Star Trek: 10 Episodes That Wasted An Incredible Premise 

Ok, I can't show this to my wife. I told her Terra Prime was the series finale and she lives a happy life

I have always felt that “The Inner Light” was a missed opportunity for Picard the gain a better understanding and tolerance of children. He had lived an entire lifetime as a husband, father, and grandfather. Something as profound as having a family and friends who loved him as much as they did should have had a profound effect on him. Consider what was done to O’Brien serving a twenty year prison term in his head alone. But by the next episode, it was Picard as usual.

No Relics?! “We’ve discovered a Dyson sphere. A friggin’ Dyson sphere! But let’s focus on Scotty.” Not saying the episode isn’t good, but the back drop shouldn’t have been such a huge (literally and figuratively) scientific phenomenon.

Given what happened in the episode, Voyager could have just done warp 10 to get back home, all the crew would have salamandered, and the doctor would have 'reverted them back to normal' without any further side effects

Because of Riker playing Chef in "These Are the Voyages...", I prefer to believe that's what Chef actually looks like.

We do not talk about These are the voyages...

I have always said, if what became the Enterprise Series Finale had been the second to last episode instead, it'd likely be one of the most beloved episodes due to the crossover. But ending the series as a holodeck episode for another series, it really was a middle finger to everyone. Or to quote Shakespeare, "I do not bite my thumb at you, sir... but I do bite my thumb, sir."

I so wish Voyager had had whiteboards with every single crewmember, shuttle, torpedo etc listed and crossed off as they were used, and added to as they were acquired or manufactured. Something as simple as just about anyone walking up to just about anyone else in the mess hall and asking "How the shuttle construction coming?" would have made such a difference.

The tension between the new Alpha Jem’Hadar and the original Gammas, as seen in One Little Ship, could’ve been a great longer term storyline. Maybe to go as far as open hostilities between them causing fractures in the Dominion. Shame it didn’t go anywhere.

It'd be cool if Garry Seven was made now as a period piece of the 1960's IMO. Stupid expensive but a Trek show set in the 60's would be my jam.

It always gets me that Gary Seven was supposed to be American Doctor Who. He even has a sonic screwdriver!

The Iconians. Two episodes referenceing their technological advancement and they get relegated to being the over-arching antagonists in Star Trek Online.

I honestly thought “the burn” was going to have them searching for “Po’s” synthetic dilithium formula. It would have made since that it would be lost or the world somehow disguising itself or moving to protect itself. The other thing that made me mad when they renamed the ship Enterprise. What they should have done was introduce an Enterprise class of Starship.

There was the Voyager eps. Dragon Teeth where they were supposed to be a new adversary for the crew but it went nowhere.

The Burn also made no sense with everything since there were entire groups that didn't use Dilithium such as the Romulans who use Singularity cores rather than the Matter/Anti-Matter Cores most factions use.

It’s a real shame they didn’t bring the Vaadwaur back on Voyager. I definitely remember reading there were plans to, especially in the Season after Dragon’s Teeth. There was going to be a massive battle, Voyager would get heavily damaged and even Naomi Wildman’s Mum was going to get killed-off. Sadly, none of this ever happened, apart from a stolen Vaadwaur ship being one of the alien ships seen in “The Void”.

Another thing about Threshold that makes no sense - okay, so going to warp 10 has some pretty serious biological drawbacks. But... it also has a CURE. They literally could have just jumped to warp 10, gotten home, and then started reversing the effects once they were done! Problem solved! I am one of the people who doesn't think Threshold is a total trash fire (RDM's performance is great, IMHO), but wow was that a wrongheaded approach...

"A bit borg-ed out" is the perfect description for my feelings.

Contrary to popular belief.I thought insurrection was a really good film.

Threshold's story line was dropped because most ST fans want to ignore that the episode ever happened. Also, the Warp Scale has been revised several times over the past 58 years. Initially, it was just a multiple of light speed. That didn't last long, and became a square of light speed. Then it became a cube of light speed, then it became a logarithm with Warp10 being infinite speed. It has recently been revised again, such that in recent times, Warp13 is possible again. And then there is transwarp, a maguffin invented for the USS Excelsior in The Search for Spock. The whole franchise is science fantasy, so geeks like me who think about this too much avoid talking about it much with non-Trekkies.

Should have had a counter for how many times Brie said "Butt Bugs".

