SWAP SHOP! What if an episode was made for another series?

[Danlav05]

Here's a fun little game I'm sure I've seen around years ago.

Basically the question is in the title - Maybe Enterprise's Minefield would have been a good TOS show akin to Balance of Terror (if they had the budget for exterior hull shots) or Voyager's Year of Hell could have been done as a TNG movie?

Yes some episodes like DS9's Far Beyond The Stars are better where they are and just wouldn't work anywhere else. But what if. . . ?

 

[Lance]

"Unification" as a TOS episode, playing up the 'Has Spock Defected To The Romulans?' angle to the hilt. Whereas Picard and Data were really just sent along to determine what he was up to, maybe Kirk would feel a greater sense of personal betrayal in Spock's apparent actions; while McCoy counsels him that Spock would never do anything that wasn't logical, but he'd never do anything that would threaten the security of the Federation, no matter what. This scenario could also work as a follow-up (of sorts) to the events seen in "The Enterprise Incident".

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

^Great topic! "The Defector" would be another great episode for TOS, although I'm not sure what/who Kirk would use as his ace-in-the-hole--maybe Charvanek agrees to render aid?

"Starship Mine" has Kirk written all over it.

--Sran

 

[BuckBokai]

DS9's two-parter Past Tense was amazing and I dont think any other series could have done it better. However, seeing it play out with TNG characters would have been really interesting. It's not the type of show they would ever done but, it would have been exciting to see Picard in Sisko's role there

 

[Maurice]

Since you said "another series" without limiting it to "another Star Trek series" I'm going to take a detour. I've long thought "The Changeling" would have made a great episode of Lost In Space. The whole thing could play out almost exactly the same, really. Don in place of Scotty, for instance. Nomad could wipe Dr. Smith's mind for "the ball is bluey" hilarity, or use Judy instead and make actually be useful for a change, using his knowledge of programming the Robot to help them understand the probe's corrupted programming. Instead of Spock mind-melding with Nomad, the Robot would connect to its memory banks (which is much more plausible, really).

 

[Danlav05]

"Unification" as a TOS episode, playing up the 'Has Spock Defected To The Romulans?' angle to the hilt. Whereas Picard and Data were really just sent along to determine what he was up to, maybe Kirk would feel a greater sense of personal betrayal in Spock's apparent actions; while McCoy counsels him that Spock would never do anything that wasn't logical, but he'd never do anything that would threaten the security of the Federation, no matter what. This scenario could also work as a follow-up (of sorts) to the events seen in "The Enterprise Incident".

Funnily enough in my Trek reboot idea (which I might be brave enough to post tomorrow!) this happens - Spock's secret when he comes aboard and meets Kirk is that her's been on Romulus with the Romulans who the Federation has yet to meet

^Great topic!

Thanks!!

Another idea is ironically The Trouble With Tribbles as a DS9 episode (no, not Trials and Tribble-Ations lol) Quark hires a barman who sells Tribbles; gets involved and into trouble with Odo and Sisko.

Possibly late 3rd season with pre-war tensions between the Klingons and Cardassians.

 

[Hypaspist]

Virtually any Romulan episode from TNG (except Unification) could easily have been a TOS Klingon episode. It's unfortunate that they didn't get to do them, since that could have added a little more gravity to the events of the film series.

 

[bbjeg]

"Caretaker" with The Next Generation. The Enterprise gets pulled to the delta quadrant, Picard uses his diplomatic prowess to talk down the Kazon as well as just giving them water, Geordi increases the Ocampa's power supply with some awesome technobabble he devised, Crusher heals the Caretaker with some awesome medicalbabble she came up with, Worf chokes Neelix for deceiving them (Troi stops him... Eventually), and Data reactivates the array to get them home. At the end of the episode, Riker points out that it would have taken forever to get home if they failed where Data states the actual time and everyone sighs "Oh, Data" as they're on to the next episode.

 

[Melakon]

"The Enemy Within" transposed to ENT.

It works because the transporter is still experimental at this stage, but the time limit of trapped crew on the planet's surface would need to be reworked since we have two shuttlepods this time.

Otherwise, Archer is the victim (Bakula can play evil very well), with Hoshi filling Rand's role, since they already have a professional history with no romantic undertones, making the attempted rape even more shocking.

One minor character problem is the dog, wouldn't do to put Porthos through that.

 

[The Lensman]

"Best Of Both Worlds" done on the original series would've been a one-parter because Kirk is just that bad ass.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

A lot of DS9 season 1 would have worked better with the TNG cast. If Wishes Were Horses being the biggest example.

Also there's like 50 different Stargate episodes where you can say:

(Stargate episode) was okay. I liked it better the first time, when it was called (Star Trek episode).

That being said, Who Mourns For Adonais would have totally been better in Stargate.

