Man, that SO shoulda been an episode!

[Star Treks]

So earlier I posted asking what you would pick if you HAD to remove one episode from the history of Star Trek (many nominees, but TATV seems to be the consensus choice).

Now I'm asking just the opposite: if you had to pick one story from the entire world of non-canon Trek that you would like to have seen as a real episode of one of the series, what would it be? The source can be almost anything:

- Novel
- Short story
- Comic book
- Fan fiction
- Fan productions
- Video/computer game
- Rejected episode ideas
- Phase II ideas
- Whatever

What one Trek story just shoulda been an episode? One caveat: it should fit within one of the established series (I know a lot of us would love to see a New Frontier series, but I'm just talking about one story that would have made a good episode for any series that actually existed). I suppose if you need it to be it could have been a 2-parter.

I'm really interested in hearing your ideas.

 

[Michael]

Off the top of my head I'd like to throw in A.C. Crispin's wonderful "Yesterday's Son" (the follow-up to TOS' "All Our Yesterdays"). That would have been great.

The "Kitumba" script from Phase II is very popular, too. I think that would make for a good episode.

 

[EnsignJulka]

The rejected episode "Joanna" by DC Fontana, it would've been nice to get to know a little about McCoy's history....

 

[T'Cal]

ST:TNG novels Imzadi, Crossover, Q-Squared, Dark Mirror, The Devil's Heart, and Reunion all would've made excellent two-part episodes or movies.

 

[blaXXer]

Off the top of my head I'd like to throw in A.C. Crispin's wonderful "Yesterday's Son" (the follow-up to TOS' "All Our Yesterdays"). That would have been great.

The "Kitumba" script from Phase II is very popular, too. I think that would make for a good episode.

Do you, perhaps, have any link to read up on 'Kitumba'? I'd love to.

 

[Michael]

Off the top of my head I'd like to throw in A.C. Crispin's wonderful "Yesterday's Son" (the follow-up to TOS' "All Our Yesterdays"). That would have been great.

The "Kitumba" script from Phase II is very popular, too. I think that would make for a good episode.

Do you, perhaps, have any link to read up on 'Kitumba'? I'd love to.

Sorry, just the usual Memory Alpha entry. I have a book though that features a relatively long synopsis.

 

[judge alba]

wouldn't minded seeing 'return' by I think william shatner, as a episode or film even.
Or maybe the book 'crossover' though i'm not sure who wrote it. It's the one where spock has been captured by the romulans and scotty nicks a starship and gose after him while picard tries to get him out using diplomancy but mc coy mucks it up

 

[captcalhoun]

Margerat Wander Bonanno's "Burning Dreams" novel - the life of Chris Pike

David Mack's A Time to Kill and A Time to Heal novels - Star Trek does Iraq War

Chris Bennet's Titan novel "Orion's Hounds" - hard science without a ton of techno-babble

Keith DeCandido's IKS Gorkon novel "A Good Day to Die" - Klingon action

Elite Force II PC game

 

[ChristopherPike]

I think the Shatner guest appearance on Enterprise that almost was, had potential. There were two options mooted.

An ancestor of Kirk was the Chef aboard the NX-01. During a TCW plot, James Kirk is targeted and Daniels takes Archer and Chef forward in time, where he has to body double Winston Churchill style for the man himself.

In the original version of In A Mirror, Darkly... Emperor Tiberius flees from a Terran Empire in revolt into the past, where he plans to crush Vulcan opposition. Only to arrive in the 22nd Century (our universe) of Archer and his crew.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

Margerat Wander Bonanno's "Burning Dreams" novel - the life of Chris Pike

I'll second that. Also

Diane Carey's Final Frontier about Captain April, George Kirk and the 1701's first unofficial mission.

DC Comics Star Trek, V2 #61 "A Door in the Cage" - Spock returns to Talos IV to check on Pike and Vina

DC Comics Star Trek Annual, V1 #2 "The Final Voyage"

Those are what spring to mind.. I'm sure others will occur to me.

 

[Sector 7]

"Yesterday's Son" and "Final Frontier" were books I remember reading quite some time ago. Both would make great movies, or even a ST mini-series.

 

[Natural]

In the TNG episode "Parallels" there was a scene of an alternate Enterprise where the Borg hadn't been defeated at Wolf 359 and had assimilated most of the Federation. I would love to have seen an episode or 2 parter dealing with this alternate universe.

 

[comsol]

Diane Duane's The Wounded Sky.

 

[JiNX-01]

Strangers from the Sky.
Uhura's Song.
The Wounded Sky (yeah, I know TNG did a variation on it, but I would like to have seen the actual story used with the pretty "glass" spider. And I say this despite a moderate case of arachnophobia).

 

[Forbin]

"Federation" by the Reeves-Stevenses, and "Vendetta" by Peter David.

The former, a much better take on Cochrane than First Contact gave us and a much better crossover than Generations, and the letter a much better "deborgification" story than "I, Borg."

 

[DS9forever]

Any of the novels written by the DS9 actors - A Stitch in Time, The 34th Rule and The Left Hand of Destiny. Note to Shatner - those are how you write Star Trek novels.

 

[Silvermane]

I haven't read much Trek, but I second 'Q-Squared' (no pun intended). I couldn't put the book down.

There was a short story I read, like, 100 years ago. I can't remember the title, something like "Visit to a small planet, revisited", where the actors from TOS got beamed to the actual Enterprise. I know it's silly, but, I always wanted to see that.

 

[Forbin]

"Mind Sifter" from that first "New Voyages" fan collection many decades ago.

Hot damn, it's even online:
http://www.simegen.com/fandom/startrek/showcase/show02/showcase-mind-sifter.html

 

[Mysterion]

The Reeves-Stevens novel "Prime Directive" would have been a great last movie for the TOS crew, IMO.

Also, would love to see the "Phase II" script "The Kitumba" adapted as a movie, or as a novel.

 

[raleighrob]

I've heard several fans say that "Battle of Betazed" should have been the ninth movie instead of Insurrection. Seeing as that was during the Dominion War it would have made sense to have a movie that actually showed it. And the action/battle scenes would have been better, that's for sure. The cover art for the novel alone is priceless: Troi facing off Jem H'adar with a phaser rifle!

Similarly, the premise behind "The Good That Men Do" obviously would have been a MUCH more fitting finale to Enterprise than what we got. It puts all the motions into the formation of the Federation much clearer and intriguing!