"Star Trek" voyages?

I don't think it would make a series, but I've always thought a mini-series based on Space Seed, with Ricardo Montalban and Madelyn Rhue reprising their roles, exploring the crew of the Botany Bay setting up life on Ceti Alpha V would have been interesting.

Regards,
Greg Cox wrote a novel "To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh" That dealt with the events on the planet of Ceti Alpha V between the end of Space Seed and Wrath of Khan.
It not a great novel IMHO, but it as close as we get to a Mini Series that you want.
 
I never got too far into the novels. Too scatter-shot; too many authors, too many different ideas of things that should be standard.

The Romulan Way wasn't bad, kind of boring on the history side, but Ensign Naraht (sp?) was great idea (he's a Horta).

Peter David's stuff is good; but then, he's a good writer. Vendetta is probably the only Next Trek novel I like, outside of Crossover.

Regards,
 
I don't think it would make a series, but I've always thought a mini-series based on Space Seed, with Ricardo Montalban and Madelyn Rhue reprising their roles, exploring the crew of the Botany Bay setting up life on Ceti Alpha V would have been interesting.
I thought Khan worked better because he was so singular. This would diminish him, IMO.
The Problems were, they were talking about the Captain Sulu series after Undiscovered Country that came out in 1991. George Taki was 54 at the time. We not going to get the heroic action base Captain Sulu that we all want.
Which is why I propose it happening much sooner.;)
As for Worf as Captain, He left Deep Space Nine to become the Federation Ambassador.
That need not be kept.;)
The Problem is that both Star Trek and DS9 both overused the Klingons and many of those Stories were not that great. I for one found the Klingon Spiritual Stories to be boring. With out some real new creative blood, A Captain Worf series would have major problems.
I do agree, new & better writers would be needed, but that was true across the Trekverse.:rolleyes: (If any of this avoided "ST:V" happening at all, I wouldn't be unhappy.:rolleyes: Not unless it was a very different show.)

I found many of the Klingon stories really good, myself. The contrast, the tension, between a Fed-inclined Worf and other Klingons would always be good, IMO. And just because he's starring doesn't mean the show would have to be set on Qo'noS (yes, I WP'd it :openedeyewink: ), or even a Klingon ship (tho that's what I'd do, even at risk of budget-busting sets :openedeyewink: ).

Personally, I'd have gone with Klingons closer to those from The Final Reflection, I think; it made them more "alien". (That would butterfly away the return of an aged Kor, Kang, or Koloth...unless they turn up much less than 80yr :eek: later. {Have I got that wrong?:oops: })

I should also point out we're presupposing any alt-"ST" would even have Worf.:eek:

IDK if it would've diminished him by overuse, but I'd have loved a Shran show, on an Andorian ship. Could I live with unanimated (or badly animated) antennae if it was done before the '00s? IDK.;) (If it's actually Shran & not an early expy {a Decker analog} so it can be done in the '70s or '80s, that wouldn't matter.:rolleyes: )
Depending on the sort of show, I can see characters occasionally griping, "Time to clean up another of Kirk's messes!"

Apollo spread himself on the wind--and Enterprise raced off afterwards to deal with the next crisis. Perhaps something from that planet holds the secret of a cure.

A civilization with the tech to put a brain back into someone--send the best medical specialists in the fleet to find out more. (Spock's Brain)

Dr. McCoy got cured of an incurable disease by Fabrini technology--get the USS Hope there. (For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky)

A longevity project that ALMOST worked, and also has the potential to spread, with deadly consequences? Send the USS Hope (Miri)

A hospital ship can end up in a lot of adventures that aren't on a planet, solving the plague du jour, and cranking up the technobabble generators when readings are off the scale.

Biowar, of course, is a threat.

Then I can see a debate about arming a hospital ship...

If you want to keep M'Benga, but for political reasons don't want him is the main character, make it a science ship--medical and other. Along with the things I've already mentioned, there's lots of science. After Kirk plays with the space-time anomaly of the week, The USS Einstein follows up. (Enterprise is an exploration ship, and really a jack of all trades.)

