Gary Mitchell as villain for Star Trek XII

[Tarek71]

Remakes are made all the time, and many of them are amazing. How many times can we see the Joker and Batman, but I think the latest one was the best. Or Lex vs. Superman. You can do it over and over again, as long as its done well. Any of the TOS stories that might be redone will be just fine if its well written and acted.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Remakes are made all the time, and many of them are amazing. How many times can we see the Joker and Batman, but I think the latest one was the best. Or Lex vs. Superman. You can do it over and over again, as long as its done well. Any of the TOS stories that might be redone will be just fine if its well written and acted.

Yep...its all in the writing. And from a producer's point a view (and studio) its a far easier ticket to sell. That is why Batman takes on the Joker and why, and I predict this again (feet extended, toes raised) Khan will be the villain in the new movie. Its just such a no brainer....

Rob

 

[kissthestar]

So Mitchell reforms and decides to be a good god. He throws together a planet peopled with a species that has unreformed tendencies. They want to join the Federation. Then what?

 

[SeamusShameless]

I think it would be cool if they brought Captain April in as an antagonist in a WNMHGB scenario. He never commanded the Enterprise due to its delay in construction, so that leaves him open to have possibly commanded a mission that was lost in space. It is of interest to Starfleet that April's ship disappeared in the same region of space as the SS Valiant nearly 200 years earlier. Naturally, the Enterprise is sent to investigate, they encounter the ESP phenomenon, and Gary Mitchell is affected. Drifting in space nearby, they discover April's ship drifting under impulse power back in the direction of earth. They dock and invite the survivors aboard the Enterprise, including Captain April. What Kirk and the gang don't know though is that April was affected by the ESP phenomenon and has enslaved his crew. Ultimately April attempts to highjack the Enterprise and is foiled by Mitchell who realizes early what god-like powers would turn him into if he didn't put and end to it. So basically April becomes Mitchell and Mitchell becomes Dr. Dehner.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I think it would be cool if they brought Captain April in as an antagonist in a WNMHGB scenario. He never commanded the Enterprise due to its delay in construction, so that leaves him open to have possibly commanded a mission that was lost in space. It is of interest to Starfleet that April's ship disappeared in the same region of space as the SS Valiant nearly 200 years earlier. Naturally, the Enterprise is sent to investigate, they encounter the ESP phenomenon, and Gary Mitchell is affected. Drifting in space nearby, they discover April's ship drifting under impulse power back in the direction of earth. They dock and invite the survivors aboard the Enterprise, including Captain April. What Kirk and the gang don't know though is that April was affected by the ESP phenomenon and has enslaved his crew. Ultimately April attempts to highjack the Enterprise and is foiled by Mitchell who realizes early what god-like powers would turn him into if he didn't put and end to it. So basically April becomes Mitchell and Mitchell becomes Dr. Dehner.

This is actually a pretty good idea...Well done!

Rob

 

[urbandk]

Just occurred to me, Mitchell is Star Trek's own supervillain, in the comic book sense.

 

[EEE]

What I think would be cool is to take elements from "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and make Gary Mitchell the villain for the next movie.

Star Trek - Of Gods and Men

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0835378/

 

[Elim Garak]

If they're going to use Gary Mitchell, and do it right, then they should have ST12 introduce him (giving him the teen prodigy background that enabled Chekov to be on the Enterprise), have him be a good guy, and friend of Kirk, for most of it, by the end of ST12, he would have had his transformation (which would be different enough from WNMHGB to avoid remake comparisons) which would set him up as the main villain for ST13. They should also get an actor that is about the same age as Anton Yelchin.

Maybe a Q (not the John De Lancie Q, a different one exiled from the Continuum) could be involved in Mitchell's transformation. Maybe they could canonize the Q novels involving Zero and Asterisk (the phantom entity from Day of the Dove) and have one of them be responsible for corrupting Mitchell.

 

[RobertScorpio]

If they're going to use Gary Mitchell, and do it right, then they should have ST12 introduce him (giving him the teen prodigy background that enabled Chekov to be on the Enterprise), have him be a good guy, and friend of Kirk, for most of it, by the end of ST12, he would have had his transformation (which would be different enough from WNMHGB to avoid remake comparisons) which would set him up as the main villain for ST13. They should also get an actor that is about the same age as Anton Yelchin.

Maybe a Q (not the John De Lancie Q, a different one exiled from the Continuum) could be involved in Mitchell's transformation. Maybe they could canonize the Q novels involving Zero and Asterisk (the phantom entity from Day of the Dove) and have one of them be responsible for corrupting Mitchell.

I endorce this version Q...

Rob

 

[Elim Garak]

Just occurred to me, Mitchell is Star Trek's own supervillain, in the comic book sense.

Well, there was that X-Men crossover comic where he teamed with Proteus.

