What would you like to have seen...

[cblmc1296]

...from the TV series that didn't get depicted in the feature films?

Two thoughts come to mind for me: I would have enjoyed seeing Kirk and Spock playing chess while mulling a tactical situation (perhaps this could have worked in TWOK or TUC).

Also, I think it would have been cool to get some more crossover from DS9 and VOY in the 24th century films. I know Janeway was shown as an admiral but it would have been kinda nice to maybe see others like Bashir, Cisco, or Tuvok.

 

[Mr_Homn]

I would have liked to see some tholians or a gorn in the TOS movies at some point, if even just in the background or on a viewscreen or something.

 

[cblmc1296]

I would have liked to see some tholians or a gorn in the TOS movies at some point, if even just in the background or on a viewscreen or something.

Agreed. That definitely would have been cool. At least we got to see some tribbles in the bar scene in TSFS.

I think I would have enjoyed seeing the "food processors" in one of the TOS movies, too. Would they have evolved - perhaps to the point of being similar to the replicators in TNG?

 

[ChristopherPike]

Miles Edward O'Brien.

It would have to have been in Nemesis, or the film after it I'd have made.

In a "Justice League" coming together of different 24th Century cast members - he'd have been my choice for Enterprise-E Chief Engineer, taking over from LaForge. Admiral Picard would say something about ships in bottles to him, and he'd just be there...

 

[cblmc1296]

Miles Edward O'Brien.

It would have to have been in Nemesis, or the film after it I'd have made.

Yes, to have O'Brien return would have been a nice touch. The Enterprise-E equivalent of Ten Forward with Guinan behind the bar woulda' been cool too.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Without a doubt: the continuation of the cool alien crewmembers created for ST:TMP to recur in the next five films. Sure, we got two Zaranites in ST IV, but mainly because of the reuse of their TMP breathing masks than a conscious effort to say (as FASA did), ah, these are also Zaranites. Similarly, none of the races created for ST IV appeared in STs V or VI. The novel "Ex Machina" did a great job of redressing the situation.

I'd really have appreciated a featured, fully-realised, walking, talking Andorian, something we didn't really get canonically until "Enterprise".

And maybe cameo appearances by Arex and M'Ress. And more of Mr Kyle!

I also rather fancied that Dr Pulaski and maybe Peter David's "New Frontier" characters might have had their own table for cameos in the "Nemesis" wedding scene: a quick scan past Selar, Shelby, Lefler (all played by the actors who'd helped create them), Keith Birdsong's neighbour as Calhoun - and maybe a huge, white, sentient Mugato as Janos.

 

[sbk1234]

Miles Edward O'Brien.

It would have to have been in Nemesis, or the film after it I'd have made.

...

First Contact would have been the perfect vehicle for O'Brien, since he could have easily been on board the Defiant.

 

[Pauln6]

More Saavik.

 

[cblmc1296]

More Saavik.

I would agree if they could have gotten Kirstie Alley to play her again. I wasn't fond of Robin Curtis in that role (although I did like her in the TNG two-parter Gambit).

 

[Procutus]

Without a doubt: the continuation of the cool alien crewmembers created for ST:TMP to recur in the next five films.

Yeah, I would've liked to have seen this as well; I felt as if that was a great missed opportunity to explore some of the other races that comprised the Federation.

I also liked the idea that we should've seen more of the Gorn in one of the TOS films.

My personal, all-time favorite idea that I would've liked to have seen explored on the big-screen, would've been a return of Gary Mitchell. My theory being that he really didn't die under all that rock and rubble on Delta-Vega, and that he continued to mutate until he was something virtually unstoppable. I was pimping this idea a number of years back, and I'd still like to see it explored - if only in a novel.

 

[RyuRoots]

More Saavik.

I would agree if they could have gotten Kirstie Alley to play her again. I wasn't fond of Robin Curtis in that role (although I did like her in the TNG two-parter Gambit).

Personally, I would ONLY want more Saavik if it was Robin Curtis.

I agree about O'Brien in First Contact! It would've been great, since FC had some great fanservice (the Defiant itself, the EMH, Ethan Philips showing up, the holodeck menu from the TNG show...) throughout the movie.

