The Movies They Should Have Made

[Arpy]

For TNG:
A Mirror Universe movie with evil versions of Picard et al. TNG was lofty and good and a visit from dark versions of themselves could have been really striking and philosophical. ...and better than Shinzon and B-4!

A movie focusing on Q and "unknown possibilities of existence" that may be ahead for the Federation (See: "Hide and Q"). Maybe bring back the Organians, other dimensions, or visit the future's far future and have them deal with a world as evolved from them as they are from us.

Taking a TNG movie idea and adapting it for DS9:
What if the Borg invade the Dominion to assimilate the Changelings, and they flee through the wormhole? DS9 (being about sticking in one place and dealing with ramifications) takes in the refugees and then has to unite the entire Alpha/Beta Quadrants (Federation, Klingons, Romulans, Talarians, Jarada, the whole kitchen sink this time) redeeming the solids in the Changelings' eyes and defending individuality against the ultimate galactic threat.

VOY:
Or, again trying to make The Big Borg Movie happen, what if it's VOY that pissed off the Borg (having destroyed a transwarp hub and killing the Queen in the series finale) and now has to stand with half the galaxy to defend against full-on invasion? The colliding fleets would be a background thing as little Voyager figures out a way to save them all finally being free to both be home and, by saving it, have a home.

What about a Caretaker movie where VOY is transported to another galaxy, having to win the day or be lost forever? Maybe the movie ends nebulously where the viewer is left to decide whether they made it back or, like Janeway did in the pilot, are stuck far away for a greater good. ...After all, getting home? They were always home.

 

[F. King Daniel]

If you want Mirror Universe TNG, hunt down a copy of Diane Duane's excellent Dark Mirror. The description of the MU Enterprise-D sent chills up my spine.

 

[T'Girl]

A movie focusing on Q.

Oh good God no, a thousand times no.

 

[Greg Cox]

A movie focusing on Q.

Oh good God no, a thousand times no.

I don't know. Given how popular the character is, I was always surprised that they never worked Q into the movies. Q would have sold tickets.

My own "Q" novels are still probably my best-selling Trek books, so don't underestimate his popularity.

 

[BillJ]

A movie focusing on Q.

Oh good God no, a thousand times no.

I don't know. Given how popular the character is, I was always surprised that they never worked Q into the movies. Q would have sold tickets.

My own "Q" novels are still probably my best-selling Trek books, so don't underestimate his popularity.

I was definitely surprised we didn't get a Q movie.

 

[Mareika]

A Voyagermovie instead of Nemesis of course.

 

[Dukhat]

There's no way in hell that any of those ideas the OP has would ever have been made into feature films.

 

[Anwar]

I'd have held onto the "Yesterday's Enterprise" idea and made it into a movie, only using the Enterprise-A instead of the Enterprise-C. We find out that while some (McCoy and Spock, definitely) survived, Kirk himself died giving them the time they needed to escape the battle.

Then at the end when history is restored, the final scenes are Spock and McCoy both deciding to visit the Ent-D together and reminiscing over their old friends.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

They should have just re-used "Yesterday's Enterprise" and punched up the script. It's not like they didn't re-use scripts for Voyager and Enterprise.

 

[Arpy]

There's no way in hell that any of those ideas the OP has would ever have been made into feature films.

Thanks, but why?

Is it the scope of the ideas? My thinking was that the Big Screen should be for larger stories and/or game-changing tales that smaller budgets and the demands of ongoing-series denied the franchises on television.

In retrospect though, Trek, unlike Star Wars, LoTR, Matrix, etc, rarely had the budgets even on the Big Screen to do grand sweeping stories.

 

[BillJ]

Then at the end when history is restored, the final scenes are Spock and McCoy both deciding to visit the Ent-D together and reminiscing over their old friends.

I think there'd be more emotional impact to visit the crash site of their Enterprise on Narendra III.

They should have just re-used "Yesterday's Enterprise" and punched up the script. It's not like they didn't re-use scripts for Voyager and Enterprise.

This.

 

[Anwar]

Then at the end when history is restored, the final scenes are Spock and McCoy both deciding to visit the Ent-D together and reminiscing over their old friends.

