That's not how A-pictures are made. They have to get a permit, close the street, and everyone you see (milling around or driving by) is working as an extra or background actor.
If not Space Seed...
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That's not how A-pictures are made. They have to get a permit, close the street, and everyone you see (milling around or driving by) is working as an extra or background actor.
Why discount "The Changeling" ?
A sequel to that could also serve as a sequel to TMP, backtracking the probe to its point of origin and linking the machines to both.
Yeah, I know, I was just being facetious.
Lloyd was also a great creepy villain as Butch Cavendish in 1981's The Legend of the Lone Ranger. The movie's not very good, but he's good in it.
It's kind of a shame that Lloyd is mostly remembered today as Doc Brown, Reverend Jim, and (maybe) Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit. He's much more versatile than that.
Interesting. I knew from Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories that Nimoy wanted to cast Edward James Olmos, but Harve Bennett disagreed with the choice. I hadn't heard about Lloyd having a pay-or-play contract for doing another season of Taxi.
Yes, true. You need a good hook for the general audience to latch on to. Star Treks II-VI all had that with "Khan is back and he's out for revenge!" "We're bringing Spock back!" "The crew's traveled back in time to 1986!" "We're going to find God!" and "It's the last movie with the original cast & we're making peace with the Klingons!"
In terms of a sequel hook, "Mirror, Mirror" is probably the biggest one in TOS outside of "Space Seed." But the second movie probably would've been a bit too soon to introduce general audiences to evil counterparts to the crew. The movie series was still struggling at that point.
But a "Mirror, Mirror" follow up is something I was dying to see in the mid 1980s. I remember around 1986-87, I was making doodles of Movie Era Mirror Universe uniforms, and imagining a follow up to Star Trek IV called Star Trek V: The Other Side, a loose adaptation of Mike W. Barr's Mirror Universe Saga from the DC Comics series. I had an opening scene in mind with Mirror Spock and everything.
"Journey to Babel" only solved the immediate crisis and pointed a finger at the Orions as dilithium pirates. I'd have loved a follow-up where the Orion pirate cartel blockades or lays siege to Corridan to prevent them from joining the Federation, while mugging the planet for as much 'product' as possible. The Federation tries to work a diplomatic solution, while Kirk gets more and more pissed at political inaction, until some last straw happens...
Maybe in a sequel to TMP they could encounter P'neer
This sounds very cool, but it might be crossing the line into story idea territory. You may want to put this into SPOILER text just to be on the safe side.
At least it cropped up in ST:V.
So does Khan, TBH.
But I like that they would be adversaries and not villains, antagonists that could have understandable motivations that made sense but still oppose Kirk and the Feds goals.
I thought the Bird of Prey from ST V got all those.
No that's right. But the dumb joke I was making is that for Star Trek II they just do TMP again except this time it's Pioneer instead of Voyager.
Makes you wonder how bad Earth defences are if they can't detect a Klingon Bird of Prey firing a weapon about a light day from Earth.
Well, the Enterprise is always the only ship in the quadrant, so pretty bad.
Maybe Pioneer 10 disappeared into a black hole like Voyager 6 did, except it didn't get sent as far.
A Piece of the Action sequel couldve been similar humour to Voyage Home.
Bingo! While others here have mentioned outstanding episodes that might have made a good movie, Bennett was right to choose a human adversary who was portrayed by a dynamic, attractive actor. Further, that villain had an intense revenge motive.
Ironically, Kirk and Khan never met face-to-face in the movie, but their conflict was nevertheless very vivid and appealed to a mass audience.
I think that was an idea at some point. (Either as a film or as an episode of TNG/DS9.)
A return to Sigma Iotia was discussed for the 30th Anniversary episode of DS9 before they landed on "The Trouble with Tribbles." The idea was that after the Enterprise's visit and McCoy leaving his communicator behind, the Iotians were now modeling their entire planet after Starfleet.
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