I was initially skeptical about the prospects of characters like Mitchell and Harry Mudd appearing in the reboot, but I've warmed up to it, though I still think Khan would be risky. IMHO, Mitchell is like Red Grant of James Bond fame, the earliest "evenly matched" villain. Something to note of here is different continuities: with the movies, From Russia With Love (where Grant appeared) was Bond's second adventure. But with the novels, it was the fifth. And if you look at Bond vs Grant in both the book and movie, the end result and basic jist of it is the same in both, but the fight transpires differently. I figure with this new Trek, the differences between it and "old Trek" could be like the differences between EON Bond and Fleming Bond.

 

[blockaderunner]

FUCK. GARY. MITCHELL. AND/OR. SEVEN.

Trek should be fanwank free. That is why Star Trek (can we do away with the bloody XI like the rest of the real world has??) succeeded.

 

[Red Ranger]

I think the reason the latest ST was successful was precisely because it wasn't a remake of anything. It was an original story about how the crew got together. Period. With a time travel twist as a nod to some of the hard-core Trekkers. So while these ideas are interesting, I hope J.J. Abrams and company ignore them and come up with their own ideas for the next movie. -- RR

 

[David A. Sobral]

Personally, I think bringing back Gary Mitchell would be a mistake. He was well-used in the original episode & it would be kind of a hack job to bring him back just to kill him again. Now, Khan on the other hand...well, it would start out as a re-make of "Space Seed" but could pretty much go anywhere from there...

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Dennis Mitchell should be villain. A true galactic menace!

"Hello, Missssster Spock!"

 

[T'Girl]

If Gary Mitchell is used, and his downfall is "godlike powers," then it's nothing more than a rehash of WNMHGB, and we could all save $8 and stay home and watch our DVDs of WNMHGB instead. Why do we have to continue to be trapped in the OU's canon?!

If WNMHGB does play it self out a second time, a interesting twist ending could have Kirk saving Gary's life
instead of turning him into strawberry jam.

... (can we do away with the bloody XI like the rest of the real world has??) ...

Easy answer, NO! nu-StarTrek is the eleventh movie. Yes it's different and should have a entirely seperate, disconnected canon of it's own. But it is the eleventh movie.

 

[Elim Garak]

Personally, I think bringing back Gary Mitchell would be a mistake. He was well-used in the original episode & it would be kind of a hack job to bring him back just to kill him again.

If he was a one-off character, yes.

Ideally, Gary would be like a Two-Face or a Harry Osborn. When we are introduced to him, he would be a likeable good guy. By the end of the film, he has undergone his transformation (which would be different enough for us to take the "this is a new timeline" talk seriously) and become a potential nemesis for Kirk. He would then be the villain of the following film, and the tragic elements of the showdown with Kirk could be played up a little bit more. Having him turn bad just because he gets godlike powers always seemed like a cop out to me though. It would make better sense to either establish he has fallen under a corrupting outside influence (i.e. Dukat/Pah-Wraiths without the cheesiness) or revise the character so he is more along the lines of Ozymandias or Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen.

 

[Brainsucker]

Well, this is my version of Gary Mitchell and the Star Trek XII

The story begin shortly after the end of Star Trek XI. The Enterprise is ordered to bring the Vulcan Survivor to planet Alpha (just named it). At the same time, McCoy has an invitation to attend the Federation Medical Conference in Beta Planet (just named it). With him, the doctor bring his old friend, a beautiful female Doctor who also get an invitation from the medical conference Organizer.

This female doctor bring her special patient, an eight years old boy named Gary Mitchell who suffer an incurable unknown desease that can't be cured by the most modern medical technique at that era. She hoped that the other doctors have a medical method to save the boy.

Well, because the female doctor is beautiful, Kirk is agree to bring them to the conference planet without thinking. he, of course has his own agenda with the female doctor.

After bring the Vulcan to their new planet, the Enterprise get a distress call from a cargo ship that attacked by a pirate ship. Although there are another ships in the region, Kirk decide to help the merchant ship in order to show off to his new female friend.

The merchant is no other than Henry Mudd. His ship is broken beyond repair, but him and his cargo is safe. The merchant ask Kirk to bring him along in the enterprise to the beta Planet. Spock tell Kirk to refuse the merchant's plea; but the female doctor insist that Kirk should help Henry Mudd and bring him along with them.

No one know that Henry Mudd bring a dangerous cargo with him. When the pirates attack them again, the cargo is leaking and spread dangerous virus to the ship. Everyone get infected. This is the reason why Kirk hates Henry Mudd so much. The only one who still healthy is Spock.

McCoy and the female Doctor do their best to save the crews from the disease. But, this virus is not the only thing that the Enterprise must face. The pirate come again to get the cargo. So when Kirk and the other crews fights against the pirate, McCoy and the female doctor fights against the Virus.

Because of the lack of healthy crews, the Enterprise can't match the pirate ships. In no time this ship is boarded by the enemies. In order to survive, Kirk, Sulu, and Chekov organize the crews to fight the enemy.

At this moment, Spock find that Gary Mitchell is becoming healthy again. Not only that, this boy has become an adult in just several hour after the virus spread. He, then advice McCoy to use the Gary's blood as antibiotic. With this new serum, the crews are saved from the death.

It is not only that, Gary obtain a strange godly power. With his new body. He saved the enterprise by kicking out the pirates from the ship.