I want more of the Jurati Borg!

To be fair, Jurati wasn't the only one that Picard just abandoned - Laris is still sat at a bar on Chaltok IV.

Ever wonder what would have happend if Delenn and her fleet had stepped in at Wolf 359? Delenn (to the Borg) - "Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari Fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your biological and technological distinctiveness BE-SOMEWHERE-ELSE", Borg - "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH".

That dangling nugget.....Imagine a moment where the Dominion or some big baddie attack the Federation, and fight until they are nearing defeat across a season of say Legacy, and during an obviously losing effort in a last stand a ship appears out of the blue "lower your shields and surrender your ships" scaring the heII out of the fleet commander, just before a hail comes in from queen Jurati. Going ALL out with a battle sequence saving the Federation, accepting Jurati's Borg faction application as a Federation member and insuring in the event if the Borg ever rise again or anyone gets froggy, Starfleet will have some TEETH.

How about the mystery of the baby enterprise from the vermiform city episode?

Remember how they found an exact duplicate of Earth in "Miri"? An exact physical duplicate in every way right down to the shapes of continents? An absolutely incredible discovery by anyone's standards? Or, remember the time the Kelvans modified the Enterprise to where it could traverse the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy in "only" a few centuries?

Voyager was an entire series that wasted an incredible premise. It just became a TNG clone. Hell, they even ran into another Starfleet vessel, Klingons and Ferengi. Had a show set in a recreation of Starfleet Academy. Neelix was never the sage Delta quadrant scout. Just a baby sitter and bad cook.

You seem to have forgotten yesterday’s Enterprise from TNG ! It could have been a cinematic masterpiece in the Star Trek movie catalogue.

To kick in a little bit of funbalance - there IS the one myself and my eldest still use.... ... Worf - "Captain - I object - I AM NOT A MERRY MAN". Flaweless!

#7 -- Not just the lack of ANY dramatic tension between Maquis and Star Fleet personnel (save Seska), but in the Equinox 2-parter, Voyager takes on several crewman who were stripped of rank. Never heard from again.

I'm still bitter that Picard Season 2 dumped all the cast just to reboot the show for a TNG reunion.

Voyager’s whole series kind of wasted the premise. It’s ironic because DS9 showed that serial storytelling was possible even though it was setup for syndication while Voyager was the first to be exclusive to a network and it could have really taken advantage of the serial format

Gary 7 woulld still make a great premise.

When thinking about how The Travellers could could come back at anytime, I feel the same way about Sisko (plus DS9 was lacking in episodes with wasted Premise). Sisko's final moments in DS9 leave everything to question. Because of the nature of The Prophets, Ben could pop up, literally, anywhere or anywhen and I feel it's about time for a cameo somewhere in the Trek Universe.

The problem with bringing back the conspiracy bugs is that it's too similar to the Changelings infiltrating Starfleet in DS9. In fact, the Founders did it on an even larger scale, infiltrating other races to cause chaos and war. Plus, Stargate came out after Conspiracy, so there's already an entire show where the main villains are mind controlling parasites.

Good morning, Voyager was a cute idea

No one who’s a fan of TAS would’ve created Very Short Treks. He can say he’s a fan all he wants but… No. you didn’t even make fun of the right things. They acted like the audio was recorded on a gramophone or something. No it was a network television show even though it was 1973 it still had, you know, clear audio. OK I’m gonna go punch a wall or something now. 😂

"Fury" was character assassination. I still hate that episode so much. They could have explained it with someone brainwashing Kes, oder meddling with her in another way. They could have kept it in the present, making it a more heartfelt Tuvok-Kes story of him connecting to her true self, helping her find a way. Heck, they could have even brought her back, but make her a guest star instead. By that time, Seven was more than well integrated enough for that to not matter a bit. Such a wasted opportunity and sadly mirroring in a way to what happened to the actress.

I think when Sisco went back in time to the height of the civil rights era as a sci fi writer. Would have been a cool spin off. Is that where he went after the last episode of DS9? He did say he could be back yesterday. Stories could be flash forwards to the Star Trek era with the stories being social commentary of civil rights ear through time would have been a great premise.

Flint's or Roger Korby's androids would have made Data look obsolete in any Trek timeline.

The vaadwaur, iconians, warp 5 limit, Tom Riker, the romulan officer assigned to the Defiant, the Equinox surviving crew, bullets killing borg.