 

[Nurse Marmalade]

I would've liked to have seen a deeper exploration of Dr. McCoy's past, especially with his ex-wife and daughter. The thing with his father in ST V was very interesting, though.

Also, a "Mirror, Mirror" kind of film would have been awesome.

 

[cblmc1296]

My personal, all-time favorite idea that I would've liked to have seen explored on the big-screen, would've been a return of Gary Mitchell. My theory being that he really didn't die under all that rock and rubble on Delta-Vega, and that he continued to mutate until he was something virtually unstoppable. I was pimping this idea a number of years back, and I'd still like to see it explored - if only in a novel.

Although it was depicted as an alternate timeline, Gary Mitchell does show up in the Tim Russ fan film Of Gods and Men. It was a shame he wasn't portrayed by Gary Lockwood, though.

 

[Pauln6]

Without a doubt: the continuation of the cool alien crewmembers created for ST:TMP to recur in the next five films.

Yeah, I would've liked to have seen this as well; I felt as if that was a great missed opportunity to explore some of the other races that comprised the Federation.

I also liked the idea that we should've seen more of the Gorn in one of the TOS films.

Oooh yes I would much rather see them re-using existing races than just bunging in a load of random alien foreheads all the time. Having said that, whille it was a funny cameo, I didn't like the way Gaila reduced Orion women from pheromone spewing manipulators to perky co-eds. There was nothing distinctly Orion about her apart from her green skin. I would have liked to see the races developed as distinct races. Enterprise really had me hooked once they started featuring Orions, Andorians, and Tellarites regularly.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I didn't like the way Gaila reduced Orion women from pheromone spewing manipulators to perky co-eds. There was nothing distinctly Orion about her apart from her green skin.

But it was ENT that decided that Orion women were "pheromone spewing manipulators" of the hapless Orion males. Gaila fitted quite nicely with what TOS (Vina's Orion guise and Marta in "Whom Gods Destroy") and TAS (Devna in "The Time Trap") had established about green Orion animal women - and the actress's bouncy/sultry personality reminded me very much of Marta.

 

[Pauln6]

I didn't like the way Gaila reduced Orion women from pheromone spewing manipulators to perky co-eds. There was nothing distinctly Orion about her apart from her green skin.

But it was ENT that decided that Orion women were "pheromone spewing manipulators" of the hapless Orion males. Gaila fitted quite nicely with what TOS (Vina's Orion guise and Marta in "Whom Gods Destroy") and TAS (Devna in "The Time Trap") had established about green Orion animal women - and the actress's bouncy/sultry personality reminded me very much of Marta.

Actually I think it was the role playing games that had Orion women as pheromone manipulators first but yeah comparing Vina to Marta you can see the difference. Of course, being a lunatic they almost certainly treated Marta with pheromone suppressants as part of her therapy or things would get very messy very quickly...

I don't recall the Time Trap though. I'd like to watch TAS - I only saw a few of them as a child.

Overall, Vina and the women from Enterprise are how I'd like my Orion women to be... wicked but worth it...

 

[Fang66]

I'd really have appreciated a featured, fully-realised, walking, talking Andorian, something we didn't really get canonically until "Enterprise".

Shras

 

[22 Stars]

I would've liked to have seen a deeper exploration of Dr. McCoy's past, especially with his ex-wife and daughter. The thing with his father in ST V was very interesting, though.

Also, a "Mirror, Mirror" kind of film would have been awesome.

This, 1000%

 

[Therin of Andor]

Shras

Well, Shras was an ambassador. In an episode of a TV show. Wasn't the question "What would you like to have seen...." in a Star Trek movie?

Shras was essentially a talking head, to convey information required by the episode, and who could have been any ol' alien or human.

I'm talking about an Andorian as a Starfleet crewmember, interacting with the regular heroes, whom we get to know over the course of the movie and maybe seen again in other movies. (I remember wishing someone would offer such as role to John Phillip Law after I saw "Barbarella" a few times.) Or how about an Andorian who was a really cool Froot Loop villain (such as Cray in the "New Frontier" novel, "Once Burned")? Yeah!

 

[Maurice]

A little more imagination.