducting raids on Romulan planets despite the ceasefire. Kirk and co need to find a way to broker a proper peace between the Romulans and Klingons as well as protecting the Federation. Smaller members of the Alliance (Such as the Gorn, Orions) have joined the Klingons to wipe the Romulans out once and for all. Oh, and the Doomsday weapon is approaching Federation territory. Kirk trike the weapon to destroy Kronos whilst the Klingon (and allies) fleets destroy Romulus, leaving both powers crippled and unable to continue the war.
Then we all wait for a fourth film.
Edit: I realise I broke several of your rules, but I thought they would't work with my story.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Movie #1: Kirk. George Kirk.
So the Narada comes through, Captain Robau is there to meet it. The Kelvin gets the s*** kicked out of it, Robau immediately orders a distress call, maydays, calling for backup. The Narada's commander, introducing himself as "Oren i'Ra'tleihfi, a name that no longer has meaning", offers to let him come over to negotiate a surrender, which goes bad because he's basically insane at this point. Robau dies, but not before he manages to make good on his Memetic Badass cred and shoot an important console with a Romulan disruptor that he grabbed while unsuccessfully trying to escape. He tells George Kirk to book out the moment he dies, because he's smart.
So George Kirk makes a break for it, the Narada pursues, Kirk realizes he can't escape because it's faster than the Kelvin, so he has everyone nonessential make a break for it in the shuttles as he buys them a minute, and then Starfleet backup shows up.
Kirk tells them they're super outgunned, he sets a collision course but they beam him out before he dies in the crash. With the Narada crippled, Starfleet moves in, but Oren retreats.
Kirk gets promoted to Captain and given his own ship, gets together with his old buddy Chris Pike (Tom Hiddleston) and makes sure to watch the area Oren left towards for strange activity. Nobody realizes until too late that Oren was a Romulan, because Robau didn't have time to call Kirk about the alien computers having Rihan script and Oren's goons were speaking Federation standard.
Oren goes to Romulus, appoints himself Praetor and Emperor by virtue of having a giant starship right over the Senate chambers, and gears up the RSE for war on the Federation. Five years later, he attacks.
Federation forces intercept the fleet as it invades Federation space, but get their pants handed to them by the Narada. Kirk and Pike realize that that's Nero's personal ship, put 2 and 2 together, and race to stop him, but the Narada's been upgraded, so it hits Vulcan with a more traditional planet killer. Thirty percent of the Vulcan species is killed instantly.
As the Romulans form a perimeter around Vulcan, George Kirk's ship is destroyed, but the crew escapes. Kirk himself crash-lands on one of Vulcan's barely-inhabitable moons, where he runs into a elderly half-Vulcan called Spock, who explains the basics of what happened to him. Spock popped out of his black hole trip a few months ago in Romulan space, and Oren decided to make him watch Vulcan burn because he's a pr*ck. Kirk and Spock get a subspace transponder together and call for help.
The Romulans detect the signal, but Chris Pike pulls off a daring rescue operation and books it back to the Federation staging area at Andoria. Spock tells Starfleet Command of Oren's final plan: Destroy Earth, and bring the Federation down with it.
Starfleet musters for an all-out attack, but the Romulans strike first. As the Federation's Home Fleet falls and the Earth perimeter defenses collapse, Kirk and Pike launch a last-ditch strike to take out the Narada. The Federation fleet engages the Romulans, and Kirk and Pike lead a suicide run on the dreadnought. Accompanied by a squad of MACOs and Andorian soldiers, Kirk infiltrates the Narada through applied technobabble, and Pike gets as many people out as possible as Oren counterattacks. Kirk and his soldiers head for the Bridge, planning to kill Oren and take control of the ship, but the Rihannsu spot them. Kirk gets eighteen kinds of tar beaten out of him by Oren, and his soldiers are being picked off by the Romulans; but then Kirk pulls out his ace in the hole; they also brought Spock with them, and he has the Jellyfish, and is shooting up the inside of the Narada with it. Oren completely loses his sh*t, starts screaming at his men to shoot down Spock, and Kirk uses the distraction to grab Oren's gun and shoot him in the back. While the fleet transmitter is up, so the Romulans know that their Praetor is dead. The Romulan fleet is thrown into chaos, and Spock manages to rescue the badly-wounded Kirk and the surviving soldiers, blasting out the back of the Narada while the charges that he (being Just That Awesome, he's freaking Spock after all) set in the warp core go off.
The Romulans surrender and retreat, and Kirk and Pike are awarded medals of valor and so forth.
Movie #2: Khan.
An old friend of Pike's contacts him as Kirk is recovering from the traumatic injuries he experienced from Nero. Something's going on in Starfleet Command, and Admiral Marcus is filthy with it. Before Pike can decide what to do, his friend turns up dead under mysterious circumstances and he's called in for a briefing on a dangerous fugitive.