Warp 9.9 sustainable wasn't possible back then because at the time Voyager/the Intrepid class was the most advance ship in Starfleet at the time and she could cruise at Warp 9.975 for about 13 hours before she would have to slow down. But even then there's nothing that could have stopped them from once or twice a season cruising at 9.975 for those 13 hours, drop to a lower speed until they could do it again and just repeat the process, which while not sustained would still have decreased their overall journey timie significantly. The idea of the Warp Scale at that point was more that every single numerical jump was an exponential leap for in speed in comparison to the points between 9 and 10. That's not to add into that transwarp etc which isn't tech that The Federation had at the time, but other species, like The Borg had, and they no doubt got it from a race that they had assimiliated. Speaking of the Borg, while I do believe they were overused on Voyager, I honestly think the worst thing that happened to them on Voyager was that they were meant to be the Big Bad of Trek that took entire factions to unify in order to even stand the slighest chance of beating, but Voyager managed to beat them numerous times all by themselves on the Borg's home ground, eventually ending up with Janeway killing the Borg Queen, which in theory should have ended them. I also feel like Voyager would have been a great series to close out the Conspiracy ark. It was said at the end of the episode that they sent a message into deep space, well that message could have been the Delta Quadrant and you could of had Janeway and the crew deal with it, as from the Alien's perspective they know where Earth is and while the original invasion was halted by Picard and the crew of the Enterprise, here's another Federation ship alone in their part of space, if they could take that over and get back to Earth, there would be functions where the crew would be paraded around, perfect opportunity to start it up again but they never did it. Off screen, the DS9 relaunch novels had them be offshoot variants of The Trill and in Star Trek Online they were created by the Iconiians to control the Vaadwaar, another race that should have had a follow up on Voyager but never were. As for the Enterprise finale, I've always said that that episode would have been perfectly fine had it been the penultimate episode of the series and not the actual finale. I think if they had done that, people would have been far more receptive to it, instead of it being the final ever episode of the show.

I hate the ending to Enterprise so damn much 😅

My problem with Threshold is that The Doctor was able to reverse the effects on Janeway and Paris. It was so incredibly easy and mundane that it was done off screen during a commercial break with presumably little time passing on the ship. So if it was that easy to reverse the effects, then just Warp 10 yourselves back home and let The Doctor, who would be unaffected by the "evolution" change everyone back. Simple.

When I first saw DSC S3, the two things I was thinking were, "the Borg don't need to use conventional warp drives, why didn't they assimilate the galaxy?" and, "the Romulans don't use the same kind of warp engines, why were they also affected?" Picard s2 and s3 answered the question about the Borg, by basically wiping them out. Still don't know the answer to the Romulan question though. Why didn't they share the singularity drive?

Chakotay SOCKING THE FIRE outta that Maquis dude in Voyager's "Learning Curve" cracks me up everytime😂

Actually the cause of the burn is really good on a deeper level when you really think about it. It's the result of cause and effect of manipulating time. Remember if not for the Red Angels interference the Kaminar would not have became spacefaring but would have stayed enslaved most likely with Saru being the only one to ever leave. Discovery's and Burnham's (Red Angel) manipulating time caused the burn.

The burn doesn't make sense! That would mean the Romulans would have still had warp drive. They don't use DL crystals.

There was an episode of TNG where the discover a wrecked ship with just one survivor, a young boy. The boy is afraid he was responsible for the destruction of his own ship. But in the end, the boy shares an observation with Data that allows Data to realize the mistake the wrecked ship made, ond this saves The Enterprise. I wished they had included a line from Picard to the Boy. "Well, it seems not only were you not responsible for the destruction of your ship, but you just saved this ship from suffering the same fate.

AS for Learning Curve, I never got the impression that the divergence of intense opinion about the merits of effectively continuing the war against the Cardassians pitted Maquis and Starfleet personnel against each other on a personal level. Perhaps the extended time on a ship with relatively relaxed rules made adapting to Voyager rules a bit stressful, but Learning Curve made clear that the animosity was against Tuvok's harsh discipline rather than any kind of rage against those who were presumed guilty of collaborating with the 'dirty beast' Cardassians. IF there had been a Cardassian in board, especially if s/he had been an officer there would have been an engaging protracted conflict...