I think there'd be more emotional impact to visit the crash site of their Enterprise on Narendra III.

I was just thinking of how Yesterdays's Enterprise ended with Guinan asking Geordi about Tasha Yar over a drink, but your ending sounds better.

Maybe, to keep the TNG crew involved in the ending, Spock and McCoy are being transported by the Ent-D to Narendra III?

 

[Taylirious]

I was hoping for a movie where Seven of Nine is a sleeper Borg Queen and tries to assimilate the Federation.

 

[Dukhat]

There's no way in hell that any of those ideas the OP has would ever have been made into feature films.

Thanks, but why?

Because, no offense, most of those ideas just sound like a bunch of fanwank that no movie producer in his right mind would green-light these days. It's the kind of thinking that produced Nemesis. And look how that turned out.

Would they work as individual episodes of the TV show? Perhaps. But not as the plots of feature films.

 

[Arpy]

There's no way in hell that any of those ideas the OP has would ever have been made into feature films.

Thanks, but why?

Because, no offense, most of those ideas just sound like a bunch of fanwank that no movie producer in his right mind would green-light these days. It's the kind of thinking that produced Nemesis. And look how that turned out.

Would they work as individual episodes of the TV show? Perhaps. But not as the plots of feature films.

Again, saying they're fanwank doesn't explain what's actually amiss with them. If I pitched to you a movie about Kirk and company time traveling to modern day to find whales before aliens block out the sun, it would sound pretty strange too.

Also, if you notice, I tried to give themes to explore as well; I didn't go "ALL 5 CREWS UNITE TO KILL BORG 'CAUSE 'MERICA"

And what do you mean they wouldn't be greenlit today? I'm thinking twenty years ago instead of GEN-NEM.

 

[TheSubCommander]

I'd have held onto the "Yesterday's Enterprise" idea and made it into a movie, only using the Enterprise-A instead of the Enterprise-C. We find out that while some (McCoy and Spock, definitely) survived, Kirk himself died giving them the time they needed to escape the battle.

Then at the end when history is restored, the final scenes are Spock and McCoy both deciding to visit the Ent-D together and reminiscing over their old friends.

Then at the end when history is restored, the final scenes are Spock and McCoy both deciding to visit the Ent-D together and reminiscing over their old friends.

I think there'd be more emotional impact to visit the crash site of their Enterprise on Narendra III.

They should have just re-used "Yesterday's Enterprise" and punched up the script. It's not like they didn't re-use scripts for Voyager and Enterprise.

This.

+1

Even BEFORE Yesterday's Enterprise, I had hoped for something like that. In fact, October 1988, I remember reading this in Starlog Magazine....

 

[CRM-114]

I've always kind of wanted to see Planet of the Titans get made. I find the idea interesting, if a little Doctor Who-esque.

 

[Taylirious]

Right now they could totally do a Transformers/Star Trek shared movie universe!

 

[Shawnster]

There's no way in hell that any of those ideas the OP has would ever have been made into feature films.

Thanks, but why?

Because, no offense, most of those ideas just sound like a bunch of fanwank that no movie producer in his right mind would green-light these days. It's the kind of thinking that produced Nemesis. And look how that turned out.

Would they work as individual episodes of the TV show? Perhaps. But not as the plots of feature films.

I've got to disagree. I think a Mirror Universe TNG movie would have been better than the TNG movies we got, especially Nemesis. While on the subject, doing Yesterday's Enterprise on the big screen with the E-A would have been an awesome TOS/TNG passing of the torch; better than Generations in my opinion. Unfortunately that option was off the table when they made Yesterday's Enterprise. They really were not in position to save that script for a future movie. Retooling the episode as a movie wouldn't have worked either, since we all pan TMP for being a retooled Changling/Doomsday Machine/One of Our Planets is Missing.

As for fanwank, I really feel that the last three Trek movies were nothing but fanwank and I have no hopes for the next Abramsprise installment.

 

[uniderth]

"ALL 5 CREWS UNITE TO KILL BORG 'CAUSE 'MERICA"

Now that's a movie I'd pay money to see!