Star Trek If you could redo Star Trek VII...
- Thread starter Captain X
- Start date
I'd make it about the Next Generation crew, I'd make the script tighter and better. I might even tie it into the DS9 overall meta plot (though not to the point it would require viewing DS9 to understand), like having the Enterprise-D dealing with a Changeling agent.
I came up with this idea on SB a while back:
Hmmm trying to think of a better idea but nothing is actually coming to mind. If it was El Aurians though, I'd probably involve Dr. Tolian Soran utilizing the trilithium torpedo as an anti-Borg weapon and testing it in the TOS-era. He manages to cause a star to go supernova, perhaps on behalf of the Romulans in some neutral territory, but instead of a proper supernova that they were expecting, it results in a black hole and in the resulting rescue effort the Enterprise-B responds and Kirk is trapped in a time dialation of the freshly created trilithium Black Hole. Perhaps this is what causes the Borg to "visit" the Romulan border in the first place.
In 'present day' the Enterprise-D has to report to a supposed Romulan incursion in the Neutral Zone, then arrives and on a deep scan, realizes there is an older Romulan vessel trapped in the gravity well of the Black Hole when they receive a transmission.... heavily garbled... from Kirk himself... telling the Enterprise to open fire on a location 'in front' of his vessel (or some technobabble contrivance). The Enterprise-D does just that and knocks the old Romulan vessel away from the event horizon and its time dialation effects and pulls the ship free of the Black Holes gravity well.
An away team boards the vessel and gets a brief on Kirk and Tolian Soran and Kirk barely has time to get fanboy'd over considering the passage of time while Tolian Soran asks questions about the current geopolitical climate when the Duras sisters show up in their Bird of Prey, in response to Tolian Soran activating his Romulan distress beacon. He's beamed away along with Kirk and some of the TNG crew and is very surprised to see the Duras sisters instead of the Romulans being their captors.
During their captivity, Tolian Soran, Kirk and.... hmmmm we'll say Worf, O'Brien and Picard, do a bit of bonding as Tolian Soran mentions the Trilithium was seen as a superweapon by the Romulans but Tolian made it to be an anti-Borg weapon. The main problem is trilithium is unstable as a weapon. Picard states trilithium is used on the black market... a trilithium resin is taken from warp cores of powerful starships and used in the Star Trek equivalent of 'dirty bombs.' Tolian is also worried when he hears that the Borg not only struck Romulan territory first but also the subsequent incursion into Federation space. They might have come to the Federation due to the 'Q' interference but maybe they came to the Romulan border because of the Trilithium experiments. They fail to convince the Duras sisters of the inherent danger of broadcasting their intention of selling or using the Trilithium for vengeance or profit.
They manage to turn the tables on the Duras sisters to bring the ship out of warp and the Enterprise-D catches up, but then Kirk and company cloak the Bird of Prey just as several Romulan warships appear and surround the Enterprise-D. They too were monitoring the distress signal and want their property, and their scientist back. Trapped, the TNG crew and Kirk come up with a plan. Tolian Soran manages to communicate with Guinan using fancy El-Aurianism and maybe Troi helps out. The plan is to have Riker, aboard the Enterprise-D, allow Geordi LaForge to come aboard the Romulan flagship to share notes on what they learned since the Duras Sisters fled with their crewmembers as well and the Romulans assume the Feddies are acting in good faith and that the Duras Sisters are still out there.
Piggybacking on that goggle trick, they find out the Romulan shield codes and the Bird of Prey decloaks and opens fire on the Romulan flagship, targeting its shields and other systems with surprising surgical precision and Geordi LaForge is transported away in the ruckus as the Bird of Prey peels off back to Federation space. The Romulans start to pursue over Riker's objections as soon they are all giving chase to the Bird of Prey. The Romulan Commander then soon realizes something is up... the Klingon strike was waaaaay too surgical and he scans the lifesigns and matches one of them to Geordi LaForge. He's realizes he's being played, the Duras Sisters have been neutralized and the Feddies are operating the Bird of Prey.
The Romulans decide to target the Enterprise in order to bring back the Bird of Prey and do just that, leading Picard and Kirk to think of another idea. Just then, after a movie full of premonitions and foreshadowing... the Borg actually do show up and moments later so does a responding Federation Task Force led by the USS Defiant. A mega space battle erupts as the Romulans and Federation (maybe Klingons responding to the whole Duras thing but I don't wanna fangirl too much) engages the Borg Cube, unleashing their best and most advanced weapons in a swarm tactic, showing they 'adapted' since Wolf 359.
Kirk, suitably mortally wounded on the crappy Bird of Prey, stays behind with Tolian Soran in arming the actual trilithium weapon. They cloak their vessel but its of little use against the Borg sensors. They won't be able to get close enough to strike the Borg Cube. The TNG crew deduces the regenerating hull of the Borg Cube is fluctuating and Kirk recommends they give the Borg what they want as the Enterprise and allied vessels begin firing trilithium resin into the space towards the Borg Cube acting like a dazzler or smokescreen and allowing the Bird of Prey to ram into the weakened Borg Cube and causing it to explode.
Add some sort of epilogue. I don't know.
