Darth Vader return to the planet with the fat fly guy who enslaved his Mother, throat choke said FFG guy and ask, “Hisssss…How issssss my Mother? Hisssss”
Spock: “Captain, in 1.99999999…”
Kirk: “Two, Spock, Two! God dammit, the answer is two!”
Well, I could reiterate how I would have ended the “Augments” arc in Star Trek: Enterprise…
Star Trek: A regular recurring gay character.
In the original movie, when the Y-Wings were making the trench run…
…I wanted to see the canopy-mounted guns turn around and blow up the TIE fighters.
[side-track, but this has been on my mind for years]
Actually, I have long thought that Watto (the fat fly guy) was a fairly benign master, and in any case he wasn’t involved in Shmi’s gruesome demise (ETA: For which, recall, Anakin had already enacted his vengeance). Shmi and Anakin lived in their own quarters, spacious enough for Anakin to have his own bedroom. They were well-fed enough that they could entertain and feed visitors (Jinn, Kenobi, Padme, and Jar Jar). They apparently had money enough and time enough for Anakin to have expensive-looking hobbies, like building his own Protocol Droid from plans in a Popular Mechanics-like magazine. Back at the junk shop, it seemed like Watto didn’t work his slaves too terribly long or hard. He was portrayed as a sleazy slimy character, but how many slaves lived as well as Shmi and Anakin (at least as shown in the movie)? Finally, Watto sold Shmi into freedom. How could anyone have a problem with all that?
[/side-track, but this has been on my mind for years]
ETA: Biography of Shmi from Wookieepedia.
Yes, slaves everywhere should hope and pray for benevolent masters to take care of them.
I wanted to see one of the later-generation hotties (Seven of Nine, B’elanna Torres, etc.) use the holodeck to “Forrest Gump” herself into a classic TOS episode and be one of those sultry green-skinned hoochies Kirk was always hooking up with. Sort of like what Janeway did with those old Flash Gordon serials.
I’d like Ewoks that catch fire when they are blasted, but what I really want if for Lucas to stop pissing on his own work. With the DVD of Star Wars I already have to skip over the ridiculous scene with Han and Jabba. If I ever watch Return of the Jedi on blu-ray I’ll now have to find the mute button at a crucial point.
I think there is a star fleet directive that explicitly forbids this.
*Scene opens, an office somewhere, a Breen officer sits at the desk, with two guards, Cardassian and Breen. Large picture window in the background
Enter Deanna Troi, Lwaxana Troi, and few other Betazoids.*
Breen Officer: What are you doing here? This is not permitted.
Lwaxana: This occupation is over. Cardassia is under bombardment. The Founders have abandoned you. You will leave. Now.
Breen Officer: Get out of my sight.
Deanna: Betazoids are peaceful people, by default of our nature. But we have endured a hostile occupation, patiently, long enough. You. Will. Leave. Now.
Breen Officer: (to guards) Get them out of here.
Guards raise weapons. Betazoids shut their eyes, look focused. Deanna remains, stoic. Guards struggle with themselves, lower weapons
Breen Officer: Your people will pay for this.
Betazoids focus more intently, Deanna gestures to the window, outside shot shows dozens of Betazoids stop and focus.
Breen Officer: Wha-
A sonic boom is heard. A brilliant streak of flame jets across the sunlight sky through the window.
Deanna: That – is your command carrier, diving into the atmosphere, with all hands aboard.
Lwaxana: A planet full of telepaths working in concert is capable of incredible tasks Commander. We abhor violence in all its forms, for any reason, but this invasion of our homewolrd is over. The next induced crash may well occur around the Breen homeworld.
Deanna: The psychological implications of that upon a population would be staggering. You should order your forces into retreat now, while they’re still willing to accept your authority.
Since the Breen are one of a number of species immune to Betazoid telepathy (another being the Changelings), and the Betazoids have never displayed the ability to add together their telepathic abilities (and the ability to control others is not a particularly common one, either), that would be…contracanonical.
A longer slave Leia scene.
I wanted to see the bathrooms.
On Star Trek, everything ultra-chrome, ultra-shiny, ultra-wow.
In Star Wars…how the hell would you plumb a restroom to accommodate all the species (a-commode-ate?) visiting the Cantina?
Then again, given the lack of cleaning droids in the cantina, and the likely poor general hygiene standards of it’s patrons, maybe I don’t really wanna see that…
Shmi Shmi Shmi Shmi …
It’s just a sound to me now.
And if Anakin did have an uncle, he’d have to be named Shmo.
They’re In a desert. They’d just send 'em out back. Whatever you leave out there, bury it in the sand.
I think what Sengeoid is pointing out is that, except for Shmi being unable to leave with Anakin, their situation doesn’t fit with “slavery.” They may have been poorly paid workers but, except for that one moment where you could practically hear George Lucas shouting “This is why Anakin becomes Vaders!”, they didn’t live like slaves or seem to even know they were slaves.
Just once, post-“Amok Time”, it would’ve been nice to hear someone snark back with specifics.
“Doctor McCoy, you humans are brutal, savage, uncivilized…”
“Well, ah’m convinced; tell me some more about solvin’ problems by fightin’ to the death in gladiator pits, Mister Spock.”
I wanted to see the rest of Jadzia’s spots.
Mos Eisley is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. That’s where the scum come from.
Dang. I didn’t know that. But … there may be something like this in the novelizations. An entire planet, just deciding to accept occupation, seems so contrived …
Example, in the book, Q-squared, we see alternate timelines, one in which Deanna and Riker’s son lives on Beta Zed. And takes it personally when the other teens read all his thoughts and just say, “Your mind is very simple” On Beta Zed, according to this novel, no one’s thoughts are private. Lwakanna (I never do check the spelling do I) makes no bones about this in the series, she reads Picard’s mind, and announces his attraction to her (or implys those are his thoughts even if they’re not.) Private thoughts, on Beta Zed, are simply not allowed. Maybe working in concert, they’re telekinetic, and push the ship out of orbit? Still, my way of going was they were Vulcans Lite ™ – pacifistic, but only to a point.
This was the subject of a Sergio Aragones cartoon in Mad magazine shortly after the movie came out.
Mr. Aragones showed a fiendish imagination in constructing alien toilet receptacles that could only make you wonder how alien anuses worked. Some of the devices extended up onto the ceiling.