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Points of Divergence : Star Trek
The Star Trek universe has captured the imagination of the world for nearly half a century now. This page details various PODs and alternate paths that the assorted ST shows and films could have taken - whether “behind the scenes”, or in their in-universe narratives.
Production PODs
WI Star Trek hadn't been created at all ?
WI: First Star Trek pilot picked up
WI the BBC had made Star Trek in the 1960s ?
WI Star Trek made by British commercial TV ?
What cultural repercussions if they had cast lieutenant Uhura as a white woman ?
Plausibility check: WI a Star Trek like show had been made in Apartheid South Africa ?
WI Star Trek gets five seasons
WI Star Trek II without Khan ?
ST WI: Gene Roddenberry lives longer
Challenge: Perpetual (or nearly perpetual) Star Trek
WI: No back-to-back Star Trek ?
A British Star Trek spinoff show in the 1990s
Challenge: Make Star Trek Voyager a good series
Challenge: Make Star Trek Voyager worse
WI Star Trek: Voyager was cancelled early ?
Challenge: Improve Star Trek: Voyager
WI: Enterprise had season four quality in season one ?
Star Trek: Enterprise - Seasons 5 to 7
WI: No Star Trek Fan Film Boom
Star Trek with more realistic technology ?
Challenge: Create a design for a "hard SF" Starfleet vessel
If you where to remake Star Trek TOS today, how would you do it ?
Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.
In-Continuity PODs
Where does the Mirror Universe come from ?
Star Trek WI: Earlier discovery of the Mirror Universe
Earth never joins the Federation
Challenge: Make the real Cold War more like the one in Star Trek
WI the USS Reliant had noticed Ceti Alpha VI's absence ?
WI: Riker in command of Voyager
Darkest Before Dawn - An alternate ST:Voyager series with Riker in command
Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.
Crossovers
Challange: Crossover episode of 60s Star Trek and 60s Batman
WI: The Enterprise D meets the alien fleet from the film Independence Day
Star Trek with the Independence Day fleet attack
ASB WI: Star Trek ISOTed into a Nazi ATL
Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.
Miscellaneous PODs
Core thread for the discussion and elaboration of alternate ST ideas and ST PODs
ST: Myriad Universes Scenarios
Plausibility check: Does the Star Trek verse stem from an alternate TL ?
Stupid things about the Star Trek universe
Star Trek canon: How would you change it ?
Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them.