This isn’t meant as a debate of the merits of TWOK vs. TMP. Suffice to say after all these years TMP, particularly the recent 2022 DE, is my favourite of the Trek films. TWOK is second despite my reservations. They’re somewhat like two sides of the same coin.
Whatever. Although I enjoyed TWOK when it debuted, and each of the successive films in varying degree as they were released, I am disappointed we never got a TMP era followup with the crew now into a new deep space mission.
So what if the-powers-that-be had said, “Yeah, we’re making money, enough to warrant a followup, but the next one has got to have more zip, more energy, to it.” So they green-light TWOK story, but with some tweaks to fit it closer to the events in TMP.
Something like this. The refit Enterprise is two or three years into its current 5-year mission (this fits with the three years that actually passed between TMP and TWOK). Much of the sets and costumes are retained except for tweaking the uniforms, but particularly jettisoning the fugly one-piece jumpsuits. Chekov has since been been promoted off-ship and assigned to Reliant as we later learn. A worried Starfleet assigns the Enterprise to investigate the sudden silence of Reliant that was involved in a highly sensitive experiment.
I never cared for the David Marcus element. In this story set years earlier than what we saw David would be too young to have been involved in such scientific research. But it could still be Carol Marcus at the forefront of the Genesis research, with or without a young David hanging around (preferably without). Saavik we keep with Chekov now assigned somewhere else.
The rest of the story unfolds largely similar to what we got.
It’s just a thought.
Whatever. Although I enjoyed TWOK when it debuted, and each of the successive films in varying degree as they were released, I am disappointed we never got a TMP era followup with the crew now into a new deep space mission.
So what if the-powers-that-be had said, “Yeah, we’re making money, enough to warrant a followup, but the next one has got to have more zip, more energy, to it.” So they green-light TWOK story, but with some tweaks to fit it closer to the events in TMP.
Something like this. The refit Enterprise is two or three years into its current 5-year mission (this fits with the three years that actually passed between TMP and TWOK). Much of the sets and costumes are retained except for tweaking the uniforms, but particularly jettisoning the fugly one-piece jumpsuits. Chekov has since been been promoted off-ship and assigned to Reliant as we later learn. A worried Starfleet assigns the Enterprise to investigate the sudden silence of Reliant that was involved in a highly sensitive experiment.
I never cared for the David Marcus element. In this story set years earlier than what we saw David would be too young to have been involved in such scientific research. But it could still be Carol Marcus at the forefront of the Genesis research, with or without a young David hanging around (preferably without). Saavik we keep with Chekov now assigned somewhere else.
The rest of the story unfolds largely similar to what we got.
It’s just a thought.
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