The doomsday device, the Kelvins and the other TOS folks that came from an other galaxy seemed like a missed opportunity. There was a supposed disaster in the other galaxy(ies) causing them to migrate to the Milky Way. Was it the dooms day device, or some other force?

I think, Voyager overall wasted a lot on the "we have limited resources" premise.

I'll go with Non Sequitur, the episode where Harry gets mysteriously home. There's no sign of any conflict in him, no explanation about why the kid who wanted to go home suddenly wants to go back. And given that they never did anything of value with the character, this would have been a decent way to eliminate him.

The Enterprise finale would have been a great ordinary episode (with some minor tweaking). The problem was, it was the finale. Also agree w/ the Short Treks (I hope they return under someone who actually understands the assignment) and everything "Picard". We can all agree season 3 of Picard was the best one, but it would be nice to pull something good out of seasons 1&2, and there's at least something there to work with.

Some of the mid season jankisodes are legendary

"wasn't ready for her transformation" - if that was part of Ocampan evolution I can understand that.....but Kes (perhaps naively in her youth) did say she wanted to go with Voyager in "Caretaker" and to his credit, Tuvok did later try to provide some guidance when her telekinetic/telepathic powers started presenting themselves, but he found himself out of his depth eventually.

I appreciate how hard the show runners worked to bring back the Supervisor idea. It felt abrupt but believable, that had to be hard!

I kind of disagree with the Burn. Personally, I think what they were aiming for, that the Burn was a tragic accident is far more interesting conceptually than if it had been an enemy act or something. Personally, while I do think it could've been executed much better the principle behind it was interesting.

11:13 - The season finale of Enterprise was fixed in the novels, and I think really well. The setup is basically Jake Sisko uncovers records of what actually happened, showing Riker's holodeck simulation was intentionally misleading - and Trip didn't die. His death was faked so he could go on a long-term undercover mission.

3:00 - The bugs were originally supposed to be the first wave of the Borg. Before they were officially introduced, the Borg were going to be insectoid and not cybernetic.

SF Debris pointed out that Kes' ascension in Borg space could have alerted them to the existence of the Ocampa and resulted in their assimilation. Then her sacrificing the Voyager crew would have been a desperate attempt to save her people. Instead we got "she's just crazy".

I had a sort of fan theory that a traveler was Wesley's father which explains why he got along with the traveler in several episodes of TNG and was very smart for his age

I think the short treks but for a different reason, the potential for the expansion and further development of all Star Trek characters and plots is and was there. Think about the sulu show that never came, but an excelsior short trek could had be awesome, worf doing some soul searching, Jake doing some investigative journalism, harry kim trying to fit back into a new command , captain Bateson and the Bozeman fitting into a new time. So many missed opportunities that could had been developed and never seems to have crossed creative minds.

The beauty of the non-canon Star Trek novels they take some of those story lines and give them a nice twist. The DS9 novel Unity by S. D. Perry, states that the aliens from conspiracy are natural enemies of the Trill symbionts, they do a take over of Bajor and at the same time bring the Jem'Hadar that disappeared in the wormhole during Sacrifie of Angels. It was a good story I know its not canon but it also brought Odo and Sisko back to DS9. Sorry about the spoiler

I'm convinced the Blue Gills are what inspired the Yerks in Animorphs, so at least it didn't go fully nowhere.

I still am hoping that Transwarp conduit is related to either the Iconians or the Kelvans. I really wish more of Picard Season Two had been focused there.

I'd definitely like to see Star Trek Legacy happen and tie up those loose ends during it's run. Along with Jiradi's borg, I think Westley needs a proper ending. I've had this holodeck episode in my head where Jack is going thru old logs with TNG footage of his family turned holodeck program. At the end, he asks the computer to simulate what Westley would look like now, then ends the program with Wil Weaton remaining and just says, "Hey Bro." as the episode ends. I know it's kind of out of charater for Westley, but it would totally be on brand for Wil Weaton. 😂

I agree, Threshold is a wasted idea but could have been explored more (if you take the "evolution" stuff out of the equation.) Janeway missed opportunities; even "Q" offered them a quick trip back home, but she refused. They missed additional opportunities to develop further things like Quantum Slipstream (after learning from their mistakes in "Timeless"). And then there's Transwarp. Maybe they could have built a fleet of shuttles, enough to house the entire crew compliment, if they couldn't adapt Transwarp to Voyager itself. But...in the end transwarp got them home anyway. I think even a repetition of the Traveller idea from "Where No one has gone before" could have been used, but perhaps a "there's no place like home" thought was a bit too cliched.

