YARN
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Any interesting changes? How/why would it be different TOS style? Who would be doing what?
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Any interesting changes? How/why would it be different TOS style? Who would be doing what?
The basic premise is the same: a world of a race of arms merchants. But I did make detail changes.
The story starts out with the Enterprise coming across an older Starfleet cruiser, the Atlantis, now derelict and showing signs of heavy damage. In trying to figure out what happened they track the ship's drift back to an unknown star system. The Atlantis' logs indicate it was in search of a rumoured planet of advanced weaponry and had been dispatched on its mission during a particular time of intense conflict with the Klingons decades past (around the time of the battle at Donatu 5).
Upon assuming orbit they find a deserted world despite also receiving an alien transmission from a very alien looking specimen. Uhura is in charge of deciphering/translating it. Kirk wants to lead a landing party to investigate, but Spock offers a logical argument for Kirk remaining aboard while he leads the landing party. Kirk relents.
Before long both the landing party and the ship are under attack. The landing party (Spock, Chekov, Sheffield and Andorian Security Officer Rul) find themselves in a running battle even as they try to solve the riddle of this planet and what has happened (no redshirts die, but Sheffield is badly injured). Meanwhile Kirk takes the ship out of orbit for a better fighting chance and finally withdraws (reluctantly) from the system while they (Kirk, Scott, Sulu and the Assistant Science Officer) try to figure out a way to rescue the landing party.
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"Spock's Brain" in TNG. A group of primitive, barely sentient Andrea-style androids called Eymorgs that were originally made as pleasure droids but ultimately outlived their creators steal Data's brain and integrate it into the central computer that they use to build more of themselves, to try to expand the capacity of their future offspring, and also to try to upgrade the current units, because they want to be more than they are. Ultimately, Geordi also connects his VISOR to their central computer to make contact with Data with visual code, and then Data walks him through first reconnecting him to his body so that he can use his mouth to speak, and then through putting his brain back into his body. After being reintergrated, Data tells Captain Picard that he has inserted code into the Eymorg computer that should prevent them from being a problem in the future, but that Starfleet should still probably place the planet under quarantine. And he promises the Eymorgs that he will return when he can, and makes some comment about perhaps finally having a people of his own.
(After the episode, when this is followed up on, perhaps Starfleet Security blocks him from fulfilling this promise for a while because of the threat the Eymorgs could represent if they truly became a race of Datas/Lores.)
(After the episode, when this is followed up on, perhaps Starfleet Security blocks him from fulfilling this promise for a while because of the threat the Eymorgs could represent if they truly became a race of Datas/Lores.)
Chimera as an episode of TOS with Spock as Odo and Sybok as Laas.
The episode would play out as a debate about why Spock lives and works with humans, but also serving as an explanation to when and how Sybok started to reject Vulcan ways and embraced mystical religion. Instead of linking, the brothers share unusual experiences mild melding, giving Sybok a more direct understanding of Spock's conflicted human half. Thirsty for more human experiences, Sybok forcibly melds with an Enterprise crewmember, either injuring him mentally or killing him. Spock helps Sybok escape. In the last scene, Nurse Chapel attempts to ease Spock's guilt, but instead of sharing the experience with her, he further isolates himself and buries his pain.
The episode would play out as a debate about why Spock lives and works with humans, but also serving as an explanation to when and how Sybok started to reject Vulcan ways and embraced mystical religion. Instead of linking, the brothers share unusual experiences mild melding, giving Sybok a more direct understanding of Spock's conflicted human half. Thirsty for more human experiences, Sybok forcibly melds with an Enterprise crewmember, either injuring him mentally or killing him. Spock helps Sybok escape. In the last scene, Nurse Chapel attempts to ease Spock's guilt, but instead of sharing the experience with her, he further isolates himself and buries his pain.
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Isn't she Yeoman Chappel's roommate?
Clark Terrell
Lieutenant Commander
Let's hope not.
YARN
Fleet Captain
Hey, I did a character swap along with an episode swap. At least, that's the story I am going to stick with.
YARN
Fleet Captain
Voyager's "Alice" - TOS - style
The Enterprise needs a whatsit to make thingamajig for the warp-drive to work and they're far away from Federation territory.
Uhura detects a signal coming from a junk dealer on a near by planet, so they check it out.
While Kirk and Spock negotiate the price in trade, Scotty inspects the goods and eyes an alien shuttle. He starts acting funny after he sits in it for a few minutes. Scotty insists that a part the Enterprise needs is in the shuttle and they need to bring it aboard the Enteprise so that he can remove the part without damaging it. Spock cocks an eyebrow, but the story sounds plausible enough and the landing party is quickly distracted by the haggling junk dealer.
Scotty's neural engrams merge with the shuttle and he starts seeing a woman, the manifestation of the shuttle.
End Game - Scotty recovers the same way Kirk always does. The Enterprise is his true love, so he manages to finally pry himself away from the alien technology. Episode ends with Scotty creepily touching the controls in engineering and him saying, "Aye, I could never leave ya lass! You're my first and only true love."
The Enterprise needs a whatsit to make thingamajig for the warp-drive to work and they're far away from Federation territory.
Uhura detects a signal coming from a junk dealer on a near by planet, so they check it out.
While Kirk and Spock negotiate the price in trade, Scotty inspects the goods and eyes an alien shuttle. He starts acting funny after he sits in it for a few minutes. Scotty insists that a part the Enterprise needs is in the shuttle and they need to bring it aboard the Enteprise so that he can remove the part without damaging it. Spock cocks an eyebrow, but the story sounds plausible enough and the landing party is quickly distracted by the haggling junk dealer.
Scotty's neural engrams merge with the shuttle and he starts seeing a woman, the manifestation of the shuttle.
End Game - Scotty recovers the same way Kirk always does. The Enterprise is his true love, so he manages to finally pry himself away from the alien technology. Episode ends with Scotty creepily touching the controls in engineering and him saying, "Aye, I could never leave ya lass! You're my first and only true love."
Clark Terrell
Lieutenant Commander
"Conspiracy" would make a great TOS episode. Kirk is summoned to a remote Federation colony by Margaret Alexander (USS Saratoga) and finds himself among Starfleet's finest--Alexander, Joel Randolph (USS Yorktown), Morgan Bateson and Clark Terrell.
Bateson grills Kirk while the other officers stand and watch, and the two nearly come to blows. Alexander apologizes and explains that Starfleet has become the target of an alien conspiracy as a prelude to invasion from an unknown source. Kirk is skeptical but listens as Randolph details puzzling events of the past six months and promises to look into things on his end. Kirk then turns to leave, but not before he's admonished by Terrell: "Watch your back, Admiral."
Bateson grills Kirk while the other officers stand and watch, and the two nearly come to blows. Alexander apologizes and explains that Starfleet has become the target of an alien conspiracy as a prelude to invasion from an unknown source. Kirk is skeptical but listens as Randolph details puzzling events of the past six months and promises to look into things on his end. Kirk then turns to leave, but not before he's admonished by Terrell: "Watch your back, Admiral."
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