The TOS Sequel Episode That Never Happened....

[Maurice]

The Tholians seemed skeptical about Spock's claims that a ship was trapped in "spatial interphase", which would be odd if they were aware of such a phenomenon.

They did learn from it, tho.

 

[Wingsley]

It was only implied, and thus inferred mightily by fans, but the Tholians' "web" technology played a great part in why that area of space had those unusual properties. Apparently the Tholians were either used to it, or designed it that way.

Source?

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I think "Mirror, Mirror" would be a good candidate. Imagine if they'd beat ENT to the punch and done an entire episode or two featuring just the mirror crew. We were robbed of seeing Mirror Kirk in his element.

"Mirror, Mirror" is the one that intrigues me the most. One of my few disappointments with the original episode is that we never saw exactly how Spock realized he was dealing with the Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura of a parallel universe. We know that they were discovered relatively quickly, and we have Spock's explanation that "they, as barbarians, were unable to act like civilized men." which doesn't tell us anything in the way of specifics. Even as a kid, I thought that that was a bit of a cop out.

I have some ideas of what happened next, but I'll keep those to myself. They'd start getting too close to the "don't post story ideas" rule.

But I've enjoyed pretty much all of the Mirror Universe sequels to some degree (Mike W. Barr's "Mirror Universe Saga," Dark Mirror, the DS9 episodes, ENT's "In A Mirror, Darkly," David Mack's novel, Star Trek Continues, and John Byrne's recent New Visions story), even when I might disagree with them.

 

[JimZipCode]

Journey to Babel. One of my many unfinished fanfics: What happened afterward?

One of the many joys of the wonderful The Final Reflection (1984), was the look at a Babel conference, and the functioning of diplomacy in the Trek universe. That episode did get a "follow-up", though not a sequel – more of a prequel, I guess.

 

[JimZipCode]

They'd start getting too close to the "don't post story ideas" rule.

There's a "don't post story ideas" rule?

 

[Astra]

They'd start getting too close to the "don't post story ideas" rule.

There's a "don't post story ideas" rule?

I wasn't aware of this either. If I broke it with my three fanfiction sentences then I apologize.

 

[Greg Cox]

They'd start getting too close to the "don't post story ideas" rule.

There's a "don't post story ideas" rule?

I wasn't aware of this either. If I broke it with my three fanfiction sentences then I apologize.

I'm not sure, but I think that only applies to the Trek Literature forum . . ..

 

[Astra]

There's a "don't post story ideas" rule?

I wasn't aware of this either. If I broke it with my three fanfiction sentences then I apologize.

I'm not sure, but I think that only applies to the Trek Literature forum . . ..

I see, thanks! Makes absolutely sense. I hadn't visited this forum yet. So much to do, so little time...

 

[Kor]

How did Morg and Eymorg society develop after their interaction with our heroes?
Kor

Are you sure the society's development is what you have in mind? If you're in earnest I apologize, but I can't resist thinking about all of your recent references to entertainment tapes.

I think you're getting me mixed up with Nerys Myk.

Kor

 

[YJAGG]

Arena- we never saw the Gorn again ...

 

[alpha_leonis]

Not necessarily a sequel "story", but a follow-up on a group of *characters* that I always thought could have been handled differently:

The Three Klingons: Kor, Kang and Koloth. They all got a follow-up on DS9, which was very well done IMO, but those are characters who I think could have been brought back earlier. Specifically in TOS movies -- any one of those characters would have been a much better foil than Kruge in TSFS, or Klaa in TFF. Those two characters were really hammy one-off appearances; why not feature somebody we already knew, who already had a history and motivation to come after Kirk specifically?

Or even better: they would have been *great* as the Klingon leadership in TUC. Instead of Chancellor Gorkon and General Chang, what about Chancellor Kor and General Kang? Seriously, it would have been awesome IMO.

Another character who could have been great in TUC was the unnamed Romulan Commander from "The Enterprise Incident". She would have been great as the (disgraced?) Romulan Ambassador in TFF in place of Caithlin Dar. Or otherwise the Romulan co-conspirator in TUC, instead of who-the-hell-is-Nanclus. Amirite? (Incidentally, I heard rumors that they wanted to bring her back for TNG's "Face of the Enemy", but the actress was unavailable.)

 

[telerites]

Arena- we never saw the Gorn again ...

Well there was the ST Video Game commercial with the Gorn and Shatner.

 

[JaxsBrokenHeart]

Part of me wanted to see a Tribble sequel episode involving Harry Mudd trying to make a profit off of them and somehow making them an either bigger nuisance.

