What characters, races, things would you have liked to have seen make a return visit to TNG?

[Gingerbread Demon]

If you had your time to make another series of TNG who or what would you bring back for a return visit?

Here's my short list

The Traveller, or more his species so we can learn more about them.
Amanda Rogers - To see how she had got on being a Q or if she had become corrupted.
Vash
Weley's nanite planet.
The Mintakans

 

[seigezunt]

The invading parasites from Conspiracy.

 

[flandry84]

The Caldonians from “The price”.
That episode was one of the few that gave the impression of a larger galactic community outside of the UFP.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The invading parasites from Conspiracy.

Oh yes for sure..... That would have been nice had they done that.

 

[Oddish]

Armus from "Skin of Evil". He finally gets off planet and starts raising hell somewhere.

 

[Mojochi]

Ben Maxwell. Given how things turn out with Cardassia, & given how he was fairly well right in the 1st place, & how he only got dealt with like he did, to preserve a BS armistice, he could've gotten some vindication imho, & Ro Larened back in the field for some get the Cardies action

 

[Orphalesion]

Armus from "Skin of Evil". He finally gets off planet and starts raising hell somewhere.

I wouldn't mind a chance to see those creatures of awe-inspiring beauty that supposedly left armus on that planet as refuse. They are one of those space opera/planetary Romance elements I like about Season 1

 

[Qonundrum]

I wouldn't mind a chance to see those creatures of awe-inspiring beauty that supposedly left armus on that planet as refuse. They are one of those space opera/planetary Romance elements I like about Season 1

^^this

It might have been hard to realize in 1987/8 - weren't the Edo also supposed to be some Idyllic Utopia Romance in more conventional species form?

But having Armus squish and squelch in to seek revenge on them* might have been compelling. They sold him impressively well in "Skin of Evil", a tense and wonderfully-realized episode that's also underrated. But what would he do, steal a starship**?


* MOOHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
** KHAAAAAAAAAAAAARMUS!!!!!!!!!! since it's too good, obvious, but still not impossible to sell since TNG was re-using plot tropes and often making them their own often enough as well... just not so well in "The Naked Now"...

 

[Orphalesion]

^^this

It might have been hard to realize in 1987/8 - weren't the Edo also supposed to be some Idyllic Utopia Romance in more conventional species form?

But having Armus squish and squelch in to seek revenge on them* might have been compelling. They sold him impressively well in "Skin of Evil", a tense and wonderfully-realized episode that's also underrated. But what would he do, steal a starship**?


* MOOHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
** KHAAAAAAAAAAAAARMUS!!!!!!!!!! since it's too good, obvious, but still not impossible to sell since TNG was re-using plot tropes and often making them their own often enough as well... just not so well in "The Naked Now"...

Nah I think the beings that cast off Armus would have to be a lot more exotic and awe-inspiring than the inhabitants of the Aryan fetish planet.

Like, just to give an idea what I mean, in an old story I wrote as a teenager I had a species of beings that were living versions of those bright, colourful nebulae you often see in space pictures. From Armus' description I was always thinking of something like that.

Some of the other "Planetary Romance"/"Space Opera" ideas from Season 1 I really liked, where that edge of the Universe they went to in "Where No One Has Gone Before", or the Idea of Haven being a planet so beautiful that it was said to have healing powers, as well as Wyatt and Ariana finding each other across time and space because "all life is one" and stuff like that.
Later on TNG got a lot more sober and lost a bit of that colour it had in the first season, imho.

 

[Finn]

An old Talaxian ship, that had left their part of the galaxy over a century before....

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Flint from TOS would be neat to see again

 

[Vale]

Vash should have certainly returned more than once. Much as we may like Majel Barrett, it seems hardly fair that Lwaxana Troi got six TNG episodes and Vash only got two.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oh yeah Vash was great I just wish she had made more comebacks, and wasn't she off having adventures in the Q continuum? Also on that note I'd love to see Amanda Rogers and whether or not she was a changed in any way by living there and finding her Q self.

