Man, that SO shoulda been an episode!
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There are several stories I invented for myself that I wanted to see in DS9. Here are a couple of my favorites:
1) A flashback to the past that reveals the reason that Dukat and Garak were enemies - an incident from the past, when Garak was a young and ambitious Obsidian Order agent, eager to impress his "boss" (and of course father) Tain. Garak doesn't know or care anything about Gul Dukat, the prefect of Terok Nor, but creates a situation in which, to prove his loyalty, Dukat is forced to order the execution of his mistress, Kira Meru. Garak is oblivious to the notion that Dukat might genuinely love one of those subhuman Bajorans and underestimates the degree of emnity he inadvertently creates.
It goes without saying that Kira finds out about all this. I was always disappointed that Kira and Garak never really had a chance to go at it.
Even more fun, if this revelation had occurred during S7, when Kira was expected to work closely with Garak behind the lines in the Dominion and not try to kill him or anything.
2) Julian Bashir follows up his "Hippocratic Oath" research and comes up with a way that the Jem'hadar can break their k-white addiction. Julian thinks of this as a humanitarian move and is shocked when Sisko and Starfleet in general oppose it because they can't predict the consequences of Jem'hadar not having the drawback of needing k-white to survive: it could actually help the Dominion.
A nice complication would be if Starfleet had been successful in their campaign to destroy k-white manufacturing in the AQ, a move that would mean nothing if the Jems had alternate food sources. But with Julian's cure, their strategy starts to look like an attempt to starve the enemy forces - not exactly up to Federation ideals.
Insurrection would have been better if the story had focused on the Son'a manufacturing k-white and what Starfleet intended to do about that. It's certainly a more relevant premise than worrying about the Baku and their magic planet.
I also wanted to see more on the aftermath of "Mirror, Mirror." How did Spock and Marlena Moreau actually overthrow the Terran Empire? Someday, I'd love to see Zachary Quinto and a recast Moreau (Morena Baccarin?) in this story - it should be a whole miniseries.
1) A flashback to the past that reveals the reason that Dukat and Garak were enemies - an incident from the past, when Garak was a young and ambitious Obsidian Order agent, eager to impress his "boss" (and of course father) Tain. Garak doesn't know or care anything about Gul Dukat, the prefect of Terok Nor, but creates a situation in which, to prove his loyalty, Dukat is forced to order the execution of his mistress, Kira Meru. Garak is oblivious to the notion that Dukat might genuinely love one of those subhuman Bajorans and underestimates the degree of emnity he inadvertently creates.
It goes without saying that Kira finds out about all this. I was always disappointed that Kira and Garak never really had a chance to go at it.
Even more fun, if this revelation had occurred during S7, when Kira was expected to work closely with Garak behind the lines in the Dominion and not try to kill him or anything.2) Julian Bashir follows up his "Hippocratic Oath" research and comes up with a way that the Jem'hadar can break their k-white addiction. Julian thinks of this as a humanitarian move and is shocked when Sisko and Starfleet in general oppose it because they can't predict the consequences of Jem'hadar not having the drawback of needing k-white to survive: it could actually help the Dominion.
A nice complication would be if Starfleet had been successful in their campaign to destroy k-white manufacturing in the AQ, a move that would mean nothing if the Jems had alternate food sources. But with Julian's cure, their strategy starts to look like an attempt to starve the enemy forces - not exactly up to Federation ideals.
Insurrection would have been better if the story had focused on the Son'a manufacturing k-white and what Starfleet intended to do about that. It's certainly a more relevant premise than worrying about the Baku and their magic planet.
I also wanted to see more on the aftermath of "Mirror, Mirror." How did Spock and Marlena Moreau actually overthrow the Terran Empire? Someday, I'd love to see Zachary Quinto and a recast Moreau (Morena Baccarin?) in this story - it should be a whole miniseries.
It's been done... and probably better than ST could have ever done it. "Galaxy Quest"!
Tim Allen's Shatneresque performance was great. I love watching that movie!
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I thought the original idea for Shat's appearance on ENT would have involved the Tantalus Field: It would turn out that the field doesn't vaporize people, it sends them into the past (of the RU). And since MU-Spock almost certainly did this with MU-Kirk...
An Enterprise episodeto prequel TNG's "A Matter of Time".
Sub-Cardassian surely?
read "The Sorrows of Empire" in the trade-paperback "Glass Empires", believe me, it's worth it.
There was a rumor of one. It would have had Jonathan Archer and Berlinghoff Rasmussen as roommates at MIT. But I think that's all it was - a rumor.
That episode freaked me out when we saw an alternate Riker wigging out about how the Borg are everywhere and how they refuse to go back. Excellent touch in a pretty good episode.
A couple unpurchased outlines I've reviewed in my script reviews would have made fairly decent episodes with a rewrite or two -- "Rock-A-By-Baby, or Die!" springs to mind. I believe I heard that one of the fan film groups purchased the story from Johnson for use in their series.
Sir Rhosis
Sir Rhosis
Well, Federation and Final Frontier (two out of my top three "I-wish-these-were-on-film" books) have already been mentioned, so I'll just mention my number three choice, Q-in-Law. I'd give real money to have seen some of those scenes on film, though the audiobook serves as a great surrogate for a filmed version (even if it is abridged 
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Dr_Daystrom
Commander
What should have been done was some background on Governor Tarkin. All he got was a 10 second shot in Episode III. How about telling us why he held so much sway over Darth Vader.
Wait. Wrong franchise.
Sorry. I've been watching Spike too much lately.
Wait. Wrong franchise.
Sorry. I've been watching Spike too much lately.
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although mentioned already-Strangers In the Sky
the follow-up to Through a Mirror, Darkly that was planned for the next ENT season would have been great
and I'm reading an ongoing story at fanfiction.net called The Missing Week by CMDR Lane-it would have made a killer Voyager 2parter. One of the more interesting portrayals of a future TREK story-far future, as it is
also, Rigel Kent's Endeavour series would have been a cool alternative to the lame series finale of ENT.
I read a short story about a young Zee Chochcrane(spelling!) being helped to escape with his precious warp theory notes from the ruins of Detroit during the Third World War by a mysterious man known as Mike. Mike protects him until he can arrive at the Bozeman home of aeronautical engineer Lily....Sadly, Mike is shot by highway men just as he succeeds in his task and goes off to die alone. Mike, it turns out, is Mestral from Carbon Creek.
the follow-up to Through a Mirror, Darkly that was planned for the next ENT season would have been great
and I'm reading an ongoing story at fanfiction.net called The Missing Week by CMDR Lane-it would have made a killer Voyager 2parter. One of the more interesting portrayals of a future TREK story-far future, as it is
also, Rigel Kent's Endeavour series would have been a cool alternative to the lame series finale of ENT.
I read a short story about a young Zee Chochcrane(spelling!) being helped to escape with his precious warp theory notes from the ruins of Detroit during the Third World War by a mysterious man known as Mike. Mike protects him until he can arrive at the Bozeman home of aeronautical engineer Lily....Sadly, Mike is shot by highway men just as he succeeds in his task and goes off to die alone. Mike, it turns out, is Mestral from Carbon Creek.
I would have liked to see that story Braga was talking about in Trekkies (or was it Trekkies 2). The story the fan sent in where the NX-01 bonds with a crap or something.
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