What episode would you want them to "remake"?

[UncleRogi]

I agree, they should come up with something unexplored.

But if they had to, a combination of "Balance of Terror" with "Errand of Mercy", but with the same villianous race, preferably Klingons. Make it one long establishment of The Enemy, as it were.

"Friday's Child" was also a good character driven peice, with most of the core cast involved.

 

[BillJ]

"Friday's Child" was also a good character driven peice, with most of the core cast involved.

Friday's Child would be interesting. Though you'd have to re-cast Scotty. Simon Pegg could never pull off a convincing performance as a starship commander playing hide and seek with the Klingons.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Pegg would simply make it a great deal more interesting.

 

[BillJ]

Pegg would simply make it a great deal more interesting.

Unfortunately... interesting doesn't always equal good.

 

[UncleRogi]

Pegg would simply make it a great deal more interesting.

Unfortunately... interesting doesn't always equal good.

I think Pegg could pull it off wonderfully, especially the "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me, you Klingon Bastards! (Giggle) Aye then, Mr. Sulu--Intercept course, maximum warp! Red Alert, shields up, weapons to Standby! (I like this ship!)"

 

[Wynterhawk]

While I realize it probably wouldn't make sense to switch to a(nother) parallel universe in the sequel, I gotta echo the "Mirror, Mirror" love. Evil ZQ Spock would be lots of fun.

Ahhh... yes, please. It would be shades of Sylar with pointed ears At least this time, no visible spirit gum, please!!

Though, I'd like to see them retake The Apple. I was pretty amused with all that happened to Spock.

 

[UncleRogi]

And what about "A Taste of Armeggedon"? Almost perfect First (?) Contact mission, Spock's dispays of his abilities, Kirk's total disregard of the Prime Directive to the point of issuing General Order 24, and Scotty more than willing to lay waste to Eminar VII if he doesn't hear from Kirk! Lot's of Potential There...

more--What Mayhem would happen if Kirk got to the Talos Star Group, not Pike? Mayhap that was why Pike's Number one went into medicine...but I confuse my Timelines

These thing are endless, and if chosen well, would make the JJverse cool for newbies as well as for us old pre-TMP farts to applaud, or bitch! The nuCannon would move forward, and us farts would relish the changes made to dear old friends. And who are we to say this ISN"T actually the Mirror Universe-albeit it's begining, Enterprise nonwithstanding? That opens a whole new can of worms--Why WOULDN'T Spock act on his vengence?

Food for thought...

Stay Tuned....

Batman's next episode is coming on....

 

[Harvey]

"A Taste of Armageddon" has too many plot holes to work as a two-hour movie. As a fifty minute episode of television, it was already stretching it.

 

[Sarita]

The new alternate reality definitely deserves new plots...but Amok Time could be quite entertaining.

 

[BillJ]

Kirk's total disregard of the Prime Directive to the point of issuing General Order 24,

A Taste of Armageddon takes place before the Prime Directive encompassed every civilization Starfleet interacted with. That is an invention of Next Gen.

 

[Orcus]

^ Actually, I wouldn't mind a remake of "Eden" if it were closer to the original screenplay. Also, perhaps they can reimagine the space hippies to be less hippy and more creepy cult (ala scientology, solar temple, heaven's gate, etc).

Yes! Now that could work...

 

[UncleRogi]

Kirk's total disregard of the Prime Directive to the point of issuing General Order 24,

A Taste of Armageddon takes place before the Prime Directive encompassed every civilization Starfleet interacted with. That is an invention of Next Gen.

Isn't General Order 1 the Prime Directive?

 

[UncleRogi]

"Who Mourns for Adonis" has serious potential: The first thing nuEnterprise encounters are these who where Earths' Greek Gods, but have a few more than Apollo--What if they ran into Zeus? And wouldn't Hephaestus (SP) mess with Spock's mind, both being Vulcan? Stretch there, but gotta have something to think of at -work-

 

[BillJ]

Kirk's total disregard of the Prime Directive to the point of issuing General Order 24,

A Taste of Armageddon takes place before the Prime Directive encompassed every civilization Starfleet interacted with. That is an invention of Next Gen.

