Ideas for Star Trek Stories

 

Do I like Star Trek?  Hmm….could be!  So, here are some ideas for Star Trek stories.  As always, these ideas are in the “What if…” format – that is, add the phrase “what if” in front of every idea.  Enjoy!

 

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(In ST universe) A crew got thrown into the future?  What would it be like, and how would they get back?  Can they change the future, or is it really fixed (that would be a good discussion for those in the future)?

 

(In Star Trek:TOS) Something flew out of the black hole the Enterprise was studying?

 

(In ST:TOS) The Enterprise comes upon a Federation ghost-ship, and finds that all is not well?

 

(In any fictional universe) You created an unbeatable opponent?  Now, beat it.

 

(In ST:TOS) Just after renegade Vulcans settled ch=Rihannsu, a splinter group left to return to Vulcan in suspended animation?  What if they were lost, but had just been found by the Enterprise?

 

(In ST:whichever) The crew is thrown back to Victorian England times, where a 25^th century enemy is playing the part of Jack the Ripper?

 

(In ST Universe) You were living in a holodeck.  What if you didn=t know?  Why would you be kept there?  Who would be doing it?

 

(In ST:TOS or TNG) Crews could send someone to participate in a contest/conference between ships?  What could come up at this?

 

(In ST:TOS) The Enterprise finds the gateway to the multiverse; now, can it find its way back home?  Call it, AAll Possible Worlds@.

 

(In ST:DS9) A person in cryogenic suspension from the 20^th Century awakes to find themselves alone on the station?

 

(In ST, any one) The crew finds an abandoned Federation ship where the computer has a mind of its own?

 

(In ST:TOS) A group of Klingon commandoes hijacked the Enterprise and took it into Klingon space?

 

(In ST:any) you dealt with the ambassadors to belligerent states (Klingons, Romulans, etc.)?  How could they be worked into a story without them looking like pompous buffoons?

 

(In ST:DSN), Sisko woke one morning and found the station empty?  What could have caused that, and what can he do about it?

 

(In ST:DSN) The Borg encounted the Founders and the Jem Hadar?

 

(In ST:TNG) The entity created by the Enterprise returned?

 

(In ST) V=ger returned?  What would it be like?  What would it want to do?

 

(In ST:V) Seven of Nine was sent on an away mission and was brought in contact with a living computer that wanted to join with her because of her peculiar mental structure?

 

(In ST:V) Kes returned?  What would she be like, and what would she do?  (Yes, I know it=s been done on the show, but let=s look beyond that.)

 

(In ST:TOS) McCoy was transferred off the Enterprise by Starfleet Medical?

 

(In ST Universe) A ship=s captain (or any other crewman) went insane?

 

(In ST:TOS) Kirk was kidnapped?  Why?  What if he was convinced that the Enterprise had been blown up?

 

(In ST:TNG) There was something more powerful than the Q, the Therizons?  A Therizon arrives to help the Enterprise through a dangerous and potentially universe-destroying warp engine test, of course with no help form the Q.

 

(In ST:TNG or ST:V) You wrote a novel about the Preservers?

 

(In ST:DS9) You found a story where the DS9 crew faces a Prime Directive violation?

 

(In ST:V) Someone began changing the Doctor=s programming?  Who, and why?  How is the Doctor acting?

 

(In DS9) Benjamin Sisko went insane, but was cured by the wormhole entities?

 

(In ST:TOS) The ship is infected, and no one can leave?  What if it has some weird type of radiation that does not allow any contact, even though it is keeping the crew alive in some weird way?  How does the crew get out of this one?  What happens when a job comes up that only the Enterprise can do?  Then again, I guess it would be a good weapon.

 

(In ST:TOS) Sulu was framed for murder on the Enterprise?  By whom, and how does he get out of it?  Is he just a random target, or does someone have an agenda?

 

(In ST:TNG) Everything Picard does in a situation will violate the Prime Directive?  What does he end up doing?

 

(In ST:TOS) A Starfleet officer was stranded on a planet that was about to perfect subspace communications, and he signed on as a scientist to help, then used it to send a distress message?  Did he violate the Prime Directive or not?  What would Kirk and Starfleet do about it?

 

(In ST:TNG) A sun was about to go nova, which would destroy a Aprimitive@ but populated planet?  Does Picard obey the Prime Directive, or does he save the planet?

 

(In ST:DS9) The Federation=s secret service (a nominally intelligence-gathering agency) had a shape-shifter working for them?

 

(In ST:TNG) The Q were dying?  What would be causing this?  How can the Enterprise change this?

 

(In ST:TOS) A starship crew had been lost in the past, and had had to stay there?  What would their lives have been like, and what effect would their messages have on those they left behind?

 

(In ST:TOS) One by one members of the crew began disappearing, until only Kirk and an ensign were left?

 

(In ST:TOS) The Enterprise was trapped in a warp-tunnel, where they could not drop out of warp speed?  How would they get out, and how would they get home?

 

(In ST:TOS?) You could see what the Federation would be like 500 years in the future?  How would it be different?

 

(In ST:TOS) the crew of the Enterprise was put on a different ship for a mission while the Enterprise was on a three-month refit after it=s first five-year mission?  What would the mission be, and what would the ship be like?  Why them, and not a ship with a crew already on board?

 

(In ST:TNG) Data grew so old that he decided to terminate himself?  Would he leave behind "children" of some description?  What other legacy might he leave?  Why would be factors causing him to do this?

 

(In ST Universe) Earth isn=t the squeaky clean place it=s made out to be?  And ditch the idea about not using money.

 

(In ST Universe) You followed the lives of a group of Klingon (or other) mercenaries?

 

A terrorist put a bomb on the Enterprise as a protest of Federation policy?

 

The sun began to quickly die?  What if we found it was about to go nova (or turn into a black hole)?  What would we do?  What could we do?  What if this was in the D.C. Universe (or Marvel, or ST)?

 

There were  a group of immortals (not from AHighlander@) loose in the Star Trek universe?  What if they hid the fact from others?  What if they were from the AHighlander@ story line?

 

You were a special person, gifted with strange mental powers, and you were an orphan?  How would you go about finding your parents?  What if this was set in the D.C. Universe?  Heaven forbid, what if it was set in the Marvel Universe?  What if it was set in the Star Trek Universe?

 

You did a Magnificent Seven story in the Star Trek universe?  Or in Marvel or D.C.?

 

You wrote a Star Trek trilogy?

 

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