I wonder whether those lifeforms from Home Soil and those nanites Wesley created could have related on a far deeper level with each other than either of them could with us.
What characters, races, things would you have liked to have seen make a return visit to TNG?
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The Crystalline Entity.
My theory's this: When Dr Marr aimed the shattering beam on the thing, all of its shiny new splinters grew to become big new Entities and went off frying who knows how many civilizations as a result. Oops. (She was off on so many things; Data probably just being there may have had the Entity believing it's its buddy Lore and didn't fry everything under the surface as a result - rather than a mistaken belief Data was in actual contact with the thing at the time. No worries, if nobody had the waterworks over seeing Riker's fling of the week get fried fast ( < 1/32 second), they later perchance upon a small freighter - who contacted them - and we could hear lots of very slow and agonizing screams for full theatrical effect. But Marr was so messed up, all Troi can seem to say is "Duuurh, something's very wrong" despite staring at her from 6 feet away as she's clearly hyperfocused on exterminating the thing... assuming it's the only one left to begin with (it didn't recognize Enterprise, but - again - Data is on board and may have been sensed (hence not being given the fate of the freighter from earlier), but that's supposition too. The whole episode prefers to wallow in pointless emotionalwanking, despite having some great underpinning ideas.)
But I digress. Thanks to Marr, several thousand new itty bitty Entities are roaming around turning entire solar systems into deserves. Just like when a starfish has part of itself severed, it grows in a new one become whole again - since marine life was the allusion the episode clung to...
My theory's this: When Dr Marr aimed the shattering beam on the thing, all of its shiny new splinters grew to become big new Entities and went off frying who knows how many civilizations as a result. Oops. (She was off on so many things; Data probably just being there may have had the Entity believing it's its buddy Lore and didn't fry everything under the surface as a result - rather than a mistaken belief Data was in actual contact with the thing at the time. No worries, if nobody had the waterworks over seeing Riker's fling of the week get fried fast ( < 1/32 second), they later perchance upon a small freighter - who contacted them - and we could hear lots of very slow and agonizing screams for full theatrical effect. But Marr was so messed up, all Troi can seem to say is "Duuurh, something's very wrong" despite staring at her from 6 feet away as she's clearly hyperfocused on exterminating the thing... assuming it's the only one left to begin with (it didn't recognize Enterprise, but - again - Data is on board and may have been sensed (hence not being given the fate of the freighter from earlier), but that's supposition too. The whole episode prefers to wallow in pointless emotionalwanking, despite having some great underpinning ideas.)
But I digress. Thanks to Marr, several thousand new itty bitty Entities are roaming around turning entire solar systems into deserves. Just like when a starfish has part of itself severed, it grows in a new one become whole again - since marine life was the allusion the episode clung to...
100x YES! Always thought that would have been a great movie since the beacon had already been sent. Better than "Insurrection" by a long shot!
I also like the idea of Bynars, Vash & a visit to the Iotians from "A Piece of the Action" from TOS. Not a remake like "The Naked Now" but to see how far they had come from Kirk's visit.
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Well, adventures with Q. I doubt they went to the continuum. As we saw later, it wasn't the place to go for adventure at the time, even with a Q chaperone to keep you from going nuts.
Sela: Actually do something with her character, instead of just using her as a flat villain. Have her recognize the wrong that was done to her mother.
Tasha Yar: I know some people must be tired of her by now, but fate was so horrible to her, she deserves something. Maybe have her serve on a time ship with Captain Braxton (like in "Star Trek: Series ?" but serious.)
Ro Laren and Tom Riker. Have the Enterprise partake in the Dominion War. After or during the Maquis slaughter, Ro Laren and the survivors of her cell escape in a heavily damaged raider, and in an act of desperation, Ro sends a distress call to her old captain. Picard picks them up, he and Ro reunite. Obviously there's drama, but not too much, as there are more pressing matters at hand. The Enterprise then makes an epic plan to free a Dominion asteroid prison, where Tom Riker has been transfered.
The Mintakins: Have the Romulans take advantage of the Mint's gullible superstition and offer them some "gods" that look like themselves. Depending on the current politics and whose side these Romulans are on, they either convince the poor dopes that "the Picard" is the Devil, or that he was testing their faith, and has sent these new gods that look like themselves to deliver more messages. Could be a Dominion War storyline, if Mintaka is relevant for whatever reason. (Maybe the planet has some important resource.)
Amanda Rogers: Have her, Trelayne, and Q2 all pop up in some storyline about the Continuum's first next generation. And clarify, though it should be obvious, that the reason Q2 is the first child born to the Q despite others seemingly coming before him is due to the Q living outside our spacetime.
Tasha Yar: I know some people must be tired of her by now, but fate was so horrible to her, she deserves something. Maybe have her serve on a time ship with Captain Braxton (like in "Star Trek: Series ?" but serious.)