Some things just don't work out. Sadly.

"One day we will map the human genome. At that point human intelligence will have come to it's pinnacle. Humanity will then become master of its own destiny to control anything about nature itself!!!" Well that day came and went 20 years ago and it didn't change anything.

3:39 I have this Star Trek Companion book. Mine even has a big mistake in it. It's been while since I looked at it but I pretty sure chapter 3 is missing in mine. Chapter 1 repeats where chapter 3 should be. Reason why I have hung onto it for so many years

I had always assumed the bugs from conspiracy were simply reconceived as the borg.

I hope they try short treks again with a different spin

I have head canon theory that T'Kon and Iconia are the same (Ticon). Or specifically later is distorted version of the descendent. At the same time there is a lot of proves that Progenitors and Preservers are just different faction of Iconians. Who attempted to preserve culture in different way. First terraformed countless planets to M standard, seeding it with life what should develop similar form as them. When the later collected and stored in own (and by extend everyone) DNA knowledge about lost cultures. I personally believe that Sphere Builders also were Iconians, just at the time paralel version was created due to possible creator conflict with Lary Niven. But seriously. Kzinti and Xindi are extremely similar in promise.

I don't have anything specific in mind, but given the fanatically episodic nature of the Original Series, I bet you could do a whole video on wasted premises just from those three seasons. Or, on the other hand, considering how silly some of those episodes were, maybe not.

Good to see you in this Brie. Hope to see more of you in the future.

"These are the Voyages..." could have been fine as Enterprise's finale, but I don't know that it really needed the Riker/Deanna witnessing the historical events via holodeck. Why not just have the signing of the Federation Charter as just that.

The narration/audio editing here really giving off ‘read by a computer voice vibes…’

The Relics could create entire season. And Conspiracy - the whole new show. Send expedition fleet, like 4-6 ships to investigate who take over half of Starfleet command!

12:59 Well that caught me off guard

Voyager as a series was a wasted premise. Instead of chasing Maquis into the Badlands, they should have been hunting down some kind of scanner anomaly, something resembling a cloaked ship. Once on the other side of the galaxy, we'd find out that it was a Romulan ship. The three Romulans would have to join up with the Starfleet ship since their small spy ship would never make it home on its own. There would be far more conflict amongst the crew for a while, but there would be change. The Romulan captain would become Voyager's second-in-command, and he'd start hanging out with Tuvok and learning about their Vulcan heritage. They would stick to the concept of limited amounts of supplies like Photon Torpedoes and shuttles, so they'd have to use the Romulan ship's cloaking device on Voyager to get them out of scrapes. There was an episode where Janeway had a terminal illness and was put in stasis only to be brought out close to the end of the episode with no mention about her illness ever again, this time put her in until they get back to Earth. Put the Romulan in command, get him to start doing things the Federation way and thereby understand humanity better. He'd also start using Vulcan training to purge his emotions. The Romulan crew would be drastically changed people by the time they get back to the Alpha Quadrant.

Assignment: Earths' premise was that Earth people had been abducted and trained for 6,000 years. Could tie in with alien abduction stories we have heard over the past few decades

I'm glad I saw this.

*These are the Voyages* should have had all the Captains of the Star Trek series making brief appearances in their reasonable timeline, looking back at the events which took place in this episode. From Kirk (in-between "Undiscovered Country" to "Generation), to Picard (after Nemesis) , to Sisko (in-between "Tears of the Prophets" and "Image in the Sand"), to Janeway (after Endgame).

I think the Bluegills was the first attempt to introduce a new villain species into the TNG franchise but the _Conspiracy_ episode did not achieve the desired result and so the Borg were then created and they went on to be much more successful, of course.

The only one thats not a nitpick for me is the Voyager episode Message in a Bottle with the USS Prometheus. Trek is notoriously bad for giving us a cool ship to never see again (Voyager J) and just leaving it dangling in canon lore

The frustrating thing about “That Hope is You” pt. 2 is that it’s a waste of not just 1, but 2 excellent premises. The Burn, and event that wiped out most of the preexisting intergalactic civilizations and made FTL travel much more difficult? Excellent idea. Being trapped on a rotting ship with a sheltered person who doesn’t know about the world outside the ship and they have to get through to them or they’re gonna die? Excellent idea. Combining the two? Awful idea.

