How would you have made GT ?

[Vegeta th3 4th]

Dragon Ball GT is a flawed and divisive series, but despite that, it still has a place in my heart. If you were in a position of power back in the 90s, how would you have made GT ? There are some guidelines you have to stick with:

1- It has to be set after Z, as that was Toriyama's wish.

2- It can't be more than 64 episodes + one special long.

3- The core arcs remain the same (Baby, Super #17, & Shadow Dragons).

[MasenkoHA]

Follow up on what the Boo arc teased but failed to go through with “the next generation of warriors” replace Trunks with Oob as the third person on the voyage across the universe to find the black star dragon. Expand Pan’s role so she actually becomes Super Saiyan at some point.

Actually nerf the fuck out of Goku so being a kid again reduces him to his post-Super God Water but pre-training in the Heavenly Realm with God and Popo level of power. He’s also lost the ability to become Super Saiyan. He’s still striving to become stronger but is forced to act more of a mentor to the stronger but less experienced fighters.


Give Super Saiyan 4 to Gohan who goes through a similar arc in Super of realizing he cant give up martial arts and keep his family safe.

Reveal Bra is actually as strong as is expected of a half human/Saiyan hybrid and give her and Pan a fusion “Pura”


Split the 7 Shadow Dragons so Goku, Videl, Vegeta, Pan, Goten, Gohan, 18, Bra, Oob and Trunks all get to fight them.

[Trouser]

I like GT. I think it's better than Super and especially Daima, but...

Dragon Ball hunt stays the same. I like this adventurous style. The OG trio is the best.

Trunks and Goten fuse to fight Oozaru Baby, they are putting the good fight but Baby somehow cheats and wins.

Super #17's arc has more machine-mutants so others can have a good fights.

The GT Fighters are split to fight different Shenlongs. The teams are: Trunks and Vegeta, Goten and Gohan, Goku and Oob, Pan and Bra, Yamcha with Kuririn and Tenshinhan are helping people in crisis. The #17 is back and he's fighting the Shenlongs with his sister to repent his sins from previous arc.

[Hellspawn28]

Goku gets weaker as a child rater than have his power be the same
Have Uub, Pan and Goku go into space. Maybe have Pilaf be drag into the mix as it is his fault for why this is happening. Goku having to
Fix the plot holes with the Black Star Dragon Balls
Keep the Baby saga mostly the same
Have Buu and Uub know each other before fusing.
Get rid of Super 17 and give us a new original character that both Gero & Myuu created.
Bad guys come back, but they are not killed off so easily. Give the characters a bit of a challenge to fight old foes
Cell and Freeza aren't treated as a joke
Piccolo never dies and becomes a plot device in the next arc
Dr. Myuu is killed off instead, and not Gero. Gero is the OG mad scientist and Myuu turning against him was so dumb to me
The Shadow Dragons are fought one by one with different characters
Gohan also goes Super Saiyan 4
Have one more story arc after the Shadow Dragons and before Heroes Legacy.

[JulieYBM]

I don't remember the plot of Dragon Ball GT too well because I haven't watched it in, like, twenty years? Anyway, I made a bunch of shit up to put together my version of the Hunt for the Black-Star Dragon Balls arc (twelve episodes).

Spoiler:

Black-Star Dragon Ball Arc:

Episode #1:

Pan is the primary POV character and we see the story framed through her eyes, her disappointment when she sees Gokuu again after five years and realizes that her memory of him is different from the sillier reality.

Pan's mom is busy with her martial arts school (everyone is too low level for her to have a challenge so she doesn't fit in), her dad is busy with scholar work (she finds what he studies boring), her uncle is off getting wasted in clubs with his girlfriends/boyfriends that she can't enter, and even her own peers are just lame to her. Trunks is so busy that his desk is nothing but skyscrapers of paper for him to review (he's so miserable). Even Mr. Vegeta is boring because he's retired from fighting to build car and airplane models!

Gokuu returns, arriving on the Son family's doorsteps, having been reduced to being a child due to Pilaf Shenanigans. Pan is the central thrust in jumping into action and getting the ball rolling on Blooma creating a spaceship to travel the galaxy and find the missing Dragon Balls. Gokuu is excited to go on an adventure and Trunks strenuously asserts that he is the only one who can go to make sure that the ship is piloted and taken care of well.

The episode ends with Gokuu, Pan and Trunks blasting off into space. A post-Ending credit scene is of the ship crashing on Planet Imegga.

Episode #2:

The episode begins with Trunks learning of the issue with the Black-Star Dragon Balls. Trunks wants to get away from work—running Capsule Corp is so much work because of the pressure his mom puts on him—so Trunks begins to logic himself into needing to be the one to join the grand tour mission. He’s strong! He knows how to fix the ship! He’s responsible!

Match cut from Trunks’ triumphant grin in his office to his face of utter terror as the ship crashes from space into a desert area of a planet.

While the gang go about getting their ship upright and in working condition again, a small robot appears and eats the Dragon Radar. Trunks rolls his eyes and says that he'll just make a new one, but Pan recklessly chases after the robot through the desert. Trunks asks Gokuu if he should not be chasing after his granddaughter, but Gokuu shrugs, saying that Pan's a big girl now, before Trunks counters with whether or not Gokuu can be sure that he won't regret his decision if his son's daughter winds up hurt or dead. Annoyed that Trunks kind of has a point, Gokuu takes off after Pan and the robot.

Eventually, the three arrive at a city that is under the rule of a greedy capitalist named Don Kia, who uses his wealth to buy off the cops. Pan and Gokuu spring into action to save a man from being arrested for being unable to pay his taxes. As a result of doing the right thing, Gokuu and Pan become wanted criminals. The robot that ate the Dragon Radar witnessed their actions, though, and decides to follow the two as Pan decides to give the greedy Don Kia a piece of her mind.

Pan and Gokuu confront the greedy shitbag who is making life so miserable for the people of the planet. Said capitalist sics his three hired mercenaries on the duo: Redict and his two partners, Shila and Gel. Gokuu fights Redict, using his Nyoui-bou against Redict and his own staff, while Pan fights the other two. Gokuu unleashes his ki to a higher level, but finds that—just as we see in a flashback to before they left Earth—Gokuu's small body struggles to properly channel his full power.

Pan's impertinent attitude leads to her getting her ass kicked by Shila and Gel.

Gokuu and Pan are captured and sent to a penal colony in the desert.

Episode #3:

Trunks fantasizes about all the hot alien women and men he can meet on the trip but is awoken by the small robot from earlier, displaying to the audience that Trunks got sidetracked before finishing the ship repairs. The robot informs Trunks of his friends’ capture and leads Trunks into town.

