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What loose ends would you like to see taken up?

How a Genesis arms race didn’t happen.

How the Klingon homeworld was saved (unless it was replaced) after Praxis.
As a Star Trek author (not recognized), I invented Starfleet shot a Genesis torpedo on Kling 1 then let a Klingonadam and Klingoneve there
 
I have has for 30 years a fanfic/series idea of a Starfleet ship set after ST:VI and crossing into the very early 24th century. Maybe once a season they'd follow up on a loose end from TOS.

One idea I have is a return to Cheron from the black and white cookie episode (Let That Be Your Last Battlefield). After establishing contact with the holocaust survivors, The Federation helps lift them out of their post atomic horror the way Vulcan helped Earth.
 
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Wouldn't be the first time such an inconsistency occurred in Trek or any TV/Movie franchise.... :shrug:


After all, they missed a whole planet in TWOK. I'll buy them missing several thousand survivors living under the radioactive rubble.
 
What happened to Tom and Janeway's salamander babies?

FFS, treating them like animals to let loose in the wild, not even bothering to figure out if they had the capability to fend for themselves, is just so wrong.

Because, at the time, they actually were animals? Why would the offspring turn into humans once zapped with the Doc's technobabble ray treatment?

This end isn't as loose as it may have seemed. Besides, salamanders don't nurse hatchlings. Once they hatch, they leave the nest and the parents part ways.
 
Maybe the real issue was that they just couldn't catch the little buggers. After chasing them through the mud for the several days it took the Doc to de-salamanderize Janeway and Paris, Chakotay and Tuvok (and the mud-spattered lower-deckers they commanded to aid in the mission) called off the search in disgust.
 
Maybe the real issue was that they just couldn't catch the little buggers. After chasing them through the mud for the several days it took the Doc to de-salamanderize Janeway and Paris, Chakotay and Tuvok (and the mud-spattered lower-deckers they commanded to aid in the mission) called off the search in disgust.
I would like to think that their sensors could pick up the unique life sign. What would their DNA look like?
 
I would like to think that their sensors could pick up the unique life sign. What would their DNA look like?

Maybe the swamp planet they were on had so many creepy crawly lifeforms on it, they couldn't get a good fix on three little salamander babies.
 
Janneway and Tom could be returned to human form because that's how they started.

I'll hazard a guess that the salamander babies couldn't undergo the same treatment - because they were never human.
 
I would like to see the Conspiracy aliens come back. It's a shame SNW is set before TNG because I think they could have used:

the aliens in favor of the Gorn for the episode in which Hemmer died

I also want to see the Dominion again and what a 2024 or later Jem'Hadar is like.
 
^ There ARE no survivors on Cheron, except Bele and Lokai.

Captain's log, stardate 10004.7. 50 years ago the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain James T. Kirk encounterd 2 beings from Cheron, a planet devastated by a civil war that resulted in a nuclear holocaust. At the time of their arrival, Enterprise sensors detected no survivors of this holocaust. A half century of advances in sensor technology revealed there are many pockets of survivors. We have been dispatched to Cheron in order to make contact with these survivors. The Federation wants to help rebuild the Cheron civilization, as well as prevent the Romulans from possibly absorbing this planet into their empire and turning it into an advance base for a possible future incursion into Federation space.
 
I think the Enterprise had sufficient sensor technology to determine once and for all that there were no survivors. The dialogue is definitive.

SPOCK: Several large cities, uninhabited. Extensive traffic systems, barren of traffic. Lower animal sand vegetation encroaching on the cities. No sapient life-forms registering at all, Captain. There is no evidence of natural disaster, yet there are vast numbers of unburied corpses in all cities.
KIRK: You mean, all the people are dead?
SPOCK: All dead, Captain. They have annihilated each other totally.
BELE: My people, all dead?
KIRK: Yes, Commissioner, all of them.
LOKAI: No one alive?
SPOCK: None at all, sir.

And it's unlikely to be retconned. How could it? SNW takes place before this episode, DSC is obviously not going to deal with this (it's ending after Season 5), and I highly doubt that LD, PRO or (hypothetical) Legacy will tackle it either. So the story is effectively over.
 
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I think the Enterprise...

There's lots of things I think that new Trek has contradicted, changed, or flat out ignored from the previous eras. Why should this be any different?

Plus, I'd redesign the people of Cheron to look like full body versions of Rorschach from Watchmen. They'd be predominantly white with black markings or predominantly black with white markings. Large markings, large enough to conceal or make difficult to determine which ethnicity was which.
 
The Kelvinverse can be explained because it's an alternate universe.

But appearing on LOWER DECKS? Hmm... maybe there were a group of them in hibernation on a distant continent. That is a big planet. Or Crater may simply have been wrong. Or that Salt Vampire simply lied to him because he was about to kill it after Nancy was killed... a play for sympathy.
 
Plus, I'd redesign the people of Cheron to look like full body versions of Rorschach from Watchmen. They'd be predominantly white with black markings or predominantly black with white markings. Large markings, large enough to conceal or make difficult to determine which ethnicity was which.

Yes! Like pinto ponies. That would be better than the sharp demarcation line. Or at least make the line a little wavy and blurry.
 
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