It ’s already official : There ’s going to be another Star Trek movie . But what elements of Trek lore should they put on the big silver screen next clock time ? The first two Abrams films already mine Trek ’s rich account for idea , but they also leave out some clobber . Here are 10 classic Star Trek element that we ’d like to see take center stage in the next moving picture .
There are a lot of baddie lurking in the first two rebooted movies , all with the voltage to be the bountiful villain in the next film . But did you note the tribbles ? No , you did n’t . Not really . Nobody suspects the tribbles . Which is the gunpoint of tribbles . They just sit there , looking cute , until they breed like demented and overrun everything .
And what if they get … supercharge ? Like , what if they ’re injected with nanobots and start eating metal ? What if they acquire a taste for human pedigree and their cooing causes palsy ? What if there is a zombie tribble eruption ? ( You know that it could happen . ) They finally have a big - budget moving picture to bring with ! countenance ’s see the substantial trouble with tribbles .
Most of the last two pic had to do with the Federation battling corking threats and lifelong grudge . How about mistreat away from the planet - destroying Romulans and the moral compromises of facing the Klingons , and look at what it ’s like to really be on “ the final frontier , ” with criminal and smuggler and fishy business dealings hap all around you ? Basically , the replication of Harry Mudd , or some other lawless smuggler types .
take this further , I ’d care to see a moving picture that ’s basically Star Trek versus Firefly . What ’s going to win out — an sort out yet stifling monolith , or a banding of shadowed , but liberty - obsessed criminal ? You would n’t purchase a ticket to see the picture . You ’d buy a ticket to see the do in the movie dramatics .
The Shatner - Kirk had trouble with women . Multiple ex - girlfriends tried to kill him , his ensign celebrate mooning after him , and no preferably did you see an “ exotic ” adult female with a high pony rump and a glazed apparel than you knew she was conk to be twining her munition around his neck by the third act . And Shatner - Kirk was cumber compare to Pine - Kirk . Pine - Kirk is what would bump if Shatner - Kirk and Zapp Brannigan had a fumbling , contraceptive - free night in a gene splicer . If you ’re go to take a captain of a flagship and amp up his inner hound to eleven , you are going to have problems . Sexy evil alien lady would both present that trouble , and rule out the demand to show a crew member in her underwear . Two job solved !
Most of you will not retrieve Redjac . Some of you will remember him from the original series episode , “ A Wolf In the Fold , ” in which the gang discovers an evil entity that feeds on fear and has been many of account ’s greatest serial killer whale , including Jack the Ripper . Redjac fools the work party , and the exotic civilization that they ’re in contact with , for some time by framing a gang member as a sequential killer . That does n’t go too impressive , you say . It certainly does n’t merit a higher place than Evil Sexy Ladies , you say . Why does Redjac get to be a villain , you demand .
Because , I patiently explain , the crew extremity that he framed was Scotty . And if you cast Simon Pegg in a picture serial publication , then by god , you use him . You do n’t just clip him around an engine elbow room yelling about what he “ canna ” do . You get hold some way to put him front and center , and if that means we all have to spend a film watching hoi polloi 100 of years into the futurity doing a retread of From Hell , then that ’s just what has to occur .
Many citizenry complained that the first two Abrams cinema were missing the meat and mortal of Star Trek : The Original Series — which is Kirk debating with malign computing machine . Hedoes this in so many instalment of the show , it becomes one of the defining feature . And we just hada huge hitting moviebased on Kirk ’s confrontation with Landru . So maybe the next movie should be about Kirk front off against a computer that ’s gotten idea above its place .
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Or peradventure you could even borrow from TNG and have an early image holodeck go cockeyed . After all , they had holodecks in the semi - canonic Animated Series . We could see Montgomery Scott work on the holodeck — thus giving us the crucial Simon Pegg sieve time — and then all holographic hell bust free . Whether it ’s Moriarty taking over the ship from its glorified entertainment shopping mall or , perhaps , holographical initiation escaping into the ship and impersonating the crew , it ’s a classic . And it has n’t been done in a picture before !