The meeting is interrupted when a shuttlecraft shoots up the meeting room; Pike manages to take it down, but the pilot, a man who Marcus refers to as "Singh", escapes via transporter at the last second. Pike calls his old friend, John Sisko (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a former Starfleet Captain and restaurateur in New Orleans; Sisko, on vacation anyway, agrees to do a little covert investigation. He used to be in deep with Starfleet Intelligence, after all.
Admiral Marcus tells Pike that "Singh" stole a scout ship and made a run for Klingon space, hiding out on a border planet called Narendra Three. Pike's mission: Use experimental long-range photon torpedoes to eliminate the fugitive. Not trusting Marcus, Pike agrees to the mission, but changes the parameters the moment he's out of spacedock. Pike approaches the Klingon border and gets permission from the Klingons to land a small team to look for the fugitive in a frontier region of the planet; however, they're ambushed by a man in black who swiftly incapacitates the team and holds Pike at gunpoint. Introducing himself as Khan Noonien Singh (Benedict Cumberbatch), the man demands that Pike call his ship and order them to open the torpedo casings. Pike complies, and his crew discovers the Augments in the torpedoes.
Then John Sisko calls, and Pike discovers that Marcus is part of Section 31, and is planning to start a war with the Klingon Empire, with the intent to destroy the entire Klingon species.
Pike offers a truce with Khan: Khan gets guaranteed amnesty, based on his story of Marcus's dirty dealings and what was done to Khan, if Khan helps him expose and take down Marcus. Khan agrees.
As they head back into UFP space, Pike's ship is surprise-attacked and heavily damaged by Marcus's new super-battleship, the Vengeance. Before Marcus can destroy Pike's ship, John Sisko, who's infiltrated the ship due to being an ancestor of the most epic Starfleet officer ever, shuts down the Vengeance's systems. Pike and Khan head over to the Vengeance to confront Marcus; Khan calls him out on altering Khan without his consent, using Khan's family as a bargaining chip, and otherwise being a terrible person. Pike calls Marcus out on his BS. Marcus refuses to come quietly, Khan attacks him, and Marcus beats eighteen kinds of tar out of him, revealing himself as a stealth Augment, boosted by section 31 tech. Pike, Khan, and Sisko are restrained by Marcus's reinforcements, and Pike's ship books it for Earth with Marcus in pursuit. Pike tries to reason with Marcus, but Marcus is adamant; he sees no future for the Federation without war, and he feels that any means are justified to preemptively end any and all potential threats to the Federation to avoid those wars. Pike's ship's coms are down, so they need to make it to Earth to get the intel out; they make it, but the Vengeance comes out of warp right behind them, Marcus broadcasting warnings about traitors to the Federation. Pike's XO (let's say Andorian female, or at least female-analogue) beams down with the intel, desperately trying to reach a news center to broadcast the information as Pike's ship tries to escape Marcus above. The defense grid warms up, and Marcus seizes Pike's ship in a tractor beam, gloating to the heroes about how they can't stop him, and invites them to watch Pike's crew fail and die at the hands of their own allies.
Then the defense satellites fire on the Vengeance. Marcus is hailed by Starfleet command and ordered to surrender; Pike's XO got the intel out in time. Marcus refuses to surrender, but then Pike's crew beams over seventy-odd freshly-unfrozen Augments.
Marcus surrenders, then makes the mistake of telling Pike and Khan that he'll be out in a month anyway, he's Section 31. So Khan kills him.
Movie #3: Doomsday.
It's two years since the Khan incident, and Ilyashana sh'Vathandras (Michelle Rodriguez), former XO to the legendary Rear Admiral Christopher Pike and now Captain of her own ship, is on vacation on Andoria when she, her former CO, and her former CO's old friend George Kirk (Chris Hemsworth) get called to Earth for an emergency briefing. The Klingon Empire has a new Chancellor, a warlord called Hravek Kharn (J.G. Hertzler), and he's declared a "final war" on the Federation.
Starfleet musters for a response to the Klingons' first strike, but Kharn has a secret weapon; a starship of pure neutronium larger even than the Narada, which fires planet-destroying antiproton beams. The Federation First through Fifth fleets are destroyed in their entirety, and the Klingons take eight systems in under three days. Captain Pike is captured by the Klingons, and Kharn kills him on live holovision, saying that only in battle are Klingons truly Klingon, and that the Federation should expect no mercy.