Meanwhile, Gokuu and Pan are too weak from their injuries and lack of food to escape the work prison that they're stuck in. Gokuu complains about the desert heat, only for Pan to tell him to stop being a baby—then proceeds to complain about the desert heat herself and her lack of sunscreen.

Trunks investigates and learns from the same crowd that witnessed Gokuu and Pan's heroics the previous day that if his friends are still alive, they're probably in the open-air work prison. The small robot finds a terminal in the city and accesses it ala R2D2, hacking in and finding the location of Gokuu and Pan. Trunks and the robot immediately take off for the prison.

Meanwhile, Pan protects an exhausted worker from being punished for falling behind. Infuriated by how ‘wealthy makes right’ on this planet, Pan's ki reserves spike up and she breaks free from her shackles and begins attacking the prison guards. Gokuu, who has been carefully meditating to regather and focus his ki while working, snaps into action to support Pan.

Redict, Shila and Gel are ordered to go to the prison to restore order. Redict takes Gokuu's staff—which his employer had taken as a trophy—with him. At the prison, Redict returns Gokuu's staff to him for a rematch. This upsets Don Kia, who screams at his monitor that he isn’t paying Redict for a sports match or whatever.

Trunks has his little robot friend hack into the prison to undo the shackles and free the prisoners as a distraction. Trunks then helps Pan fight Shila and Gel. Pan doesn't know how not to take the lead, so Trunks plays support.

Gokuu manages to break Redict's staff with his own, but when the fight switches over to pure power and speed, Gokuu realizes that being unable to exude his ki properly means he can't handle Redict alone. Pan and Trunks join in, with Trunks transforming into a Super Saiyan. Gokuu is frustrated that he needs help, but Trunks—finally getting a chance to unleash his pent up stress—transforms into Super Saiyan 2 and the three combined warriors manage to knock Redict onto his back. Redict picks himself up, but Pan asks why he's fighting for a guy like Don Kia. Redict says that it's for the money, so Pan turns to the little robot and takes him aside while Trunks and Gokuu hold him back.

Pan and the robot fly off.

Gokuu expresses his frustration, saying that he wishes that he could fight Redict with his full power. Redict reveals that he has not had a true challenge in thousands of years, and if he wasn't being paid to, he'd just postpone their battle. Suddenly, Pan returns with a receipt and hands it to Redict. Raising an eyebrow, Redict checks his bank account and finds that all of his employer's funds have been transferred to his name. Laughing at the girl's simple solution, Redict ends the battle and leaves the planet with his partners.

Later, Pan and the others confront the capitalist shitbag, who realizes that he can now no longer afford his own security teams. Don Kia is overthrown and peace is restored to the planet.

The old man from the previous episode thanks Pan by…giving her the Seven-Star Black-Star Dragon Ball?! With their first Dragon Ball acquired, the gang flies off for their next planet.

Episode #4:

Pan is riding high off of the successful acquisition of the first Black-Star Dragon Ball. We pick up in the middle of the action as Pan runs from a pack of giants, having made off with their Five-Star Black-Star Dragon Ball. Pan slips up and nearly gets caught, but is rescued by Trunks and Gokuu, and the Grand Tourists make it back to their ship and off the planet.

As the ship travels through space, Trunks scolds Pan for running off with Giru—the small robot that ate the Dragon Radar and can now act as such—on her own. Pan's confident that she can look out for herself, but Trunks—who appreciates Giru as a sentient being who he befriended during the last mission—is none too pleased by the idea of Pan getting the little guy smashed to bits.

Fed up with the scolding, Pan sneaks off to investigate an asteroid field where the third Black-Star Dragon Ball is said to be all on her own—even without Giru! Donning a space suit, Pan exits the ship while the others are sleeping, but is followed in secret by Giru.

Pan has some close calls with asteroids, but eventually finds a large one that has been carved into a space station of sorts. Pan sneaks on and into the airlock, where she—and her sneaky robot tail—begin to investigate. Pan soon learns that she is at an outpost for a company from the Freeza Force, which was toppled long ago. The remnants attack and manage to damage the sleeve of Pan’s space suit, thanks to her carelessness. Pan is captured and held hostage by threatening to disengage the airlocks, which will kill Pan thanks to her damaged space suit.

Giru surprises everyone by tossing a roll of tape at Pan and then distracts the Freeza Force soldiers while Pan fixes her suit. Giru also damages the Freeza Force soldiers’ space suits. Patched up, Pan tries to save Giru, but is shocked when he gets blasted trying to disable the airlock. Caught up in sorrow, Pan freezes up.

Gokuu and Trunks appear and dispatch the soldiers, steal the Three-Star Black Star Dragon Ball they had previously found, and escape back to their ship.

Trunks manages to repair Giru, but the episode ends with Pan sullen and shocked by her hubris.

Episode #5:

The episode begins in media res with Trunks—undercover as a sexy girl—questioning another sexy woman at a bar about the location of the next Black-Star Dragon Ball. Gokuu—hiding on the other side of the bar with Giru—asks the little robot if he still can't detect the Dragon Ball, but Giru explains that whatever is going on, something is masking the precise location of the Dragon Ball.

Trunks learns from the woman that if anyone has such a treasure, it would be Dolltakki, the local highroller, an inventor who likes to spread a lot of money around the clubs/casinos once a week, like he’s no doubt doing somewhere in the city tonight. Trunks thanks the woman and tries to leave, but learns that she requires payment for her services. Trunks passes the info along to Gokuu and Giru, and then happily follows the woman back to her hotel room to pay her fee.

Meanwhile, back on the ship: a depressed Pan lays in bed in the dark, replaying the moment that Giru was blasted nearly in half in her mind. A close-up view of Giru's circuits burnt and sparking especially haunts her, so she pulls the covers over her head and shuts her eyes even harder.

Elsewhere, Gokuu and Giru sneak into Dolltakki's skyscraper to find his penthouse on the top floor. Gokuu complains to Giru that he hates all of the sneaking around he has to do now, and Giru shares his frustration: Giru is uncharacteristically livid due to his inability to precisely locate the Dragon Ball like he is supposed to be able to.

Finally, Gokuu and Giru reach the top floor via the elevator—overridden by Giru—and are shocked to find an entire floor filled with plastic model kits and figures! Gokuu accidentally breaks some of the figures while looking around while Giru scans his data banks for possible origins of these figures, only to come up blank yet again.

Finally, Gokuu finds the Six-Star Black-Star Dragon Ball on a pedestal and retrieves it. It turns out that the security system in this building can block the energy signature that the Black-Star Dragon Balls give off! Still, Gokuu wonders where exactly the owner of all this stuff is, but before he can ruminate on it, the toys and figures begin to come to life and grow in size to attack him and Giru!

