Setting aside the fact that there probably won’t be any more TNG movies…
…which episode’s plot line would you like to see in a new TNG movie?
My pick would be Conspiracy. As the original episode ended, the “beacon” was still being sent to an unknown location.
How it could start would be a routine day aboard an away team mission or something, and suddenly Riker kicks Worf’s ass, then opens a case and infects him with one of the little crawly critters. The camera zooms in on the gill protruding from Riker’s neck, then the credits begin. The action could center around their attempts to elude contamination and find out which cast member is the Queen.
I love courtroom dramas, so I would select Measure of a Man. Maybe it’s too spare to enlarge into an entire movie, but a “prosecuting” attorney played by a great guest dramatic actor who could lock legal horns with Picard would be a good start. A couple of surprise witnesses and perhaps an intergalactic jury could fill it out, too.
Oh God no! Not another “super-powered alien puts humanity on trial” plot. I’ll second Conspiracy. That could be fun.
I’d like to do something with Lore. I was never very satisfied with the way he was just disassembled. My movie would begin with the Enterprise arriving at some space station (maybe the Jupiter station) to bring B4 in for study. Once there, they find that a scientist has re-assembled Lore’s components and is trying to reprogram him to be good. It also happens that the same station is experimenting with using holograms to crew an entire ship. You can see where this is going. Lore escapes from captivity, probably using B4 as an unwitting stooge, and takes control of the hologram-crewed ship. The Enterprise (and probably the Titan) would then have to go stop him. I’m thinking it would be an interesting twist if the stolen ship was Voyager, and it still has that advanced armor, making it pretty much impervious to Starfleet’s weapons.
In Interface Geordi is testing a remote controlled drone he controls through his VISOR’s interface to rescue a ship…and encounters what he percieves to be his lost mother, whose ship has dissapeared without a trace.
A Movie to explore this missing ship…knocked elsewhere like Voyager?
Ass-laminated by the Borg?
You guys are thinking too small. If you’ll remember, at the end of the TOS episode Doomsday Machine, Kirk & Co. fly off, leaving the damaged (but not destroyed) giant log floating in space. A reassembled Lore stumbles upon it, repairs it, and begins wreaking havoc in the galaxy with it. Via the holodeck, Picard discusses strategy with Kirk on how to destroy the thing. Picard, first, however, chastises Kirk for leaving the thing floating there, allowing Lore to reactivate it. Kirk points out that he had to go screw some green bitches and that, “the drones from Section 7-G were supposed to take care of things like that.” Picard goes off on a tirade about how there are things more important than “green bitches.” Kirk asks Picard if he was a Boy Scout, and B4 agrees with Kirk’s logic that green bitches do need screwing.
Lore manages to draw the Klingons, Romulans, Federation, and Founders into a war, by use of the doomsday machine. There’s plenty of titanic space battles, Kirk and Picard railing against one another, Lore laughing maniacally, and in the end, the day is saved by all sides working together, in conjunction with the drones from Section 7-G (a race of Packled-like creatures who resemble Homer Simpson) to utterly destroy the doomsday machine.
I’ll third this. In fact, this storyline was picked up by a DS9 novel, Unity, that takes place after the series ends and actually wraps up the show’s original mission: to get Bajor into the Federation. Not only that, but it brings the “Conspiracy” creatures back and connects them with something else from DS9:
The Trill symbionts.
I really, really want the next Trek movie to be Unity.
I’d just build off the below decks episode of TNG – it read like a crypto pilot, anyway, and gave enough day-in-the-life to establish the characters’ personalities. Just about any plot would do, as long as there are space battles. Many space battles.
'Cause the original TNG cast is getting a bit long in the tooth, and there’s been enough older and out-of-shape actors shoved into Starfleet spandex with the original series cast, thanks.
Just to throw in my .02 here about basing movies on episodes.
I was in my late teens when TOS was originally on the air, but somehow manged to miss it until I saw it in syndication/reruns in the early 70s. When it was (finally) announced that there would be a Star Trek movie coming out in 1979, I was thrilled, excited and overjoyed.
I was one of the first to see it when it opened. To say that I was disappointed would be a vast understatement. The central plot point about the V’ger probe was a blatant ripoff of the “Nomad” episode of TOS.
Yes, they had a lot of nifty special effects (for 1979) and a new, sexy bald crew member, but overall I felt cheated.
If you’re going to make a movie, use original content, not a recycled plot from an old episode.
BTW, I should add that when ST2: Wrath of Khan came out, I felt slightly the same way, but not nearly as much, since the plot was not re-used, just some of the characters being followed up on.
I’d deeply appreciate it if thread-starters would not go straight to acronyms and at least take the time to spell out the central subject of the thread.
Somewhere easier to find is a fanfilm which features the Doomsday Machine and the Guardian of Forever, and I’ve downloaded it, and I’ll watch it later tonight. See a day or so ago when I posted a link to something called “Planet Killer Wars”, and the Wikipedia entry for “Star Trek: New Voyages”.
