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How about this idea for a sequal?

miraclefan

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STAR TREK: The Hunt For Spock. Plot would be this: There is talk of an old vulcan (Spock prime) from the future who has galaxy shatering news about the future of every major power in the known galaxy and more! (future tech & the information to build said tech) So know the Klingons, Romulans, Tholians & Orion pirates are after this vulcan in order to have an advantage on future events. Of course Starfleet & the ENT crew get involved, but That's all I've got right now, So what do you think? (and yes I know it neads work, but this is just the basic idea)
 
That idea has some interesting possibilities, but I am not sure that it would have wide enough mass-market appeal to create another blockbuster like Star Trek XI was.
 
Spock can probably alert people of certain highly specific events that are likely to still happen- the Doomsday Machine is going to be in X place at X time - a certain colony is going to be infested with flying fried eggs - a certain planet is shaping itself into a simulcrum of Chicago in the '20 - but the timeline changes have upended so much of the political landscape that big-picture stuff that empires would be interested is exactly the kind of stuff Spock can't help anyone with - he can tell them how things would have turned out, if Nero hadn't thrown everything for a loop, but they're still going to have to figure most of it out for themselves.

The problem is, how do you know what events are still going to happen and what events have now gone poof? The more isolated the event is from other stuff, the more likely it is to remain the same as Spock remebers - like the Doomsday Machine which is still way the hell out there somewhere, or the Borg are examples of probably unaffected stuff. Knowing about those things aren't going to help the Klingons and anyway Spock will have already told the Federation about it, so Klingons can't decide, say, to corral the Doomsday Machine and use it as a weapon since the Feds are already on their way to blow it the hell up (if for no other reason than to make sure nobody can use it as a weapon).
 
Or Kirk comes back from the Prime future (Shatner in a girdle) because Spock Prime has screwed up the timeline so badly that he can't get Carol Marcus to put out so David is never born so the Genesis device is never completed so Spock never dies so he is never reborn to go through Vulcan retraining so he is never finally repatriated by the Vulcan Science Academy so he never goes to Romulus and never gets to build the red matter ship and never falls back in time with Nero so he ...

Oh wait. Everything is fine now.
 
It sounds cool, but it won't cross over to the mainstream, I don't think. Although, I suppose previous Trek films such as WOK and FC were sequels to television eps, and were successful.
 
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