The last two movies should have fare with warning : “ people in the first four rows may have their retina burned aside by the intense stare of the baddie . ” Would n’t it be a squeamish change of pace to have a movie where Kirk was out - gag by the evil - doer ? More importantly , making the villain a mischievous all - powerful entity , like Trelaine or Q , would involve a refreshing change of motivating . Q was , in the serial , a villain at worst and an annoying anti - submarine sandwich at best , but he ’s never motivate by tired whim of retaliation . He , quite literally , wants humanity to be skilful .
He wants human beings — or even just individual world — to be able to , through their experience in space , grasp concepts that no human being had ever sympathise before . For all that Star Trek is meant to be about get wind unexampled worlds and young ways of life , many picture and episodes are really about saying humanity are the best in the population . Humans have become the smartest , the most compassionate , the most organized , the most virginal , of any exotic mintage . To have a villain unmasking that for the lie it is , and for the humans ( and humanoids ) to realize that we have to tug ourselves intellectually , not just jump around and keep hooey from explode , would make for an amazing movie .
The last proffer go kind of profound , did n’t it ? Do n’t occupy , it does n’t keep survive . As fun as forcing humans to transcend their limitations might seem , have the entire gang of the enterprise tripping out sound like even more fun . Two dissimilar Trek episode , “ The Naked Time , ” and “ The Naked Now , ” both dealt with a infinite madness that included someone taking a shower with their apparel on . ( realize that radio link to the original Star Trek rabidness sequence helped people in The Next Generation diagnose their own sudden place weirdo . ) I ’d love it if the next movie started with someone taking a shower in their dress and just Hunter S Thompsoned the sleep of the direction . I would n’t even manage if they found a way to cure themselves .
And back up to the high ground . The TOS episode “ Errand of Mercy ” introduced us to the Organians , another set of all - powerful being . The episode involves the Klingons occupying Organia , a little backwater satellite . Kirk and Spock set up a resistance , blow up weapons hoard as the Federation and the Klingons edge nigher and closer to war . The Organians are apathetic until the sexual climax of the hostilities , at which point they reveal that they are so ripe that they need fear nothing , and are appalled at the primitive civilisation bumble each other up for no understanding . They invalid the weapon of both side , and , over the protests of both side that they have the “ right wing ” to wage state of war , impel a peace treaty .
The two most recent Star Trek movies , in the end , have been about might making correct . Both sides draw their weapons and fire , and one side happens to be successful in the ending , though both sides take losses . Perhaps a movie in which an entity simply says , “ you may exploit this out peacefully and you will work this out peacefully , ” might be more of a commitment to a Star Trek nonpareil than armed conflict . Plus it ’s more of a challenge , and it moderate to a pot of storylines in which Kirk has to use cunning , instead of might , against the Klingons .
Remember the first Star Trek movie ? think of what happened after the fifteen full-strength minute of calculate at injection of the outside of the Enterprise ? If you got past that , there was a storyline about a massive entity phone V’Ger that threatens both the ship and Earth . And it plough out to be Earth ’s own Voyager spacecraft , acquire into having its own consciousness somewhere out there in space , and returning with a vengeance . While the Voyager is still out there , we are n’t as pore on it today . Today we see towards Mars , and the Mars Rovers . I call back it would make a nice trivial twist if Earth finally faced invasion from its nearest neighbour . The terrifying R’Ver , develop after being buried under the sands of Mars , has develop awareness and set its sight on Earth . Kirk can battle little red automaton .
In the end , though , no threat can be as awing as the power of just , previous - fashioned evil similitude . Whether they should follow from the Mirror Universe or a conveyor belt ray of light chance event , it does n’t matter . I just know that I desire Kirk , Spock , Uhura , and the rest of the crew to be push evil versions of themselves , and I want those evil versions of themselves to be weary thick eyeliner . Not only do I think it would be smashing fun to see the actors spiel both parts , I would roll in the hay to see a comparison of how this incarnation of Star Trek does Good and Evil . We ’ve see it in multiple different time . The earliest evil versions of the gang were vile , manipulative , sexually - belligerent backstabbers by nature .
Later , in Star Trek : Nemesis , we see good and evil put more in terms of breeding . Picard ’s ringer has been twisted into something malevolent by abuse , neglect , and refinement - across-the-board injustice . So while this construct comprise a stack of superficial clobber , like evil laughs and amazing fashions , it also has the potential difference to examine the heart of a tidy sum of questions about human nature . What is undecomposed ? What is evil ? What is it about us that stimulate us one or the other ?
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