What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Commander Troi]

Edith should have been his wife in the Nexus.

"Like" is not strong enough for this!

Of course, then it would've been tougher for him to leave.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Well, yeah, McCoy was zonked out on cordrazine, but he still had the presence of mind to recognize the Guardian for what it was - that it offered an escape route.

It's just a big open door leading away from the people he thinks are out to get him. He would have run out an airlock into open space if he hadn't been planetside.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Edith should have been his wife in the Nexus.

Of course, you'd have to consider real world concerns such as can they afford Joan Collins? Would she be willing? And do you want to bring in Joan Collins for what is essentially a brief cameo?

 

[thribs]

Carol and David Marcus would have worked as well.

 

[fireproof78]

Of course, you'd have to consider real world concerns such as can they afford Joan Collins? Would she be willing? And do you want to bring in Joan Collins for what is essentially a brief cameo?

Well if you eliminate the new sets you probably could afford it.

 

[1001001]

Of course, you'd have to consider real world concerns such as can they afford Joan Collins? Would she be willing? And do you want to bring in Joan Collins for what is essentially a brief cameo?

They could just simply recast the role.

Trekkies love it when they do that, right?

 

[cooleddie74]

I award that idea two out of a possible four John Aleses.

 

[drt]

I never got the sense from TWoK that Kirk still had any romantic feelings towards Marcus, their relationship seemed pretty solidly over; so I’m not too put out she wasn’t included in his Nexus fantasies.

 

[plynch]

Ruth.

 

[Macintosh]

I never got the sense from TWoK that Kirk still had any romantic feelings towards Marcus, their relationship seemed pretty solidly over; so I’m not too put out she wasn’t included in his Nexus fantasies.

I don't think he'd still be mooning over Carol Marcus into his sixties, but as the mother of his only child he could well regard her as "the one that got away", and that's definitely something the Nexus could act on.

 

[Magic Maik]

Rather than get all the services for free I'd rather be paid in gold-pressed latinum, then I could save up for a holiday home on forever England planet Farenginar.

 

[Prometheus59650]

It's just a big open door leading away from the people he thinks are out to get him. He would have run out an airlock into open space if he hadn't been planetside.

This. He was just looking for someplace not full of "murderers and assassins."

Of course, you'd have to consider real world concerns such as can they afford Joan Collins? Would she be willing? And do you want to bring in Joan Collins for what is essentially a brief cameo?

You'd also have to consider that someone would have had to pay Harlan Ellison.

No one in corporate would have been down for that.

 

[Oddish]

Rather than get all the services for free I'd rather be paid in gold-pressed latinum, then I could save up for a holiday home on forever England planet Farenginar.

Until the inevitable hard-liner revolution against well-intentioned but clueless Grabd Nagus Rom plunges the planet into chaos...

 

[Vger23]

On the topic of Edith Keeler, if they had kept her in shadows like Antonia and only referred to her as “Edith,” I’d guess they could have gotten away with it.

 

[Prometheus59650]

On the topic of Edith Keebler, if they had kept her in shadows like Antonia and only referred to her as “Edith,” I’d guess they could have gotten away with it.

Mmmmm.....yeah, they probably would have won that lawsuit.

But Harlan would have sued.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Edie or Eddie, or just made some vague reference to "she keeps me on an even keel"...

 

[Lord Garth]

Mmmmm.....yeah, they probably would have won that lawsuit.

But Harlan would have sued.

Unfortunately, true.

"Oh my God! I did not receive excellent service at this restaurant! I'm suing! It'll give me something to do tonight!"

 

[Orphalesion]

Kirk and the Keeler Elf knew each other for how long? A few days at most? Real love takes longer than that, in my experience.
Plus from what I remember this whole Nexus thing and how time works there is so nebulous, do we know whether the whole country house/horse riding thing it was the only fantasy scenario he lived through?

 

[fireproof78]

Plus from what I remember this whole Nexus thing and how time works there is so nebulous, do we know whether the whole country house/horse riding thing it was the only fantasy scenario he lived through?

Unfortunately, Echo Guinan shoots that theory in the foot because she says, "From his perspective he just got here." And then Kirk says, "The bulkhead in front of me disappeared and then I woke up here chopping wood."

So, unless you move from fantasy to fantasy with amnesia of the previous one then it doesn't quite add up.

Not that the Nexus adds up to much anyway.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Kirk's real Nexus fantasy would have been him on the Enterprise again, age 30.

Just think, they could have spun off a rebooted TOS back in '94 with a bit of foresight