What very small plot (or plot detail) would make for an interesting Star Trek story?

The Battle of Axanar. And obviously totally different to the fan film shitshow version. Based on Discovery, it couldn't have been the Klingons, and I'm curious how it was so important to the Federation.

 

There was no further discussion of them. Their status is unresolved. Seems premature to say that they were wiped out, which would have really made the whole ordeal meaningless.

 

Peter David, Q-Squared.

Long story short, a Trelane from uptime was fooling around with the core of reality and the added power drove him mad, as well as made more powerful than all Q combined, including his parents from "The Squire of Gothos" and John deLancie. Crazy Trelane decides to kill his downtime self, who had been pestering the Enterprise-D at the time. And then he decides to start collapsing and merging timelines for funsies, to drive the rest of reality mad and put on a battle royale. Hijinx ensue.

 

Would be interesting if it was defending the Axanari from the Kovaalans, still after their bodily substances.

 

I still wonder more about the sentient Europan microbes. It’d be funny if in every single Trek series we’ve seen, there’ve been microbial crewmembers floating around in little nanosuits that keep them from being accidentally inhaled by their colleagues. They were always onscreen, you just can’t see officers that small…

 

In the 'Shatnerverse' novels, by Shatner, Judith and Garfield Reeve Stevens, they posit that the Preservers probably erected the galactic edge barrier. The 'Captain's Peril' trilogy also gives another reason for this in the form of a powerful extragalactic force called 'The Totality'.

Other parts of the books also touch on Miri's world (another suspected Preserver project) and even the First Federation, somewhat. Plus Memory Alpha (the planet) and other little titbits. Sometimes in quite different ways from how other litverse sources also examine them.

 

Thanks for the correction. It's been so many years since I read those books that I even forgot who wrote them.

 

Well, Picard did show us that

Spoiler

terrifying AI entities that hate organic life lurk outside the Milky Way

…

 

I think it would become the UFP's equivalent of UN (United Nations building) in NY.
A giant place where every member species can setup their own City / Biome to resemble their species culture.
With enough room to welcome colonists from every member planet to start colonizing and co-exist peacefully while terraforming the existing Dyson Sphere.

 

That may have been the case before the Horbus/Romulan supernova. The lesson (that should have been) learned from that disaster is "don't put all your eggs in one basket". It's safer for a civilization to spread out on multiple worlds in multiple systems instead of concentrate at a single location. That Dyson sphere is one nova away from catastrophe.

I do like the idea of a galactic UN on the Dyson sphere.

 

Did Louis ever raise Atlantis?

 

The Dyson Sphere is probably the biggest small plot dangling in the franchise.

On second thought, there is one thing bigger... the Andromeda galaxy. By the 32nd century, the Federation should have not only sent the probe Kirk was talking about but get a reply probe back. I remember the Kelvans saying it would take about 10,000 years for the galaxy to be uninhabitable for them, but I wondered if a process was already underway to help bring some of them to the Milky Way.

And speaking of the Andromeda galaxy, this could be an interesting idea... could what happened to make the radiation rise there bleed over to the Milky Way, despite the huge distance between galaxies?

 

Forgive me if this has already been mentioned, or if it misinterprets the Thread topic, but I was thinking;
What if the Enterprise became self-aware, and the plot developed and she started making her own starship fleet...???

 

In a sense, that was touched on in TNG's "Emergence", when the Enterprise got self-aware due to some storm and it created a new lifeform.


I have wondered what happened to it, though...

 

I feel that episode should have had a drawback, something like their memories reverting to the time of the dna sample.

 

I would put the Vissians into the category of those several advanced races who generally don't have much contact with the Federation simply due to their being beyond them, like the First Federation or the race from TNG "When The Bough Breaks".

That's not a plot hole at all. That plot line was wrapped up with essentially no uncertainty... Sisko went to join the Prophets. That's it. That's the end. Sisko is no longer bound to linear time. There is no "coming back"... Sisko is always there. Sisko has always been there. Sisko will always be there.

It's about as not plot hole as can be.

 

Difference of opinion, but whatever works for you.

 

Of course, sure. But like... i'm curious about the reasoning why you would think it's a plot hole.

Is Odo a plot hole? He went to join the Great Link. Then what? Plot hole?
O'Brian? He went to Academy apparently? Then what? Plot hole.

You could say it about basically the entirety of Voyager. What happened after Endgame? Plot hole?

I feel like it's a misuse of the term "plot hole". It seems more like you just... want more stories. That's ok... I do too... but wanting more stories after the end of the story isn't a plot hole.

 

Fine for you, I guess...

 

Apologies for asking a question. Clearly you aren't interested in a conversation and that's ok.