Meanwhile, an exhausted and panting Trunks exits a hotel room, debt clearly paid. Going down stairs to the bar for a drink, Trunks overhears two Otaku talking about how they can't believe that Dolltakki ditched them to go hunt a new score down—he was supposed to introduce them to some cute new girls! Trunks recognizes that they're talking about the man who might have the Black-Star Dragon Ball on this planet, but is then distracted when he senses Gokuu's ki flare up. Downing his drink, Trunks takes off quickly, while the two Otaku opine about how ‘that ship’ better be worth it.

Gokuu and Giru fend off the collection of toys that have come to life to kill them. Trunks arrives on the scene and manages to blast several of them to pieces, but finds just as Gokuu has that this collection is stronger than they look. Still, with the Black-Star Dragon Ball in hand, the trio escape and head back to their ship.

Meanwhile, Pan wakes up from her sleep and decides to get some fresh, nighttime air by going outside, but finds that the world outside is bigger than she expected! Heck, she even wonders if they landed on another planet for giants! A mysterious, giant man looms over Pan and peers down on her, happy to have both a new spaceship model and a figure for his collection. Blasted by a beam of energy from Dolltakki's wrist gauntlet, Pan is transformed into a Crane King-esque prize figure and the episode ends on a cliffhanger.

Episode #6:

Gokuu and friends return to the location that they left the ship, inside of a parking garage, only to find it gone. Giru can faintly track the signal of the Dragon Balls left on the ship and leads Gokuu and Trunks to them.

Meanwhile, Dolltakki returns to his penthouse to find that it's been raided and much of his prized collection destroyed. Furious, Dolltakki puts his new possessions on display and heads off for somewhere else.

Pan, struggling to make her body move, tries calling out for help. After her cries call of deaf ears, another girl figure finally replies and explains that Dolltakki has turned them all into his figures, and they must follow his commands that he imbeds in them. Pan is freaked out by the potential of that and struggles to raise her ki, so as to get Gokuu and Trunks’ attention. Still depressed by her screw up with Giru, Pan struggles to mold her steadily fading ki and consciousness.

Later, Giru leads the boys back to the penthouse, the last known place he could trace their other Black-Star Dragon Balls. Gokuu and Trunks look around, confused but suspecting that Pan might be around somewhere. Gokuu finally spots a figure that looks like Pan and realizes that he can faintly sense her ki coming from it. Trunks, meanwhile, spots the ship.

Dolltakki returns with other figures brought to life to help clean up the mess that was made, and is enraged to find the culprits from earlier. Dolltakki activities all of his figures from throughout his entire skyscraper to attack Gokuu and the others. With Pan's figure in hand, Giru escapes the warzone to find a way to restore her to her proper form while Dolltakki gives chase.

Finally, Giru tracks down a laboratory on one of the lower floors, where Dolltakki has his many inventions. Giru tries to find a way to restore Pan, but Pan tells him that it's no use and she's also no good.

Other figures that have yet to get the full programming treatment lay about the lab and weakly call out to Pan, telling her to have her friends save them. Pan realizes that if the others haven't given up yet, perhaps she should not either and begins to try to use her ki again while Dolltakki tries to swat at Giru. Pulling herself together and realizing that Gokuu and Trunks might not be able to save them, Pan calls out to the other figures to all push together and in a single moment of their spirits being on the same wavelength and boosted by Pan's incredible ki reserves, all of the figures manage to flush out the energy that turned them into dolls and figures and are restored to their original forms.

Pan, her spirit strengthened, achieves Super Saiyan for the first time and pounds Dolltakki up-and-down and throughout his skyscraper. Fed up with it all, Dolltakki summons a figure of a giant robo and restores it to its original size so that he can pilot it. Gokuu, Super Saiyan Trunks and Super Saiyan Pan battle the giant robo and eventually defeat it.

Dolltakki is arrested by the local authorities for his giant robo causing property damage and for kidnapping so many hundreds of people and property.

The episode wraps up with Pan apologizing to Giru for not appreciating him as a fellow Grand Tourist and friend. Giru accepts.

Later, Trunks takes the others back to that queer hotel's restaurant for a big ol’ meal. Pan asks how they're going to pay for this, only for the woman from earlier to reappear and look knowingly at Trunks.

Episode #7:

Weeks later, Gokuu trains Pan on how to more smoothly transform into a Super Saiyan and use the form as her natural state while Trunks and Giru watch. Trunks mentions to Giru that hopefully this will teach Pan not to be so irresponsible, but Giru replies matter-of-factly that Trunks can’t maintain Super Saiyan as his normal state, so does that make him irresponsible? Trunks gives Giru the side-eye.

Back on Earth, eleven months have passed since the Grand Tourists left Earth to find the Black-Star Dragon Balls. Videl leaves her martial arts class with her father to finally enjoy her first vacation in years, and slips away to tempt her husband away from his studies for some fun.

At Capsule Corp, Vegeta is painstakingly trying to paint in the small details on a model airplane. A mysterious figure attacks Vegeta.

In the city, Son Goten is on a date with his girlfriend, Palace. Their date is interrupted by a mysterious figure attacking Goten.

Back at the Son family home, Videl approaches Gohan, but finds him acting strangely. Gohan attacks Videl.

Out in the wilderness, Piccolo is meditating, but suddenly he is attacked by three figures: Gohan, Goten and Vegeta. Unsure of what is happening, Piccolo tries to defend himself, but is ultimately killed by a Kamehame-Ha from Gohan.

Back in space, Pan—trying to maintain Super Saiyan as her natural form—struggles to free the Two-Star Black-Star Dragon Ball from a giant centipede. Pan calms her mind, remembering the shame she felt for how she nearly got Giru destroyed, and finally manages to stabilize Super Saiyan and steal the Dragon Ball from the centipede.

Back on the ship, the gang celebrates that the only Black-Star Dragon Ball that they have to acquire is the Four-Star Black-Star. Suddenly, Giru detects the location of said Dragon Ball and Trunks immediately inputs the coordinates and the ship flies off in a new direction.

In a post-credit scene, Dr. Mu and General Rilld watch a monitor displaying the approach of the Grand Tourists from Earth.

Episode #8:

The episode opens in media res: the Grand Tourists are surrounded by a squad of M2 soldiers led by the four members of the Mega Cannon Sigma. Super Saiyan Pan tells Giru to get behind her for his own safety, but Giru floats over to the Mega Cannon Sigma and joins them by their side: he's been an undercover agent this whole time!

Trunks and Gokuu leap into action while Pan is stunned by the betrayal. Overwhelmed, Trunks and Gokuu are injured and captured, while Pan runs away.

