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What loose ends would you like to see taken up?

This matter has probably been explored many times on this forum, but I have only found one old thread with a relevant title, 15 solid years old at this point. Let's see what wishes have since canonically come true!

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/tie-up-loose-ends.44368/

the blue gill parasite infestation - unresolved
Lore's fate after the ex-Borg crisis - addressed in PIC season 3
Vulcan-Romulan reunification - addressed in DIS season 3
Montgomery Scott's fate after being freed from stasis - unresolved
Tom Riker's fate - unresolved
Bajor's interest in joining the Federation - not directly addressed by DIS season 3
Sisko's return from the wormhole - unresolved
Naomi Wildman's fate as an adult - unresolved
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I think the Enterprise had sufficient sensor technology to determine once and for all that there were no survivors. The dialogue is definitive.



And it's unlikely to be retconned. How could it? SNW takes place before this episode, DSC is obviously not going to deal with this (it's ending after Season 5), and I highly doubt that LD, PRO or (hypothetical) Legacy will tackle it either. So the story is effectively over.
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How is DSC "obviously" not going to deal with this?

Spock could have been wrong. There might have been *insert technobabble* Interference *technobabble* that the TOS Enterprise sensors did not pick up and latter missions was able to pick up life signs and found bands of survivors.

Or modern producers/writers might just not give a crap.... wouldn't be the first time.


It's not really far-fetched, compared to some plot twists Trek had done over the years.
 
In regards to Cheron and LTBYLB
Mr. Laser Beam said:
And it's unlikely to be retconned. How could it? SNW takes place before this episode, DSC is obviously not going to deal with this (it's ending after Season 5), and I highly doubt that LD, PRO or (hypothetical) Legacy will tackle it either. So the story is effectively over
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I don't expect it to be addressed. It's not a loose end, and I could be the only fan that thought about revisiting it. My thinking was a combination of which TOS stories could be followed up on and which ones could be effectively improved or modernized.

I then thought of Battlefield and how a writer could take that setting and adapt Roddenberry's "Genesis II" film plot into a Star Trek story. Starship crew finds a planet that suffered a nuclear holocaust and warring factions manipulated by Romulans still vie for control over their burned out world
 
I don't, asided from the Lower Decks crossover that has been coming up over the interwebs...... so it's not "obviously"
 
I wouldn't bet on it either. The TPTB would be ridiculed either way, if they decided to go for a different look or save the ridiculous appearance they had (even Spock was mystified a bit IIRC).
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
If any survivors (other than Bele and Lokai) turned up, it would dilute the whole point of "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". They NEED to be the only survivors. It's the only way this episode works.
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I am inclined to agree. I think that episode is pretty much wrapped up in terms of loose ends. It reflects upon the human tendency to separate people in to groups, and that the phrase "We have met the enemy and he is us" is as true today as when that episode aired.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
If any survivors (other than Bele and Lokai) turned up, it would dilute the whole point of "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". They NEED to be the only survivors. It's the only way this episode works.
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Not for viewers who doesn't give that much shit about that episode (and TOS). I don't mind if someone writes an episode that "dilutes" the moral/meaning from some of the best episodes of TNG or even DS9. As long as the episode has a good plot.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
If any survivors (other than Bele and Lokai) turned up, it would dilute the whole point of "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". They NEED to be the only survivors. It's the only way this episode works.
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Because something like this hasn't already happened in Star Trek or Star Wars.

Heck, I say the SNW Gorn episodes diluted "Arena." I'm sure others will disagree, but that only illustrates my point. What one feels can't happen because of this or that, another will feel opposite.

This is literally every canon argument.

If the writers of some future Trek feel they have a great story idea, they don't care what canon or continuity point they contradict. They are not slavishly beholden to canon or continuity.
 
Only if they didn't have the baby Gorn pop out of bodies like in Alien, they'd be alright.
 
With Q Junior turning up, showing extreme jealousy toward Jack.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
If any survivors (other than Bele and Lokai) turned up, it would dilute the whole point of "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". They NEED to be the only survivors. It's the only way this episode works.
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It was poignantly in-character that when the Enterprise returned to Cheron in Greg Cox's No Time Like the Past, Bele and Lokai had sequestered themselves into antipodal armed bunkers.
 
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