Metty: If you're not familiar with it you might want to check out TMfE. It's the same writer as Requiem and a retelling of the Flint character. For the most part it's pretty good, and certainly better than the ST version.
The Mission Log podcast guys recommended that movie as well in their review of the episode. I'll find it!
These next two episodes I saw had premises that I found very interesting and have been waiting to see them explored ever since I started watching Star Trek. First I'd share my initial imagining of these ideas then I'll talk about the episodes that tried to explore them:
1. The premise of a coup d'etat on the Federation, initiated by high ranking Star Fleet officers. The captain of the Enterprise finds out somehow and decides to resist or at least evade capture until a plan is in order. The Enterprise goes rouge and cuts off all communication with Star Fleet. I imagined that premise would be best served as a story arc that spans a season. I didn't have in mind if it would be TOS or TNG, obviously TNG has a more serious tone and was made in a more appropriate era of TV to withstand such topic but would have wanted Spock in the context.
The coup d'etat could either be alien infiltration or actual corruption and power hunger, both would be interesting.
2. The very plausible idea that not everybody is on board with what the Federation is or what it represents. We take for granted that they've eliminated all conflicts and politics as we know is a thing of the past, no opposition and no dissent. I've accepted that concept but it would be interesting to see problems in these areas pop up every now and then, just from a human nature stand point; it's realistic for it to happen, some -at least a few- people won't be happy with the world government.
So these two episodes came close to exploring these ideas but didn't quiet nail it:
1. TNG - Conspiracy: The first 10-15 minutes of this episode is exactly what I wanted to see this premise play out. Picard is contacted by other ship captains for a meet up, they can't discuss details "over the phone" so he knows nothing of the matter until he beams over and sees them, they're skeptical of him so they test him first to know if it's really him, that's when I knew they went with the Invasion of The Body Snatchers type of story instead of high ranking conspirators, then they tell him something is up with Star Fleet, etc. Picard returns to the Enterprise and ponders what to do with this information, consults his close officers and he sees one of the Captains he met getting his ship blown up. I'm not recapping the episode, just stating the type of atmosphere I wanted to see was exactly that.
Then it goes full on Invasion of The Body Snatchers, which I don't mind except it was revealed way too early for my taste and it stays focused on that aspect until it wraps up. So yeah the episode engaged me pretty good and it gave me a decent glimpse of the idea I wanted to see, good deal.
2. TOS - The Way to Eden: Hippies! Yeah boy, colorful bare foot 60's hippie girls make me happy in the ol' trousers...
But oh yeah, so hippies are not what I envisioned Star Trek would introduce the idea of people disillusioned with the Federation rule. But it worked pretty good, until they decided to make them all dumb and led by a clinically insane person. And make the Eden planet they were looking for to escape The Man, a poisonous deadly place with sweet landscapes, suggesting it was just a mirage and an illusion, that the Federation is the best place to be and abide by. So this one was a tiny glimpse of the idea I wanted to see, not bad although comical.
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