Episodes They Should've Done

[Trekker09]

Intriguing ideas here.
I always disliked The Q episodes, but wouldn’t mind seeing what happened to Amanda Rogers....she seemed more interested in using her power to help people than causing trouble. Did she go to the Academy and join Starfleet, or the Continuum.

 

[somebuddyX]

A proper crossover with DS9.
The episode where they find Chekov was a POW on same alien planet that Naren Shankar wrote.
The episode from Season 2 where they were going to bring back the Guardian of Forever and have Leonard Nimoy as both yound and old Spock.
The opening of Season 2 where the Enterprise and Romulans team up to fight the guys who destroyed the outposts in "The Neutral Zone", an Insectoid race (who weren't the "'Conspiracy" aliens as far as I know.)
The episode where Lore returns and wants Data to euthanise him.

 

[Farscape One]

I'd through in a line to the effect of, "That's what the California-class ships are for!"





I know the backstory that the slugs were the start of the idea for the Borg, but I don't see why they couldn't have done something with them even after the Borg appeared. While they both take over someone, the Conspiracy aliens might just be more terrifying, since you at least see the Borg coming. Those slugs took over the admiralty with relative ease. After their loss in "Conspiracy," they could have found another way to infiltrate and this time not arouse suspicions.


I do think it's a testament to the writing staff (or maybe a condemnation of our creativity) that the majority of these suggestions are follow-ups. TNG did a great job of giving us a variety of episodes over the 7 years. They dabbled in different genres (You've got your horror episodes, your love interest episodes, your comedy episodes, a little Noir/private detective, fantasy episodes, etc.).

I think, really, the only thing missing is a musical episode. The crew could have encountered a species that communicates only through music and song. Or Q could force them to sing instead of talk. With the latter, imagine a tense situation with the Romulans, where Picard can only sing to communicate with them in an attempt to diffuse the situation.

On the other hand, maybe it's for the best we never got a musical episode!

A musical episode?

No. Just no.

 

[Trekker09]

A musical episode?

No. Just no.

Well, but It’s no crazier than the Tamarians quoting phrases from their ancient legends to communicate.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

We could be talking about as few as one or two people by then, & they may have been willing to accept that fate for her sake, but I too imagine there being no more survivors left alive, by some short time after Tasha was killed, if there'd been any left by then at all. Her consortium deal was the only thing keeping them alive, & it was abandoned by her.

Yeah, I think it's safe to assume that Romulans don't treat their prisoners particularly well. So even for the Ent-C crew who initially survived... abuse, torture and starvation (which it'd seem obvious that Romulans regularly engage in) would gradually thin the herd.

Then again, I see no reason to take anything Sela says at face value. Because another thing Romulans always do is LIE. Either Sela was lying to Picard, or her superiors were lying to HER. That's also in the Romulan wheelhouse.

 

[somebuddyX]

I think it would have been interesting to see the Stargazer again, somehow.
The Sela thing is kind of a nothing reveal to me because so what if she looks like Tasha. She's just another Romulan flunky and they don't do anything interesting with her anyway. Now if she'd somehow been Tasha herself and was working for the Romulans, I feel that might have been interesting.

 

[STEPhon IT]

You do have a point here. That could have been interesting.

I would also have liked to see an episode where Wesley Crusher decides to go back to Starfleet in season 7. I think they ruined and destroyed the character in the episode Journey's End.

I would also have liked to see some crossover episodes with DS9 with adventures and events in the Gamma Quadrant.

It was a missed opportunity to have a crossover between the 2 franchises because Season 7 was terrible; how cool it would be to save that budget for "Gambit" and "Sub Rosa" for a crossover. The Maquis was just getting started, I thought a TNG/DS9 tale could involve that storyline or a special mission to explore the Wormhole or discover an undiscovered orb which the Bajorans thought was lost?

I think it would have been interesting to see the Stargazer again, somehow.

"The mysterious death of Jack Crusher"

 

[STEPhon IT]

Intriguing ideas here.
I always disliked The Q episodes, but wouldn’t mind seeing what happened to Amanda Rogers....she seemed more interested in using her power to help people than causing trouble. Did she go to the Academy and join Starfleet, or the Continuum.

She should've returned for VOY "Death Wish"

 

[Summer Solstice]

Contrarily however, one major example of some backstory we know almost nothing at all about, which dramatically affected a total of 3 of our handful of major characters, is the death of Jack Crusher. WTF went on there? Undoubtedly the linchpin worst day of 3 main characters' lives, & I couldn't even tell you wtf happened to the guy. Some away mission where Picard made a call that got him killed or something? Brother, is that coffer empty. Almost no show ever leaves that much on the table, unchewed

That's a really good point. You've made me realise I just made up my own head canon of what happened and we don't find out on the show. I think it was something like the Stargazer was leaking radiation and someone had to stop it but that person would be exposed to so much radiation that they would die. There were no other ships nearby, long range communications were down and no planets with a breathable atmosphere close enough to land the escape pods before they would run out of air. Picard wants to be the person who stops the radiation leak, but he can't get to that bit of the ship, he's trapped on the bridge which is cut off from the rest of the ship. Picard orders Jack Crusher to stop the radiation leak, he would feel guilty ordering anyone else because he would have picked his friend to live over someone else simply because Crusher is his friend and he knows that if he told Crusher to pick the best person to stop the radiation leak then Crusher would do it himself anyway. Picard keeps the comm line open and hears his friend die because he doesn't want him to die alone. Picard misses his friend and feels guilty that Crusher who had a family died when Picard lived. He spends months and years thinking about what he could have done differently that day (going to engineering and leaving Crusher in charge on the bridge earlier in the day, etc). Dr Crusher seemed to be at peace with what had happened and didn't hold it against Picard at all. I think Picard was willing to be friends with his crew on the Stargazer but after Jack Crusher died, it became one of the things he felt guilty about - if they hadn't been friends, Picard could have ordered someone else to stop the radiation leak.

