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LOL back in the 90s I thought up a prequel series like Enterprise, complete with opening music, which has never been played or recorded except in my own head. It's based on the intro to the TOS theme, played over a visual sequence very similar to what they came up with - the history of past and future flight etc. My version of the intro would end with a closeup of an astronaut footprint on the moon, zooming out to show that it's at the original Apollo 11 landing site, which is preserved as a sort of museum exhibit under a clear dome, with visitors on a catwalk gawking at it. The camera pulls back to show a long covered causeway connecting the dome with a much larger moon base, with small spacecraft coming and going, then we aim out toward the stars and go into warp. One of by bucket list projects is to create this opening sequence in a computer.

In my version of the show the ship's doctor would be an older Vulcan woman with a fascination for humans. As a doctor already, she attended medical school on Earth to study humans and human behavior. She is fascinated by how illogical our illogical thinking can produce anything but chaos. She becomes a friend and sort of wise elder counsel to the captain. Their conversations give us insights into Vulcan history and culture. I forget how they handled the Vulcan mind-meld in Enterprise, but I would have had it be very mysterious or even unknown until the doctor reluctantly uses it to solve a crisis situation. The incident creates extreme mistrust among the human crew - can she read our minds, or even control us? Are we her puppets? Earning back their confidence would take multiple episodes. I think she would have been a much more interesting character than T'Pol, who to me was somewhat of a clone of Seven-of-Nine. But that's Hollywood.