Dr. Mu studies Trunks and Gokuu, seeking to learn how they are so powerful compared to the Saiyans he once knew.

Meanwhile, Pan hides somewhere on M2 and is found by Giru. The plan was a success! A flashback shows Giru coming clean to his friends about his role as a spy for General Rilld after the battle with Dolltakki. Together, the four devise a plan to infiltrate M2 and liberate its people from the oppressive General Rilld, who took power of the planet after the genius inventor Dr. Mu bolstered his power with upgrades. Gokuu isn’t a fan of not fighting head-on, though.

Back in the present, with Trunks and Gokuu being studied by Dr. Mu in his lab, the two stop playing possum and break free on their confinements. Trunks questions Dr. Mu on what the hell he was trying to study them for, while Gokuu flies off to battle General Rilld head-on after their escape triggers alarms throughout the compound. Mu reveals to Trunks that he seeks revenge on the Saiyans for destroying his people, the Tsufruians. Trunks realizes that Mu is of the same people that his grandfather committed a genocide of to take Planet Vegeta for the Saiyans. Mu reveals that he knows that Trunks has the blood of a Saiyan royal, likely that of Vegeta IV.

Elsewhere, Gokuu meets up with General Rilld and stares him down. The two begin fighting, but Gokuu can only access a level of ki that matches that of where he was fifteen years prior, during the battle with Majin Buu, and even that is taxing his small body. Pan appears with Giru and begins helping Gokuu fight General Rilld, but when Rilld combines with the Mega Cannon Sigma, the two are outmatched.

Trunks—sensing that his friends are in trouble—allows Mu to escape so as to go and help them. Together, the three Saiyans manage to destroy the Mega Cannon Sigma, but Rilld absorbs metal from the planet itself to achieve a new and even more powerful form. Trunks asks Gokuu and Pan to hold off Rilld for a moment while he tries to prepare a last-ditch move: achieving Super Saiyan 3 without fusion.

Episode #9:

A flashback shows Trunks and Goten defusing after training in the Room of Spirit & Time for their battle against Majin Buu. Trunks cockily tries to use Super Saiyan 3 by himself, but realizes that it just hurts to do it on his own. Goten finds this true for himself, too, but manages to at least get some hair growth out of his attempt, so Trunks makes up an excuse and says that he’s just making sure not to push his body too hard.

Back in the present, Trunks says that there’s no excuses this time, and pushes his body to use Super Saiyan 3, just as he remembers achieving it while fused with Goten all those years ago. After a bit of struggle and seeing his friends being beaten wildly, Trunks manages to access Super Saiyan 3 and rejoins the fight with Rilld. Together, the three Saiyans blast Rilld into oblivion.

With Doctor Mu having escaped M2 and Rilld and his Mega Cannon Sigma no longer a threat, the people elect Giru as their new leader for his role in freeing the planet. Giru turns to Pan and his friends and is conflicted. Pan isn’t ready to part ways, but Giru promises that they will meet again someday, and Pan promises to hold him to it. With all seven Black-Star Dragon Balls now in tow, the Grand Tourists make their way back home, with three months to spare.

Back on Earth, the Grand Tourists return to Earth and the negative energy threatening to destroy the planet in a month fully dissipates upon the Dragon Balls re-entering the atmosphere. Gokuu and friends land their ship at Capsule Corp. Gokuu flies the Black-Star Dragon Balls back to the Heavenly Realm while Pan returns home and Trunks heads to fight his mother and report back from space.

Pan returns home to the nightmare of Gohan, Videl, Goten and Chi-Chi all attacking her. Trunks is similarly ambushed by his parents and sister attacking him. When Gokuu approaches Dende and Popo atop the Heavenly Realm, he is similarly attacked and treated with hostility. The three Grand Tourists meet up with one another again, this time encircled by their family members. Not wanting to fight too hard, the triumvirate takes more damage than they need to, but are eventually saved by two faces they don’t expect: Artificial Humans #17 and #18?! The siblings explain that they’re the only ones who have been able to resist being possessed by whoever is infecting everyone else on Earth.

Doctor Mu appears and reveals that he is the one behind the infection now infecting everyone on Earth: his Baby Virus is made up of cells from a failed creation of his, Baby, which he can use to transform everyone on Earth into a ‘superior Tsufruian’.

Vegeta, Gohan, Goten and Bra power up massive ki blasts to kill Gokuu, Trunks, and Pan. Artificial Human #17 and #18 protect the trio with their barrier techniques, but it causes quite a bit of damage to them, knocking them unconscious. Knowing that he has one trick left up his sleeve, Gokuu tears the backpack holding the Black-Star Dragon Balls up and summons the Red Shen Long, much to the shock and confusion of everyone around.

Episode #10:

Gokuu wishes for everyone on the Earth to be freed from their infections, but Red Shen Long can only expel the infectious Baby cells, not destroy them, which is fine with Gokuu. The strain of the Baby cells being forced from their bodies forces Vegeta and company to pass out. The Black-Star Dragon Balls spread back across the galaxy, once again only buying the Earth another year of time.

With his plans foiled, Mu creates a grabs the unconscious #17 and runs away with him as a hostage, the others too exhausted to follow.

Later, everyone awakens in a somber mood. Son Gohan is devastated to remember that he killed Piccolo, but a Piccolo—with help from the North Kaiou—tells Gohan not to sweat it. Piccolo says that he’s cheated death enough times now and that as a father himself now, Gohan no longer needs a mentor to guide him. Gohan has himself a good cry and bids Piccolo farewell, until he himself dies.

A week later, Gokuu, Trunks and Pan set off for another Grand Tour, while Artificial Human #18, Kuririn, and Gohan team up on another ship to track down the whereabouts of Doctor Mu and the captured Artificial Human #17.

Episode #11:

Pan celebrates her tenth birthday by acquiring the seventh of the Black-Star Dragon Balls by winning it from a forest where everything is a giant crane game. With all seven Black-Star Dragon Balls once again brought together, the Grand Tourists set course back to Earth, with a month of time left until the planet explodes. The mood on the ship is still sombre, still a little too quiet without Giru there to boop and beep while the three Saiyans annoy the hell out of one another.

The GT triumvirate land back on Earth with a week to spare and thankfully save the planet yet again from exploding.

Gohan, Kuririn and #18 have yet to return from their mission to rescue Artificial Human #17, which worries Pan. Pan wants to set off immediately to join up with her father’s group, but there hasn’t been any contact with Team Gohan for three months and even then, contact was rare because of how deep into space they have ventured.

Gokuu wishes that he could teleport to the Afterlife so that he could just use that as a starting point to try and track Gohan and Kuririn’s ki, but alas, as much as he has gotten used to his child body over the past two years, he still cannot use his teleportation technique.

