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Let's think up zombie episodes for our favourite sci-fi shows

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Given that everyone is cashing in on the current zombie craze with cross-genre zombie tales (e.g. "28 Days Later", "World War Z", "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", etc) let's think up a zombie version of our own favourite sci-fi series/movie. OK, here goes...

Star Trek Enterprise: NX-01 Enterprise comes across a Vulcan starship drifting in space, whose crew have been turned into shambling, incoherent...

What? They did?

Uh...alright then, how about:

Night of the Living Redshirt?
Every expandable extra killed in The Original series comes back to life as a horde of Trekkies, who shamble after William Shatner moaning incoherantly about continuity errors.

Spock's Braaaaaaaaains!
Spock dies at the end of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", but is resurrected by Paramount executives fearful of plummeting ratings in the next movie. As Spock's body starts to rot from the pong farr, can McCoy find a vegetarian version of the zombie's favourite meal of raw brains?
 
Only Sci-Fi ? But a zombie episode of Desperate Housewives would be so much more entertaining. :D
 
I always thought that a cool episode of Deep Space Nine would have had Garak, Nog, Worf and O'Brien (and maybe Dax - either one) trapped in a Dawn Of The Dead-style holosuite program where they're being attacked by zombies in a shopping mall. (Although I always kind of imagined a post-finale story involving the Jem'Hadar Taran'atar and Ro Laren, who are both characters in the Relaunch novels.)

The holosuite program's safety malfunctions have been deactivated and they've been locked inside the program, because an old friend and business associate of Quark's who's suffering from a chemical addiction of some kind and feels that Quark owes him money has hacked into the system and is holding Quark hostage at blasterpoint in the bar after-hours after everyone else has left. (I imagine this character as an alien of some sort, played by David Patrick Kelly). Colonel Kira gets involved and gets taken hostage when she decides to pay a visit to complain to Quark about something.

The zombie hi-jinks in the holodeck turns out to be more of a fun romp, while the really tense, dramatic situation is the hostage scenario in Quark's. (Which is kind of the opposite of how stories involving Quark usually tend to be!) Ultimately, Quark has to take matters into his own hands and is forced to kill his old friend to protect his nephew and the others trapped in the holodeck. (I imagine a lethal electrical discharge of some sort.) In the final scene, Quark expresses unhappiness with having to use lethal force. Jem'Hadar are one thing, but being forced to kill someone he almost considered a friend is quite another. Kira offers a few words of understanding and consolation.
 
BRAAIINNSS!! On The Edge Of Forever would be nice:

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Any spaceship or spacestation setting would be a good place to do a zombie story. Basically there is nowhere to hide. Maybe have the Ds9 crew figure out how to fight there way to the runabouts so they can escape.

Jason
 
Lost would've been a lot more fun with some re-occurring zombies.

Seeing Jack Bauer fight zombies would be fun too. And, to make it sci-fi, we could clone Jack and that way, we would never have to wait for him to nap or eat or pee. Oh, wait. He doesn't do those things anyway.

I could see a whole Stargate-Zombie series. Oops! We left open the stargate and look what followed us home (and ate all the locals).

A Quantum Leap zombie episode would've been fun too, especially if Sam got zombified during the episode. (Sam: "so what do I do now, Al?" Al: "Shuffle and lurch after that girl over there and try to eat her brains." Sam: "Oh, boy."
 
The problem with zombies in our favorite shows is that, in my opinion, the best zombie stories feature mass death, a couple of the core characters being turned/killed, and catastrophe on a scale that is not easily recovered from. For an hour long show, to have zombies, the zombies would either need to be seriously weak or a "reset button" of some sort would have to be used.

Besides, on Star Trek, some last minute zombie cure or transporter solution fraught with techno-babble would most likely be used to solve the problem.

And as far as the holodeck/suite approach, wouldn't it weaken the whole idea of zombies to have them without the ability to make others into zombies?
 
shivkala said:
The problem with zombies in our favorite shows is that, in my opinion, the best zombie stories feature mass death, a couple of the core characters being turned/killed, and catastrophe on a scale that is not easily recovered from. For an hour long show, to have zombies, the zombies would either need to be seriously weak or a "reset button" of some sort would have to be used.
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Not necessarily.

The best way to insert zombies into a regular show, it seems to me, is by means of a limited, contained outbreak in which the series characters are trapped, like the characters in Rec and its remake, Quarantine.

In this scenario, the residents of the research lab/apartment building/whatever play the role of expendable redshirts, dying periodically to keep the tension up, and then coming back as zombies to threaten the regular characters.

Since I'm looking forward to purchasing Season Seven of The Shield tomorrow, that will be my official suggestion: an episode of The Shield in which the Strike Team is trapped inside a quarantined apartment building.

Or better yet: half the team is trapped inside, while the other half butts heads with "the Brass" outside, and tries to help their quarantined comrades find a way out.
 
Law & Order. The 2nd half of the episode is mostly taken up by heated, topical debates between Michael Cutter & Connie Rubirosa as to whether zombies should qualify for an insanity defense, or even a justification defense based on their biological need to consume humans. Things then get very personal for Jack McCoy when he realizes that the zombie's defense attorney is a reanimated Claire Kincaid.
 
Chuck's an east contender for one of these episodes, with zombies attacking the BuyMore.

You could have also had a Pushing Daisies episode where Ned's magic touch goes wonky and everything brought back to life comes back not quite right...
 
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