Isn't General Order 1 the Prime Directive?

Yes.

But when it was conceived on Star Trek, it was meant for planets that had not progressed to a certain technological point. It did not encompass space-faring races or races that were aware of life other than themselves in the universe.

The whole point of the mission was to set up relations with Eminiar VII.

KIRK: Code seven-ten means under no circumstances are we to approach that planet. No circumstances what so ever.
FOX: You will disregard that signal, Captain.
KIRK: Mister Fox, it is their planet.
FOX: Captain, in the past twenty years, thousands of lives have been lost in this quadrant. Lives that could have been saved if the Federation had a treaty port here. We mean to have that port and I'm here to get it.
KIRK: By disregarding code seven-ten, you might well involve us in an interplanetary war.
FOX: I'm quite prepared to take that risk.

The don't interfere... no matter who it is or what the situation is, was a creation of Modern trek.

 

[UncleRogi]

Excellent, BillJ, that is the ULTIMATE arguement!!! From cannon!
To play Devil's advocate, Eminiar chose war over exploration....
STILL...General Order 1
Though getting Enterprise to aquiesce (SP) would NOT be happenin'!!
General Order 24
Excellent point!!
They wanna desroy yourselve, so be it.
WE will make sure you hurt no one else.
General Order 24
Of course, they made a treaty...
Kirk wins the Day!
(I wonder what Starfleet Command had to say about that....)

 

[BillJ]

Excellent, BillJ, that is the ULTIMATE arguement!!! From cannon!
To play Devil's advocate, Eminiar chose war over exploration....
STILL...General Order 1
Though getting Enterprise to aquiesce (SP) would NOT be happenin'!!
General Order 24
Excellent point!!
They wanna desroy yourselve, so be it.
WE will make sure you hurt no one else.
General Order 24
Of course, they made a treaty...
Kirk wins the Day!
(I wonder what Starfleet Command had to say about that....)

I don't even know what to make of this post. It's not about canon but about the writers' intentions in sixties versus writers' intentions in the nineties about what the Prime Directive is.

The whole reason for Kirk ordering General Order 24 wasn't to stop them from fighting. It was to stop the spill-over damage that was happening to vessels and crews that had no idea what was going on. Being executed for accidentally stumbling onto the 'civilized' clusterfuck that was transpiring.

A Taste of Armageddon is one of my personal favorites... and I really don't want JJ Abrams and crew anywhere near it.

 

[UncleRogi]

That is an invention of Next Gen.

You are wrong--we are old fart Trekkie and/or Trekkers
if you prefer, for 30+ years

There is very little we can be stumped on concerning TOS.
Might wanna do your research, cuz you would'nt have TNG without TOS.

Some Star Trek fan YOU are

Zane

 

[JarodRussell]

LOL, this TOS elitism is fascinating.

 

[UncleRogi]

The whole reason for Kirk ordering General Order 24 wasn't to stop them from fighting. It was to stop the spill-over damage that was happening to vessels and crews that had no idea what was going on. Being executed for accidentally stumbling onto the 'civilized' clusterfuck that was transpiring.

That very reason is why J.T. Kirk is the best at what he does

 

[BillJ]

That is an invention of Next Gen.

You are wrong--we are old fart Trekkie and/or Trekkers
if you prefer, for 30+ years

There is very little we can be stumped on concerning TOS.
Might wanna do your research, cuz you would'nt have TNG without TOS.

Some Star Trek fan YOU are

Zane

Let... me... say... it... real... slow... for... you...

The use of the Prime Directive as a 'catch-all' for dealing with any interstellar species and their issues was done by the writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The creation of the Prime Directive dates to the episode The Return of the Archons.

By the definition used in the original series:

From Bread and Circuses

SPOCK: Then the Prime Directive is in full force, Captain?
KIRK: No identification of self or mission. No interference with the social development of said planet.
MCCOY: No references to space, or the fact that there are other worlds, or more advanced civilisations.
KIRK: Let's go

LOL, this TOS elitism is fascinating.

Always love when people attribute facts to elitism.