Throwaway lines that hint at untold stories

[FormerLurker]

Yep I know! Although Kor wouldn't have fitted in that well with Tribbles and Koloth was set to appear in at least 13 of the 26 episodes of the second season! Kang would have been Kor in Day of The Dove but John Colicos was otherwise booked!
JB

Does no one read my posts? Am I on ignore?

This may not be what you're looking for, but the reference to the "traitors of Kling" in Heart of Glory made me wonder how cool it would be if all following Klingon-centric episodes ended up with constant references to "Kling."

Or not.

Kor

Kling was intended to be the name of their homeworld, but when the episode aired, they realized how, shall we say, undramatic it sounded, and the idea was dropped. In 'Sins of the Father' Picard called it "The first world of the Klingon Imperial Empire", an unwieldy phrase in itself, and by the time Gowron ran for Supreme Commander (it wasn't Chancellor yet), it had finally become Kronos.

 

[Shawnster]

gainst Earthlings? After all, his military career might well have started in the late 21st century, and his short stint of a mere century at a desk job would not register much in his musings now that he's back on the saddle.

"I've spent my whole career fighting for the empire. Well, except for that century long gap between my last combat tour and now. But you know what I mean, Centurion ."

 

[F. King Daniel]

Not words, images. The Event Horizon shit in Tuvok's mind in the episode "Random Thoughts"

Where have you been, Tuvok? Why have you seen these things?

 

[Maurice]

Y...Koloth was set to appear in at least 13 of the 26 episodes of the second season!...

That's not at all true. In fact, there's a memo where either Roddenberry or Justman balked at Kirk running into the same Klingon (Kor I think) twice. I've never seen a memo that suggested any sort of regular recurring antagonist. I think this is more bunk made up after the fact.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Not words, images. The Event Horizon shit in Tuvok's mind in the episode "Random Thoughts"

Where have you been, Tuvok? Why have you seen these things?

He had an interesting inter-Starfleet experience (2298-2349).

 

[valkyrie013]

Number of species, or stories that that had 1 or 2 episodes, then droped off the map. Theres the alien parasites in S1 of Tng.. though they were suppose to be a harbongeour of the borg, who were like giant spiders or something early on..
The Vaaduour in Voyager, there back!.. then Zzzzzzz.. though Full Circle book suposidly goes back, same with the Krenium. ( haven't gotten that far in the book series yet)
Well in all of this, I would like to see some stories go back and flesh out some past ideas.. but would Love them to go forward with new stuff, not Reback/rehash/re.. somthing

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

What about Kazanka, the Klingon who obviously made a significant contribution to science along with Richard Daystrom and not on an assembly line basis mind you.

And Sitar.

 

[XCV330]

SS Intrepid's mission

 

[Valenti]

And Sitar.

Sitar to me was more into the new and groundbreaking philosophical thinking. He just sounds like his discoveries were more toward metaphysical grounds. What is revolutional thinking for a Vulcan anyway? It could be anything. I thinking though like Shaman like medicine or biology, or that sort of thing, but that's just me. He could have invented the cure for insanity while Kazanka created the neural neutralizer, later to be twisted into the mind sifter by the Klingons and maybe the agonizer and the disappearance death weapon in kirk's quarters in Mirror, Mirror.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Kazanga was supposedly a doctor. https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Kazanga

 

[Doom Shepherd]

Shinzon having fought for the Romulans.

And speaking of the Romulans, the commander in "Balance of Terror" laments that he's spent his whole career fighting wars on behalf of the Empire. Against whom? Clearly, not the Federation at that point, since the episode makes it clear that there's been little or no contact between the Federation and the Romulans for a century or two.

Add to this the "Matters of greater urgency" that caused the long lack of contact prior to TNG's "The Neutral Zone," and I imagine some long-term adversary on another Romulan border, just because I am incredulous that the Tomed Incident was the sole reason for their withdrawal for that long a time.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Leonard McCoy's pre-5ym Starfleet career. https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Leonard_McCoy#Early_career

 

[Valenti]

Also the S.S. Yorktown could be mentioned more, commanded by Robert April before Enterprise. Especially with GR's 'The Cattlemen'. Cool story.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Kazanga was supposedly a doctor. https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Kazanga

Connecting multiple non-canon sources, it sounds like Kazanga is a Cygnet XIV native. Which means she's probably from that female-dominated planet that sold Kirk his new AI.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

...by the time Gowron ran for Supreme Commander (it wasn't Chancellor yet), it had finally become Kronos.

Wasn't the name "Kronos" first established in Star Trek VI?

 

[johnnybear]

Kronos or Q'Onos! Surely the K is the has to be thing for the Klingons!
JB

 

[darrenjl]

Enterprise 'Fight or Flight'

HOSHI: I think I understood this one. He says the distress call came from his ship, not ours.
ARCHER: We needed their frequencies. Going there was the only way to find them.
HOSHI: Something about DNA scans. He wants to know why we were there two years ago.
ARCHER: Two years ago?
HOSHI: He probably means two days, sir. The phonetic processor's still having trouble locking on. I'm not certain, but I don't think he's going to help us.

What if the phonetic processor wasn't wrong and humans had been there two years before?



Deep Space Nine 'The Adversary'

KRAJENSKY: Our intelligence reports indicate there's been a coup d'etat on the Tzenkethi homeworld.
SISKO: I doubt anyone is going to miss the Autarch.
KRAJENSKY: I know I won't. Unfortunately, it's too early to tell who's in control, but we don't want to take any chances. We need to remind the Tzenkethi that the Federation is committed to protecting our colonies near their border.

Who were the Autarch and what threat did they pose to the Federation colonies?

 

[Kor]

Wasn't the name "Kronos" first established in Star Trek VI?

Yes it was. And the TV Trek writers seemed loath to use the name for a while. I don't think it was used in TNG at all after TUC came out. The term "Klingon Homeworld" seemed to be most common. And at some point in DS9's fourth season they remembered that the Klingon Homeworld had actually been given a proper name, and there were frequent references to Qo'noS (Or "Kronos" in Earther pronunciation) in later DS9 and then in ENT.

Kor

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Add to this the "Matters of greater urgency" that caused the long lack of contact prior to TNG's "The Neutral Zone," and I imagine some long-term adversary on another Romulan border, just because I am incredulous that the Tomed Incident was the sole reason for their withdrawal for that long a time.

I wonder if they were actually fighting off the Borg, as their technology was on par with that of the Federation (at least by Picard’s time), and their space was closer to the DQ. We know from Voyager’s “Unity” that Romulans were assimilated by the Borg. Maybe they were preoccupied with keeping cubes away from their border.

 

[Shawnster]

Who were the Autarch and what threat did they pose to the Federation colonies?

au·tarch
ˈôtärk/Submit
noun
a ruler who has absolute power.

There was a coup on the Tzenkethi homeworld that resulted in the overthrow of their leader, or autarch, who had absolute power.