Gah. Post in haste, repent at leisure. Also I’m having to re-download on account of a couple of corrupt zips.
@Cervaise: Har har. I didn’t say the DM went thru the Guardian, though there’s something very Freudian in your post. 
And the Guardian has a male voice. :eek:
I would like to see an origin of the Q.
Or a time travel episode where TNG figures out what genetic alterations happened to the Klingons between TOS and TNG and how those alterations saved the universe or something like that.
<1> If I typed the acronym out, the title would have read Which episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation would you use as the plot for a new
<2> I would wager that 90% of the people at the SDMB that read Cafe Society know exactly what that acronym means.
<3> Since you’re in the 10% that doesn’t, you’re telling me that you opened a thread with a title you didn’t understand, then read the first 15 posts and still didn’t understand the acronym?
<4> And that you couldn’t have maybe used Google, typed “TNG” and figured it out? I just tried it and got search results in .025 seconds. Aside from how long it must’ve taken you to type your post, it took 12 minutes to get your answer in this thread.
Seriously, I don’t understand this. I read something similar in another thread from a poster who didn’t know what “grok” meant. Said poster almost religiously backs up his own posts with cites and demands them from others. He couldn’t look up grok himself?
There’s tons of acronyms people use in thread titles or posts that I don’t understand. I either get it from context or spend .025 seconds finding out what it means using a search engine. Why is that so difficult?
And where is this identical post from you in the “C64” thread?
Whatever it is about, it must bring back the miniskirt, and tribbles.
No! Not tribbles in miniskirts… sheesh.
I recall reading a piece by one of the guys who worked on TOS, who said that they would edit the “Next Voyages” promos with increasingly faster cuts culminating in the shot of an explosion, which they referred to as the “orgasm shot.”
I don’t know: I think most fans are dying to find out what happened to Troi’s mother: a movie based around that would be really sweet.
Only, it’s a musical.
“The Inner Light”. Except, it was so bloody perfect as an episode, it would only be ruined as a movie.
Jesus, I’m such a *girl *sometimes.
I don’t know, tribbles in miniskirts could be very interesting.
I should clarify - I don’t mean recycle an old plot from Star Trek: The Next Generation for a new Star Trek: The Next Generation movie, I mean take an episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation and expand upon its plot, like my suggestion for the episode Conspiracy from Star Trek: The Next Generation, or like they did with the episode Space Seed from Star Trek: The Original Series when they turned it into the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Already done in the fourth season of Enterprise. (Well, technically, it showed why there were TNG-era style Klingons during the era of Enterprise, and how they became the TOS-era style Klingons.)
Since I never watched Enterprise, what’s the explanation?
I’m not sure of the title of the episode but I believe it is called “Planet of the nearly naked death penalty enthusiasts.”
Kidding aside, “Yesterday’s Enterprise” would make a good movie, only make it more about the “C”.
An attempt to hijack the Augment’s ( Khan’s supermen ) improvements for themselves by viral genetic engineering. The result was a fatal plague; either it or the cure ( don’t recall which ) gave the Klingons a more human appearance.
I think a movie version of the novel Vendetta would be fantastic. Badass pre-Voyager NerfBorg, a giant spikey Doomsday Machine ( that can fly through suns ), lots of space combat, and one of my favorite Trek lines; near the start when these aliens ask their sentient planetary defense computer to identify the invaders; it says “THE BORG”, and they congratulate themselves on how they’ll do better against the Borg than those wimpy Federation types . . .
until the computer finishes, “AT LAST.”
OK, now I’ve seen that “New Voyages” ep (“In Harm’s Way”) and I’d give it six, maybe seven out of ten without making any allowances at all, and a solid 9 at least figuring what they must have had to work with. It goes like this.
[spoiler]Teaser: The Pike-era Enterprise is being pursued by a Doomsday Machine, and is destroyed with all hands.
In a damaged timeline fourteen years later, Kirk is the captain of the Farragut (mentioned in the TOS episode “Obsession”) and is summoned to the Guardian of Forever. There he is interviewed by the commander of the Federation research base which has been established there, and Mr Spock, who in this timeline is not a member of Kirk’s crew. They discuss the “Doomsday War” which has seen the Federation getting cut to pieces by a lot of Doomsday Machines, and explain that they have found antiproton anomalies spiking in the late 20th century on Earth, and evidence that the timeline isn’t the way it should have been. Kirk, Spock and McCoy go through the Guardian, arriving in 2006 in a quiet USA suburb.