A cone of essentially indestructible neutronium left behind---how does it work? How was it made? Can we make MORE?

Archeology of the Kalandrans--or the plague that killed them--is great for a science ship. Thre's useful tech in there...

Of course, "Cleaning up after Kirk" would get old, but an occasional episode that's a direct follow up might work. (Paramount would probably veto anyone mentioning :Cleaning up after Kirk," though.
I like most of that.:cool::cool: I also think it's possible you could spin off a dedicated science ship, too, which is something I hadn't considered.

"Playing cleanup" wouldn't be limited to Kirk, given how truly buggered Starfleet captains seemed to be.:eek:

And you're right about research, too: Hope trying to make the longevity effect from "Miri" or "Omega Glory" into workable treatments.

Or studying the dead (IIRC, there were some) from "Space Seed", to see why the genetic enhancements came out wrong. (Yes, I'm using a bit of hindsight;) since I'm presuming these are, in the main, spun off "TOS".)

And archaeology might not be off-point: trying to reconstruct what killed an ancient civilization, say. Or stumbling on an ancient ship with a dead crew (not unlike the Promellian {I had to WP it... :oops: } battlecruiser from "Booby Trap").

There's one other thing a show like this could do "TOS" didn't (probably on purpose): deal with racism overtly, by having more open conflict between species. You'd have to have specialists in a variety of species, & probably not such a majority of Humans, which would inevitably create some tension; no reason everybody had to be best of friends. (Contrary to the usual....:rolleyes: Yes, they'd have to work together, but even among Humans, that doesn't perforce mean liking each other.)

It might also illustrate the Federation wasn't the perfect peaceful paradise it was made out: there could be wars in progress. (Given the era, there'd be a strong anti-war bias for the show.)

Hope might also play peacekeeper, after things cool down between non-Fed planets.

(I'll say, I wouldn't want to reproduce "M*A*S*H" entirely, here. I'd give fairer treatment to military leaders.)

That this could get into Fed politics a lot might well offer another spinoff possibility: a Fed version of "West Wing".:eek::cool::cool:
 
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Wish they would of usen Hortas more. Great for Intel colection. I mean who notices a rock?
How do they collect & transmit the info? Giving one a tricorder would be problematic.;) So would transporting to the assigned planet, I'd say.
 
Wish they would of usen Hortas more. Great for Intel colection. I mean who notices a rock?
This is true--especially on low tech planets!

How do they collect & transmit the info? Giving one a tricorder would be problematic.;) So would transporting to the assigned planet, I'd say.

Ensign Narat had no problem handling the equipment. IIRC, he landed on the Rihansu homeworld making like a meteorite, though it's been a few decades since I read the book. (Memorable book, one of the few Star Trek novels, or rather series of novels, of the time that was memorable.)
 
I never got too far into the novels. Too scatter-shot; too many authors, too many different ideas of things that should be standard.

The Romulan Way wasn't bad, kind of boring on the history side, but Ensign Naraht (sp?) was great idea (he's a Horta).

Peter David's stuff is good; but then, he's a good writer. Vendetta is probably the only Next Trek novel I like, outside of Crossover.

Regards,
I am married to one of the World Top Star Trek Fans.
She reads the Books and the Comics as well as Shows and Movie
For I while, I read most of the books but I fallen behind and now just pick up the ones that interest me or are by the authors I like.

I don't always agree with some of Diane Duane choices especially when she telling the Histories. The worst one was in Spock World where she has Serek Laughing over a dirty joke.
Sorry No. That not going to happen. But I love the main story of Spock World.
I met her at a convention. Very nice lady.

I also love Peter Davis stuff. I also like Greg Cox stuff.
Diane Carey first two books are also great. But she declined in quality in her latter books.
Both of J M Ford Star Trek books are great.
I enjoy recent books by Christopher L Bennett and Dayton Ward.
 
Ensign Narat had no problem handling the equipment.
I have a vague recollection of a Horta aboard Enterprise in one of the books (but beyond Piper being the major character, nothing else:oops: ). AFAIK, Horta had no hands (or gripping parts of any kind), making the operating of a tricorder problematic.:rolleyes:
 
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