 

[Mojochi]

I think TNG's Rightful Heir might have been more interesting on DS9. Might have been interesting to see Martok in that mix

 

[Rudi Brüggemann]

This is kind of cheating, but I would've loved to see Star Trek: First Contact with the Defiant having full DS9 regular crew and going back in time along with the Enterprise, and the TNG and DS9 regulars teaming up to restore the original timeline. I would've loved to see the characters interact, and let's not forget that Sisko has just as much justification to hate the Borg as Picard has. Also, the DS9 crew would've got a movie, which they really deserved, in my opinion.

Speaking of real episodes, I'd be interested to see TOS: The Naked Now as a TNG episode. Oh wait...

Alright, let's make it The Tholian Web in TNG. I always wanted to see more of the Tholians.

Thinking of this makes me see how many ideas were recycled inside and outside of Star Trek.

 

[Melakon]

That being said, Who Mourns For Adonais would have totally been better in Stargate.

It also would have worked well for Fireball XL5 or Thunderbirds, because when Apollo goes giant-sized, they could put a real person next to the 3' puppets.

 

[Mojochi]

I could've used a TNG presentation of TOS's Court Martial. Picard rarely ever had to really stand trial for anything, & it would've made for really captivating drama. Way more interesting the one they did that was closest, A Matter of Perspective, about Riker, which is kind of a humdrum episode

 

[CorporalClegg]

I've always thought "The Voyager Conspiracy" would have worked really well as a DS9 episode. Ignoring the obvious (the name) and that some of the details would need to be changed, I think the basic plot idea would have been great.

Basically, 31 gives Bashir some kind of drug or whatever that enhances extreme paranoiac tendencies and then leaves various bread crumbs that only he can put together implicating some kind of conspiracy between Sisko an the Cardies.

Bashir naturally recruits Garak and the two attempt to piece together the situation.

The twist would then be Sloan knew Garak would be the one person Bashir would turn to and the whole plot was an attempt to get Garak to inadvertently reveal some secret pertaining to the made-up conspiracy.

"Unification" as a TOS episode, playing up the 'Has Spock Defected To The Romulans?' angle to the hilt. Whereas Picard and Data were really just sent along to determine what he was up to, maybe Kirk would feel a greater sense of personal betrayal in Spock's apparent actions; while McCoy counsels him that Spock would never do anything that wasn't logical, but he'd never do anything that would threaten the security of the Federation, no matter what. This scenario could also work as a follow-up (of sorts) to the events seen in "The Enterprise Incident".

I had this same thought as well, even if it is one of the more obvious ideas. Though, instead of an episode, I think it would have worked best as a TOS film. Just the basic plot idea: Spock goes rogue in an attempt to aid a Romulan resistance group; Kirk goes after him would make for one helluva film. But here's the kicker: jumble it up with the best aspects of TUC, and suddenly you're looking at something pretty amazing.

It's the perfect example of the largest problem that persists within the Trek property--it's the whole left hand/right hand thing. It shows how much better the franchise would have been had all the pieces been incorporated better. It's still a huge problem. But I digress...

My point is, it really hurts that the two were released within a few weeks of each other. Surely their production overlapped at some point. It would have been wonderful if at some point Berman could have walked into Meyer's office and say, "I've got this thing. You've got this thing. Let's throw 'em together and go make something." Instead we got was is probably Trek's most boring two parter--never mind Nimoy's salary--and a rather mediocre film.

 

[bbjeg]

TNG's "All Good Things" done in TOS would be neat just to see TOS's Enterprise, TMP's refit, and the Enterprise A saving the galaxy.

 

[Dick_Valentine]

I've not checked this but I'm sure conformation won't be long in coming in this thread either way, but the Voyager episode with the Cardassian WW2 War Doctor allegory must've been written as a DS9 episode.

Swap B'elanna for Leeta and the random Bajoran crewman they had to create to recognise the cardassian Doctor for Kira and maybe switch out the Holographic element and have Doctor Cardassian alive and well somewhere and you have a pretty standard DS9 Bajoran vs Cardassian moral quandary ep with Bashir in the middle and Rom standing about ineffectually but respecting his wife's wishes like Paris did for Torres.

And the terrible TNG "Warp drive is damaging the universe" episode would've worked better as a Voyager ep with the consequences on that ship being far from home and being limited to low warp being MUCH greater.

 

[Danlav05]

TNG's "All Good Things" done in TOS would be neat just to see TOS's Enterprise, TMP's refit, and the Enterprise A saving the galaxy.

Main body just after TMP, TOS segment at the end of the 5 year mission and future bits shortly before TUC.

That's how I'd do it.

 

[bbjeg]

TNG's "All Good Things" done in TOS would be neat just to see TOS's Enterprise, TMP's refit, and the Enterprise A saving the galaxy.

Main body just after TMP, TOS segment at the end of the 5 year mission and future bits shortly before TUC.

That's how I'd do it.

I'm not sure who would replace Q. The Trelane seem too childish and the Metron were ready to let the Gorn die so it's hard to see him caring to save someone. I wouldn't mind seeing John De Lancie messing with Kirk and his crew.