TOS followups in later series....

[Warped9]

Are there any story threads in TOS that you might have liked to see followed up in one of the later series like TOS or DS9?

For example: what if the Kelvan Empire in the Andromeda galaxy (from "By Any Other Name") had gotten impatient waiting to hear from their advance scouts and had sent another group to investigate the Milky Way galaxy?

I know there are other possibilities, but I don't want to list them all myself.

 

[johcomp]

Maybe the Iotians from A Piece of the Action, having found out how the transdata works from McCoy's forgotten communicator and caught up with Starfleet technology. Star Trek XIII The Wrath of Oxmyx!

 

[Jeri]

I wouldn't have minded seeing what kind of hijinks ensue from the deep, dark recesses of the minds of a new crew revisiting Shore Leave.

 

[sbk1234]

I would have loved to see a follow up to Doomsday Machine. I know it isn't canon, but I really liked the idea from one of the novels that it was a machine built to battle the Borg.

 

[Warped9]

I would have loved to see a follow up to Doomsday Machine. I know it isn't canon, but I really liked the idea from one of the novels that it was a machine built to battle the Borg.

The TNG novel Vendetta which I rather liked when it came out. The only part that didn't work for me was the supposed connection between Picard and the vengeful female character out to destroy the Borg.

 

[FredH]

For example: what if the Kelvan Empire in the Andromeda galaxy (from "By Any Other Name") had gotten impatient waiting to hear from their advance scouts and had sent another group to investigate the Milky Way galaxy?

One might argue it's been hinted to have happened, offscreen: there's a DS9 episode where Dax mentions in passing that she's seen Worf fight a Kelvan twice his size, isn't there?

 

[Anticitizen]

In the TNG episode 'The Survivors', an old man and his wife are the sole remaining colonists who survived an alien attack... we learn at the end of the episode that he was a godlike energy being who had sworn not to kill, no matter what, but lost his control with the death of his wife and wiped out that alien race. His race was called the Douwd, but I thought it would have been a nice touch if he had been an Organian instead. They're practically the same - energy being that takes on the form of a human, detests violence, etc. I thought it would have served as a nice reference to the original series instead of creating another race that's pretty much the same.

 

[Warped9]

“Where No Man Has Gone Before” - I’d like to see a story about the Valiant and how it got out where it ended up leaving only its recorder marker to be found. Hmm, maybe I should try writing that story as a piece of fanfic.

“Balance Of Terror” - A story or stories set during the Earth/Romulan war could be interesting. ENT’s touching on it left a bad taste.

“Shoreleave” - Perhaps we could have seen the TNG crew vist the Shore Leave planet, but then it would have to be a damned good story rather than just treading over familiar ground. TAS had already followed up with its “Once Upon A Planet.”

“The Menagerie” - The real followup here, of course, would be further Pike era adventures. We did get some in a couple of Pocket Books and a brief run in comics with Marvel’s Star Trek: Early Voyages. Now if we ever got an animated series then we’d really have something...

“Space Seed” - We did get a followup: The Wrath Of Khan.

“Arena” - Another Gorn story anyone? Or maybe we could have just seen some Gorns in TNG or DS9. Their appearance in ENT was a huge letdown.

“Errand Of Mercy” - This was followed up by James Blish in his novel Spock Must Die! Of course, for it to be in continuity some way would have to be found for the Klingon’s sentence of exile from starflight to be commuted or appealed.

“The City On The Edge Of Forever” - We did get a followup of a sort with TAS’ “Yesteryear,” but a live-action followup could have been nice but with a sufficiently compelling story of course.

"Metamorphosis” - There was a followup with Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens’ novel Federation.

“The Doomsday Machine” - This was followed up by the TNG novel Vendetta.

“Mirror, Mirror” - DS9’s “Crossover” wasn’t a bad followup, but the subsequent Mirror universe stories were evermore disappointing.

“By Any Other Name” - This could have been a good followup with Kelvans returning in search of their advance scouts.

“Jihad” - Although I don’t know how TNG or DS9 could have done it I’d have been intrigued with seeing the Skorr again. However, one can get a sense of how the Skorr could be handled by reading Walter Hunt’s novel The Dark Wing where he introduces a warrior avian species remarkably like the Skorr.

“The Counter-Clock Incident” - In a sense this was followed up with Diane Carey’s novels Final Frontier and Best Destiny.

 

[Botany Bay]

The Paradise Syndrome - Loads of questions to be answered about the Preservers - why just save the American Indians? And why they put those people on a planet in danger of an asteroid hit in the first place?

 

[Anwar]

Ron Moore said that the Progenitor aliens in "The Chase" were supposed to be the Preservers. The ones who essentially created all the humanoid races in Trek.

 

[Gary7]

Metrons... Melkotians... Organians... several superior species that have significant powers demonstrated in TOS but never reappear later on. It's a shame that there wasn't more "weaving" of the Star Trek canon together.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Maybe the Iotians from A Piece of the Action, having found out how the transdata works from McCoy's forgotten communicator and caught up with Starfleet technology. Star Trek XIII The Wrath of Oxmyx!

I vaguely recall there was suppose to have been either a TNG or DS9 episode where they go back to that world and find a culture identical to TOS-era Star Trek, complete with TOS uniforms. Could have been an interesting episode.

 

[Elder Knight]

Maybe the Iotians from A Piece of the Action, having found out how the transdata works from McCoy's forgotten communicator and caught up with Starfleet technology. Star Trek XIII The Wrath of Oxmyx!

I vaguely recall there was suppose to have been either a TNG or DS9 episode where they go back to that world and find a culture identical to TOS-era Star Trek, complete with TOS uniforms. Could have been an interesting episode.

They'd just discover they'd beamed into a Trek convention.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

“Where No Man Has Gone Before” - I’d like to see a story about the Valiant and how it got out where it ended up leaving only its recorder marker to be found. Hmm, maybe I should try writing that story as a piece of fanfic.

It was followed up in the TNG novel The Valiant by Micheal Jan Friedman.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Valiant

 

[Shatmandu]

Maybe the Iotians from A Piece of the Action, having found out how the transdata works from McCoy's forgotten communicator and caught up with Starfleet technology. Star Trek XIII The Wrath of Oxmyx!

I vaguely recall there was suppose to have been either a TNG or DS9 episode where they go back to that world and find a culture identical to TOS-era Star Trek, complete with TOS uniforms. Could have been an interesting episode.

I think that was a proposeal for the 25th anniversary episode show, until they came up with "Tribbleations."

Joe, who agrees that it would have been fun

 

[Rulius]

Well I think the Guardian of Forever would have made for any number of good stories, Charlie X and the Thasians, read a short story in one of the books of the fan written stories about.. the one who stayed with Balok...forget the name...Bailey? Well it was interesting reading heh...

 

[Anwar]

I don't think they could use the Guardian of Forever without Ellison's permission. Would he give it?

 

[Myasishchev]

I'd like to have seen the First Federation better-defined, definitely. Although I admit the unintentional similarity in names between the FF and UFP, and the weird society (or lack thereof, for lonely ol' Balok) and apparently vast powers, are good reasons for them not to follow it up, despite "Corbomite" being so awesome.

 

[Kagan]

The Trouble With Tribbles - The first meeting of Koloth and Kirk in the episode has an interesting exchange.

Koloth: My dear, Captain Kirk
Kirk: My dear, Captain Koloth

For me, I've wanted the prequel to TTWT. They obviously knew one another, and quite well it seems. Were they both assigned to this part of space. What happened the first time they met?

 

[Rulius]

Oh... I forgot about the smallest big man in Scifidom... good point