I think, really, the only thing missing is a musical episode. The crew could have encountered a species that communicates only through music and song. Or Q could force them to sing instead of talk. With the latter, imagine a tense situation with the Romulans, where Picard can only sing to communicate with them in an attempt to diffuse the situation.

On the other hand, maybe it's for the best we never got a musical episode!

I love the singing scene in INS. I would love it if there had been a musical episode - I don't think it would be an amazing story, but I think the cast would give it 100% and it would be obvious that they were having a lot of fun so it would be worth watching for that.

 

[Oddish]

A musical episode?

No. Just no.

"The Inner Light" and "Lessons", maybe?

 

[Farscape One]

Those don't count because those are basically concerts in the episodes. TNG had a LOT of concerts throughout the show.

A musical episode would be like the XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS episode "THE BITTER SUITE".


I suppose the closest the franchise ever got to a musical episode was "VIRTUOSO", where they encounter a race that never heard of music. It really damaged The Doctor's character because he was even more arrogant than usual and his decision to stay for fickle fandom instead of on the ship with his friends and helping to keep them alive was just so incredibly selfish.

 

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Quite likely my single favorite bit from ROBOT CHICKEN.

 

[Mojochi]

Intriguing ideas here.
I always disliked The Q episodes, but wouldn’t mind seeing what happened to Amanda Rogers....she seemed more interested in using her power to help people than causing trouble. Did she go to the Academy and join Starfleet, or the Continuum.

I think the main fear about her for the Continuum is the same one that has sent Q to the Human race to begin with, & the tie-in that ought to maybe have happened is one where what becomes of Wesley & his emerging supernatural gift is just the beginning. Humanity is clearly on the verge of a monumental evolutionary change, not unlike John Doe the Zalkonian from Transfigurations, & Wes is the start of it, & Amanda Rogers could be a key factor in how Humanity & that very development is going to drastically change the Q by incorporating a more human compassion at their levels of existence. How does that even work? Are there hierarchies to the higher consciousnesses? We've seen lots of beings with some supernatural capabilities & Wes is one of them now & Amanda Rogers is a very odd situation where one of the elite beings values Humanity enough to choose their way of life. We've skirted that subject quite a lot.

That's a really good point. You've made me realise I just made up my own head canon of what happened and we don't find out on the show. I think it was something like the Stargazer was leaking radiation and someone had to stop it but that person would be exposed to so much radiation that they would die.

Except the word is that it was some kind of life & death away mission accident, where Picard had to make a call and Jack perished as a result. That could be some kind of Nervala IV situation like Riker had, or Commander Darren in Lessons. It is labeled an accident, so it could even be a deal like Geordi in The Enemy. An accident happens off ship, and Picard as captain is forced somehow to not save him.

 

[Lynx]

It was a missed opportunity to have a crossover between the 2 franchises because Season 7 was terrible; how cool it would be to save that budget for "Gambit" and "Sub Rosa" for a crossover. The Maquis was just getting started, I thought a TNG/DS9 tale could involve that storyline or a special mission to explore the Wormhole or discover an undiscovered orb which the Bajorans thought was lost?


"The mysterious death of Jack Crusher"

Yes, that would have been something. I would have liked to see it instead of Journey's End and with a more normal Wesley Crusher who didn't get ruined the way he was in Journey's End.

I have to agree. Season 7 was a bit weak, however I don't find Gambit that weak.
But the whole scenario around the wormhole with The Maquis and all tghat would have been perfect for some crossovers with the Enterprise investigation the ongoing affairs.

She should've returned for VOY "Death Wish"

I would have liked to see her in more episodes, maybe as Q's sidekick.
Oh dear, when I think of it now, I should have had Amanda restoring Kes back to normal in my story instead of Q, although Q is funnier to write about.

 

[at Quark's]

Humanity is clearly on the verge of a monumental evolutionary change

Perhaps on the Q timescale, that 'verge' could mean it's going to happen slowly over the next 100.000 years or so (still only a blip in cosmic time), with prodigies or people with extraordinary gifts such as Wesley gradually becoming more common.

What we've seen thus far of the 32nd century (800 years after TNG) doesn't look that different in terms of human evolution, after all.

 

[somebuddyX]

This isn't an episode I think TNG should have done but I was thinking about an episode of Voyager where Worf met B'Elanna. It's hard to come up with a way for that to happen that doesn't feel like a retread of "Author, Author" for them literally meeting, or "Flashback" or "Barge of the Dead" for figuratively. I just think it would be interesting to put those two together where they have to go do some Klingon quest and she's not terribly eager and he's way too eager. I guess this is "Sword of Kahless."

 

[Herbert]

Neelix could have gotten infected and then beaten the crap out of everybody.
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And then Janeway and Chakotay perform a "Remmick" on him with dual phasers and pop his head like a zit.

The more and more I think of that, the more I like it.

Aw, who am I kidding, I LOVED that the minute I wrote it.

 

[JesterFace]

An episode telling us little bit more about El-Aurians.
Guinan played big spots in some episodes so knowing more about their culture might have been interesting?

 

[STEPhon IT]

Would anyone mind to see a Nurse Ogawa episode for an Eighth season? I doesn't have to be a medical episode but a crises may have happened at Starfleet medical.