Star Trek: 10 Worlds We Should Probably Check On 

Now i want to see "Keeping up with the Cardassians" as a reality show on Lower Decks.

Not checking up on things is how you end up with a Seti Alpha V/VI situation

According to the 1989 book The Worlds of the Federation, that gangster planet was contacted again sometime later and the Federation was surprised to find that they now had adopted Starfleet uniforms as standard clothing and built up their society based on their interaction with the Enterprise. They were even communicating via Starfleet communications channels.

I can imagine the intro to 'Legacy' with the Enterprise-G doing some followup missions, "To boldly go where Voyager had cocked up before"... :P

An additional world I would like to see revisited: Moab IV, seen on the TNG episode "The Masterpiece Society." At the end of that episode, the Enterprise crew realizes that, even though they had helped to save the colonists, their unintentional contamination may have done just as much harm in the end. I personally feel this is an underrated episode because it is a rare episode in which there is no good solution. Picard and crew accidentally make a mess that they can't really clean up. All they can do is try to minimize the consequences and hope for the best.

I want to see Mintaka, Malcor 3, and Ocampa

Need to go back and check on the Bringloidi and Mariposans. Let's go further up that long ladder!

This could really be a multi-part series and I often wonder why these aren't followed for potential new Trek content.

No V'ger's machine homeworld or the Whale Probe homeworld?

What about that planet that time flows extremely fast? I’m curious what’s going on since Voyager left then

It's borderline criminal that they never went back to Sigma Iotia, Kirk specifically. Imagine his percentage when he reveals that he invented Fizbin, and now wants a cut of all winnings.

I wonder... do Tribbles have a home-world? As always, thank you so very much to all for the videos.

What about going back to the Dyson Sphere from Relics??? I know there is a novel that goes into it. Nice to see in Canon a return to the Dyson Sphere and learn more about it

From the Original Series: The Nazi Planet, Ekos and it’s neighbor Zeon. How did they recover. The Gladiator Planet, especially to see what happened with the “Son of God”

This could be a very big list. so many places from TOS, to go back to, Check out Mudd's Android Planet And the city in asteroid; For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, They should have reached a new world by now. What great things can be learned from both.

Eminiar and Vendicar. Was the ambassador able to negotiate peace between the two planets or did they rebuild their war computer?

That TNG planet from "The Survivors," where they left that "Dowd." Definitely shouldn't actually go down to it, but someone should be maintaining a monitoring station on the edge of the system to track his movements and see if he ever leaves the planet...

Hey Sean, you should a video for 10 Aliens that We Should Probably Check On, because after DS9 I always wondered what happened to the Skreea since they arrived in the Alpha Quadrant and moved to their new Home world, Did they join the Federation, did some of them get assimilated by the Borg when they moved to the Alpha Quadrant.

We need to see what happened on Aldea. From season 1 of Next Generation that took Wesley and some other kids from the Enterprise. Doctor Crusher treated them so it would be nice to know if they were able to have kids of their own and in general what happened to them.

Janeway's Q-Continuum is eerily similar to the gated community my mother-in-law lives in. Had to spend a soul sucking few days there once dog-sitting and the view out the window of the occasional old codger aimlessly ambling about in the beating sun was exactly like Janeway's visit to the continuum. Didn't see any civil war break out, but I suspect than no wild 55 year old newcomers had the audacity to bring a child to the collective or let one squeak at the pool during my stay. The carnage of destroyed golf carts would be a sight to see!

#1 Does anyone remember the Star Trek 25th anniversary game on the NES, where the Sigma Iotians had learned so much from McCoy's communicator that they'd managed to destroy their world by creating spatial rifts? Fun times.

I may be misremembering, but I seem to recall one of the novels mentioning that when a starship went back to Sigma Iotia II later on, they found a fully-functional starbase, with everyone wearing Starfleet uniforms and such. All based on that brief contact and the transtator left in McCoy's communicator.

Wrigley's pleasure planet. Crewman Darnell gave it two thumbs up.

Miscellaneous Bridge Officer: “Why did we get stuck with boring check up on some old isolated planet?” Captain: “Let me tell you the story of Ceti Alpha V.”

Although not a world per se, but an area of interest, what about Fluidic Space. Give us some update on Species 8472, maybe even a canon name (STO calls them the Undine). Last time we saw them, EMH slide show on mating rituals aside, was in the training station mock up of Starfleet Headquarters and the Academy.

