Comedy plots that should have been done

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

What are some funny Star Trek plots you would have liked to see?

I thought of one: a Starfleet landing party and one from an alien ship each land on the same planet for the first time. Each thinks the others are the planet's native inhabitants and tries to avoid breaking the Prime Directive, avoiding, observing, and hiding from each other to the point of ridiculousness, with many near misses.

It would be even funnier if the planet's real natives are watching the whole thing play out and are finding it bewildering/hilarious. Of course, you could just have the two groups unaware of each other, with no native species.

 

[Marynator]

I guess I never really thought of Star Trek as comedy, but I suppose your conversation is going on in The Orville writer's room?

Your plot does sound very funny, but I feel it'd be avoided because each ship would scan each other in orbit? I could see them beaming down and finding some other race's study outpost and think it's indigenous life maybe, lol?

Something I think would be funny would be like if some alien force somehow swaps everyone's consciousness, it'd be extra funny in a situation like "Journey to Babel" where you have all sorts of delegates on board, but everyone's suddenly in someone else's body, and there's chaos!

 

[pst]

anything with sonya gomez.

 

[F. King Daniel]

That proposed episode where Daniels recruits the Enterprise NX-01's chef (played by William Shatner) to impersonate James T. Kirk at a vital moment the real Kirk is absent for.

Enterprise meets Dave.

 

[pst]

That proposed episode where Daniels recruits the Enterprise NX-01's chef (played by William Shatner) to impersonate James T. Kirk at a vital moment the real Kirk is absent for.

Enterprise meets Dave.

this is actually a really good idea, comedy plot or not.

 

[1001001]

I think Mr. Tricorder should have had his own spinoff.

 

[Kilana2]

I think Mr. Tricorder should have had his own spinoff.

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At least this is better than Data's attempts at stand-up comedy in the Okona episode.....

 

[Mysterion]

I once started a fanfic where the Ent-D finds a drifting pod containing Harry Mudd in stasis (having found a way off the android planet many, many years prior). The pod is beamed aboard and opened. Upon being revived the first person Mudd sees is Data. Conversation goes something like:

Mudd: You're Starfleet?

Data: Yes.

Mudd: (groans) What ship?

Data: Enterprise, sir.

Mudd: Ohmygod! Please tell me Kirk isn't still in command...

Data: No sir. Our Captain is named Picard

(Mudd is relieved and obviously doesn't know how long he's been in stasis)

Mudd (to Data): what species are you?

Data: I am an android, Sir.

Mudd: Aaaaaiiiiieeeeeee!!!!!!

Hilarity ensues. Eventually Mudd would have been the key element to solving a negotioation with some Ferengi. I really never got past the first couple of pages, and should probably revisit this at some point.

(Edit to add some details of above scene I'd forgotten over the last twenty years)

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I guess I never really thought of Star Trek as comedy, but I suppose your conversation is going on in The Orville writer's room?

I was thinking the same thing, that's a GREAT idea for Orville.

I used to draw a scifi comedy webcomic and an idea I did was like an Avatar reversal. There was a native species that wanted to cut down their ancient forest and industrialize, and the foreign invaders wanted to prevent them from cutting down their forest because they had a flourishing tourist industry of people who loved seeing the beautiful forest and adorable backwards natives. That could also work on some incarnations of Star Trek, and of course Orville.

In my story, the heroes tried to valiantly intervene and help the natives, but then the natives ended up making a deal with the foreign invaders. It dawned on them, "We can move souls from one body to another, and they can make bodies. So together, we're going into the immortality business!" Then said "Yeah, thanks for trying to help but no thanks, we took care of ourselves."

That's just something I'd love to see happen in SOME episode of Star Trek. Every time it turns out the natives can take care of themselves, it's because they're secretly super-advanced. You never see less technologically advanced natives who can actually manage to solve their own problems without valiant outsiders.

 

[Jayson1]

I can think of a few:

1 A space anomoly transfers Worf's memories and personality into every member of the crew except Data od course. What if you had a ship where it was basically 1000 versions of Worf having to solve the problem to fix things.

2 Always had a alternate universe DS9 idea set in a mirror universe where DS9 was bought by the Ferengi after the Occupation and has basically become a floating Las Vegas in Space and Quark owns the station. Odo is his butler, man servant, Kira is kind of a Bajoran Beaurcrat/union supervisor to make sure Bajoran employees are treated fairly. Jadzia is Quark's wife, Starfleet doesn't exist in this universe but humans still travel through space and Sisko,O'Brien and Bashir and others are basically hired to provide Security. Worf is a drunkard gambling attic who is always hanging around. Turns out Odo and Jadzia who can't stand Quark want to rob the place. Of course this before "Badda BIng."

3 A "Herman's Head" episode where we sort of see all the previous Dax host talking to each other while looking like their human selves.

Jason

 

[Farscape One]

A STAR TREK version of the SUPERNATURAL episode "THE FRENCH MISTAKE".

 

[diankra]

I once started a fanfic where the Ent-D finds a drifting pod containing Harry Mudd in stasis (having found a way off the android planet many, many years prior). The pod is beamed aboard and opened. Upon being revived the first person Mudd sees is Data. Conversation goes something like:

Mudd: You're Starfleet?

Data: Yes.

Mudd: (groans) What ship?

Data: Enterprise, sir.

Mudd: Ohmygod! Please tell me Kirk isn't still in command...

Data: No sir. Our Captain is named Picard

(Mudd is relieved and obviously doesn't know how long he's been in stasis)

Mudd (to Data): what species are you?

Data: I am an android, Sir.

Mudd: Aaaaaiiiiieeeeeee!!!!!!

Hilarity ensues. Eventually Mudd would have been the key element to solving a negotioation with some Ferengi. I really never got past the first couple of pages, and should probably revisit this at some point.

(Edit to add some details of above scene I'd forgotten over the last twenty years)

According to David Gerrold at the time, an episode along some of those lines was in development when Roger C Carmel died.

 

[Mysterion]

^^^
Probably heard that somewhere and that sparked the idea for a fanfic story. Too bad we never got an episode like that.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I had an idea for an episode where the crew is being observed by an invisible race and every time something happens, the race laughs. So, an episode poking fun at shows with canned laughter, except the crew is trying to figure out where it's coming from, with hilarious results!

 

[caseylee4ts]

A TNG version of "Turnabout Intruder," but less maniacal. Maybe it's a "Freaky Friday" kind of thing where Beverly and Wesley switch bodies. Or Riker and Troi. Or Picard and Wesley. Or Picard and Molly... I could go on forever.

 

[eschaton]

At least this is better than Data's attempts at stand-up comedy in the Okona episode.....

Now I want to watch a whole episode of Data just doing poetry readings.

 

[Kilana2]

Now I want to watch a whole episode of Data just doing poetry readings.

Riker fell once asleep while listening to it.....

 

[F. King Daniel]

At least this is better than Data's attempts at stand-up comedy in the Okona episode.....

Yes but so is volunteering for recreational dentistry.