Throwaway lines that hint at untold stories

[C.E. Evans]

There was this exchange between Picard and Riker in TNG'S "Next Phase" in which everyone thought LaForge and Ro were dead:

PICARD: Commander, there'll be a memorial service at twenty three hundred hours this evening. Mister Data is making arrangements.
RIKER: I'll be there.
RO (phased): Me, too.
RIKER: In fact I might like to say a few words.
PICARD: You did know LaForge longer than any of us.

That last bit suggests that Riker and LaForge may have served together before the Enterprise, likely on the Hood, IMO.

 

[TrickyDickie]

From 'The Conscience of the King':

KIRK: Put me through to Captain Jon Daily of the AstraI Queen on orbit station, and put it on scramble.
UHURA [OC]: Captain Daily's on, sir.
KIRK; Jon? Jim Kirk.
DAILY [OC]: Hi, Jim.
KIRK: Can you do me a favour?
DAILY [OC]: I owe you a dozen. Just ask.

It would be interesting to know what that past history is all about.

 

[Tim Thomason]

"Assignment: Earth." Spock's line about Seven and Roberta having many interesting adventures ahead of them practically promises years of spin-off stories that, alas, were never told . . ..

Says the guy who told most of them.

There was this exchange between Picard and Riker in TNG'S "Next Phase" in which everyone thought LaForge and Ro were dead:

PICARD: Commander, there'll be a memorial service at twenty three hundred hours this evening. Mister Data is making arrangements.
RIKER: I'll be there.
RO (phased): Me, too.
RIKER: In fact I might like to say a few words.
PICARD: You did know LaForge longer than any of us.

That last bit suggests that Riker and LaForge may have served together before the Enterprise, likely on the Hood, IMO.

They both transferred from the Hood, so yeah. But it is interesting to note that Riker and La Forge are the same age and possibly graduated the Academy together (Class of '57).

 

[Greg Cox]

Says the guy who told most of them.
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What can I say? That line haunted me.

 

[Valenti]

How about Garrovick's tall tales including Kirk aboard the Exeter?
And who is Crotus, from Whom Gods Destroy? An Andorian Tyrant with Shran as his aide or patsy? Greg, get to work.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

"Assignment: Earth." Spock's line about Seven and Roberta having many interesting adventures ahead of them practically promises years of spin-off stories that, alas, were never told . . ..

. . . until YOU started telling them

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

I’d love to hear the backstory of Picard and Phillipa Louvois’ relationship given their banter/bickering in “The Measure of a Man.”

 

[JirinPanthosa]

It drives me nuts that we've never had a real Borg origin story.

The Borg probably started out as a normal organic race that tried to better themselves with technology, and that's an awesome story waiting to be told that never has.

Also as other people have referenced, lots of interesting things Young Picard did.

 

[Greg Cox]

. . . until YOU started telling them

To give credit where it's due, Howard Weinstein beat me to the punch. He brought Seven back in the comic books before I got around to to doing it in the novels.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

It drives me nuts that we've never had a real Borg origin story.

What's the Destiny tetralogy? Chopped liver?

And if you don't like that origin story, I do have a fanfic I call, "The Gray People," that I wrote some years before Destiny, and I suppose I could make a PDF of it. Although I'd really rather not. Getting it published in a Class Anthology for one of the four semesters of Short Story Workshop class I took at a local junior college a few years ago was enough.

 

[Tenacity]

First contact between Klingons and the Federation as told in the episode "First Contact".

First contact with Klingons yes, but did Picard say it was between Klingons and Humans? The Federation has many species as members.

Spock from TFF, "Sybok's mother was a Vulcan princess."

 

[uniderth]

I just watched TNG episode "A Matter of Time" with my daughter. In that episode Rasmussen mentions that the time machine is on auto pilot back to 22nd Century New Jersey.

I wonder who stumbled upon that time machine and what adventures they had.

Flight of the Navigator anyone?

 

[at Quark's]

WORF: They are Klingons, and it is a long story. <..> We do not discuss it with outsiders.

At the time this was televized, this was a great throwaway line, and it really made me wonder what happened at the time (in-universe), though I also appreciated the humor in it: "you fans can as well shut up about it since we're not going to give you an in-universe explanation when there is none, just accept that it is so.".

Never mind the Enterprise episode that came 10 years later trying to "explain" it all.

"SPOCK: That is true. I am not from the world you know at all. My home is a planet millions of light years away. "

… making me wonder how that extragalactic mission came to be.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I just watched TNG episode "A Matter of Time" with my daughter. In that episode Rasmussen mentions that the time machine is on auto pilot back to 22nd Century New Jersey.

I wonder who stumbled upon that time machine and what adventures they had.

Rasmussen was the one who stumbled on to the machine. And we pretty much saw what he did with it in "A Matter of Time." I never got the impression that the time machine passed through other hands before Rasmussen found it.

"SPOCK: That is true. I am not from the world you know at all. My home is a planet millions of light years away. "

… making me wonder how that extragalactic mission came to be.

What episode is that from?

 

[at Quark's]

What episode is that from?

All Our Yesterdays. Usually, it is just regarded as an technical inaccuracy, and corrected later. See also http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Beta_Niobe .

 

[Iamnotspock]

Rasmussen was the one who stumbled on to the machine. And we pretty much saw what he did with it in "A Matter of Time." I never got the impression that the time machine passed through other hands before Rasmussen found it.

But what about after Rasmussen, when it went back to 22nd Century New Jersey and stranded him on the Enterprise?

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

But what about after Rasmussen, when it went back to 22nd Century New Jersey and stranded him on the Enterprise?

The DTI novels touch on this. The ship was eventually recovered.

 

[Tim Thomason]

But what about after Rasmussen, when it went back to 22nd Century New Jersey and stranded him on the Enterprise?

It went back to Rasmussen when he first stumbled upon it, and he then invented the whole 26th century thing and travelled to Picard's time. The time machine has no origin.

 

[JRoss]

Kirk being already familiar with both Koloth and Kang might be an indication that they had locked horns before and Koloth was going to be a regular adversary in season two before the changes! Thank the stars for that, it would have been too comedial for me!
JB

Both were originally written to be Kor.

 

[Mysterion]

I’d love to hear the backstory of Picard and Phillipa Louvois’ relationship given their banter/bickering in “The Measure of a Man.”

See Christopher Bennett's novel The Buried Age for some of that.