TOS/TAS episodes you wish existed

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I had an idea for another Mudd episode. Stella, as it turns out, is not quite as bad as Harry remembers her (remember, he's usually drunk when he comes home to her, and probably deserving of a scolding, for that matter).

So what if, in their travels, the Enterprise crew meets the real Stella somehow? And she's rough around the edges, but not quite the shrew Harry made her out to be. She kind of misses him (you know how people don't like someone, but find themselves lonesome for them anyhow? - like a love/hate thing).

So when the Enterprise has to fish Mudd out of some dilemma he's in or other, she either a) flirts with Kirk to make Harry jealous, much to oblivious Kirk's surprise/distaste (she's not Kirk's type) and the rest of the crew's amusement or b) conspires with Kirk and pretends to be interested in him (he's in on it, as it solves his problem of getting Mudd to go away)

Discuss this and what else you wish there was....

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I think Mudd was off the rails in "I, Mudd,: as it was farcical--he lost the lowlife edge from his 1st appearance, and the battleaxe wife gag sent it to very un-Trek-like territory. He sort of returned to that lowlife in "Mudd's Passion," and to be honest, that's enough Mudd for the franchise.

On the subject of TAS episodes, I was intrigued by the old ship Bonaventure from "Time Trap" and what kind of personalities and events would shape the period of its origin. A flashback two-parter to that period would have been interesting, and being produced by as part of TAS, it would actually feel like it naturally leads to the TOS/TAS era, unlike Enterprise.

Things I would not want to see are unnecessary guests from TOS popping up--it was fantastic with Sarek & Amanda in "Yesteryear," but its a big universe, and lighter characters like Mudd and Jones were more than enough.

 

[Redfern]

You guys know what I'm going to request.

A M'Ress "centric" episode. Admittedly, Alan Dean Foster gave us one in his novelization of "Star Trek: Log Ten", so I can't really complain.

 

[Kor]

The one where Kor conquers the galaxy.

Kor

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

The one where Kor conquers the galaxy.

Kor

Is that the one where Kirk drop kicks him with such force that Kor is still flying through the air long enough to crash into the Desilu logo?

 

[KeepOnTrekking]

I remember hearing stories about a rejected script that sounded interesting. I don't remember the sources or accuracy of them but maybe Harvey or Christopher would know. It was called, if I remember correctly, "A Portrait in Black and White" by Barry Trivers about McCoy and Uhura being stranded on a planet where slavery is reversed and the whites were the slaves. It needed some work but Gene Coon was never able to get it polished up to where it was usable to shoot and was shelved. I believe it may have evolved into a devil and an angel chasing each other from what Fred Freiberger said in a Starlog #39 interview.. During the 3rd season, Paramount supposedly wanted to make use of some of these scripts that had already been paid for and had Ollie Crawford rewrite it and it turned into "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" with a return to the black and white issue. Regardless of whether this was the same script or 2 different ones that somehow got blurred together and the fact that such a slavery theme may be considered racist today, I always that it would have been a helluva episode that would have given De and Nichelle a rare chance to shine (if they could of gotten it past Shatner's need for screentime.)

 

[FormerLurker]

Brainbin did a synopsis of sorts for this, in his alternate universe history of Desilu/Star Trek, called "Bondage and Freedom". If done well, it's a legitimate premise for a story.

 

[F. King Daniel]

A TAS episode all about Arex. A TOS episode about McCoy's backstory and a TOS episode where they visit 1960's version of 23rd century Earth

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

A TOS episode about McCoy's backstory

You mean ex-wife and Joanna, how he joined Starfleet?

 

[Smoked Salmon]

A sequel to Trouble with Tribbles.

A sequel to The Squire of Gothos.

An episode that addressed homosexuality (yes I know that wasn't likely at the time).

 

[Ensign Benson]

I would love to see an episode where we get to see just what a Starship is capable of when it's not damaged, and in particular where we get to see why Kirk is considered a military genius. Something like Kirk having to defeat a squadron of Klingon or Romulan ships, and/or relieve an incompetent superior of command of a Federation task force just in time to turn the tide of a pitched battle against a numerically superior Klingon or Romulan force.

 

[Kor]

The episode that "The Way to Eden" was supposed to have been before it got turned into "The Way to Eden."

Kor

 

[kkt]

A sequel to Trouble with Tribbles.

You mean, besides the animated episode? And the DS9 flashback episode?
Isn't that enough tribbles to be gettin' on with?

 

[Smoked Salmon]

You mean, besides the animated episode? And the DS9 flashback episode?
Isn't that enough tribbles to be gettin' on with?

I think it's clear I mean a TOS sequel.

 

[lordsofelsewhen]

Captain kirks first mission the enterprise/

 

[Spock's Barber]

"Kirk's Brain".

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Something set at Starfleet Academy.

 

[exocomp]

A sequel to the city on the edge of forever where Kirk rescues Edith Keeler right before she gets hit by the car and brings her to the 23rd century. That way she's alive and the timeline is preserved because she can't start her "peace movement" or whatever that makes Hitler win the war and the humans become Earthbound nazis for a thousand years...

 

[Spock's Barber]

A sequel to the city on the edge of forever where Kirk rescues Edith Keeler right before she gets hit by the car and brings her to the 23rd century. That way she's alive and the timeline is preserved because she can't start her "peace movement" or whatever that makes Hitler win the war and the humans become Earthbound nazis for a thousand years...

I wish that history was changed so that the Nazis never came to power in Germany, that way TOS would NEVER have made that stinker episode called "Patterns of Force".

 

[exocomp]

I wish that history was changed so that the Nazis never came to power in Germany, that way TOS would NEVER have made that stinker episode called "Patterns of Force".

Or any other nazi episodes that followed in the other series for that matter. They all stink.