I also had an idea for an episode called "As Flies to Wanton Boys" ; about the Enterprise stumbling upon a childish, but dangerous mini-war between Charles Evans and Trelane and trying to survive. Crew gets split up with Kirk, Chekov, & McCoy "enlisted" to help Charlie while Spock, Sulu, & Uhura are stuck being forcibly recruited by Trelane.

With the Enterprise (with Scotty left in command arguing with the computer) at stake, its up to Kirk and Spock to get into contact with each other and teach maturity with the worst pair of demigods in the galaxy.

 

[CRM-114]

Assignment: Earth, of course, with the further adventures of Gary Seven, Roberta Lincoln, and Isis.

Another good one. Of course, your books on the subject tying that episode to "Space Seed" were nice follow-ups, I'd say.

Thanks!

Which only proves how much I felt cheated that we never got an "Assignment: Earth" tv series back in the day.

I'd also love to see an Assignment: Earth series. I've actually thought about it quite a bit, and have come to the conclusion that it would probably never happen. It's a little too thematically similar to Doctor Who, so much so that it would probably be dismissed as a DW ripoff.

 

[Drone]

How did Morg and Eymorg society develop after their interaction with our heroes?
Kor

Are you sure the society's development is what you have in mind? If you're in earnest I apologize, but I can't resist thinking about all of your recent references to entertainment tapes.

I think you're getting me mixed up with Nerys Myk.

Kor

My apologies for rather severe inattentiveness.

 

[telerites]

Another good one. Of course, your books on the subject tying that episode to "Space Seed" were nice follow-ups, I'd say.

Thanks!

Which only proves how much I felt cheated that we never got an "Assignment: Earth" tv series back in the day.

I'd also love to see an Assignment: Earth series. I've actually thought about it quite a bit, and have come to the conclusion that it would probably never happen. It's a little too thematically similar to Doctor Who, so much so that it would probably be dismissed as a DW ripoff.

I really tried to like "Assignment: Earth" and have watched it numerous times over the years but it isn't one of my favorites even though it seems to be popular with many folks. Maybe since Earth was the setting or even Lansing's out-of-control eyebrows, just something that doesn't keep me all that enthused. Even with lots of hope about a spin-off as it was developed, I don't think it would have improved my liking too much.

So many others, I would have liked to have seen revisited.

 

[CrazyMatt]

How did Morg and Eymorg society develop after their interaction with our heroes?

Kor

I think I saw something like that on Cinemax last night.

 

[Warped9]

I think "Mirror, Mirror" would be a good candidate. Imagine if they'd beat ENT to the punch and done an entire episode or two featuring just the mirror crew. We were robbed of seeing Mirror Kirk in his element.

"Mirror, Mirror" is the one that intrigues me the most. One of my few disappointments with the original episode is that we never saw exactly how Spock realized he was dealing with the Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura of a parallel universe. We know that they were discovered relatively quickly, and we have Spock's explanation that "they, as barbarians, were unable to act like civilized men." which doesn't tell us anything in the way of specifics. Even as a kid, I thought that that was a bit of a cop out.

I have some ideas of what happened next, but I'll keep those to myself. They'd start getting too close to the "don't post story ideas" rule.

But I've enjoyed pretty much all of the Mirror Universe sequels to some degree (Mike W. Barr's "Mirror Universe Saga," Dark Mirror, the DS9 episodes, ENT's "In A Mirror, Darkly," David Mack's novel, Star Trek Continues, and John Byrne's recent New Visions story), even when I might disagree with them.

It's not hard to imagine the Mirror Kirk and company giving themselves away almost right off. And if by some chance not then the moment Mirror Kirk orders a phaser barrage on the Halkans then Spock would know instantly something was drastically wrong.

Indeed the brief scene we do see has some solid clues in it. Mirror Kirk is confused as to the absence of his personal guard, his change of uniform and the absence of Spock's beard. And the rest of the landing party are also pretty vocal. And finally Spock remarks (at the end of the episode) that it was easier for civilized men to act as savages than for savages to act as civilized men.

All this strongly suggests (to me) that Spock discerned something was drastically wrong pretty damned fast.

 

[The Old Mixer]

If they'd wanted to handle it differently, though, it would have been a great candidate to expand into a two-part episode...one focusing on the regular crew in the mirror universe, and the other vice versa.

 

[publiusr]

I wanted to see the crew use the alien tech they picked up like the zat guns we saw on stargate.

The instant-effect scalosian weapons, the arm band from Spock's brain that could stun a crew.

All used in a final invasion of of the Klingon territories.