How to conclude Star Trek

[Crewman47]

Just a what if question but if the time came where Star trek was on it's last legs and there wasn't going to be any more, including novels, how would you like it to end, something that destroys the Galaxy or finish it off with everyone at peace or something different?

Any ideas?

 

[SeerSGB]

It's Trek, only one way to finish it: Massive temporal reset, revealing that everything is a predestination timeloop.

 

[TheGodBen]

How about a story where Riker is having trouble coming to an important decision, so he goes into a holodeck and starts pretending to be the chef on a great ship that he never before indicated he had any knowledge of. Oh, and how about we cut it off just before the biggest moment ever in the Star Trek universe?

 

[trekkerguy]

It's not possible for Star Trek to end.

No matter how long it went away or was left for dead, somebody in the
industry somewhere would like it enough to do something with it at somepoint.

Or someone who wasn't in the industry would get into it for just that purpose.

Star Trek will never die, only rest.

 

[Icemizer]

Everyone turns into an energy being and the universe goes dark.......

 

[LeadHead]

If we discover Jump-Gate Technology before Warp Drive, Trek will end. lol

 

[FredH]

Q gets bored, and snaps his fingers; fade to white.

Less facetiously, I thought the basic situation at the end of Nemesis--whatever one thinks of the film itself--would've been a decent place to leave it.

 

[Deckerd]

It's not possible for Star Trek to end.

No matter how long it went away or was left for dead, somebody in the
industry somewhere would like it enough to do something with it at somepoint.

Or someone who wasn't in the industry would get into it for just that purpose.

Star Trek will never die, only rest.

That's what the Mayans thought.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Q is in a diner eating onion rings, with a crappy Journey song playing in the background. He looks up, and...........

 

[RobertScorpio]

Q gets bored, and snaps his fingers; fade to white.

Less facetiously, I thought the basic situation at the end of Nemesis--whatever one thinks of the film itself--would've been a decent place to leave it.

agreed...I didn't care for the movie, but ending it there would have been fine with me....I do not support another show set 100+ years past NEMESIS. I agree with those that the further away it gets from us, where we are in reality, the more far-fetched it becomes. Yes, I know, ENTERPRISE's failure would indicate the opposite. But I still say that show had a good concept, but they ruined it by making them too "professional" too quickly....

Rob

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

If we discover Jump-Gate Technology before Warp Drive, Trek will end. lol

No, no. The day the Centuri arrive claiming that we are a long-lost colony, then Trek will end. After that, we'll be given Jump-Gate Technology.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

A three-part miniseries (90 minutes each) which re-unites as many former Trek cast members as possible. Oh right, they almost did this with "Of Gods and Men"... well, I meant with an actual budget and a decent script.

I don't think that it's possible to get all the actors back for this. But I also doubt that it would be desirable in the first place... the whole thing would be too overcrowded. A more managable number of characters (but from the casts of all/most series) is better. And I see some problems with bringing characters from ENT and TOS back, unless we make it a time-travel story again (or it's old Spock and old Chekov from the 24th century who meet other TNG/DS9/VOY characters or something like that).

 

[Mistral]

Q is in a diner eating onion rings, with a crappy Journey song playing in the background. He looks up, and...........

....KRAD walks in. After he lists the various reasons the Trek universe should end, in detail with attached footnotes and hyperlinks Q commits suicide in self-defense, effectively ending Star Trek as we know it.

 

[2 of 10]

Get together as many ex-trekkers as possible and have them on a large sailing ship, and you fade to black as the ship goes over the edge of the world, you hear McCoy say "Dammit Jim I'm a Doctor not a navagator" for they discover that the world is flat afterall...

 

[T'Cal]

Shatner wakes up in bed with Susan Pleashet next to him. She asks him, "Bob, are you alright?" And he replies, "I just had the weirdest dream..."

 

[Locutus]

Shatner wakes up in bed with Susan Pleashet next to him. She asks him, "Bob, are you alright?" And he replies, "I just had the weirdest dream..."

Was going to suggest something similar, only with Gene and Majel. (Or whoever his wife was Pre-TOS.)

 

[Smiley]

I would like something akin to "All Good Things..." where the characters have a big, epic adventure, but the journey is not over. At this point, I don't think it's possible to conclude all of Trek in one go. Each individual series, book or otherwise, would need a fitting sendoff.

 

[CoveTom]

Kirk finds himself, and a shuttlecraft, in a futuristic looking hotel room, all alone. After looking at the bathroom, he sees an older version of himself having dinner. Then, that version sees an old and dying version of himself in bed. That version points at a big black object, which we learn to be the missing V'Ger memory wall from TMP. Suddenly, he becomes pure energy and returns to Earth in the form of a star child to usher in the next evolution of humanity.

Wait... has that been done?

 

[Iamnotspock]

With Quark in a Ferengi Shuttlecraft dangling over a cliff edge with 100 bars of Gold Pressed Latinum on board. Then Quark says, "hold on... I have an idea!"

Seriously, maybe a TV movie that brings together various elements from all series and features crossover characters from each.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

Decker re-appears on the bridge of Kirk's Enterprise.

Decker: "Ok, we did all that other dimensions stuff and V'Ger is bored - what shall we do now?"

Kirk: "Welllll, I know this bar..."
McCoy: "I know the place!"
Kirk: "Scotty - you're with me, Spock - you have command"

Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Decker step into the turbo-lift, the doors shut and we fade out.