Gokuu recalls how Shen Long and Polunga were used to teleport the people on Namek back to Earth long ago, so surely they could try doing the same for Gohan and the others. Pan and everyone else hunt down the Earth’s Dragon Balls and summon Shen Long. Shen Long states that he cannot summon Gohan and the others back to Earth because they are no longer alive, shocking everyone.

Episode #12:

Pan asks Shen Long to revive her father and the others, but Shen Long mentions that he cannot restore them to life. When asked why, a dark blue and black smoke leaks from the Dragon Balls and forms into a cigar-chomping dragon that kills Shen Long, shocking everyone. The Evil Shen Long chastises the Earthlings for abusing the Dragon Balls and says that all of the minus energy built up in them in response to their use over the decades since “that stupid panty wish” has created him. If the Earthlings want to use the Dragon Balls again, they will have to destroy his seven children: dragons that will cause havoc across the planet and the universe so as to feed on the resulting minus energy.

The cigar-chomping Shen Long disappears and the Dragon Balls once again spread across the Earth.

Pan dries her tears and grabs the Dragon Radar from Trunks’ hands and flies off in search of the Dragon Balls. Gokuu—in a rare sullen mood—follows after Pan. Trunks and Blooma set about making another Dragon Radar, while Vegeta grabs Goten and drags him to the gravity room to warm up their bodies. Goten asks why Vegeta’s going to fight if he retired years ago, but Vegeta questions back why Goten has calluses on his hands now that he didn’t have a year ago when Baby possessed them.

Elsewhere, Pan and Gokuu arrive at a village being destroyed by an Evil Dragon powered by the Two-Star Dragon Ball, which is embedded in his body.

To Be Continued?

[Koitsukai]

Just minor tweaks like:

- Goku actually gets weaker and not just in relation to himself. Weaker compared to others and stops being the winning card. He did get weaker, but was so OP that even his child base form was still above his children as SS and fighting together. Pointless, really.

- I'm really fond of the Team, so I wouldn't want to change it, even though I like Uub and he should've gotten more screen. I feel having Uub as the fail-safe on Earth works ok, too bad he entered the arena on Planet Tsufuru, on the second half of the second leg!

- Redjic comes back. I never understood why he was just a one-episode friend. He sure was no weakling. He could've come back to help Goku vs Ruudo or vs Rildo. I don't even remember if he helped with the Universal Genki Dama.

- Pan unlocks SS or a potential unleashed form like her father. Or both. SS on M2, and Ultimate vs Vegeta Baby on Tsufuru-sei.

- Bra comes back to help Vegeta when Goten joins to help Gohan. Bra vs Goten would definitely be a cool fight.

- Uub is there to welcome Goku back, and they all fight Gohan, Goten, and when they succeed, Vegeta Baby and his children arrive and end the whole thing. Every hybrid vs Uub.
Uub is left for dead, he gets sent flying or something, and Kibitoshin saves Goku from certain death.

- The Super 17 arc brings back Baby but as a parasite. After the earthlings were cleansed, he no longer can inhabit them, so he must fight with his own powers. Vegeta takes revenge. Nappa's reunion with Vegeta is more than just "bye".
Raditz could fight Bra who is also a key part of the resistance.

- Goku doesn't suffer brain damage and Alzheimer's at the same time as he is fighting Super 17. He has the advantage throughout the fight but can't finish him off because the dude absorbs his ki blasts, and slowly the fight goes the android's way.

- 18 isn't so abusive to Krilin, please. Why was that even a thing?

- Pan isn't so abusive to Giru. Impossible to care for a character that bullies her Tamagotchi.

- Shadow Dragons arc. Some dragons are less passive and go after our boys, to make sure is not just Goku taking care of every single villain. Vegeta and Bra could hold Capsule corp. Gohan and Goten go help some rural areas. Majuub other parts of the globe. Vegeta too, with the aid of Bulma so he can turn SS4. And the original trio of astronauts lead the quest.
One or two silly dragons are ok, but 4 is too much, that's more than half.


-Uncertain about giving Goku his adult body back for the final arc. The excuse could be the negative energy released to the world.
-Uncertain about Piccolo dying. It was a big moment and it set precedent that people are dying for good, now. However, the excuse was flimsy.

[Zephyr]

Goku isn't turned into a kid. Oob is more central to the story, has a personality more resembling Goku (goofy kid whose love of fighting charms even deadly enemies), and is also brought into space to help retrieve the Dragon Balls; his training is not done yet. Pan becomes a Super Saiyan while out in space. Since I am not a coward, Vegeta's initial character design is never "fixed". Bra's can be, though.

There is no new set of Dragon Balls whose existence is extremely cumbersome to justify. Instead, the normal regular Dragon Balls fly off into space and leave delayed destructive energy behind, which Dende surmises to be a natural, but unintended, side-effect of having been upgraded so many times. Bulma detects this energy, realizes what it will do and when, and discerns that the particular radiation from the Dragon Balls (that allow them to be detectable by her radar) will neutralize this energy. Hence the Grand Touring that happens.

I would more fully merge the Super 17 and Evil Dragons arcs. Turns out, the Dragon Balls are eggs. They have incubated enough wish energy that Star Dragons hatch from them; these actually look like dragons. Having been tainted by humanity's evil (as God once was), the Star Dragons are malicious. In a twisted inversion of the most common use of the Dragon Balls, the evil dead are returned to life as the Star Dragons' servants and soldiers. Instead of killing Nappa, Vegeta tries to make amends; maybe he succeeds and Nappa sticks around idk.

Despite being corrupted by humanity's evil, the Four Star Dragon still has the pride and honor of a warrior, due to incubating around the Son family for so long. He is further changed due to the rapport he develops while fighting Oob. He survives the arc, and is next in the revolving door of face-turn antagonists. He'll be a mainstay at Bulma's cookouts soon enough.

After at least one timeskip, Oob eventually defeats a greying Goku in a match, and graduates from Son University. Goku looks forward to fighting him again some day. The End.

[Jack Bz]

More important than anything else: it has to actually have good fighting choreography. There's probably about 3 minutes of good fight scene footage collectively in the whole show, and they're in more obscure fights like Goku vs Ledgic

[JulieYBM]

More important than anything else: it has to actually have good fighting choreography. There's probably about 3 minutes of good fight scene footage collectively in the whole show, and they're in more obscure fights like Goku vs Ledgic

While I always want directors and animators to be given the creative freedom to create awesome battle scenes, I think the notion that that is somehow even more important than a plot and set of character arcs that are compelling to follow is rather overstated.

