Most of what works in the Star Trek movies evolve from what we know about the characters. Kirk’s love for his ship and history with the Klingons, Picard’s history with the Borg, Data’s struggle with emotions, that sort of thing.
What character threads from any of the series could have been picked up and expanded on in movies?
It would be interesting to see an exploration as to how Riker transitioned back to going back to progressing his career. TNG pointed out that Riker had stopped progressing his career when he went to the Enterprise. It would be interesting to deal with his shift to becoming a captain.
Yes! My thinking is that Riker stayed on the Enterprise as long as he did because Picard is the first male authority figure in his life that he can respect and learn from. Riker is hyper-competent, but he has no sort of relationship with his father, his first captain barely survived a mutiny while performing illegal experiments, he had no problem pushing back on the captain of the Hood doing dangerous stupid things, and he would rather step down than work for Jellico. Not to mention having to phaser a few admirals to death. Riker’s whole history is a search for a man he can trust, and he found that in Picard.
So what changed, that he finally gave that up and moved on?
Maybe a less popular one, but all the stuff Admiral Vance had to do to keep the Federation together prior to Discovery’s arrival. He’s pragmatic and you can tell from how he treats Stamets in the s3 finale he’s no stranger to sacrifice. From his discussion with Osyraa, though, you can see he’s still committed to the high-minded ideals of Starfleet and the UFP.
I’d love to see a direct-to-streaming movie set before Discovery arrived.
A movie about Admiral Vance’s pre-DSC experiences would be great.
I’d like to see a mini-series about the immediate post-Burn crumbling of the Federation. Tied to how, while much smaller and muted, the Federation still went on.
Spoiler for PIC Season 3 below.
I really would like to see a movie about what happened to Ro Laren between TNG’s “Preemptive Strike” and PIC’s “Imposters”. The story she tells Picard & Riker needs fleshing out. How did she survive the death of the Maquis? How was she captured? What were the circumstances that led her to become a member of Starfleet Intelligence? How did she become Worf’s handler? This all feels like it would benefit from either a mini-series or a feature-length Short Trek
Damn i really want this show it would be awesome to see Ro again
I was so happy to see Ro come back, was so sad to see Ro… go. Michelle Forbes is a rad one
@NewEnglandRedshirt @swcollings Some of this shows up in the Star Trek Defiant series that’s going on over at IDW:
But that’s Beta Canon… I would really like it to be confirmed.
It’s less directed at a single character, but I think the whole synth personhood argument seems like it would be a good thread for development.
We saw from Dr Pulaski’s reaction that even the most understanding and well-meaning members of Starfleet can still have reservations about whether a sapient machine is a person, or just a machine, even if they come around once they get to know them.
We also know from Maddox, the crew of the Sutherland, and the Voyager that some less well-meaning members of Starfleet see them as walking computers, and little more, until they are forced to see reason (whether they come around at that point is unclear, considering the Lal incident).
The Voyager’s crew even went as far as to try and solve the sapient EMH’s issues by treating him like a faulty computer/software, whether by fiddling around with his code, or factory resetting him when things went wrong.
We also know later on that while Data has his rights and personhood relatively firmly established, that ruling applies to him only, and not to any other inorganics. The Voyager’s EMH had to have an entire legal battle to determine whether he would own the rights to a book that he had written, whereas that would not be in the question, had the book been written by a biological humanoid.
There’s also a subtle plot where the Federation can and will use them as effective slaves, even if sapience is unclear. The other Mark I EMHs are used for dilithium mining, and Maddox’s reverse-engineered schematics of Data were stripped down, tweaked, and used to create a non-sapient synth workforce, despite his protests.
I’d like to know what Bones was up to between TOS and TMP
Section 31, the secretive illegitimate covert arm of Starfleet, had Sloan who really seemed like he’d done a lot in the name of the federation. He tells Bashir as much in Extreme Measures so it would be really cool to see some of the darker things the Federation disavowed or turned a blind eye to.
Very different tone to most trek probably but a whole different side of the federation, more of the unhappy side like the Maquis who don’t get explored much either.
Section 31, the secretive illegitimate covert arm of Starfleet, had Sloan who really seemed like he’d done a lot in the name of the federation. He tells Bashir as much in Extreme Measures so it would be really cool to see some of the darker things the Federation disavowed or turned a blind eye to.
Especially since they believe that the Federation doesn’t go far enough to maintain their peace and balance of power by being as moral as they are. Although I’m ambivalent about them needing to exist, since them succeeding at all would undermine the Federation being successful without having to compromise its morals.
Like how the
resolution to DS9
wasn’t entirely saving the day by convincing the Dominion to come to the table. The Federation effectively poisoned the Founders, forcing their hand that way
inadvertently implies that the Federation isn’t successful without their intervention and the whole dark underbelly.
I’ve just seen in the sidebar there is already A Section 31 movie in production!
Yeah DS9 was a bit more ‘real’ than the other seasons I think. Especially dealing with some pretty dark stuff like the war and how it was resolved, genocide was on the table like you say. Hmmm. Does make the federation look a bit different when you think about this shady stuff being allowed by the top brass because it works in their favour.
I always shipped Lwaxana Troi and Odo after the episode The Muse and there was often a theme of Odo exploring his emotional side.
Some kind of sitcom with Lwaxana and Odo raising a child together would be a trip. Or a series with them travelling on ambassadorial duties, Odo providing security and the kid running around being a telepathic nightmare. Good times.