Sh'Vathandras and Kirk regroup with the rest of Starfleet, swearing revenge on Chancellor Kharn. However, as Starfleet is planning its next move, Kirk is contacted by a Klingon Captain, Kang (Garret Wang). Kang believes that Kharn is overstretching the Empire, and that his conquest will ultimately be the doom of the Klingon people. Using Kang's intel, Starfleet plans a coordinated strike designed to take out both the doomsday weapon and Kharn's flagship, the Conqueror. However, Kang is caught by Kharn's loyalists; enraged at the treachery, Kharn declares that he will force Kang to watch his "Federation leash-holders" fail and die before Kharn executes him. Kharn orders a surprise attack on Andoria, seeing the warlike Andorians as the greatest threat in the Federation.
Kirk and sh'Vathandras scramble to stop Kharn, with Kirk leading a strike force on the doomsday machine and sh'Vathandras trying to take down Kharn's flagship. Sh'Vathandras manages to disable Kharn's ship, but he isn't on it; he's gone to the Doomsday Machine to command it himself. Kang and sh'Vathandras team up to take down Kharn; Kirk flies a ship full of explosives into the superweapon, damaging it, and Kang and sh'Vathandras beam into the command chambers. Kang plans to challenge Kharn for the Chancellor's seat, but is shot and gravely injured before he can do so; sh'Vathandras takes his place. Kharn claims that the Andorian has no right to challenge him, but sh'Vathandras claims that she had sworn undying loyalty to Pike, who was killed by Kharn in what she claims was a dishonorable fashion. Since the Klingons recognize Andorians as a fellow warrior people, the surrounding warriors allow her challenge, and Kharn accepts it after she calls him a coward. They duel, with Kharn having the upper hand to start, before sh'Vathandras manages to switch to a mek'leth (closer to the ushaan that she's more familiar with), and hamstrings Kharn before cutting his throat. Sh'Vathandras claims the position of Klingon Chancellor, which none of the Klingons there know if she's actually allowed to take that position or not but she just beat Kharn in a really cool fight so what the heck, she's Chancellor.
Sh'Vathandras orders a surrender, and the Klingons stand down. Kang, Kirk, and sh'Vathandras destroy the doomsday machine, and everybody settles down for some negotiation.
There. Better than JJTrek?
Besides, the Klingons would see Starfleet weakened by the battles with the Romulans and Section 31 - they wouldn't need some doomsday weapon to attack, just an earlier deployment of K't'inga-class cruisers, which would easily overwhelm the old Constitution-class Enterprise (the refit in TMP was specifically to counter the new K't'ingas).
Of course, the whole thing leads into the second trilogy, featuring George Kirk's younger son, Jim...
And i will get hanged by this, by the die-hard fans (especially the last movie i've tought of)
Cochrane
First film would take a glance at pre- federation era. The moment when Zefram Cochrane already designed his first warpdrive. (After: First contact ) The movie would focus on Zefram and Earths government establishing more contact with the Vulcans, having flashbacks of his 30's, when he designed the first warpdrive. Also we get to know how Starfleet has been established, and the first mass exploration ships were build. The end of the movie will end of the abduction of Cochrane by the gas entity - The Companion.
Supremacy
Still no ship story, this is more of a starbase / diplomatic movie when the new build Federation will meet the first Klingons. It will start out with meeting eachother, first glance it will promise a long lasting friendship, and in this movie we shall see the first reason why the klingons wants war. Spies, traitors, and wrongfull diplomacy.
The end of the movie will turn out to create the first tactical ship in Starfleets history, The U.S.S Supremacy
Defects
Still pre-klingon war, the U.S.S Supremacy is send on its way to make allies, instead they find a signal from a unhabited planet. They found out there was life once. Following their new prime -directives they have to find out what made this planet unhabited. The stumble apon disabandoned technology, plans for a autonomic ship, and android capable technology for humanoids. Their science officers are trying to replicate it, ( as it might be usefull against a possible klingon war ) and find out that their technology is the reason the planet is unhabited. When they are creating the first androids they seem hostile, with some weird assimilation tubing, assimilating the entire ship. Can someone survive? The end of the movie you will see the assimilated ship heading a course to the delta quadrant. (yes human kind is responsible for the borg)
I ain't getting no nerds to come after me! You must be crazy....
I'd just make a new sequel trilogy about the Iconian War or 0 or maybe even that Temporal War that was going on during Enterprise in the future-future. Except it's not all a simulation.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
Eh, I came up with it while hopped up on 20 mugs of black tea.
I just threw together what I thought would be cool, a non-human "female" Captain because I'm beyond angry at this person who told me that "the audience needs a normal guy, a straight white guy, to identify with", and honestly I thought the Khan-being-altered thing would be the best way to deflect fanboy rage.
And the Doomsday Machine plot was honestly the first thing that popped into my head based on an Enterprise reimagining where the Mirror Universe version of Captain Hwai (the rewrite's replacement for Archer) finds one and turns it into a weapon for the Terran Empire.
So TEHO I guess. My primary concern would be making the plots internally consistent and not using the tired plot contrivances that JJ used to cover up bad writing.