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Best Two-Parter Edited into a Movie?

Yeah, sorry, I was replying to the comment that BoBW was written as a movie. I was saying that when they wrote and aired part 1 they had no idea how they were going to finish it.
 
The only episodes intended to be aired as movies were:

Encounter At Farpoint
All Good Things
Emissary
Way of the Warrior
What You Leave Behind
Caretaker
Dark Frontier
Flesh and Blood
Endgame
Broken Bow

All of which were aired as TV Movies when they were first shown...

Of those, Dark Frontier and Flesh and Blood are the only two which weren't either a Premier (Season/Series) or Series Finale...

I'm no Voyager expert, but wasn't "Killing Game" also aired as a movie as well - AND it wasn't a season premiere/ender?
 
The only episodes intended to be aired as movies were:

Encounter At Farpoint
All Good Things
Emissary
Way of the Warrior
What You Leave Behind
Caretaker
Dark Frontier
Flesh and Blood
Endgame
Broken Bow

All of which were aired as TV Movies when they were first shown...

Of those, Dark Frontier and Flesh and Blood are the only two which weren't either a Premier (Season/Series) or Series Finale...

I'm no Voyager expert, but wasn't "Killing Game" also aired as a movie as well - AND it wasn't a season premiere/ender?

I seem to recall that, like "Year of Hell" it didn't air as a movie, but both parts aired the same night?
 
Heck yeah they did not know how to continue TBOBW once they reached the cliffhanger. I knew that even at the time in 1990 without aid of internet, your right there my friends.
 
Encounter at Farpoint was a good story, but it needs a lot of work. I think with some minor changes, it would be a great movie.
 
That would have to be Redemption, so much more could have been added to Redemption and out of all the TNG two-parters you would not have to remove things from it because it is that good. Redemption is the TNG version of The Way of the Warrior!
 
Redemption would work rather well as a tie-in theaterical movie. It ceratainly came at a time that the series was overflowing with creativity and public interest soared.
 
Heck yeah they did not know how to continue TBOBW once they reached the cliffhanger. I knew that even at the time in 1990 without aid of internet, your right there my friends.

Starlog, Starlog, Starlog!! Yup i remember reading in the summer 1990 issues how fans thought the story should be concluded. Found out after the writers did not know either how Part 2 would be concluded after they wrote part 1.

Yep Starlog magazine was our scifi internet back in those days. I still have all those magazines stored away. :)

As for movies, BOBW had a movie like cinema soundtrack, thats for sure.
 
^ Yup, Ron Jones treated every episode like a cinematic experience and tailored the music to match it...

So Rick Berman fired him...
 
Yeah, but it was interesting that they didn't edit them together into one movie when they'd done it for Dark Frontier. Maybe they needed the credits to serve as filler?
 
Killing game was season 4...it was because of its success that DF (season 5) was commissioned as a Voyager TV Movie...
 
And Way of the Warrior was done two years earlier on DS9 as a movie. I suppose it had never been done when it wasn't a premiere, but Way of the Warrior was the first mid-series movie. I do think the need for filler was there, reading up a bit on the background at Memory Alpha.
 
Way of the Warrior was a Season Premier, it was also arguably a second pilot for the series - introduction of Worf, new status quo, changed opening sequence, sisko's new look etc etc
 
Rick Berman's argument was that the music was so epic that it was detracting from the episodes...to which my response is, don't write shitty episodes and we won't have to resort to the music to find something good about it...
 
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