What I keep wishing for in a Star Trek book or movie...

[willpittenger]

To me, violence should be used only when absolutely necessarily. So I would like to see the crew facing a possible war that they can't win. However, at the last second they find out that to avoid the war, they must not fire a single weapon. Even the security staff practicing or chasing down a murderer would trigger the war. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[docm]

Sounds like several TNG episodes. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[ashish27]

no, its a good idea. Do you have a fanfiction.net account?

 

[strandedonearth]

This thread brings to mind the "horrible death scenarios of Jar-Jar Binks" thread. Just replace Jar-Jar with Wesley Crusher...<br /><br />... Strapped to the phaser array during full-power target practice...

 

[willpittenger]

Which ones? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[nyrath]

Sounds like the ST:TOS episode "Day of the Dove"<br />http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68792.html

 

[willpittenger]

Not really. That episode featured an alien that was inflaming the combatants to feed of their emotions. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[junkheap]

Space: 1999 episode titled "War Games"?

 

[willpittenger]

Sorry. I don't remember it. That series would have aired when I was only about 10. I have not seen it air since. However, I doubt that I would find it very believable as they did not set it far enough into the future. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[Leovinus]

What about the TOS episode which took place on Organia? I forget the name I'm sorry to say. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[shadow735]

More of the Borg I loved them so much, the borg queen was looking so hot in first contact. OMG, I would so be her borg king, so where do I sign up for those Borg implants. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[jackarcalon]

After seven years, the crew finally notices that about once a week they survive a situation with a 50% chance of killing them. The cumulative odds of that happening are approximately a trillion to one, so either they've been very lucky, or something is looking out for them.<br />http://infinitethunder.tripod.com

 

[nuaetius]

I would have loved to see some serious political or social movements in the Federation that didn't agree with the status quo, but were not evil. Never really liked the fact that humans where all part of the Federation, and no one ever really had strong divergent views to the group. STTNG gave me the Communist/Socialist Utopia creepys.

 

[thalion]

^<br />True that; though I consider myself a Trekkie, the Federation has always struck as me as too homogenously good...well...for it's own good.

 

[vogon13]

Topic partially explored with the Native American colony transferred to Carrdassia in StS9<br /><br />And then there is the Maquis . . . <br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[Kalstang]

There was also the Indian colony in a ST:TNG episode featuring The Traveler in it towards the end. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#ffff00"><p><font color="#3366ff">I have an answer for everything...you may not like the answer or it may not satisfy your curiosity..but it will still be an answer.</font> <br /><font color="#ff0000">"Imagination is more important then Knowledge" ~Albert Einstien~</font> <br /><font color="#cc99ff">Guns dont kill people. People kill people</font>.</p></font><p><font color="#ff6600">Solar System</font></p> </div>

 

[etavaunt]

I would like to see a distopian space show, kinda played for laughs, but with a anti-business, anti-facist subtext.<br /><br />Kinda like aimmed at making the viewr go "Eeew, i don't LIKE those humans in the future, come on you Bug Eyed Monsters!".<br /><br />Something like a slave-owning fascist-western-power based Human grab at space, steaming out and messing up the poor Cute Fuzzies who are all "Hail fellow , welcome to our peaceful galactic federation, will you *gurk* aaaaaah" and the humans "Thanks, you wretched alien monstrosity, we will take it!".<br /><br />And the poor under resourced low tech aliens only hope, is the geek techs that the fascists are forced to carry along with them to tend to the war machine. Contraband "Golden age of Sci-fi" reading people, who work against the military/business machine from the inside, to try to help the poor aliens resist.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/cool.gif" /><br /><br />In other words, turning the star-trek trope right on its head.

 

[willpittenger]

Same episode <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[willpittenger]

Do you read the books? One TNG series, <i>A Time to...</i> setup a one time book called <i>Articles of Federation</i>. In <i>A Time to Kill</i> the Federation President hid some powerful weapons where they were not allowed to be. So the Enterprise has to go in and destroy those weapons as that world's leader wants to use them for himself. (The world wasn't a member.) By the time the events in the next book, <i>A Time to Heal</i> take place, that President has resigned at which point Section 31 makes sure he vanishes -- permanently. In the finale of that series, <i>A Time for War, A Time for Peace</i>, we watch as an election takes place.<br /><br /><i>Articles of Federation</i> is not part of any series. It does refer to events in other series, notably <i>Titan: The Red King</i>, but that is it. The main characters of those series do not appear. Nor do any of the ships or locations. The main location is the capital of the Federation, Paris. Portions are done in the form of viewers watching a show called <i>Illuminating the City of Light</i>. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[bmaone23]

I would like to have seen "Visit to a strange planet revisited" made into a movie. If I remember the title correctly. The 6 major carachters in the seires were accidentally really transported from the sound stage directly to the actual Enterprise where they had to ACT their parts until a solutoion could be found.

 

[PistolPete]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>I would have loved to see some serious political or social movements in the Federation that didn't agree with the status quo, but were not evil. Never really liked the fact that humans where all part of the Federation, and no one ever really had strong divergent views to the group. STTNG gave me the Communist/Socialist Utopia creepys.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />It was like that up until about the time Roddenberry died. After that I noticed a subtle but definite change towards scripts that tried to show the cracks in the seams of his utopia. Made it more realistic. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[willpittenger]

I think that was when they introduced "gold pressed latinum." <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>