@RUTGERS.ARPA:Todd.pasa@Xerox.ARPA (02/13/85)
From: Todd.pasa@XEROX.ARPA
How about this for a plot:
As hard-core Trek fans would never accept the concept of a James T. Kirk
never again being able to go toe-to-toe with three Klingon battle
cruisers simultaneously, the Klingon scout with cloaking device has got
to go. The Enterprise crewpeople simply need another Federation
starship, preferably one that looks like the Enterprise, and even more
preferably the *real* Enterprise. As to the small problem of acquiring
one ...
The Fed HQ will never give one to them. Savior of the Genesis project or
no, Kirk is not a good team player and will never get a Federation
command *as things stand now*. It becomes irrelevant that the new Fed
starships (like Captain Styles' in ST3) are ugly, and Kirk wouldn't want
one anyway. This means that Kirk must find one from out of the salvage
yards. F'rinstance, remember the abandoned Constellation (?) orbiting
the planet of Yangs and Coms? I do not remember its fate, and it might
still be available. Or better yet, how about the alternate universe
Enterprise with the evil Kirk, sneaky Spock, etc ... ? Kirk's alter-ego
didn't look long for the multiverse at the end of that one, and whoever
is riding around in that ship now could doubtless be suckered into
losing it. It wouldn't be the most outrageous stunt Kirk has ever
pulled. All he'd need to do then would be to get 400 warm bodies to crew
it and use as token casualties whenever he found a new planet to beam
down to. Ad infinitum.
My vote for a title to ST4 is "Star Trek IV, the search for Star Trek
V".
--- JohnnyT
"But I don't know that either!"rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random) (02/16/85)
I'm surprised that no one has come up with this one. Sarak is so happy that his son is back but was upset over jim losing his son and ship. Sarak then uses his considerable influence to get jim back in good standing with the federation or gets jim a ship from the vulcan science acadamy. And so, jim's back in business. How simple can you get? Random Research Triangle Institute ...!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb