I have several more ideas to pitch.
Farragut story
Maybe a first responders episode set on the Farragut, when Chapel and M’Benga served with Kirk and lost all of those crewmen in the Farragut incident.
Discovery story
A Kaminar attempts to enters the Federation story, featuring Siobahn Tilly and Siranna. It could be a Spock & Uhura story, but also possibly an Ortegas (a pilot like Siranna) & Una story too. They can breflely reminisce about the loss of the Discovery crew, which can function as an epilogue to the first couls of DIS seasons.
Sitcom episodes
- A Cheers-type episode, told from the perspective of the ship’s bartender and possibly the ship’s musical performers. Basically, a sitcom set on the Enterprise, minus the laugh track.
- An episode based around the crew getting personal care and visit the ships salon, dentist, gym, ship’s holodeck for a sauna, and barber. And just engage in small talk, gossip and entertaining tales for the episode.
Horror & psychological thriller episode (aka Halloween episode)
What about a horror & psychological thriller based around the lateral vector transporters from DIS S2? Even if its obsolete on Federation ships by the time of SNW, they should still be in use on other vessels, since not all species evolve the same. I’m ready to further delve into the various aliment caused by pre-TOS primitive transporters (psychosis, recurring paranoia, phasing between objects/becoming a ghost, reproductive problems, neurological problem, rearranged body parts, beamed into solid objects, just being a general health hazard and possibly used by serial killers (think Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees, though it could add a bit of The Shining too). How does one prevent a transporter ban and trust a technology like this not being misused for nefarious purposes?
Real time concept
A episode that occurs in real time, like 24. But unlike 24, its not about stopping terrorists or political conspiracies. It’s about something else (a first contact, a wedding, preparation for a diplomatic event, a game of hoverball, etc) that happens within the hour.
Short stories
-A series of short stories within an episode that imagines Earth occupied by three different factions: the Klingons (a few years removed from the 2256-57 war), the Romulans (a century removed from the Romulan War), and Khan’s Augments (Admiral Marcus’s plan to retrive the Botany Bay goes horribly wrong), and the crew are in POW camps or internment camps of some sort
-A meaningful 23rd century freighter story. Merchant Marines exists, and I presume the Vulcan National Merchant Fleet is also around, so there should be a story there. Maybe the freighters visit Ardana pre-“The Cloud Minders” and its planetary government and one of its other cities and witness the gap. They are members of the Federation as of TOS. It would be relevant considering that IRL we are in a Second Gilded Age. It could be broken into three parts could tell the story of Ardana and Stratos into stages.
- Early 23rd century: Vulcan National Merchant Fleet (use NX-Refit & T’Plana models and possibly Orion models)
- Late 2230s-2240s: Merchant Marines (Use DIS S1 assets of Federation and Klingon ships)
- 2259-60: Pike or Kirk’s experience on Ardana
- Klingon war stories, telling tales of the war of 2256-57
- Chapel and M’Benga on the Farragut with Kirk
- Ortegas on the Palenque
- Batel on her ship
- Uhura at the Academy (basically answering how was the war reported at home)
Different perspectives
- A Lower Decks type story (the TNG episode, not the show LD), but its based around crewmembers with disabilities. So, crewmembers confined to in hoverchairs, cybernetic augmented people (i.e.Airiam), cranial implants and ocular implants (i.e. Keyla Detmer; Troy Januzzi). And they share quarters with other crewmembers (ex. Jenna, Kyle, Uhura).
- A story told from the perspective of Captain Lynne Lucero and her crew. Maybe Lynne Lucero is captain of the USS Archimedes (which might have been Admiral Quinn’s ship when Georgiou first met Saru), with Thira Sidhu as chief engineer and the rest of the USS Cabot crew making up her crew? And they are on a mission to Berellium as they investigate an anomaly created by the Tholians and will assist the Enterprise. And the crew of the Enterprise and the crew of the Archimedes have a clash of styles from the captain all the way down to the lowest deck. It can reunite Pike and Una with shipmates from the USS Chatelet, Antares, and Aryabhatta; shipmates of Chapel and M’Benga from the Farragut; shipmates of Ortegas from the Palenque. Maybe even some USS Shenzhou officers and some of Pike’s bridge crew from S2 among them. But its from the perspective of Lynne Lucero and her crew.
Spy thriller
A proper Cold War style spy games story that happens under the noses of the Enterprise crew. When I’m talking about spies, I don’t mean Section 31. I mean Starfleet Intelligence proper. Along with the V’Shar, Klingon Intelligence and Tal Shiar. And they can also introduce the Andorian version which is called the Ahm Tal.
Bedtime story/fairy tale
A story about Sybok’s mother, possibly told as a Vulcan-style fairy tale due to her being a princess.
And finally…
Spring Break story
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