 

[publiusr]

Armus from "Skin of Evil". He finally gets off planet and starts raising hell somewhere.

His fellow Klyntars are fighting on the big screen even as we speaks. Not Carnage or Venom—the wig.

I say the shining Titans are the angels from Evangelion only not as pure as they believe.

 

[at Quark's]

I think I would have liked to see a bit more of those mysterious Traveler's people. Not necessarily the Traveler himself, though. But the way he acted, he made them feel like a genuinely old species (unlike, say, the Q who are way too eager to show their powers and even though they claim they're old, they feel like a bunch of fellows who only recently made it to the tier they're in), far in advance of the Federation.

EDIT: I now see they were already mentioned in the very first post as well.

I also would like to know what made the Legarans (from 'Sarek') so special, why the benefits of a relation with them would be incalculable, as Picard says).

 

[Vale]

Oh yeah Vash was great I just wish she had made more comebacks, and wasn't she off having adventures in the Q continuum?

What's really weird there is that Q comes back alone after TNG: "QPid" and nobody says "Wasn't Vash with you? Where is she?". I know Q can be as wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey as he pleases but you'd think someone on the Enterprise would at least mention it. TNG: "True Q" certainly happens before DS9: "Q-Less" from the perspective of the Enterprise, but Vash isn't mentioned at all. (TNG: "Tapestry" is roughly contemporaneous with DS9: "QPid" too – no stardate is given to be sure – but I'll allow that Picard had other things on his mind there.)

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I would also have liked to have seen the race of people that were in the episode Cogenitor again, the Vissians to see if their society had changed at all.

 

[Qonundrum]

Nah I think the beings that cast off Armus would have to be a lot more exotic and awe-inspiring than the inhabitants of the Aryan fetish planet.

Well, beyond the overly-sexualized aspect Roddenberry was known for, sure... the horny planet was cringe enough, never mind all the production which was worse... beyond CGI water fountains and green trees everywhere, what would they show that really could induce awe from the audience and in a positive way?

Like, just to give an idea what I mean, in an old story I wrote as a teenager I had a species of beings that were living versions of those bright, colourful nebulae you often see in space pictures. From Armus' description I was always thinking of something like that.

I think my question just answered.

Some of the other "Planetary Romance"/"Space Opera" ideas from Season 1 I really liked, where that edge of the Universe they went to in "Where No One Has Gone Before", or the Idea of Haven being a planet so beautiful that it was said to have healing powers, as well as Wyatt and Ariana finding each other across time and space because "all life is one" and stuff like that.
Later on TNG got a lot more sober and lost a bit of that colour it had in the first season, imho.

Great point on WNOHGB, that was rather imaginative... Haven was almost too romanticized, taking the true concept of how happy people can heal and all that, the subplot with the species being exterminated because they had a pathogen (and ironically the planet's inhabitants don't want the Tarellians visiting there because of fear of their disease being spread! The Tarellians just get Wyatt and hope he cures them all, which is rather a decent way to subvert expectations...) -- and amazingly wasn't turned into a hornball fantasy like how half (seemingly) the season seemingly had... But season 1 is such a mixture of so many tropes and types, a season where one episode is outright kid-centric and the next is where they want to bring Wesley down where they copulate at the drop of a hat and yet none of the cast is corpsing, unless that bridge scene was on the 27th take or something...

TNG definitely got more stolid with season 5 onward for sure...

 

[Qonundrum]

I'd otherwise say "What happens on Vagra stays on Vagra", but Armus could come back. 1701-D destroys the shuttle but then puts up a "off limits" beacon, which piqued the interest of a few dozen star empires.

 

[susannah]

Agreed on Vash and the Traveler. I would add the Bynars and also the "ugly bags of mostly water" species. These last are two examples of what I think Trek does really beautifully, if too rarely: conceiving of truly different ways of life and how we might interact with them. It's frustrating that the premise of the franchise is exploration, and yet it too often abandons the wholly alien in favor of the familiar.

Edited to add: also the species from "Tin Man," for the same reasons.