A Thought

[myselfeneye]

This is something I don't think will ever happen for real, and I'm sure you'll all get a good laugh out of the idea, but I believe it has the potential to be pretty cool...if it's done right!

I've wanted for a long time now to write a story based on Spider-Man existing in the Star Trek universe. More specifically, a what-if scenario where Peter Parker is a cadet on the Enterprise-D and gets his powers right beforehand. He still keeps it a secret and still fights bad guys in his costume, but of course practical concerns make it work...differently. Obviously, fighting in the tight environment of a starship is complicated, especially with his fighting style, and how is he going to get down to the planet or wherever they've beamed to without anybody knowing about it?!

I figure Parker would be in the sciences, not in security, and if he were ever caught tampering with something he'd jeopardize his Starfleet career, which I don't want to have happen. Getting in trouble for abandoning his post or negligence? That's acceptable.

Picard could easily replace J. Jonah Jameson as the most prominent anti-Spider-Man character, always heard to be shouting "Get him off my ship!" Always trying to apprehend him and find out his true identity. In fact, Spidey would be almost as big of a pain as Q.

All of Spidey's super-villains could be given origins that fit within the context of the Star Trek universe. They could be scientists who are getting ferried from one world to another and experience some kind of accident...and the supporting characters like Flash and Gwen could just be other cadets on the ship.

I'm debating whether or not I want to work his stories in and remake TNG with Spidey shaking things up and redirecting the plot. I could instead fit his stories between episodes and make it seem as though he's always been there and they just clean up and return to normal after the bad guys are defeated...kind of like gumping.

Thoughts? Opinions? Am I crazy or could it be interesting?

 

[tenmei]

I don't think it could work, given the confines of the starship - especially on the Enterprise D, they'd just be able to track down his life signs and the transporter would probably be able to filter out the impurities introduced by the atomic spider. You'd have to majorly overhaul the story to make it work.

I'm typing this up because I can't sleep - so it might not make as much sense as I think that it does:

Set it in the same period as TOS. Parker's a fresh faced ensign, the new Science Officer of a distant outpost in the middle of nowhere under the command of Commander J. Jonah Jameson alongside Flash and Gwen, communications officer and shuttle pilot respectively. He has a crush on the Commander's newly arrived Yeoman, Mary Jane Watson and is taken under the wing of kindly older woman, Doctor May "Aunt May" Reilly. The pilot episode sees Parker arrive, alongside a delegation of theoretical scientists from the Tucker Institute, and subjected to a strange transporter accident that overhauls his DNA to give him enhanced abilities. Unfortunately, one of the theoretical scientists, Doctor Octavius, realises this - a crippled Human who uses a four armed ex-suit to navigate his labs - and tries to use the transporter to rip the altered DNA from the science officer. Somehow Octavius is stopped and the evidence of the DNA sequencing is ripped from the computer (could be suggested that one of the main characters knows what's gone on and has wiped evidence of it from the computer) whilst Jameson is convinced that the presence of a strange figure stalking the corridors and streets of his outpost is a previously unknown native of the planet and wants to track him down.

 

[myselfeneye]

Hey, thanks for the constructive criticism. This is going to sound a bit weird, but you're right. I mean, your idea is sound and it makes the most sense for the plot I have in mind. And yet...it's not what I want to do. For some reason the idea of Parker/Spidey on the Enterprise-D has been rattling around in my head and it seems like the only way to satisfy myself is to make that happen. Guess I can get a bit obsessive?

Something about making it work appeals to me. Yeah, the corridors and rooms on the D are pretty tight, and yeah, keeping his identity secret would be nigh impossible, but I'll make it work, dammit! Haha, so don't take it the wrong way, I totally acknowledge that you know what you're talking about and that if I were a sensible person I'd listen to you. But I've just gotta do this.

In the '60's, Parker made his own webbing, and I don't know when he invented those Spider-tracers, but they worked pretty well. I figure in the 24th century he'd be able to make some kind of jamming device or a formula he could inject himself with that would mask his DNA, and certainly he could either take off his combadge or tamper with the inside of the thing so that it turns off.

