10 Dream Star Trek Moments That Could Still Happen

6. Archer — The Lost Season

It has been 20 years since Star Trek: Enterprise was unceremoniously cancelled, so you can add that to the list of 'things that age you'. It has taken almost that long for the show to be appreciated for what it already was. Latter-day or at the time, the consensus is that a fifth season would actually be quite nice, thank you very much. It's true what they say, absence does make 'Faith of the Heart' grow stronger.

Plans were made. Ships were redesigned and eventually made canon. It's not too late to implement them in one form or another. Khan is getting his own audio drama. They could at least stretch to that for the founder of the Federation! The ever-hypothetical season five had some rather good ideas — from the brewings of the Earth-Romulan war to the beginnings of the Federation, via the origins of the Borg Queen. We might even have visited Denobula!

Above all else, it's more than about time for the return of Captain (or Admiral) Archer. We've not heard a peep out of him or Porthos since Riker and Troi peeped in in These Are the Voyages… There has been a lot of love recently for the OG of the NX-01, most notably in the form of a spacedock in the 32nd century.

According to unseen information written for his bio in In A Mirror, Darkly, Admiral Archer "died peacefully in his home in upstate New York in the year 2245, exactly one day after attending the christening ceremony of the first Federation Starship Enterprise, NCC-1701". Therein equally lies a great opportunity for a flashback, or several, in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, with Scott Bakula still open to a return.