I like space battles.
Say No to Borg Monarchy.
In 'present day' the Enterprise-D has to report to a supposed Romulan incursion in the Neutral Zone, then arrives and on a deep scan, realizes there is an older Romulan vessel trapped in the gravity well of the Black Hole when they receive a transmission.... heavily garbled... from Kirk himself... telling the Enterprise to open fire on a location 'in front' of his vessel (or some technobabble contrivance). The Enterprise-D does just that and knocks the old Romulan vessel away from the event horizon and its time dialation effects and pulls the ship free of the Black Holes gravity well.
An away team boards the vessel and gets a brief on Kirk and Tolian Soran and Kirk barely has time to get fanboy'd over considering the passage of time while Tolian Soran asks questions about the current geopolitical climate when the Duras sisters show up in their Bird of Prey, in response to Tolian Soran activating his Romulan distress beacon. He's beamed away along with Kirk and some of the TNG crew and is very surprised to see the Duras sisters instead of the Romulans being their captors.
During their captivity, Tolian Soran, Kirk and.... hmmmm we'll say Worf, O'Brien and Picard, do a bit of bonding as Tolian Soran mentions the Trilithium was seen as a superweapon by the Romulans but Tolian made it to be an anti-Borg weapon. The main problem is trilithium is unstable as a weapon. Picard states trilithium is used on the black market... a trilithium resin is taken from warp cores of powerful starships and used in the Star Trek equivalent of 'dirty bombs.' Tolian is also worried when he hears that the Borg not only struck Romulan territory first but also the subsequent incursion into Federation space. They might have come to the Federation due to the 'Q' interference but maybe they came to the Romulan border because of the Trilithium experiments. They fail to convince the Duras sisters of the inherent danger of broadcasting their intention of selling or using the Trilithium for vengeance or profit.
They manage to turn the tables on the Duras sisters to bring the ship out of warp and the Enterprise-D catches up, but then Kirk and company cloak the Bird of Prey just as several Romulan warships appear and surround the Enterprise-D. They too were monitoring the distress signal and want their property, and their scientist back. Trapped, the TNG crew and Kirk come up with a plan. Tolian Soran manages to communicate with Guinan using fancy El-Aurianism and maybe Troi helps out. The plan is to have Riker, aboard the Enterprise-D, allow Geordi LaForge to come aboard the Romulan flagship to share notes on what they learned since the Duras Sisters fled with their crewmembers as well and the Romulans assume the Feddies are acting in good faith and that the Duras Sisters are still out there.
Piggybacking on that goggle trick, they find out the Romulan shield codes and the Bird of Prey decloaks and opens fire on the Romulan flagship, targeting its shields and other systems with surprising surgical precision and Geordi LaForge is transported away in the ruckus as the Bird of Prey peels off back to Federation space. The Romulans start to pursue over Riker's objections as soon they are all giving chase to the Bird of Prey. The Romulan Commander then soon realizes something is up... the Klingon strike was waaaaay too surgical and he scans the lifesigns and matches one of them to Geordi LaForge. He's realizes he's being played, the Duras Sisters have been neutralized and the Feddies are operating the Bird of Prey.
The Romulans decide to target the Enterprise in order to bring back the Bird of Prey and do just that, leading Picard and Kirk to think of another idea. Just then, after a movie full of premonitions and foreshadowing... the Borg actually do show up and moments later so does a responding Federation Task Force led by the USS Defiant. A mega space battle erupts as the Romulans and Federation (maybe Klingons responding to the whole Duras thing but I don't wanna fangirl too much) engages the Borg Cube, unleashing their best and most advanced weapons in a swarm tactic, showing they 'adapted' since Wolf 359.
Kirk, suitably mortally wounded on the crappy Bird of Prey, stays behind with Tolian Soran in arming the actual trilithium weapon. They cloak their vessel but its of little use against the Borg sensors. They won't be able to get close enough to strike the Borg Cube. The TNG crew deduces the regenerating hull of the Borg Cube is fluctuating and Kirk recommends they give the Borg what they want as the Enterprise and allied vessels begin firing trilithium resin into the space towards the Borg Cube acting like a dazzler or smokescreen and allowing the Bird of Prey to ram into the weakened Borg Cube and causing it to explode.
Add some sort of epilogue. I don't know.
I like space battles.
Say No to Borg Monarchy.
Last edited:
That sounds way better than what we actually got.
I'm not entirely sure what I'd do, but I'd probably try to avoid time travel since it got a bit overused by Star Trek, IMO. I'd probably be tempted to do an adaptation of the Peter David novel "Vengeance," so it'd probably end up being an alternative to First Contact as much as to Generations. Of course if one was to say all the conditions were the same, it'd be tough to do my version since they were on a pretty tight timeframe and budget.
I'm not entirely sure what I'd do, but I'd probably try to avoid time travel since it got a bit overused by Star Trek, IMO. I'd probably be tempted to do an adaptation of the Peter David novel "Vengeance," so it'd probably end up being an alternative to First Contact as much as to Generations. Of course if one was to say all the conditions were the same, it'd be tough to do my version since they were on a pretty tight timeframe and budget.