I'm surprised Kavis Alpha IV wasn't on this list. It's the planet where the Enterprise D crew put the super fast evolving nanites. With the speed those nanites were advancing, their technology could be well beyond that of any other known species by the current 25th century timeline.

What about Triskelion (with the drill thrall slaves and the disembodied brains that placed bets to control them), Sigma Draconis VI (Brain and brain! What is brain?), Beta III (the Landru computer), the Fabrini of Yonada (For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky), Miri’s Planet (the kids), Gideon (overpopulation), Ardana (Stratis Cloud City), Capella IV (High Teer Leonard James Akaar).

Amerind - the planet where the NCC-1701 encountered native Americans - should probably also be revisited. As should be the planet from "The 37's" - the one where the Voyager crew found Amelia Erhart.

Tyree's planet in A Private Little War. What happened to the 100 flintlocks for the garden of eden?

I would really love a revisit to the Vidian home world. If Kurros was telling the truth about the phage. He has no reason to lie, I believed it to be true. I imagine the Phage and the Vidian's need to harvest other lifeforms made them rather well known, and given the advanced nature of their medical tech, I can imagine that scanner/harvesting device that made the tricorder look like an etch-a-sketch would appeal. It would curious to see what happens to a race whose need for raiding and harvesting other species vanishes literally overnight. To be honest, I could absolute get on board with a series where Starfleet sends a mission back into the Delta Quadrant to visit a number of places of interest from Voyager. Perhaps a series with a certain former borg-turned starfleet officer, maybe a finally-promoted Harry Kim...

In Lower Decks episode about "Buffer Time" they showed a distant future of the Federation where there was a classroom teaching students about the Boimler Effect (and the greatest hero of the Federation) and you can see there was a Borg student in the class among other Federation member species. So the Borg are still around down the road.

I wonder how those folks the Enterprise left of Ceti Alpha V turned out?

I would like to see a eeturn to Zeon/Ekos, Emminar/Vendikar, Elaas/Troius and to see the Onlies, the Hill People and the Children of Vaal from TOS. They left a lot of worlds with so much more story to tell. It would be nice for project swing by to check in on them.

I would like to see what happened “new collective“ that was formed after they helped Chakotay in the episode “Unity”.

What about the "Blink of An Eye" planet? Are they ruling the universe yet?

Talos IV should be on the list. A race that can just about control the galaxy from their couches by manipulating everybody else's percetions from ligh-years away should be a priority concern for Starfleet.

In the fan film series Starship Locations Destinations one of the episodes goes to Miri in the pilot, Sigma Iotia in 2404, and to Magna Roma right after that in another.

I remember when last season's Picard series was airing, the Bluegills were the main suspect in a lot of fan theories as the main protagonists until it was revealed to be the Changelings and Borg. The Conspiracy symbiotes would have been a much fresher and better twist than screwing up more Borg and Changeling lore.

I want to see what became of the Bringloidi "space Irish" / Mariposa "clone world" and their polyamorous society that Picard set up at the end of the "Up The Long Ladder" episode (TNG S2, E18). The last canonical contact with them was when the Enterprise D left them in 2365. Lower Decks started in 2380 and the setting of the final season of Picard is 2401, so the way I see it we can check in on them with the crew of the Cerritos when the first generation of clone-Irish babies are in their teens and younger, or if "Legacy" ever happens Seven and her crew can visit them when they are adults and the second generation are running about and they are perhaps considering the benefits of joining the Federation.

I also wanted to know... what happened to the human populations in "Terra Nova", "The 37s", "Miri", "North Star", "New Eden", "Masterpiece Society", "Up the Long Ladder", and "The Paradise Syndrome"? These were distinct cases where an alien civilization raided Earth, a colony was cut off for generations from Earth, or weirder. But how do they reintegrate (if they decide they want to)? The case with the planet in Miri is probably the craziest, and brings up a LOT of questions about what to do with an almost vacant planet with centuries-old infrastructure and how to integrate almost immortal children into human society...? But JFC this happened so often that I'm assuming Starfleet had a special branch to deal with this kind of thing.

I would definitely love to learn more about the Iconians in star trek😃

Kavis Alpha IV, Velara III, The Dyson Sphere, Drema IV, Aldea and The Teplan homeworld would be interesting to revisit.

Federation should have checked on Ceti Alpha V after leaving the inhabitants of the Botany Bay there. Who knows what the timeline would have been like had they checked on it.

Not a planet, but the Federation did buy the PD line of combat drones waaaaay back in TNG season 1, and I'd like to see more details on what they've done with them, especially given that Agimus seems to have been another customer who loaded up on them.

