If one episode could be feature length?
- Thread starter Infern0
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You know that bit in the thread title that says, "If only one episode could be feature length?"...
Aside from the ones mentioned, the one where Data gets his ability to dream. Don't know the title. but it could be done. Take it to explore the definition of humanity, of where dreams come from, etc.
trevanian
Rear Admiral
Balance of Terror
Just as an exercise, I sketched out an expanded altered version of BALANCE OF TERROR here 6 or 7 years back, postulating it as the first Kirk/Spock/Ent mission to justify the paranoia about the ears revelation. As much as I hated and still hate the reboot type idea, it had a lot of appeal for me, and I wish they hadn't lost all those old posts, because there was some good stuff in it, so the act 2 additions didn't work as action padding, but to actually build the drama WHILE including a good bit of action. But mostly it all built on the original episode, which is just plain out good drama (better than its uncredited inspiration IMO.)
Just as an exercise, I sketched out an expanded altered version of BALANCE OF TERROR here 6 or 7 years back, postulating it as the first Kirk/Spock/Ent mission to justify the paranoia about the ears revelation. As much as I hated and still hate the reboot type idea, it had a lot of appeal for me, and I wish they hadn't lost all those old posts, because there was some good stuff in it, so the act 2 additions didn't work as action padding, but to actually build the drama WHILE including a good bit of action. But mostly it all built on the original episode, which is just plain out good drama (better than its uncredited inspiration IMO.)
Shades of Gray 
Where No Man Has Gone Before.
I completely agree - it was like a film condensed into 42 mins.
Starship Mine. 
It would have been fun to see Picard don his MacGyver cap for an hour longer, setting up allsorts of traps, and decoys and covert surveillance stuff. In many ways, the film would begin with a story reminicent of 'Under Siege'. But Picard was not Steven Seagal, so once he had been discovered, and was being hunted, the film could have taken on an adrenaline driven storyline more like 'The Fugitive'.
It would have been fun to see Picard don his MacGyver cap for an hour longer, setting up allsorts of traps, and decoys and covert surveillance stuff. In many ways, the film would begin with a story reminicent of 'Under Siege'. But Picard was not Steven Seagal, so once he had been discovered, and was being hunted, the film could have taken on an adrenaline driven storyline more like 'The Fugitive'.
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