[Hellspawn28]

Have Goku become an adult again after Baby is another thing that I would have done.

[JulieYBM]

I think doing a seven year timeskip after the Baby arc and showing Gokuu regrow up alongside Pan would be an interesting idea.

[Alruneia]

So... First off, I don't think it's necessary to make the Black Star Dragon Balls blow up the Earth. The fact that they're powerful enough to turn Goku into a kid against his will should be incentive enough for Goku and co. to go get them, to keep them out of any would-be supervillain's hands. That way you don't have the "but Earth will blow up though" thought that sours the mood during the wacky space adventures or whatever.

I had a little (big) think about Baby a couple of weeks ago and came up with a bit of an alternate take. I guess I can put that here. Warning, long.

Spoiler:

I didn't really think about ALL the space adventures, but something I came up with is that I'd have one of them replaced with a pretty big tonal shift where a planet-devouring ancient villain would appear. I'll call him Pep for now. He's not necessarily a Moro character who actively eats energy and ends worlds, but someone who just... sees planets as fruit on a tree and goes to pick and eat one whenever he's feeling peckish, I guess. Importantly, this villain would be established as the reason why the saiyans had to invade Planet Plant (that's the name in GT, right? Planet Soon-To-Be-Vegeta anyway). During heavy saiyan in-fighting, he just swooped in. During this, the Original Legendary Super Saiyan appeared. He fought like a maniac, completely without control, but somehow managed to ensure that some refugees could escape, giving birth to that legend. He destroyed himself in the process and he didn't defeat Pep. Back in the present, Goku and co. would have to desperately save the Black Star Dragon Ball on this planet and try to fend off Pep. Goku, Trunks and Pan would all work together at first, but it wouldn't be enough. Goku would then try to take it from there by powering up, using Super Saiyan 2 for all its worth. He would try to use Super Saiyan 3 too, but he wouldn't be able to due to being a kid and lacking a tail, same as the real GT. Even still, this would not be enough, Pep would win the fight and the planet would be destroyed, consumed. Trunks and Pan would only barely manage to grab an exhausted and battered Goku and escape in time. Importantly, Pep's lines during the fight, based on his previous match with that ancient Super Saiyan, would unintentionally give Goku some pointers on what to work on, because he's "nothing like the last saiyan", he's small and tail-less and not monkey-like at all. This is meant as foreshadowing for that "Golden Great Ape" form. (Also, if you feel like something smells like Broly here, you're right.) I think this whole story would take place right before all the M2 stuff, probably.

So, onto Baby. In a different "draft" I replaced Baby with an equivalent named Calpie who was a girl, but never mind that this time. I'd like to heavily change Baby's character and progression. This version of Baby would see himself as a hero through and through, on a righteous crusade to avenge the tuffles by killing the saiyans. He's revolted by saiyans, he's allergic to them. The start of his "career" would be more or less the same, other than Dr. Myuu getting killed entirely by accident, not because Baby did something on purpose. Baby's secondary objective would be to improve himself, and he would still possess people to achieve that, but he would see it as a necessary evil and make sure not to inconvenience the hosts if at all possible. He would wipe their memories of being possessed, too. This version of Baby would have five "stages" of growth, starting at Stage 1 and growing (older, bigger and stronger) by unlocking new kinds of power. When meeting Goku and co. for the first time, which would still be through that hospital boy thing, he would immediately go for the kill, having grown to Stage 2. Of course, he would fail miserably. He would also not attempt to possess Trunks at all. Instead, he would leave the hospital boy's body for a final attack and then fake his death when hit by a Kamehameha from Goku. After this, the journey would continue as normal for a little while, but every so often there'd be scenes of characters acting a little strange, in a way the viewer would notice even if Goku and co. don't. It would all be characters temporarily possessed by Baby while he spies on Goku and co., learning everything he can about them, and everything he can get from where he is and "who" he is at the time.

After learning what he would deem to be enough, Baby would head off to use some of his new knowledge. Knowing he needs to seek new sources of power, he would recall Goku and/or Trunks talking about fusion and seek out Planet Metamor, which he would actually find and reach. Once there, he would ask to be shown the fighting fusion, and two inhabitants would agree, figuring why not. Baby would then possess the fusion and learn "Fusion Power", pushing him to Stage 3. The fusion would also end during this learning and growing process, and just like that, Baby would learn how to split himself into pieces and possess multiple people at once. After setting the two Metamorans free and wiping their memories, Baby would decide to head to Earth to test a theory - "Spirit Power", based on Goku's Spirit Bomb. He would figure that Goku and co., would head back to Earth only when all 7 Black Star Dragon Balls were found, meaning he'd get there first.

On Earth, Baby would begin to mass-possess humans. Nothing out of the ordinary would happen at first. Human Z-Fighters are included. However, Namekians are immune, and so are Mr. Popo and Korin. Korin in particular would have that fancy water, after all. Also not included would be the saiyans that are hanging out on Earth. There'd be a little moment in here where everything goes wrong as Bulla is out shopping but suddenly the whole world hates her and wants her dead. Not that she couldn't beat everyone up, but she wouldn't be a combatant here and would be overwhelmed in the moment. Vegeta would swoop in and save her, though. The commotion would continue to increase as the human Z-Fighters, including Uub, would also appear as enemies, leading to an awkward and tough "come on I don't want to hurt you" battle. Gohan, Goten and Piccolo would show up as well. And, of course, Baby. Baby would show up, still in Stage 3, and see red the moment he spotted Vegeta, leading to a pretty intense battle. SS2 Vegeta vs Stage 3 Baby. Due to who it is, Vegeta would demand that Gohan, Goten and Piccolo do not interfere. Eventually, SS2 Vegeta would start winning, which would lead to Baby pulling out his bootleg Spirit Bomb idea. He would drain all the humans on the planet of their spirit energy, which would make the human Z-Fighters faint and end that part of the battle by the way, and then he would consume that Spirit Bomb to push himself into Stage 4. (A little bit like Goku in the Super Android 13 movie.)

Next up, SS2 Vegeta vs Stage 4 Baby. Vegeta would have no chance. Gohan and Piccolo would try to step in, but it wouldn't make much of a difference. What would help, though, is that Goku and co. would arrive. There's a bit of a hole in my story here, I'll admit, but Goku would have a tail now and be able to properly control Super Saiyan 3. Goku would take over in the fight, but it still wouldn't be enough, so Goku and Vegeta would work together, along with everyone else also pitching in. All of it put together would make Baby sweat enough to force a tactical retreat. Baby would be aware that Stage 5 is waiting for him, so he would desperately try to seek it out in order to win, while the saiyans plus Piccolo would now get some time to think and plan. First order of business would be to use that holy water to cure all the humans from Baby possession, and then to find some way to deal with Baby himself. Goku would say that he has an idea, but it's incredibly risky... so keep the Black Star Dragon Balls ready just in case. (Baby would want to use them to bring back Planet Plant in its pre-Planet Vegeta state along with all the tuffles, by the way.) Until then, it would be training time for everyone. Bulla would train with Pan and catch up remarkably fast, Piccolo would polish Gohan's fighting prowess, and Goten and Trunks would polish their fusion. On the human side, only Uub would really get involved, which he would do by seeking out Buu and engaging in some bizarre form of training with him. Notably, they would not fuse, not in this story arc.

