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Choose Your Next Star Trek Villains
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Klingons (old-skool TOS badass, not the later kind) yes.
Something entirely new, yes.
Doomsday Machine, yes.
BORG NO.
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Harcourt
Fenton
Mudd!
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Make Decker less crazy, make the whole crew actually split between people who want to follow decker in battling the weapon and people who want to follow Kirk and Spock.
Have not only Kirk and Scotty beaming to the nearly destroyed Constellation, BUT have them or maybe Spock and some of the crew beam to the weapon it's self and try to explore a way of disabling the thing without trying to destroy it in a hopeless one on one battle like Decker wants to do. At this point they find out about the alien race who developed it, but no information as to why its in our universe or what killed them.
End with a ending close to the one we got with maybe Decker himself destroying the ship with his, instead of Kirk making Decker a lot more sympathetic a character especially since he was the reason his crew was killed than the bag o crazy the original was.
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SEE William Seward as the dashing young...ish SecState who tries to lure Uhura away from Spock. "This scar? Oh it's nothing...got stabbed in the face by a Seccesh. More wine?"
SEE Edward Bates...what secrets does he conceal beneath that truly gigantic beard? (Hint - it rhymes with "pentacle")
SEE Salmon Chase wield the original printing plates for the $10,000 bill his face is on. "I call it...the Legal Tenderizer."
Also, Lincoln's stovepipe hat is actually Q.
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The Squire of Gothos. Bring back the petulant man-child!
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Warriors who strictly follow dogma and think there is nothing more valorous than to die in battle. Throw in the origin of the Neutral Zone and you've got a movie.
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Preferably fast-moving Gorn with tails, like in the original screenplay for "Arena".
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It was a mining ship, not a Borg ship.
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With all of these old-hat villains being done over and over again, it's hard to decide what I'd like to see. The Borg hive reinterpretation would be interesting, but I'm going to have to go with someone new, maybe some actual villain, not a rehash of baddies that have been spread across the entire canon before.
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DAMN STRAIGHT.
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a lost city on a dead planet that requires some exploration and leads to some terrifying thrills and the solution to some ancient mystery. (sounds like maybe my next novel)
a disease/illness that strikes the Enterprise, traps them onboard and causes a major internal struggle.
BSG did things in the first two seasons that blew my mind, things that were totally unexpected, things that made me say "holy shit" over and over. does ST have the balls and imagination to give us something other than everything we've already seen?
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