Moriarty was completely wasted in Picard.

Tin Man S3 E20: That melding/symbiotic relationship the Betazoid Tam Elbrun and the living organic ship Gomtuu. Did they both perish in the supernova or did Gomtuu find new purpose in life and want to live with its newfound crew, Elburn? I thought they could have run across Voyager and lent a hand with something before galivanting off on a new adventure.

The blue gills were supposed to be the villians for the next season of STNG but the writer's strike killed that idea.

The set-up in Defiant is one of the most wasted set-ups ever done on DS9. There should have been a prison break, a shock execution or a prison skeleton in season 6 or 7.’ The fate of Thomas is especially annoying when Kira promised to help him further down the Line.

Was there a video done of the planets that Starfleet should have returned to or re-visited? They touched a few of these in Lower Decks.

I think all of Picard is 3 seasons of great premise, terrible landing. Also year of hell could have been the voyager season we all wanted. Maybe in an alternate history I'm complaining about it being stretched to far, but in this one, I would have loved to see Janeway fighting to keep the ship alive without a break. Could have been the whole series, but I would have been happy with a xindi approach

I think there are enough episodes to make 2 or3 list's. I liked mornings with Neelix 👍😁

Warp speed as I understand it is a cubed factor of the speed of light = c ------> As in E = m * c squared Warp 1 cubed is the speed of light = 1 c pr second - Cochrane first trip from Earth to the Moon - 300000 km = 1 second Warp 5 cubed is the speed of light = 125 c pr second - Trip to Alpha Centauri 125 / 4.3 = 0,0344 * 365 days = 12,5 days Warp 10 cubed is the speed of light = 1000 c pr second - Voyager was 70 years from home = 70000 light years The Warp Field as I understand it deflects electro magnetic radiation and ionized particles in front of the Space ship The Nacelles 'Pylons' scoop up plasma from that Warp field, brake it down and redirect the plasma into the Warp Core At Warp 10 the Warp Field can't physically deflect any more plasma - It becomes the light speed barrier. Next step is to develop the Space Folding technique that Q and the Caretaker entities uses - Just move everything... Am I with this 'Star Trek theory' in the Lore Ballpark?

#1 is the #1 produced episode in the Star Trek franchise: The First Federation of Balok. Incredibly advanced, friendly, respects humans....completely ignored in the Star Trek Universe. Would have come in very handy as an ally to save the galaxy about 200 times. They were physical huminoids, and destruction of the galaxy or quadrant would have affected them...and they would have known about it long before Kirk, Picard, Sisco, Janeway, Archer, Burnham, Pike would have.... Thus the reason GR dropped it for an episode reset on closing titles...tune in next week when we are powerful and advanced again. Faster than a speeding bullet. Able to leap tall orbits in a single bound. #2 Planet Gateway. If there was anything they found that could destroy or fix the galaxy it was that. Many a time travel crisis, yet nobody ever says....hey remember that glowing rock doughnut. Eventually remembered by a prequel/postquel in Discovery of the 32nd Cen...but only really as a fan service conversational easter egg. The You Cant Use Warp, global warming episode of TNG. Like celebrities and politicians of our era and the 90s....we shouldn't use high warp as we're destroying the galactic ether/atmosphere with it. Remembered once more in a script and then as forgotten as when a pop star or climate czar jumps on a private or 1st Class commercial jet and flies tens of thousands of kms to talk to a crowd that did the same for 20 minutes....easily done on Zoomcalls.

Redoing the Warp scale was stupid because you could keep getting faster and faster ships without having to use a bunch of decimal places. The old scale allowed you to keep getting faster as technology improved but locking the scale in acts like “technology will never get better so we can set the scale at 10 now”. It’s stupid.

8:20.... is that a sonic screwdriver? Which came first - Trek or Doctor Who with that gadget...? or was it Gary Seven's version of a communication device, a phaser or even his "interdimensional shift actuator thingy" (as Batman (1960 TV) would have labelled it).

I always wanted to see more done with the crew Voyager took in from The Equinox I would welcome a return of any one off charter. I can't think off the top of my head who