Not very long at all after, under the sunset, the final battle would suddenly begin as Baby would return. Baby would return with a weapon, though, a weapon named Pep. Baby-possessed Pep, or Baby Pep, would have a truly immense and evil power. Goku in particular would know very well how dangerous this battle just became. Still, everyone just trained, so surely they would still be able to pull out the stops and beat Baby Pep, right? Well, they would try, and they would try hard. SS3 Goku, SS3 Gotenks, a fresh SS3 Vegeta, Ultimate Gohan, Piccolo and Uub would all engage in an intense and mostly coordinated battle with Baby Pep. One by one, they would be pummelled and defeated, and Goku doesn't get main character privilege here, he's beaten up good too. Goku would still have his idea, though. He would gather energy for a Spirit Bomb, this time with energy freely given by the people and the planet, unlike Baby's bootleg. While gathering energy, he would try to tough out Baby Pep's attacks on him, with the other major fighters doing their very best to get in the way, taking blows for him. It wouldn't be enough, however, Baby Pep would break through and get an extreme punch in on Goku, sending him crashing into the ground below, losing the Spirit Bomb, which would begin to float away up into the sky, into space, towards the moon. In a kind of delirious moment from all the damage, Goku would note that it's a new moon tonight, but the Spirit Bomb's light reflecting off it is making it look like there's a full moon anyway. You can see where this is going.

In a way, Goku's plan would now be underway, his idea was to try to go into the "Golden Great Ape" form and control it to defeat Baby with it, he had just intended to have Vegeta use his Power Ball to achieve it. Goku would not be in control, however. He would slip into Great Ape form and go Super to gain Golden Great Ape, only to go completely berserk. Someone else who would be going berserk is Baby, however, essentially having a PTSD fit from seeing Goku like this. Baby Pep would engage Goku in a blind rage fight, both sides causing serious destruction while achieving more or less nothing. During this, Baby would unwittingly slip into Stage 5, learning his final power, the power of rage. He would grow significantly stronger from this, but neither he nor Goku would even notice. Goku would in turn slip into "Golden Great Ape 2" and "Golden Great Ape 3", but all that would change overall is that the Earth would be getting destroyed even faster. In the end, it would still be Pan's intervention that would enable Goku to regain control of himself, like in the actual GT. This would be an unprecedented event, nobody would ever have been in control of themselves as any kind "Golden Great Ape" before, so what could happen now? Nobody would know. (You know, though, it leads to Super Saiyan 4.)

As he regained control, Goku would transform into a brand new form, which he would later name Super Saiyan 4 (alternatively, Ultra Ape/Ultra Monkey, 超猿 chōzaru to contrast 大猿 ōzaru). Baby Pep would snap out of his berserk mode as well, seeing as there wouldn't be any giant monkeys present anymore. The battle would start back up in earnest, with SS4 Goku taking on Baby Pep solo. It wouldn't go too great at first, but Goku would quickly learn how to use his new form and start winning. When he would finally have Baby Pep on the ropes, though, Baby would realise that Pep is the problem. In Stage 4, Pep was invaluable, but now in Stage 5, he was only holding him back - in fact, Baby went too far and spent all the energy Pep had in his body, destroying it and killing him. Baby would emerge as Pep's body turned to ash, now ready to fight with his own power, with everything he had learned, with all the power he had gained. Baby would start winning again, unhindered by normal biological processes such as running out of stamina. It would eventually become clear that Goku would need some kind of boost to win, similar to in the real GT. No such boost would be available, though, everyone's already given their energy to the Spirit Bomb from before or fought Baby directly and gotten beaten senseless...?

Up in space, by the moon, we would find Pan and Bulla, the two of them having taken the "GT spaceship" (whatever you wanna call it) up there to intercept the Spirit Bomb that was still floating away. With their combined and honed power thanks to them training together, Pan and Bulla would be able to push the Spirit Bomb back down towards Earth with their energy, and rapidly, too. This wouldn't be very coordinated, and Baby would get out of the way, while the tired Goku would get hit by the Spirit Bomb directly. Using Super Android 13 movie logic again, though, Goku's body would consume the Spirit Bomb and become empowered. Goku would now be stronger than Baby again, and with a wide margin, but his time would be short. Starting to pummel Baby, Goku would launch his opponent across the planet, away from the night and over to somewhere where it's noon, with a blitz of physical attacks. Then, with Baby essentially stunlocked, Goku would fire off a massive Kamehameha (x10 Kamehameha? "Spirit Kamehameha"?) and push Baby all the way into the sun to eradicate him. Done and dusted, arc over. That Kamehameha would have Goku spend all his power and regress through all his forms until he was in base form again, by the way, creating this kind of comet tail to the Kamehameha, and also revealing that Goku would remain permanently grown up once SS4 was unlocked. The Black Star Dragon Balls would now be used to heal the Earth, and Piccolo would be the one making the wish. Afterwards, Piccolo would kill the dragon, mirroring King Piccolo and ensuring that these dangerously powerful Dragon Balls couldn't be used ever again.

I shouldn't have typed all that up in the middle of the night, I probably made some mistakes or skipped something. Anyway, I didn't really extend the thought process into how the Super 17 and evil dragon stuff would go, but I think it'd probably end up being "AF-friendly" in some way. Pikkon would be in Hell to help Goku rather than Piccolo, and more people would be involved in the evil dragon fights beyond Goku and Pan, I guess. Something like that.

[GokuHater]

If we are bound to stick to the original story beats from the anime, let's do some mental gymnastics. I would do this the following way.

Black star saga:

As many other had said, let's not have the black star balls destroy the earth after one year. This is really just a superfluous plot point which exists only to add drama. And if we are going into a more lighhearted story with DB hunt and chibi Goku, let's make this through and through adventure and character piece, not saving the world deal.

As for who would go on the mission, I feel I would drop out Trunks (I like him but the main reason he is there is due to "adult Trunks is a famous character").
Now who would I replace him with. I have 3 picks.

