With the success of Star Trek, Paramount is gearing up for another one soon. Here are our ideas for what we'd like to see in the second outing of the franchise reboot.

1. Klingons
Yep, we need some rugby-ball heads in their numerous D7 class cruisers and Birds-of-Prey, wielding their Bat'leth with one hand and a bowl of fresh qagh in the other. Maybe it's time for Kirk to knock heads with Kang, Koloth, and Kor. Personally, I'd love to see a Red October-style narrative where Kirk is forced to hunt down a rogue Klingon who wants to make peace with the Federation.

2. Transporter malfunctions
Not just the ones that turn people inside-out, but the cool variety that result in unintentional duplicates or materialising into the parallel dark universe populated with evil Kirk, Spock and Bones. Transporting people into sold objects, deep space and trapping them in the memory buffer can also be entertaining.

3. Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd
This archetypal conman (played by Roger C. Carmel, pictured) appeared twice in the original TV series, and he's fertile territory to revisit. The choices for who might play such a rich character are numerous. Jack Black has been mentioned already, but I'd like to see Bill Murray or John Lithgow (inset).

4. The Guardian of Forever
This is the mechanism that is at the centre of the City At The Edge Of Forever episode, where images of the past (and future) appear and, when you jump through the ring, you can travel to any point in time. Yes, the first movie had time travel, but it's at the heart of science fiction. As an alternative to the slingshot around the sun, this could be a more interesting option.

5. Khan Noonien Singh
The genetically-engineered warrior from the Eugenics Wars is probably Kirk's greatest nemesis, when he defrosts this sociopath when he encounters his ship, Botany Bay. Sadly, Ricardo Montalban (pictured) is no longer with us, so who would play this charming monster? That's a difficult one, although Antonio Banderas (inset) does spring to mind for some curious reason.

6. Nazis
No, seriously. A planet where the inhabitants are prohibition gangsters, or Nazis or Greek gods, or maybe all three. Or perhaps we need to move the concept along a little and find the planet of punks, or a society built on the song Stand By Your Man by Tammy Wynette, or Marvel comic characters. Or the best idea: a society built on a sixties TV series they intercepted from Earth! But which one?

7. The Tholians
The Enterprise is a powerful ship, but an encounter with these crystalline creatures could seriously damage it. Not only do they make cute dolphin-like sounds, but their ‘web' technology is ripe for some cool visuals. Bring on the two-armed, six-legged foes and let them taste the anguish of a full photon spread.

8. Anti-matter implosions
I loved the first movie but Warp 4? Please! We need more power, more acceleration and a top speed in excess of Warp 7. We want controlled anti-matter implosions, where the Enterprise takes off like the devil was behind it, and associated high warp side-effects. Inertial dampers go offline and everyone is squashed thinner than a Chinese pancake. I feel the need, the need for speed!

9. Pon farr
On the face of it, the sexual urges of Vulcans might not sound wonderful, but in TOS it once caused Spock to kill Kirk (or at least try). If the associated finger rubbing isn't attractive, then possibly some ritual violence and self-mutilation might be the end result of these mood-modifying cycles.

10. Talos IV
At the end of Star Trek we see Captain Pike in a wheelchair, something we know he could become be in permanently. He needs to go the Talos IV, find the woman of his dreams and the mind-messing Talosians. It's a primitive urge to include them, but one I can't resist.

See also:

• How Star Trek re-conquered the world
• The 8 biggest problems with J.J. Abrams' Star Trek
• Top 10 Star Trek scores
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