There they meet a late middle-aged woman who has been expecting them. She plays them a videotape recording of Commodore Matt Decker, last seen flying one of the Enterprise’s shuttlecraft on a kamikaze attack on the DM. In the recording, he is an old man. He explains that at the climax of his attack a chroniton pulse time-shifted him out of the DM and into the past, where he was barely able to make his way to Earth. There he was nursed back to health but had no way to return to his own time. He knows he is about to die of old age and tells the trio that the information they want is in the shuttlecraft (which is stowed away in the garage). Armed with the necessary data, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are returned to the Guardian.
They deduce that when the Constellation exploded, the DM was shifted several years into the past by another chroniton surge. There it destroyed several planets and built copies of itself, which is why in the current timeline the Federation is getting taken to the cleaners. Accordingly, it’s necessary to travel into the recent past to find Pike’s Enterprise before the first DM destroys it. This they do with the Guardian’s big brother, a much larger Guardian big enough to pass a starship. The Farragut flies through as Spock opens the Guardian.
Pike is initially suspicious of Kirk, as of course Kirk should not be commanding the Farragut in his timeline, and Kirk manages to convince him only with a hint Spock gave him concerning the events on Talos IV (“The Cage”). The two starships proceed to fight the Doomsday Machine (with the temporary aid of a Klingon ship that is soon destroyed by it) and eventually beat it using the obligatory “modify the deflector array” tactic, whereupon Kirk expects that the Guardian will bring the Farragut back to the present. However, after some time sitting around looking embarrassed, Kirk and crew deduce that the timeline has still not been repaired. They establish that yet another chroniton pulse moved the DM away into the future and they will need to pursue it. Unfortunately they have to use the sun-slingshot method for this and the Enterprise is several years too primitive to make the attempt, leaving the Farragut to go it alone.
On arriving in the future the Farragut is hailed by Fleet Captain Pike aboard the Daedalus, having travelled to the future by the conventional method available to all. The two ships fight the Doomsday Machine again and it appears that Kirk will have to sacrifice the Farragut to defeat it. But just as he is beginning the destruct sequence, Admiral Kirk (post ST:VI by the look of it) appears from the future and orders him out of there. The three ships then succeed in defeating the DM with the modified deflector arrays.
Future-Spock (the only Spock present at the time) is alarmed when the Enterprise detects delta radiation aboard the Daedalus, and despite present-Kirk’s objections (he knows what is about to happen to Pike but is forced to accept it as a necessary part of the restored timeline) he beams aboard and tries to prevent Pike effecting the rescue that will see him crippled. But Pike is lent strength by his desperation to rescue trapped men and Spock is unable to save him.
The future-Enterprise returns to its proper timeline, while the Farragut vanishes and the present-Enterprise reappears through the Guardian, which delivers its usual valedictory speech. The timeline has been restored and Spock is now science officer aboard the Enterprise.
A few months later, future-Spock visits the crippled Pike and advises him that present-Spock has a plan to improve his quality of life…[/spoiler]
The story is complex but good, the FX are astonishingly good, but the viewer has to get used to the idea of the TOS regulars being played by actors who look nothing like the originals (and look very young to me). The tie-ins with TOS episodes are such as to draw smiles and nods of recognition from the typical Trek geek, assuming that I am one. 
Go download it now!
The “New Voyages” folks have managed to attract some pretty heavy hitters, including some of the original series writers and cast members (George Takai, to name one).
Yeah, don’t you be touching “The Inner Light.”
Actually, “Measure of a Man” is the episode where Data’s humanity is put on trial. Some cyberneticist wants to dismantle him to see what makes him tick. Picard must defend him. You’re thinking of “Encounter at Farpoint” (the pilot) where Q puts the whole human race on trial.
Two books first. Diane Duane’s Dark Mirror, about the Mirror Universe in Picard’s time (in which the Terran Empire hasn’t been taken over by the Bajorans, Klingons and Cardassians, as it was in the DS9 series), would make a great movie. So would Peter David’s Imzadi, although you’d have to make some changes now that Riker and Troi are married and serving aboard the USS Titan.
How about a followup to that TNG episode where Worf is shifting between various universes, including one in which the Federation has fallen to the Borg and Riker is in command of a badly-damaged Enterprise-D? Lotta dramatic potential there.
You could make a pretty good movie about an exploratory mission to the Dyson Sphere from TNG “Relics,” too, I think. There’s a lot we don’t know about that ginormous structure - and what if the Romulans decide they want it? Heheheheh.
Ah, fergeddit. Whoever made a worthwhile story out of exploring a giant artificial world built around a star?
…And it would be funny if there turned out to be Protectors on this one too. 
Trek/Wars crossover fan-fic. Final proof of the existence of a malevolent God.