1. Goten - a much needed character development for him and it would let him shine for once. Also his relationship with Pan could really be interesting. The only problem with this is losing the "stoic, intelligent" character from the trio, which I feel Goten could not fit.

2. Bulma - this would go back even more to original dragon ball hunts and we would have the "intelligent" character as well as Goku having to put up with two strong willed women. The drawback is that Bulma would not fight so we may lose much action from the saga.

3.Gohan - with Gohan we could have both action and his knowledge plus maybe an arc where Pan would have to proof her independence even more (in this version Pan IS NOT a damsel in distress but a capable but a little pampered fighter). Maybe even we could watch some dynamics in Gohan not wanting to let her daughter go trough a childhood hell like he went through only to realize Pan DOES like fighting and he has to let go a bit.

Other than that let's make the pacing of finding the Dragon Balls way way quicker. The Para Para brothers shouldn't steel the balls when our heroes hardly have any but rather when there is one to go.

And the most important, have writers that really really can emulate that legendary Toryiama charm.
This saga does not have much of drama or very memorable fights so it's strength has to be humor and character development.

I am okay with slow villain reveal, I even think it's kind of creative but once we meet Miu, the tone immediately goes to serious and suspenfull and stays like this until we return to Earth.

Baby saga:

Truthfully there's not much I would change this one gets nearly everything done. Maybe only add Uub a significance and have him be more of Goku's comrade during the fight (as Uub IS supposed to be a big deal).
Also Goku should change back into an adult after this saga.

Super Android 17 saga:

Rather thank have Super Android 17 be the main big boss and everyone else is fodder, let's make it even even between him and returning villains from hell.
All of them would not be only a one screen Easter Egg (though I agree that one shooting old villains is sometimes immensely satysfaing) but a challenge to overcome for various characters.
Let's have 18 and Goku fight 17 but at the same time have Gohan vs Cell, Vegeta vs Frieza, Kuririn vs Nappa etc
Let's go one step further and bring King Piccolo back and have him to fight our Piccolo.
We even could make a battle royale style out of it.
The saga still would be short but the problems with opening hell, the black dragon Ball stuff all could tie in into a sort of corruption with the Dragon Balls which further leads to...

Shadow Dragon Saga

The idea behind this saga is great. However the execution is flawed so let's fix it with various characters taking action and hunting the dragons down. Gohan, Goten, Pan, Trunks, maybe even Kuririn, Vegeta and Goku all would take action.

Also what would be cool to me is make every dragon somehow thematically connected to it's wish. An ice dragon or a dragon who takes your energy are good ideas but they seem disconnected from the whishes from which they were created.
Only the 4 star dragon is thematically and poetically justified.

Omega Shenron would actually rise from the wish to make Piccolo young again and had much of king Piccolo in him which could further tie into Goku having to face someone resembling THE Dragon Ball villain he struggled so much against.

[Peach]

I would start by making Uub the badass successor of Goku instead of the little bitch boy who lost to Baby.

[JulieYBM]

I would start by making Uub the badass successor of Goku instead of the little bitch boy who lost to Baby.

What about losing to Baby makes Uub a 'bitch', though? Why is Uub suddenly a woman and why is that bad?

[Hellspawn28]

When someone calls a guy a bitch, that means they view them as weak. It's so stupid.

[JulieYBM]

When someone calls a guy a bitch, that means they view them as weak. It's so stupid.

Oh, I'm aware. I'm just trying to be a little less confrontational about the pretty embarrassing use of the word 'bitch'—equating 'weak' and 'failed' men with 'women'—so as to see if I can just get people to think about how they equate all those things.

[Peach]

I would start by making Uub the badass successor of Goku instead of the little bitch boy who lost to Baby.

What about losing to Baby makes Uub a 'bitch', though? Why is Uub suddenly a woman and why is that bad?

My fantasy of Uub at the End of Z was he would be Goku's successor. I figured a seasoned Uub would be able to do everything Goku did and more. Instant transmission kamehameha, techniques up the wazoo. He would have human potential stacked on a being that took the whole universe to take down, which would make his ceiling unfathomable.

He's just a guy with the personality of a wet blanket who gets beaten like an insect. Even after combining with Buu, he's fodder to buy time for Goku to step in and beat Baby. And he never really has any meaningful growth after that. It should have been the other way around with Goku, even as Super Saiyan 4, buying time for Uub to undergo an intense merger with Buu. Or this badass pupil avenging his fallen master.

[super michael]

I guess I would have Gotenks appear in GT that would be a start. Oob would know Goku techniques, which include the Kaioken and IT.
The Saiyan would gain new transformation, which they didn't have in DBZ. Bulma can use her Blutz Wave machine to transform all the Saiyan into their Oozaru form and then gain control to turn SSJ4, which includes Pan. in DBZ Goku was able to help Gohan gain control of his Oozaru form.

Make GT longer and give other characters the chance to shine. Have Goten and Trunks fight as inviduals and fuse if they need to. Have Pan achieve SSJ forms, she should have a lot of potential seeing her parents are both smart and strong.

[Ronin]

When I first read the title, I thought that GT was so much of a mess that I wouldn't know where to begin. But after thinking about it, I think I do know where to begin....

Since we're keeping the same arcs and the same or similar premise to the arcs, I'd just change some of the major plot points to make it seem like it's a different arc. Since two of the GT arcs heavily involve something going wrong with dragon balls and since the black star arc and Baby arcs are connected, I would have merged all of the arcs in GT into one giant arc instead. Instead of black star dragon balls, I'd have the Earth dragon balls get sabotaged by Baby; who will be the main antagonist of GT. Maybe he secretly possesses Dende and has him change the way the dragon balls function. The wish that turns Goku into a kid can still be made the same way it does in the show by Pilaf, but Shenron then announces (to everyone's shock) that they will have 1 year before the Earth explodes unless they can gather them all again and bring them back to Earth.

I don't know what their adventures in space will be like, but let's say that Bulma makes a new and more powerful dragon radar that's installed inside a spaceship that finds the dragon balls which are now scattered so far apart. Goku, Vegeta, Pan, Trunks and Uub go out to look for them and while they're away, Baby slowly possesses everyone on the Earth and prepares it for when Goku and co return. Baby also blows up Namek before he ever goes to Earth, so the Namekian dragon balls aren't an option for help.

Baby's plan will be to gradually and secretly possess a lot of people so that when Goku and co return to Earth, he will use the energy of the people he possessed to create the Shadow Dragons which will be the enemies he plans to use to defeat the last of the Saiyans. Creating the Shadow Dragons will require the dragon balls to be gathered together again, but if they don't get brought back, then the Earth explodes anyway; so he still gets part of what he wanted. And Super 17 would just be some Baby-possessed version of 17, I guess.