From: pealbers@descartes.waterloo.edu (Paul E. Albers)
Subject: Re: The finale of the sixth season.
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:39:01 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.021112.9386@linus.mitre.org> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon) writes:
>
>    I initially posted what follows as a response to "TNG: The Final
>    Year. Episodes I'd (seriously!) like to see.", and since I got some 
>    positive responses I thought I'd put my idea out in front of a wider
>    audience ( Plus giving me a chance to clean up my lousy spelling.)
>   
>    So what we have here is my ultimate fantasy episode to be used as 
>    the finale of the sixth season.  Please keep in mind that
>    what follows is a without question a product of my propensity for
>    *action* episodes.  ( Something similar to this is what I would have
>    loved to see as the final mission of James T. Kirk. )
>
>    For your consideration:
>
   [good stoy ideal removed to save bandwidth]

Here are some stories that I would like to see ( and if I ever get the time
I'd like to write them too).  I haven't fleshed them out in full detail
yet but so what.

The enterprise comes across a a small abandon ship on course to earth 
at a slow speed.  They board it and discover the logs intack.  They 
find that the ship is the very ship that James T. Kirk bought and
sailed off in after his retirement from Starfleet. The rest of the story
is just a flashback of what was in the logs. 

After sailing off, Kirk's ship accidentaly passes through a wormhole
that takes him to a part of the universe that he can't even identify.
He quickly finds a class M world, inhabeted by human (or near human)
beings with technology that is at the same level as in the 24th century.
He falls in love, marries and has a child and then the Borg show up.  Kirk
leads his new friends in battle against the Borg and win however,  the planet
is left in a condition not too different from a post atomic war civilization.
The only spacegoing vessle left is Kirk's private ship.  He decideds to
send his ship back on the same course he arrived with a reacord of the
events to warn the Federation about the Borg. 

Story 2:

 While Data is directly conected with the main computer, some accident causes
a systems overload that damages Data's brain.  When Data wakes up, all
his memories etc. are fine however, he is no longer sensient or self-aware
and he only responds to direct orders just like the computer does.  At the 
same time, the ship's computer starts to call people by name, butt into
conversations and make sugestions on different courses of action (perhaps
even making a pass at someone or telling jokes). Soon, a personality    
conflict between Enterprise and Capt. Pickard either endangers thier
mission or threatens some  other dire consequence ( I can see the 
Enterprise wanting to fire on a Ferengi vessel and the Capt. having to
calm her down).  Eventualy, the Capt. and Enterprise develope a strong
relationship and then  Enterprise winds up sacrificeing her sentience to
save the Capt. (and crew too possibly).  

At the same time as this, Geordi and Beverly work on helping Data.  They
discover that before the damage was done, Data was able to instruct the
computer to replicate and test the protions of his brain that would be   
damaged.  The computer did so but the unit was faulty and when 
the testing started, it caused the
computer to become sentient etc.  With the information Geordi gets from 
Data's last program, he is able to restore Data to his former self.


TNG Movies I'd like to see

1) A Mirror Universe invasion
2) A Borg movie
3) A TNG horror (a la Night Terrrors, Remember Me etc)


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