"Star Trek" writers love their time-travel. Spending an episode on modern Earth is probably a great way to conserve the budget. And traveling to other time periods lets the writers dip into other genres, like film noir, or Victorian England.
But after 60 years and ten series, we've seen almost nothing of the past eras from any other planet. We got a peak at Bajor and Terrok Nor during the Occupation in couple of DS9 episodes; and "Voyager" gave us a ride on an ancient Klingon sail barge. That's about all I can think of.
How about a time-travel episode that takes us to the Middle Ages on Qo'nos, and gives us a Klingon "Game of Thrones."
Show us Ancient Vulcan before (or during) the revolution of Surak. I imagine something similar to Ancient Rome, with the warfare and hedonism.
Show us fur-clad Andorians mushing giant sled-ships across Andoria, visiting palaces carved from ice, and starting campfires with the electrical charges in their antennae (could they do that?).
Give us a bittersweet tour of Cardassia before the Union took over. Cardassia is basically a planet where the Nazis won. Have a tragic "Cabaret" type of story, showing the vibrant, diverse world full of artists and regular citizens, all ignoring the increasing warming signs around them, until it's too late.
What about Trill, before the planet had one government to decide who got a Symbiont. Show us how different cultures regarded the Symbionts and chose who got to be Joined...and all the flaws in those systems.
And damn it, I want to see those crazy animal-cage wigs Troi's mother told us about. I imagine a past-era Betazoid having the look of the Brandy "Cinderella" movie.
What are some planets or species you'd like to see get a time-travel spotlight?
But after 60 years and ten series, we've seen almost nothing of the past eras from any other planet. We got a peak at Bajor and Terrok Nor during the Occupation in couple of DS9 episodes; and "Voyager" gave us a ride on an ancient Klingon sail barge. That's about all I can think of.
How about a time-travel episode that takes us to the Middle Ages on Qo'nos, and gives us a Klingon "Game of Thrones."
Show us Ancient Vulcan before (or during) the revolution of Surak. I imagine something similar to Ancient Rome, with the warfare and hedonism.
Show us fur-clad Andorians mushing giant sled-ships across Andoria, visiting palaces carved from ice, and starting campfires with the electrical charges in their antennae (could they do that?).
Give us a bittersweet tour of Cardassia before the Union took over. Cardassia is basically a planet where the Nazis won. Have a tragic "Cabaret" type of story, showing the vibrant, diverse world full of artists and regular citizens, all ignoring the increasing warming signs around them, until it's too late.
What about Trill, before the planet had one government to decide who got a Symbiont. Show us how different cultures regarded the Symbionts and chose who got to be Joined...and all the flaws in those systems.
And damn it, I want to see those crazy animal-cage wigs Troi's mother told us about. I imagine a past-era Betazoid having the look of the Brandy "Cinderella" movie.
What are some planets or species you'd like to see get a time-travel spotlight?
Hopefully enough of the bark wasn't injured*, as water transfers upward from it to supply the leaves with nutrients, which in turn feed the tree via the photosynthesis process. Now there's a symbiosis...