I pondered introducing other Marvel characters into the Trek universe, but I won't even try unless I can get the Spidey thing going. I was thinking Daredevil would be the perfect candidate for DS9--it's a dark place much like Hell's Kitchen, and it's a place where if he's smart he won't get caught. Now...explaining why he can't get rid of his blindness? I suppose he doesn't want to lose his radar sense...?

Attaching a hero to the Voyager crew's even more complicated, but perhaps the Exiles would work...

 

[hellsgate]

A crossover is quite possible, though I'd make it an accident of fate. Two subspace realities collide as the Starship Mandela accidentally intersects with a subspace fissure.

(Very much like the one Worf collided with in his personnel shuttle & started 'shifting' between alternate realities. In addition to the one that Harry Kim ran into & 'shifted' back to Earth before finding the route back to Voyager.)

September 2008:
Peter Parker is on his Honeymoon with his M.J., en-route to their hideaway, they're sucked into a vortex lurking, surging & twisting around from location to location along the precipices of The Bermuda Triangle, completely at random. An experimental Skrull device, designed to trap The Fantastic Four & their allies, except it captured Spidey & M.J. this time around.

December 2379:
Elsewhere, the Legacy-Class starship U.S.S. Mandela is responding to a bizarre set of phenomena. Sensors pick-up a certain long-distance transporter-like signal (the same sort used by Gary Seven.) Information, of course contained in Mandela's computer database (from Kirk & Spock's science logs.) It looks like the opening of DS9's wormhole. They can't understand what's going on as it just suddenly appears & then disappears just as quickly. Nothing comes through, except someone below decks incites an intruder alert. Peter & M.J. are found in someone's quarters. Other passengers are found distributed throughout the rest of the ship from the plane.

 

[sojourner]

I don't think it could work, given the confines of the starship - especially on the Enterprise D, they'd just be able to track down his life signs and the transporter would probably be able to filter out the impurities introduced by the atomic spider. You'd have to majorly overhaul the story to make it work.

I'm typing this up because I can't sleep - so it might not make as much sense as I think that it does:

Set it in the same period as TOS. Parker's a fresh faced ensign, the new Science Officer of a distant outpost in the middle of nowhere under the command of Commander J. Jonah Jameson alongside Flash and Gwen, communications officer and shuttle pilot respectively. He has a crush on the Commander's newly arrived Yeoman, Mary Jane Watson and is taken under the wing of kindly older woman, Doctor May "Aunt May" Reilly. The pilot episode sees Parker arrive, alongside a delegation of theoretical scientists from the Tucker Institute, and subjected to a strange transporter accident that overhauls his DNA to give him enhanced abilities. Unfortunately, one of the theoretical scientists, Doctor Octavius, realises this - a crippled Human who uses a four armed ex-suit to navigate his labs - and tries to use the transporter to rip the altered DNA from the science officer. Somehow Octavius is stopped and the evidence of the DNA sequencing is ripped from the computer (could be suggested that one of the main characters knows what's gone on and has wiped evidence of it from the computer) whilst Jameson is convinced that the presence of a strange figure stalking the corridors and streets of his outpost is a previously unknown native of the planet and wants to track him down.

I gotta ask. Would that be the Tucker Institute of Technology? T.I.T.?

 

[Jono]

Not sure if you are aware of this but they did a X-Men/TNG crossover novel back in the 90s called, Planet X. I can't remember how but the X-Men were brought into the Trek universe and onto a planet that was experiencing the same thing that happened to Earth in the X-Men universe (ordinary people developing super powers).

As for working Spiderman into a story, I agree with the poster above that the Enterprise-D wouldn't work as a primary location. You could have do what TOS did and a species that looked exactly like humans developing on a similar path only that they start developing super-powers, super villians start flooding out to threaten the Federation and Spiderman is recruited to help hunt them down.

Or have him an accident due to genetic engineering gone wrong or purposely designed by Section 31 or some other insidious organisation. That way his very being is against Federation law on genetic engineering, which would make him an outcast who wants to help the Federation but the Federation is strictly against who and what he is.