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Spoilers What other "special episodes" do you want to see on SNW?

Someone suggested a fast forward where the Enterprise goes forward in time. I think taking them to the Dominion War could be interesting. Have them encounter a Defiant class ship a Starfleet dedicated warship. That would probably be wild for SNW crew. The SNW crew encountering the Federation at war and now Klingons as a true ally could be interesting too since SNW just came out of a war. Also seeing the Federation/Starfleet dealing with another conflict could be tough for the crew. Play on the ole “how in the future could be still having wars, etc.”
 
I would love to see an episode performed 'live'. Maybe a tense situation set entirely on the bridge...
This would be an interesting idea but they'd really have to make it a bottle episode since they couldn't show anything outside of whatever practical sets they have. They'd have to be trapped in a shuttle or something.
 
How about an episode where the ENTIRE ship goes into Pon Farr because of Spatial Plomeek Tachyons and everyone is alternately killing and fucking each other?
Trek's first hard-R episode. Make it extremely explicit. Make that Lower Decks "Naked Time" look like nothing. Then the next episode is just them all being awkward as fuck and trying to get back to some kind of normal. Christine is chill as fuck. Pike is near catatonic. Spock is curled up on the floor of a cupboard on deck 11. Una has ejected herself into space.
 
I want to see a flashback episode featuring Nhan.

I'm guessing that she was La'an's predecessor as chief of security. So there's lots of things they can do there.

And give it some oomph. Don't just make it a Nhan sequitur. :D
 
I wouldn’t mind seeing Nhan interact with the Sheliak.

I have yet another pitch for a special episode, this one that just popped into my head as I woke up. And its inspired by the Legacy characters for S3 thread.

The Enterprise visits a dying Travis Mayweather has been working with the Phloxes to get justice for Hoshi Sato and the other victims of the Tarsus IV incident. And among the hero worship for the NX-01 from the crew, La’an investigates and questions the survivors (Kirk, Kevin Riley, Thomas Leighton, and a few other survivors) and Karidian Company of Players. This could tie so much together - ENT, the events and developments of SNW S2, the legacy of the Eugenics Wars and Stavos Keniclius’s search for the perfect man - to the TOS ep “The Conscience of the King”. Could even work in a Dr. Boyce or Dr. Piper cameo. And even a Sulu cameo, who is compelled to explore becoming a pilot by the dying Mayweather.
 
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A completely impossible request would be if they handed over production to an international crew and had a non-English episode.

Like suddenly you just have a random Kdrama episode with everyone speaking Korean with all the sensibilities of Korean television. lol
I once had a bizarre dream they did a Korean version of Star Trek, starring a chubby Captain Sulu and they were all wearing blue versions of the Wrath of Khan uniforms.
 
Beach episode. Pike in short-shorts, Spock wearing goofy sandals, Sam Kirk slathered head to toe in sunscreen, La'an's afraid of the ocean, Mudd sipping jippers on a beach but not actually involved in the plot etc...
 
It might be interesting to see the SNW Enterprise and crew get bumped back in time to the Earth/Romulan War and have to try to not change history a la "The Final Countdown".
 
It might be interesting to see the SNW Enterprise and crew get bumped back in time to the Earth/Romulan War and have to try to not change history a la "The Final Countdown".
Would watch. But only if they use the song.

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Sam Kirk superimposed as Riker’s role as Chef, which would make for a nice reference to the idea that Shatner was supposed to play Chef, seeing how Shatner briefly played Sam Kirk in TOS.

Seems to me Pike should be chef, since his role on the show has been largely reduced to cooking for his officers and ship's guests in S2. ;)

EDIT: This whole thread is answering the question posed by that other thread: "Should the fans be allowed to write the show." The answer is clearly a resounding, thunderous NO! :guffaw:
 
So, it turned out the crossover-with-a-cartoon episode is only the second craziest premise this season - we will get a full on musical episode!

Now, YMMV obviously - but I have always wished for something crazy like this. I loved that TOS had a Halloween episode. I absolutely adore Stargate's 100. and 200. episode about the "Wormhole X-Treme" television show.

For me, Star Trek is not hard sci-fi. At the end of the day, it has to be emotionally honest & mature. But I dig it if it goes creatively off the rails sometime.

So, after getting the musical episode already out of the way in season 2, what other "special episodes" would you like to see?



Here are my picks, in no particular order:
  • a Halloween episode (traditions!)
  • a non-canon episode (set in present day, with the same actors in completely different roles, Anson Mount as a crime-noir detective solving a case, bonus points if it involves aliens)
  • a "retro" episode: Using all and only the original sets, models, props & costumes from TOS, but otherwise 100% canon
  • a fully animated episode
  • a "short-stories" episode: 3 or 4 small, unconnected tiny plots
  • a crossover episode with a completely different franchise (superhero, crime or historical show)
    • A Dr. Who crossover
  • A "what if?" episode
  • an episode with none of the main characters appearing at all (e.g. a story involving Robert April chasing Harry Mudd)

What I DON'T want to see:
  • a Christmas special - would normally be in favour, but Dr Who oversaturated that for me
  • a sitcom episode with a laugh track - that's just nasty


So maybe do a special eppiside a year like Diff'rent Strokes used to do? Maybe a drug episide, a bulimia episode etc etc.(We can skip the bicycle shop episode) They can do it all late 70s early 80s style story telling. Lol
 
Beach episode. Pike in short-shorts, Spock wearing goofy sandals, Sam Kirk slathered head to toe in sunscreen, La'an's afraid of the ocean, Mudd sipping jippers on a beach but not actually involved in the plot etc...

Springing off that odd moment in "The Cage" when we see some (presumably) off-duty crew members strolling down a corridor in beach attire?

Whatever did happen to "Moondoggie and Gidget" as I like to think of them? :)
 
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