Think "strange new parallel worlds" - Change a story's plot

[publiusr]

The Alternative Factor where it really was an invasion, instead of an accident prone fool in a tiny flying saucer Alf would have found cramped. A good fan edit would have that planet as Starkiller base than Von Neumann machines had modified over time…with Hux and his troops after emerging via teleportation then firing that mega-beam to open up a wormhole so Star Destroyers come pouring out proper.

The way that episode started—with all the build up? I’d expect nothing less dramatic.

 

[MAGolding]

Post deleted as well as I can.

 

[Pauln6]

The Alternative Factor where it really was an invasion, instead of an accident prone fool in a tiny flying saucer Alf would have found cramped. A good fan edit would have that planet as Starkiller base than Von Neumann machines had modified over time…with Hux and his troops after emerging via teleportation then firing that mega-beam to open up a wormhole so Star Destroyers come pouring out proper.

The way that episode started—with all the build up? I’d expect nothing less dramatic.

I think the Alternative Factor and Guardian of Forever could have been successfully linked storywise.

 

[publiusr]

That I could see…

 

[Sgt_G]

The only way to explain TCOTEOF is to use a multiverse—alternate histories.

Shameless self-plug, but I invite you to read my short-story TIMELINES. Link in my signature block below.

 

[FederationHistorian]

1. What if the Romulans were in place of the Klingons in “Errand of Mercy” and invaded Organia?

This would be happening only three months after the re-emergence of the Romulans “Balance of Terror”. Emerging in a state of war so suddenly with the Romulans – over a century after the Earth-Romulan War - and Kirk and the Romulan commander in charge being told that the Federation would be friends with the Romulans in the future instead of the Klingons. Wondering how all of the characters would react to that, and the ripple effects on how it would affect the rest of the series and the movies up to TUC.

2. “The Squire of Gothos”

What if Trelane had captured other crews along with the Enterprise, and unlike with the Enterprise, was permitted to keep them by his parents? Does Kirk abandon those crews to come back and fight for them another day? Or does he refuse to leave unless they are also released?

3. “Space Seed” & “A Piece of the Action”

What if the Botany Bay was discovered by the crew of the Enterprise, not in space, but having crash landed on Sigma Iotia II? And Khan - once awakened - regularly interacts the Iotians who are still influenced by book on Chicago Gangs, and he obviously realizes are 70 years behind the times of the 1990s. Does Khan take them over and rule over them, assuming they will submit to his rule quicker? Does he stop there or does he use them to take over the Enterprise? Or do the Iotians show less patience with Khan and the surviving Augments compared with the Enterprise crew and resist much quicker and more violently? What do Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew do in a situation like this?

 

[publiusr]

Now that needs to be Tarantino’s film with INTO DARKNESS’ cast. Khan broke out and now he’s about to give the Iotians the swarm ships from Altamid.

 

[Dryson]

I wonder if the Klingons would have boarded the Botany Bay and tried to learn about it in the first place.
They might have assumed it was derelict space junk and destroyed it. Or, seeing that it came from Federation space, they might have suspiciously thought it was some kind of weapon for "the annihilation of the Klingon people," and then boarded it, "attempting to possess its secrets."

Kor

Didn't the Klingon's try their own experiments in trying to make Super Klingons that was seen in Enterprise?

I think if the Klingons would have found the Botany Bay, the Klingons and Khan would have joined forces to create a Super Klingon that along with the Super Humans, could have challenged the Federation, then of course there is the Klingon/Human, Human/Klingon Super Hybrids born of Super Klingons and Super Humans.