Movies are great but they never allow enough time for good character development.

Thats why I liked the past methods of TV series then Movie releases for Star Trek since the TV series characters were so well developed that they didn’t have to spend any time on it in the movies.

This time around its backwards and I think the movies plot lines will suffer truncation with too much “set up” without a TV series as the starting point for the proper character development.

I absolutely do not want to see any Borg stories for a long long time.  Khan seems too easy.  I like Jay’s ideas.  Something political, for sure.

Examples: SF-device, person being duplicated. How do the people around the person react? And how does the person react? Yes, I know it’s been done in ST (Kirk and Riker both did it. I’m just trying to give an example of the kind of stuff I’m talking about.)

I enjoyed the movie.  The reboot changed enough to give us a nice blank slate to work from in so many areas.

Let’s face it, the franchise was long in the tooth before Enterprise even started.  I say throw out as much as you can and reinvent it from the ground up.  No Khan, please.  I loved WoK but that was then, and based on a backstory that would be ridiculous to try and force feed now.

When I saw Simon Pegg running around in all those pipes it took me right OUT of the movie.  I said to myself, ‘Look, it’s Simon Pegg in a brewery’.  

Suspension of disbelief?  I’ve got it in spades.  But claiming a brewery is a ‘starship engine room’ is a bridge too far.

I have basically two requests for the next movie: stay away from previously done plots and deal with the fallout from this movie. Even if they don’t have the effects of the destruction of Vulcan as a main plot point, it should still be addressed. If they don’t want to focus on the fallout from this movie, they could have the Enterprise out searching for new allies and the crew dealing with guilt for not being able to help more directly. That way you could get new plot and still acknowledge the previous movie. Plus we’d get some of the moral/ethical dilemas that we so desperately need in a Star Trek film.

The would be awesome and I’d tune in for that!

I like Jay’s ideas above – there are a lot of potential possibilities that deal with the fallout of Vulcan having been destroyed and everything else that happened in the first Star Trek.

I’m also hoping now that they’ve done the reboot and established the characters and caught everyone’s attention they’ll tone down the references to the original. All the in-jokes and over the top references are going to get old fast if they keep it up. Also I’d love it if they would do something different with the clothing of the women officers. There’s no reason why they should be in mini-skirts and sleeveless tops, while the boys are in pants and long sleeve sweaters!  I know it’s a reference to the 60′s but for it’s a bit stupid.

Oh and someone needs to start sending the writers some basic science text books now.

I second Steve’s call for the mirror universe; I’ve been hoping for a movie treatment of that parallel for a long, long time. And we know Quinto can do evil…

Khan would be… interesting. There’s no reason why the Enterprise couldn’t find the Botany Bay a couple years early in this universe.

[SPOILERS]

We know that the Federation has lost a founding member in Vulcan, that Starfleet has basically lost an entire Academy class and a half-dozen ships to Nero, and that the Klingons lost an entire fleet to the rogue Romulan. Everyone in the galaxy knows that A) there’s something called Red Matter that can make black holes, which is every bit as dangerous as the Genesis Device ever hoped to be, and B) that in a little over a century, Romulus is going to get obliterated by a supernova.

Basically, Romulus has the motive and the opportunity to finish what Nero started and take out both the Klingons and the Federation. They don’t have the luxury of waiting this out, both because someone else might develop Red Matter before they do, and because unless they have an invincible position in 129 years they’ll be at the impotent mercy of their enemies.

You could do a great non-proliferation allegory as the Enterprise has to forestall all-out war with the Romulans and Klingons and prevent anyone or everyone from getting their hands on Red Matter, possibly by kidnapping Spock (who, one assumes, can make it if his future self figured out how) or tracking down the new, presumably hidden Vulcan survivor colony where future Spock is hanging out.

You can some of those great Kirk/Spock/McCoy ethical debates about whether what the Romulans are doing is moral, whether now would be a good time for a preemptive strike against the weakened Klingons (and if such a thing is ethically defensible), if the Federation should compel future and/or present Spock to create Red Matter as a deterrent–all while enjoying some great space battles and chase scenes as the Enterprise stands alone between the entire Romulan Empire, a bloodied and enraged Klingon Empire, and all-out, galaxy-consuming war.

Just my wish list, anyway.

Keenser – I want to see lots more of Keenser. Keenser should have his own intergalactic variety show. Jar Jar Binks can be special guest star and the two celebs will become famous for their zero gee recreations of classic Rogers and Astaire tap dance routines.

The Willy Wonka water tubes in Engineering should be extended throughout the Enterprise and all crew members should use them instead of the turbolift. This has huge opportunities for theme park water slide marketing tie-ins.

Particle of the week trading cards. Yes, I’m a big fan of the particle of the week and trading cards would be ultrasquee. This could be bigger than Pokemon.