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Star Trek Continues - To Boldly Go (Parts I & II)

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I don't feel obligated to spoiler speculation so I'm gonna say I think McKenna bites it and her death is what sends Spock off to Vulcan to purge his emotions.
 
Bixby said:
In just a few days the concluding episode will be released. Can STC pull it together and offer a satisfying ending to their story?
Their goal is to effectively bridge the end of Trek's 5-year mission with TMP. I'm going to look at most of the characters and what they have set up...

Yeoman Smith: i never understood why of all minor characters Kipleigh Brown would choose Smith from Where No Man Has Gone Before...unless it was planned from the beginning by Vic Mignona that their final story would revisit the galactic barrier and Gary Mitchell's fate. I'm kind of expecting Kipleigh will also somehow get the silver eyes treatment, not yet sure if she'll stay on the side of the angels or the devils, but she'll likely die at the end.

Lt. Palmer: she'll probably die like Drake as well since her character never reappeared in the movie era.

Dr. McCoy: By the time of TMP, McCoy effectively swore off Starfleet and their technology as well, it seems. The first half of this 2-parter practically ignored him entirely, they'll have to kick it up a notch to make his exit from the series have any meaning. Here's what I think they should do/have done: seeing how enraged Bones was at the workings of the transporter in TMP's first act, he's obviously been traumatized and high technology seems to be behind it. The end of To Boldly Go pt 1 suggested a massive Wrath of Khan-like dogfight between the Enterprise and Kongo. Bones would need to be in effect "betrayed" by technology somehow...like in WoK, a massive phaser attack with explosive decompression to the decks where McCoy's sick bay is located? He tries to evacuate his entire staff, including Chapel Jr and M'Benga, but at the last second some vital systems fail and all except for McCoy die horribly, patients included.
Something this personal and traumatic is the only thing I can see that would be sufficient for McCoy to be changed as much as he was in TMP.
Is this what will happen? Frankly I don't think so, but it should. And seeing how badly the director handled the action scenes in part 1 I don't expect to see anything visceral enough to make McCoy's departure convincing.

Security Chief Dickerson: he's avoided the Redshirt dance all through this series, but he ain't walking away from this one.

Dr M'Benga: it's too bad they brought back this uniquely appealing character from the series without giving him scenes as iconic as him forcefully slapping Spock back to health, but for part 2 I'm afraid he'll either die like Kelso did, or like a redshirt. Either way, he's toast.

Mr Spock: In TMP Spock is first seen undergoing the ritual to purge all emotions, implying that at some recent point prior his emotions ran amuck on him. In Part 1 they super fast-tracked the beginnings of an "emotional" connection brewing between Spock and McKennah. I don't really see how they can pull this off unless in part 2 during the first 30 minutes they at least show some sort of chemistry or attraction between the two (Spock displaying some emotion or other), but during the 3rd act something happens...either during some battle scene or my guess is that McKennah also gets the silver eyes treatment, good at first but eventually goes haywire and Spock is forced to kill her himself.
Not sure how they could pull something like that off in merely 45 minutes, but Spock really needs something massively dramatic to justify leaving everything behind as he does/did.

Dr McKennae: She's been forced since the first episode, so why shouldn't she be center stage in this one either...I don't see how anything other than death would work since there's no sign of her in the movie era. Death or like Gary Mitchell could have done, she evolves beyond the point of godhood...the former is more likely to me.

Kirk: In part 1 there's not anything resembling a personal stake that is established (In WNMHGB his longtime friendship with Mitchell is sacrificed, in The City on the Edge of Forever he allows his lover to die...), so what would be sufficient for Kirk to accept desk duty? I would guess having to sacrifice almost every member of his crew so that the ESPers could be defeated/killed/whatever would probably do it.

