Trek storylines that should be revisited.

[Technomage]

What Trek storyline or device would you like to see again, either as a sequel or as the centre of a new storyline? You can base your idea in any Trek series.

I have always been intrigued by the ‘Planet Killer’ from the TOS episode called ‘The Doomsday Machine’ and the ‘Dyson Sphere’ from the TNG episode called ‘Relics’.

It would be fascinating to see another encounter with a ‘Planet Killer’, one that enabled us to learn more about its origins and purpose, with possibly the locating of its homeworld, or more likely what is left of it. Seeing how it stood up to a Galaxy class starship, instead of Constitution class would have been a very interesting thing indeed.

Then there is the ‘Dyson Sphere’, now this artefact was HUGE, it had the equivalent area of thousands of Earth-type planets and no doubt held the remains of thousands of civilisations. The exploration of this thing could be a series on its own – now there’s an idea!  

[Elric3960]

I would like to see in ENT an encounter with natives of the Orion Colonies.  They have been introduced in The Cage, we met an Orion spy disguised as an Andorian in Journey To Babel, Kirk got seduced by an insane but beautiful slave girl in Whom Gods Destroy, and on two TAS episodes we saw an exposed spy vessel and another slave girl!

I'd also want to know what happened to the Iotians, the Feeders of Vaal, the Gorns, and Mother Horta's brood.  IMHO, TOS left a lot of open holes that need to be filled in "future" Treks and possibly back-storied in ENT.

[Andorian_Incident]

You realize that some people will have a fit if ENT does stories that relate to TOS because they'll start saying will if this happened in ENT's time frame, why wasn't it mentioned in TOS.  

I wouldn't have a problem with any of that, because I'm more concerned with the actual story as opposed to small technical problems and of trying to make each episode fit neatly into a puzzle.

[Elric3960]

You probably haven't been "blessed" or "cursed," depending on your POV of course, of watching TOS for 21 years with no new shows in sight like I have.  If you did, you would have known that the NCC1701 didn't just explore "strange new worlds" every week.  Sometimes they went to established colonies, Federation-membered worlds, war zones that sometimes didn't welcome them with open arms, and even planets where they pretty much knew what to expect before they got there.  Don't forget Starships like the Horizon, the Valiant and the Faragut have been mentioned as destroyed vessels and Kirk & Co. were assigned to investigate what happened to the first two and Kirk served as an Ensign on the third.  That doesn't even include what other Starships discovered, unless you seriously believed that Kirk and his crew were the only explorers "out there!"

[Andorian_Incident]

True, but take the planet killer idea that you came up with.  If Enterprise encountered a planet killer similar to the one in TOS, and have to deal with such, then some would say that it has violated continuity due to the fact that it wasn't mentioned in TOS, or that this character or that should have been more familiar with the entity.

Like I said, I would have no problems with it as long as it's a good story.  In fact, I would like to see more things from TOS explored more fully, and to see some of the planets that were merely mentioned in TOS as well.  But if they did do something that directly affected what the crew of the 1701 did or said, some of the fans would get upset.

[Elric3960]

True, your point is equally well-taken.  Some situations would have to be excluded to keep the Trek fans happy, but some could be expanded to fill in the gaps, including the ones that included existing alien races.  Your namesake episode, AI, for example.

In TNG's The Naked Now, Riker seemed to be the only one who was acquainted with a similar incident that happened on NCC1701 that was happening again on NCC1701D.  It could be equally possible that there weren't many diligent history buffs on NCC1701, so they might get away with uncited precedents here as well.  The only problem, as you stated, is that the Diehard Fans wouldn't accept it.

As Toynbee said, "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

[pumpkinhead1701]

one storyline (or person) ST should have expounded on was Demora Sulu in Generations. it would have been goo to know what happened to her on the Ent-B, and maybe know what happens to Sulu.

we must remember that TOS is set some 80-90 years before Next Gen, in which some of the storys in TOS may have already been wraped up. one can only wonder if V'Ger and the borg are related somehow. in TMP, the did predict that V'Ger had been perceived as a god of sorts to a machine planet.
i agree, i think it would have been insterting to see Ent-D verses The Planet Killer, or the Dyson Sphere.

[Aurian]

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