It was set up...but

[RobertScorpio]

Can you think of a time when the writers seemed to, even if by chance, set up a great potential storyline, but never came back to it? You know, like when Spock/Romulan Commander in ENTERPRISE INCIDENT mention some secret? What was that all about?

For me it was always Sisko's "sister". I'm pretty sure he mentions he has a sister but she never showed up on the show? Why? Did she know about his 'unique' history? Did she resent him because they had different mothers but the same father? Why does he hardly ever mention her? Is she dead? Did she vote for Dick Cheney? I mean, I see DRAMA all over this....

What about you??? What plot threads were threaded but never finished?

Rob

 

[data_lover]

the episode of voyager where the doctor though he was married to kes and revealed his feelings for her and then....nothing. i thought at least there might be some sexual tension and could it be-will it be moments, however, im just starting season 4 so maybe it will still happen, but i doubt it.

 

[RobertScorpio]

From TOS? I wish, if there had been a fourth season, and it was written good (big if there) that an episode would have been dedicated to explore the rift between Spock and Sarek. We get hints of it in Journey to Babel, and the Voyage Home, and TNG's Sarek, but something more in the past, and part of TOS. Maybe a return trip to Vulcan? or Sarek is visiting and becomes ill and we learn what happened...would have been interesting, I think, to learn more detail...

Rob

 

[DS9forever]

The conflict between the Jem'Hadar created in the Gamma Quadrant and those created in the Alpha Quadrant, as first mentioned in "One Little Ship". A civil war among the Jem'Hadar would have been a great story line.

 

[TheQman]

TNG Conspiracy, with the parasite aliens. (I know the borg were suppost to be those aliens, but I think it could have been a whole new species.)

TNG Schisms, with the solanogen based lifeforms. (Big missed opportunity)

 

[RobertScorpio]

TNG Conspiracy, with the parasite aliens. (I know the borg were suppost to be those aliens, but I think it could have been a whole new species.)

TNG Schisms, with the solanogen based lifeforms. (Big missed opportunity)

Yeah, i agree with you about those parasites. So many fanfics have used them, so its clear they were really missed. They could even have revealed they were a 'covert' effort by the Dominion down the line, who knows...but yeah, thats probably TNG's biggest missed opportunity...

Rob

 

[Greg Cox]

The mysterious disappearance of Geordi's mother's ship was left hanging (except maybe in the books and comics).

 

[FredH]

What did they ultimately do with Genesis? How was the diplomatic controversy over its existence resolved? (The fact that it proved unstable doesn't prevent it from being used as a WMD.)

Also, how was the Klingon environmental crisis resolved--especially if TNG-QonoS is the same world as TOS-QonoS?

Did Twyla Scott live?

 

[barnaclelapse]

Genesis was always the one that bothered me. I would have liked a little more resolution with its existence, even just a throwaway line in the fourth movie or something.

 

[The Wormhole]

The Voyager episode Dragon's Teeth should have had a follow up, and indeed the ending set things up for the aliens to return at some point. But sadly, they were never heard from again.

 

[SFRabid]

TNG episode where the Enterprise had a baby. When the Bork was pounding the Enterprise later in the series Baby should have showed up and kicked some borg but.

 

[Finn]

From TOS? I wish, if there had been a fourth season, and it was written good (big if there) that an episode would have been dedicated to explore the rift between Spock and Sarek. We get hints of it in Journey to Babel, and the Voyage Home, and TNG's Sarek, but something more in the past, and part of TOS. Maybe a return trip to Vulcan? or Sarek is visiting and becomes ill and we learn what happened...would have been interesting, I think, to learn more detail...

Rob

No. It would ruin it. I think this made their relationship interesting, especially when we see it spill over into TNG with Sarek (It would have cheapened the Picard/Sarek rant after the mind meld) and Unification.

Sometimes, explainations ruins everything.

 

[DevilEyes]

TNG Conspiracy, with the parasite aliens. (I know the borg were suppost to be those aliens, but I think it could have been a whole new species.)

TNG Schisms, with the solanogen based lifeforms. (Big missed opportunity)

Yeah, i agree with you about those parasites. So many fanfics have used them, so its clear they were really missed. They could even have revealed they were a 'covert' effort by the Dominion down the line, who knows...but yeah, thats probably TNG's biggest missed opportunity...

Rob

Not just fanfics. Official Trek literature, too. The parasites went on to play a significant role in parts of DS9 relaunch.

 

[ChadHydro]

The Voyager episode Dragon's Teeth should have had a follow up, and indeed the ending set things up for the aliens to return at some point. But sadly, they were never heard from again.

Took the words out of my mouth! I would have loooved to have seen the Vaadwaur return in later episodes, slowly building back up their empire, whispers about an old race returning.

 

[RobertScorpio]

The Voyager episode Dragon's Teeth should have had a follow up, and indeed the ending set things up for the aliens to return at some point. But sadly, they were never heard from again.

Took the words out of my mouth! I would have loooved to have seen the Vaadwaur return in later episodes, slowly building back up their empire, whispers about an old race returning.

I too agree with this..DRAGON'S TEETH, imo, was one of the best episodes of that series and shows how VOYAGER could have gone had RDM stayed...

Rob

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

TNG episode where the Enterprise had a baby. When the Bork was pounding the Enterprise later in the series Baby should have showed up and kicked some borg but.

I think you're thinking of "Emergence." If so, there wasn't really time for that. "Emergence" was the next-next-to-last episode of the series, long after the Borg's final TNG appearance in "Descent, Part II."

The most blatant one was the Borg Queen's cryptic, "See you soon, Harry," comment in "Unimatrix Zero, Part I." For some reason, that bit never paid off in Part II.

Some have suggested that the dead Voyager crewmember from "Ashes to Ashes" should have been Ensign Jetal from "Latent Image."

 

[doubleohfive]

The mysterious disappearance of Geordi's mother's ship was left hanging (except maybe in the books and comics).

Even with Madge Sinclair's passing, I hoped each year they would have done a story about this exact plot point during Voyager's run.

 

[Admiral Shran]

I wish they would have shown what happened to Laas? Did he die from the Changling virus or not?

 

[RobertScorpio]

I wish they would have shown what happened to Laas? Did he die from the Changling virus or not?

Yeah..thats a good one Shran. I really thought he was an interesting Shape Shifter. I would love to have seen Laas encounter the 'mature' Odo they found on that world where the DS9 crew crashed and their descendents lived. (a great TREk episode by the way)

Rob

 

[Finn]

TNG episode where the Enterprise had a baby. When the Bork was pounding the Enterprise later in the series Baby should have showed up and kicked some borg but.

I think you're thinking of "Emergence." If so, there wasn't really time for that. "Emergence" was the next-next-to-last episode of the series, long after the Borg's final TNG appearance in "Descent, Part II."

The most blatant one was the Borg Queen's cryptic, "See you soon, Harry," comment in "Unimatrix Zero, Part I." For some reason, that bit never paid off in Part II.

Some have suggested that the dead Voyager crewmember from "Ashes to Ashes" should have been Ensign Jetal from "Latent Image."

The baby thing could have showed up in DS9 or VOY.