Which episode would make a good film?

[RAMA]

I'm sure this has come up before, but I was thinking about how episodes of Twilight Zone have been made into movie adaptations or have had films that duplicate TZ stories without the direct tie-in. The ST movies have touched on episodes but have not adapted any.

I have a few ideas..some obvious, maybe some not:

1) Journey to Babel: In a sense, there were dynamics lifted from this episode in the excellent "Babel" trilogy from Enterprise's 4th season, but I think a lengthened 2-hour version of this episode has everything to make a good movie.

2) Errand of Mercy: STVI has a few elements of this story, but even the movie did not have the battlecruisers poised for war that the remastered version of the episode had. I could imagine a more expansive explanation of the Organians in such a movie as well as a history of the conflict with the Klingons.

3) By Any Other Name: This story was somewhat campy and definitely a "bottle show". I could imagine a big epic story about intra-galactic travelers that would make better use of the background than what we saw.

4) Enterprise Incident: A political intrigue/spy story. The Tv show was tied down to interiors of spaceships, but I think that could be opened up some for a movie scale.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I'm going to state the obvious:

1. "The Doomsday Machine" — This story is big with action and character conflict, and would translate well to a big-budget feature.
2. "The City on the Edge of Forever" — The stakes are both huge and personal. Having more space would allow the story to really develop the love and loss of Edith Keeler.

Bonus:

1. "The Changeling" — Of course, this was already made into a movie, sorta — STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE.

 

[Admiral Shran]

"Balance of Terror"

It's already very much inspired by submarine movies. Open up the scale, throw in some nice special effects of the two ships trading shots, and spend more time exploring the Romulan Commander's culture and attitudes as well as Stiles' racism toward Spock and you got a winner.

 

[HIjol]

I will go off the reservation a bit ( a lot!) and say that the TOS episode that is probably ridiculed and/or reviled more than any other, Spock's Brain, could make an intriguing movie, in today's world, and with today's technology.

Sort of a "Wrinkle in Time" meets "Matrix", with alternate realities and timelines, and a little V'ger perspective thrown in. Plus, the All Powerful intellect of Spock's Brain, unleashed on this Universe and others. Conflict. Hopelessness. The Brink Of... Star Trek "races" coming together to stave off the Extinction of All Life. And, The Enterprise, Kirk, McCoy, CG/Dream Sequence Nurse Chapel and others, Ultimately Prevailing with Human Emotion, over Spock's Logical Essence.

Oh, Hell Yes!

 

[RAMA]

An episode most people dislike: "Alternative Factor" had the setting for a great time travel tale.

 

[Galileo7]

"Doomsday Machine" ... What TMP could have been if it arrived instead of V'ger. TMP had Decker's son.
"Balance Of Terror"
"The Galileo Seven"
"The Man Trap"
"Mirror,Mirror" ...Dual roles for all cast members.

 

[Trekfan12]

Doomsday Machine
Galileo Seven
Amok Time
Mirror Mirror
This Side of Paradise
City on the Edge of Forever
Trouble with Tribbles
Enemy Within (more exploration about what happens when the evil that dwells inside all of us escapes)

 

[Scotchy]

Maybe "All Our Yesterdays."
I always liked the idea of a population escaping the destruction of their planet by using time machines. They need to patch a big plot hole (the Enterprise should have detected no one was left on the planet, deduced they had escaped and left before the nova could threaten them). They might also incorporate some of the material A. C. Crispin added afterward, particularly the interesting wrinkle of Spock having a son in the ice age time period. I would change or minimize the witch burning part, though, since it was pretty lame.

 

[Hippocrates Noah]

Trouble with Tribbles

With Tribbles that are 50 feet tall and breath fire

 

[BillJ]

You would need something with space and ground components to the story.

"Errand of Mercy" or "Friday's Child" or something along those lines.

 

[spockboy]

DC Fontana once said that Naked Time and Tomorrow is Yesterday were originally going to be put together as a two parter!
Imagine that.
After finding a frozen outpost filled with dead people who murdered each other, the crew catches a virus, goes crazy, loses control of the Enterprise and almost crashes into a planet. Then to break out of the crash they cold start the engines, accidentally go back in time and end up crippled in low orbit over 1960's Earth. Then they beem aboard a pilot to avoid a nuclear missile and then have to figure out a way to return the pilot (and officer) without anyone knowing to avoid changing history, and then somehow get back to the 23rd century by sling-shotting around the sun!

What a story!

Spockboy

 

[BillJ]

DC Fontana once said that Naked Time and Tomorrow is Yesterday were originally going to be put together as a two parter!
Imagine that.

Didn't that get debunked somewhere along the way?

 

[spockboy]

Didn't that get debunked somewhere along the way?

Not that I know of. If so I would like to know.
Even if true what a fantastic story that would be for a movie.

Spockboy

 

[Trekfan12]

I think either . Would have made a great two parter

 

[TOSalltheway]

Balance of Terror has already been a great film, The Enemy Below.

 

[UnknownSample]

Half the episodes are very film-like, and make far better "films" as is, than any of the actual films.