Most Trek-like Films Not Star Trek
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The insignia that the Federation officers wear in 'Blake's 7' look suspiciously like the Starfleet Delta/Emblem. Since we're not told in what century 'Blake's 7' takes place, only that it's 'the third century of the 'New Calendar'; the Federation seen could be a corrupted version of the current 23rd-24th Century version of Starfleet after some major catastrophe.
The Time Travelers, for a kind of peculiar reason: it was produced in roughly the same period of time that TOS was, it clearly had the ambition of being taken seriously, and as a result of those factors it has a similar "cultural vibe" to original Trek and the first POTA movie.
I think Arrival was a very star trek film. It was one dealing with Aliens and Communication and understanding one another. It was really great.
How would we known when the shrunken uniform gag occurred if it was a TOS episode?Down Periscope
I have a very odd choice for that, the Paul Verhoeven/ Arnold Schwarzenegger "Total Recall." Even though it's orders of magnitude more brutally blood & guts violent than every Star Trek put together, it's a mega-budget sci-fi movie, with the Trek-like qualities of all sorts of surprising, sudden mind-game qualities and jolting plot directions. It takes place quite a while in a space-travel future. It has mega-budget production values and two Trek guest-actors in it (Ronny Cox and Marc Alaimo). Not to mention Total Recall has one of those big, blaring Jerry Goldsmith music scores....like a Trek movie.
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I ended up liking that a lot more than I thought I would.
As for Forbidden Planet - pretty sure it had a lot more influence on TOS than anyone involved in making TOS might have wanted to admit. Look at the set-up of The Man Trap where the Enterprise is assigned to check up on a scientific expedition, is turned away but investigates anyway and makes an awful discovery of a previously unknown alien lifeform. Now compare with FP where the C-57D is sent to check on a scientific expedition, is turned away but investigates anyway and finds evidence of a previously unknown alien civilization. Sure, in some ways this is a stock space opera sort of thing, but the parallels between FP and this episode are pretty striking, IMO. And yeah, Kirk and JJ Adams could have been roomies at the Academy without too big a stretch of the imagination.
See Balance of Terror. And as long as we're talking submarine movies The Hunt for Red October would work as Trek, I think. Replace the Soviets with Klingons or Romulans with some sort of new starship tech. Thinking of it though, I think Peter Morwood already did that with the novel Rules of Engagement.
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Das Boot: story from the point of view of a Romulan BoP. A sequel to Balance of Terror where several BoP's attack Federation shipping but the Federation is now ready for them. The Federation sends a small fleet of starships using their new and improved weapon system, the photon torpedo, to destroy the BoP raiders.
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Makes sense, since “Balance of Terror” was The Enemy Below redux.
See Mirror, MirrorHow would we known when the shrunken uniform gag occurred if it was a TOS episode?
Red October too
In Margaret Wander Bonanno's Captain Pike novel Burning Dreams, it pretty much did.
Yeah, Arrival was fantastic - one of the best examples of "pure science fiction" in cinema, since most sci-fi movies combine the genre with action-adventure.
It absolutely could have been - shorn of the 21st century Earth backdrop - an episode of TNG or something.
A. The Godfather
The Godfather II
The Godfather III
Life with an Orion syndicate boss and his crew
1. the good son is sponsored to join Starfleet but returns home and is corrupted into joining the family business due to circumstances. Said son has a human girlfriend.
2.Attempts to go legit fail, keeps using crooked Federation senators to get gaming licenses and brothels on Risa.
3. Promises to naive human wife to go legit are broken
4. Every so often turf wars in space break out between syndicates
5. The Federation council convences a special closed meeting when concern takes place about the negative influences of the Orion syndicate in its borders. Especially their repeated attempts to introduce a currency exchange system into the economy and illegal Ferengi beatle snuff.
6. A Vulcan v'tosh katur mobster's prized sehlat's head is found in his bed
7.Fellow Orion rivals are killed during an Orion naming ceremony
B. Articles of the Federation novel - the Starfleet version of The West Wing
The Godfather II
The Godfather III
Life with an Orion syndicate boss and his crew
1. the good son is sponsored to join Starfleet but returns home and is corrupted into joining the family business due to circumstances. Said son has a human girlfriend.
2.Attempts to go legit fail, keeps using crooked Federation senators to get gaming licenses and brothels on Risa.
3. Promises to naive human wife to go legit are broken
4. Every so often turf wars in space break out between syndicates
5. The Federation council convences a special closed meeting when concern takes place about the negative influences of the Orion syndicate in its borders. Especially their repeated attempts to introduce a currency exchange system into the economy and illegal Ferengi beatle snuff.
6. A Vulcan v'tosh katur mobster's prized sehlat's head is found in his bed
7.Fellow Orion rivals are killed during an Orion naming ceremony
B. Articles of the Federation novel - the Starfleet version of The West Wing
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The Sting
Quark and Rom find a way to con Brunt out of all he owns after he arranges Morn's murder
Quark and Rom find a way to con Brunt out of all he owns after he arranges Morn's murder
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The Untouchables: Picard and his crew are mandated by the federation to enforce the ban on Romulan ale. They're up against Alc'a'pohn a big boss from the Orions who happens to be a Klingon opera aficionado. He's watching "Rigol'tang" by "Puccinog" the story of a feisty Klingon clown... while his men attack and kill a few of Picard's favorite red-shirts. In the end, Picard gets Alc'a'pohn for failing to pay his starship tax.
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