And finally, the ESPers: if this were TOS their story would end with a horrible death, preferably like Sylvia in Catspaw, but if By Any Other Name and a multitude of TNG episodes showed, an enemy that mercilessly kills Enterprise crewmen can at the end part ways with no reprisals. But if you want Kirk and Spock's and McCoy's exits from the Enterprise to pack any oomph, the enemy needs to do really evil things, and they must at the end pay for it.​

Only a few days to go...
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WRT Dr. McCoy, I think you're overthinking it a bit. It also depends on whether you think 3 years passed between the time of the end of the 5 year mission and TMP - or 10 years passed. If it's the former, yes, your supposition makes sense. If it's the latter, I could see that McCoy's 'hitch' was up, Kirk pitched rejoining/reenlisting for another tour - and McCoy declined saying basically, "No, I'm done with Starfleet..."; and heading back to his home (wherever that is) and retiring or going back to being "An old country doctor"; (and then of course when he's reactivated via a seldom used reserved activation clause, yeah, he's pissed when he beams back aboard.)

If there is some sort of incident that really affects McCoy, it's be McKenna's death (IMO yeah, Vic's going to kill her off permanently, in a bad way, which is why NO ONE of the original crew even mentions her in any way. I don't think they'll have her become a super esper - even though they have her learning Vulcan meditation techniques - actors LOVE a good death scene too, so I'm sure she's all for it.) ;)

Well see in a few weeks.
 
Noname Given said:
Well see in a few weeks.[/SPOILER]
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Weeks? It`s coming out Monday NG.
Your theories are as valid as mine, I wrote mine based on how I could see Robert sawyer`s script going, but I'm not at all expecting things to go those ways...But that`s how film discussion goes...

you`re such an old fogey, Maurice...of course it`s that Kirk will fight the Man in Black to the death but get stabbed, he`ll pull a lever to save the light at the heart of the Galaxy, magically appear at a chapel where all his officers and shipmates will reunite to reminisce about their former life. Kirk then dies...
Jeez, series' ends were simpler in the old days :)
 
Maurice said:
my guess....

Kirk finally catches up with The One-Armed Man and the castaways are finally rescued from the Islamd by the Jupiter II as it brings Kirk back to Earth.
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But what about Marsh, Jan Cindy, Greg, Peter, Bobby and Alice the housekeer? ;)
 
Bixby said:
Weeks? It`s coming out Monday NG.
Your theories are as valid as mine, I wrote mine based on how I could see Robert sawyer`s script going, but I'm not at all expecting things to go those ways...But that`s how film discussion goes...

you`re such an old fogey, Maurice...of course it`s that Kirk will fight the Man in Black to the death but get stabbed, he`ll pull a lever to save the light at the heart of the Galaxy, magically appear at a chapel where all his officers and shipmates will reunite to reminisce about their former life. Kirk then dies...
Jeez, series' ends were simpler in the old days :)
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Afraid I don't get the reference to
the Man in Black, unless you mean Johnny Cash.
 
I guess you never saw the final season of LOST

oh well...Joke FAIL!!!
 
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I heard:

Spock takes Kirk up to the helipad on his motorcycle and as the Admiral-to-be flies off in his chopper, he sees the note his friend left him in rocks: “LLAP.”

:p
 
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The above post reminds me of the Taxi episode "Alex's Old Friend" in which Rev. Jim is frustrated that the script he submitted to the producers of M*A*S*H (wherein the hospital is attacked by a Zaxalonian starship) was not accepted.
 
well,
looks like at least the partial reason M'Benga was brought back was to minister to the Vulcan Esper and the Romulan Commander (according to a photo on STC's Facebook today)...
 
Wanna bet the
Romulan Commander gets Espered and wasted and Spock takes it hard?
 
Pretty much the same comment I said earlier, except I had guessed the same fate for McKennah. The filmmakers need to really show an emotional connection between Spock and the Commander before she dies...well as much as a Vulcan can display... and the commander has to have some scenes where she is likeable in some way (or hateable...if Hans Gruber could be a rat bastard yet still be likeable at the same time, she should too)
 
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