10 Star Trek Stories That Deserved A Sequel
These Star Trek threads are still dangling - so why haven't we seen the next chapter?
For every Ship In A Bottle, there's a Conspiracy. These are the huge threads that sit waiting for someone to pull at them, yet nothing has yet come. So, what gives, Star Trek? What are you waiting for?
Star Trek: Lower Decks has been doing the rounds, aptly visiting worlds (and plots) for a second contact here and there. Symbiosis got a sequel nearly forty years later as the Cerritos visited Onara, while they also checked in on Armus, following up from Skin Of Evil.
One wonders then - what about the worlds that have yet to pop up again? Are they still standing, or have they been swept away by the passage of time? Did Starfleet wash their hands of them, or have they simply been consigned to the great 'to do' list in the sky?
Star Trek has a lot of episodes that don't end in a neat little bow - so here's some of the ones that need a bit of tying.
10. What Happened To The So'na Who Never Went Home?
With Ru'afo dead and Starfleet's plans to relocate the Bak'u on indefinite hold, some of the Son'a are invited to settle on their world again. Their extensive life-extending procedures may take up to ten years to reverse, but that time has passed both in-universe and in the real world, so what might they look like now?
Then of course one wonders - what of the rest? Not all of them were so keen to return home. They had entered into a pact with the Dominion, producing Ketracel White and even diverting resources away from Cardassian lines in the latter days of the war.
Did they all die out? Did they find a way to keep lengthening their lives through increasingly dangerous scientific methods? Are they even recognisable anymore, or are they simply now a nomadic race, wandering the quadrant, preying on others like vampires?
Someone should really look into that.