TNG episodes that would've been interesting to see on TOS

[t_smitts]

Ti-BOO!-rius wrote:

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How would that work, without the holographic technology of the Doctor?

I've always thought that the Voyager episode "Riddles" would have made an excellent episode of Classic Trek.

I assume you mean with Spock reverting to the same kind of simple personality. Perhaps with McCoy in the Neelix role?

Though they did do something slightly similar in "All Our Yesterdays".

[Tiberius]

t_smitts wrote:

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I assume you mean with Spock reverting to the same kind of simple personality. Perhaps with McCoy in the Neelix role?

Though they did do something slightly similar in "All Our Yesterdays".

Yeah, perhaps Dr M'Benga in the role looking after Spock.

Be some interesting stuff with Chapel too.

[Mr_Homn]

I think the Enemy would work pretty well on TOS.

Except instead of Geordi being trapped on a inhospitable planet with a Romulan Centurion it would be Kirk. They'd work together to try and survive, earning a respect for eachother along the way, and then you could have a very interesting sideplot with Spock communicating to the Romulan Commander on the viewscreen, buying time and trying to tensely negotiate neutral zone stuff and trying to avoid a war.

[T'Girl]

Mr_Homn wrote:

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Except instead of Geordi being trapped on a inhospitable planet with a Romulan Centurion it would be Kirk.

Or maybe Scotty. For the scene where the Romulan commented on Geordi's parent permitting him to live blind, we instead would have:

"Your parent let you live, even though you're missing that one finger?"

[Tiberius]

T'Girl wrote:

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Or maybe Scotty. For the scene where the Romulan commented on Geordi's parent permitting him to live blind, we instead would have:

"Your parent let you live, even though you're missing that one finger?"

pmsl

[Gil T.Azell]

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I wonder how Kirk would have handled the mischievous Ferengi.

[Mytran]

Using TOS comedy music I expect! :-)

[t_smitts]

Looking over the TNG eps on Netflix, it occurs to me that "Hero Worship" might work with Spock rescuing an orphaned boy from a stricken vessel, who then decides he's "Vulcan" to suppress his feelings.

The difference, of course, is that Data wants to be more human, while Spock wants the opposite, so coaxing the kid towards facing his emotions might be odd.

The ending where Timothy thinks he destroyed the ship, but we find out it was their own shields could pretty much work as it did.

[A beaker full of death]

t_smitts wrote:

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Besides episodes in general, I think it would've been interesting to see Data just in general on the show: An other-worldly character like Spock, yet much more innocent.

Data was taken directly from X'on in the Phase II handbook, who was supposed to take Spock's place (Nimoy was unavailable). He was supposed to embrace emotions, because he realized they made Spock so effective. "We'll have humor our of seeing X'on simulate laughter..."

Similarly, Riker and Troi were light rewrites of Decker and Ilia.

Many episodes of TNG season 2 were rewritten from scripts for phase II, due to the writers' strike. It definitely feels the most like TOS out of the rest of TNG.

[Melakon]

Chain of Command could easily be done as two separate unrelated episodes. Part 1 would become a single episode of an action-packed spy mission. Lots of fun physical stunts for Shatner-Kirk. In this pre-imagining, Kirk does a successful escape, beaming out just in time. Jellico would still be the main guest star, butting heads with the enemy [random race] and Spock, to McCoy's dismay.

Former part 2 could open with Kirk already captured by a different [random race], physically and psychologically tortured by bad guy Madred, while Spock and McCoy try to rescue him. And Shatner gets to give us extra ham, hold the shirt.

And since we're fantasizing, my guest star choice works for either Jellico or Madred. I think it's a shame Leslie Nielsen never guested in 60s Trek. He would have been a natural for one of Kirk's old friends gone bad. He was popping up a lot in those days, often as evil authority figures. He had science fiction experience. Those who only know him from Airplane and Naked Gun would be surprised.

[Harvey]

A beaker full of death wrote:

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Many episodes of TNG season 2 were rewritten from scripts for phase II, due to the writers' strike. It definitely feels the most like TOS out of the rest of TNG.

I thought only one episode was a re-write of a script for that earlier, aborted series -- "The Child." What other episode(s) are you thinking of?

"Devil's Due" was also a re-write of a script for Phase II, of course, but that didn't come until season four.

[The Grim Ghost]

t_smitts wrote:

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I can only imagine what Cardassian prosthetics might've looked like

I'm thinking they might have just gone with the pale white skin, slicked back hair and shiny black leather uniforms.

[xortex]

Like biker dudes? Hell's angels. 'Masks' , Transfiguratons and The Nth degree would have worked well and Emergence - the higher concept episodes. Alliegiance, The Child, The Royale, etc.

[t_smitts]

Melakon wrote:

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Chain of Command could easily be done as two separate unrelated episodes. Part 1 would become a single episode of an action-packed spy mission. Lots of fun physical stunts for Shatner-Kirk. In this pre-imagining, Kirk does a successful escape, beaming out just in time. Jellico would still be the main guest star, butting heads with the enemy [random race] and Spock, to McCoy's dismay.

Former part 2 could open with Kirk already captured by a different [random race], physically and psychologically tortured by bad guy Madred, while Spock and McCoy try to rescue him. And Shatner gets to give us extra ham, hold the shirt.

And since we're fantasizing, my guest star choice works for either Jellico or Madred. I think it's a shame Leslie Nielsen never guested in 60s Trek. He would have been a natural for one of Kirk's old friends gone bad. He was popping up a lot in those days, often as evil authority figures. He had science fiction experience. Those who only know him from Airplane and Naked Gun would be surprised.

I wonder if Chain of Command might not be too cerebral for TOS. Seeing Kirk being tortured as brutally as Picard was, might make a more naive 1960's audience a bit squeamish. They might also wonder "why doesn't he just escape"?

[Melakon]

t_smitts wrote:

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I wonder if Chain of Command might not be too cerebral for TOS. Seeing Kirk being tortured as brutally as Picard was, might make a more naive 1960's audience a bit squeamish. They might also wonder "why doesn't he just escape"?

This is all sort of an odd exercise anyway. Retrofitting an episode from a 80s-90s ensemble series of 9 players into a 60s show with 2-3 leads and lower billed supporting cast means major story revisions. Network censors and broadcast standards have to be considered in the context of the 1960s-- easily done, if you lived during it. The severity of Kirk torture scenes couldn't be as explicit as in Picard's. TOS did dabble with it a bit, using agony booths, neural neutralizers, agonizers, and various alien torture devices and experiments. "The Empath" was pretty brutal compared to what was being seen on other shows then.