Ro Laren and Tom Riker. Have the Enterprise partake in the Dominion War. After or during the Maquis slaughter, Ro Laren and the survivors of her cell escape in a heavily damaged raider, and in an act of desperation, Ro sends a distress call to her old captain. Picard picks them up, he and Ro reunite. Obviously there's drama, but not too much, as there are more pressing matters at hand. The Enterprise then makes an epic plan to free a Dominion asteroid prison, where Tom Riker has been transfered.
The Mintakins: Have the Romulans take advantage of the Mint's gullible superstition and offer them some "gods" that look like themselves. Depending on the current politics and whose side these Romulans are on, they either convince the poor dopes that "the Picard" is the Devil, or that he was testing their faith, and has sent these new gods that look like themselves to deliver more messages. Could be a Dominion War storyline, if Mintaka is relevant for whatever reason. (Maybe the planet has some important resource.)
Amanda Rogers: Have her, Trelayne, and Q2 all pop up in some storyline about the Continuum's first next generation. And clarify, though it should be obvious, that the reason Q2 is the first child born to the Q despite others seemingly coming before him is due to the Q living outside our spacetime.
Sela had so much potential! I owuld have loved it if she had eventually become something like an unreliable ally who sometimes aids the heroes and sometimes works against them.
Honestly, considering how crappy Tasha's death was, I wouldn't even have minded if they had used Yesterday's Enterprise to bring her back permanently. Just have the alternate Universe Tasha cross over into the main timeline, and I'm sure they could have found her some place on the Enterprise.
Would have loved to see more of the Tamarians and their unusual language. Or the Talarians for that matter. Two species that seemed to be on par with the UFP, or at least able to trouble them, and had potentially engaged in some hostilities or misunderstandings. Could have made for good recurring villains.
The very weird non-humanoid Sheliak too were very interesting to me. Wish we could have learned more about them.
Of course, we have another Tamarian in Lower Decks, but as much as I enjoy LD it's not the same as a live action fully serious series
The very weird non-humanoid Sheliak too were very interesting to me. Wish we could have learned more about them.
If you haven't already, you may want to check out Star Trek Online...
Yes, I've heard some great things about STO. Unfortunately I don't have time to get into the entire thing. But I've checked out some clips on YouTube. Maybe I'll check out some more...
I wish Ben Maxwell would have been in DS9, especially since Miles was a regular character on the series. I think it would have been interesting if he came to the station and talked to Sisko for a reason and maybe we find out that he got his command back.
I wish way more than that. I wish he'd showed and was back in service, but in charge of a Dirty Dozen type crew of Ro Laren/Tom Paris types, who were in an "Expendables" situation, & needed the Defiant, so the DS9 gang gets roped into it with them. That's a mission worth seeing
I wasn't worried about seeing them on TV but I was surprised there wasn't more about the Lyssians and Satarrans in books. I figured someone would have written a short story about Picard meeting with them and some background on the brain rape machine.
Ro, Tom Riker, Nick Locarno, Ben Maxwell and Admiral Pressman together in the Dominion War.
The Stargazer.
The Conspiracy bugs definitely.
I would love to read the first draft of Conspiracy, back when it was called The Assassins. I keep wondering if Walker Keel was a villain in that draft, if he existed.
I also was wondering what Maurice Hurley's Insectoid race would have looked like.
Ro, Tom Riker, Nick Locarno, Ben Maxwell and Admiral Pressman together in the Dominion War.
The Stargazer.
The Conspiracy bugs definitely.
I would love to read the first draft of Conspiracy, back when it was called The Assassins. I keep wondering if Walker Keel was a villain in that draft, if he existed.
I also was wondering what Maurice Hurley's Insectoid race would have looked like.
If you just want to watch some of the stories from STO without playing it yourself, Certifiably Ingame on YouTube does some great play-throughs.
Star Trek - The Next Generation, Moriarty Special
Somebody, perhaps Barclay, visits the program that captured Moriarty hologram and checks out what he is up to. Is he still the good guy he promised to be? Has he programmed a holodeck in the holoprogram to constantly beat Holmes? How are things with his significant other Regina Barthalomew, after all they were programmed to love each other, how's that going, is programmed love eternal? Or is there a programmed fight over who's doing the dishes? Where did they travel after they left the Enterprise? Have they already visited Earth like they discussed? Have there been any clitches in the program? Does Moriarty still believe he outsmarted Picard? And if he doesn't, why is that?
Somebody, perhaps Barclay, visits the program that captured Moriarty hologram and checks out what he is up to. Is he still the good guy he promised to be? Has he programmed a holodeck in the holoprogram to constantly beat Holmes? How are things with his significant other Regina Barthalomew, after all they were programmed to love each other, how's that going, is programmed love eternal? Or is there a programmed fight over who's doing the dishes? Where did they travel after they left the Enterprise? Have they already visited Earth like they discussed? Have there been any clitches in the program? Does Moriarty still believe he outsmarted Picard? And if he doesn't, why is that?
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They wanted Moriarty to return earlier and more frequently but they got tied up in litigation with the Conan Doyle estate for a few years...
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