The signal sent by Remmick was a huge missed opportunity for Star Trek: Voyager. I wouldn't have minded this being like a 2-part season finale/season premier episode. We need to check in on Malcor III to see if they are ready for a second "first contact."

Organia (though it's probably under quarantine), Talos IV, or perhaps most of the planets discovered on the other side of the Bajoran wormhole prior to the Dominion getting pissy.

That last one was used as a plot point for the NES Star Trek game where you have to win the communicator back in a game of Fizzbin.

Other ones to check would be the various visitors from outside the Milky Way Galaxy. Like the ones from TOS that was turning everyone into little cubes (Kelvans), the creators of the World Eater from TOS, the creators of the telepathic spaceship that was lonely and wanted a crew in TNG, the ornithoids, the Nacene (caretakers from Voyager), the species at the center of the MilkyWay that made Barkley super intelligent. and so many others. So many various species to follow up on.

I would have liked to see an episode of Next Generation where they arrive at Sigma Iotia 2 and find what would appear to be a 23 century Federation starbase .

My fantasy on the Caretaker planet would be to get an A in Physics and Calculus when I was in college at age 19.

The other borgs in the out reaches of space got fired by the borg queen. They could go home but the funds required to get them there came out their last check

Sean makes the “Keeping up with the Cardassians” joke and I simultaneously felt a bit of my respect for him die and was reminded of the trainer from Fitness Together who used to talk nerd stuff with me while I worked out. I fell out of contact with him a couple of years after he and his family moved to Maine. I miss you Luke, you and your dumb jokes.

The nanite planet is probably the most important planet to check on

What about 'Nagilum' which appears to be a a living, conscious pocket of space which I always felt was a bit like 'Ego the Living Planet' from Marvel comics. I'd be really curious and worried what that giant baby-face alien space dude is doing, concrened that the entire area is probably best flagged as a no-fly zone!!!

You just wrote the ep list for the next seasons of LD and SNW.

Just a simple reading on the novels would put most of these questions to rest. Example Cardassians have rebuilt their world under Gareck's leadership and applied for membership to the Federation

One of the reasons I loved Star Trek Online is that before all of these new shows came out, the game filled in a lot of mysteries from the old shows.

That planet that rotates almost once per second in “Blink of an eye” visited by Voyager should also be worth revisiting to see their progress

I think it would be interesting to see if the Federation left Cardassia to its own fate and seeing the repercussions of that. Maybe they couldn’t convince enough admirals in Starfleet to forgive and forget after such massive starfleet losses due to the dominion war. While Garak being in charge sounds fun for a bit, the best Garak is one who succeeds as the underdog and/or under tremendous pressure. Perhaps put him in charge at the end of an arc or adventure we get to see.

Beta III, Eminiar VII, and Minos all seem really worth checking in on.

What about the planet from Voyager that was stuck in a faster time variant that made decades pass in seconds to the Voyager crew?

During the Xindi arc, when Daniels shows Archer the Enterprise-J, he mentions it has Xindi crewmen, so they almost certainly joined the Federation at some point or another and are getting along just fine. Star Trek Online runs with this and has them contribute personnel and ships to the Iconian war effort; the Xindi-Reptillian's attack ship and the Xindi-Aquatic's carrier are usable by players. There's various mutually exclusive material that follows up on the parasites, too. STO has them as agents of the Iconians. And, of course, STO also does a follow-up on the Iconions themselves, where Picard turns out to have been _very_ wrong about them suffering a case of being treated unfairly through the "history is written by the winners" effect, although it gets rather complicated. The reference in the video doesn't mention that they're behind everything for many _years_ of the game's content.

I'm disappointed you didn't mention the planet Organia. I've always wondered what became of them after they imposed peace between the Klingons and the Federation--a peace that was oddly overlooked in DS9 more than a few times. I know the Organians made a few appearances in Star Trek novels.

What about the planet of Dr Soongs creations in Picard? After all; a Borg cube crashed on it.

I'm kind of surprised there wasn't even a nod to the salamanders in some of the Foundry episodes in STO after the conduit to the Delta Quadrant was opened.

Man! We SHOULD check on Cardassia prime! We neen more shows about the post Dominion war time in Star Trek! Forget all this prequel stuff! Kirk,Spock,Archer and Pike have that stuff handled!😎

Azati Prime is shown in completely the wrong place according to everything I have seen previously with ST maps. That area shown is smack in between the Romulan Empire, the Klingon Empire, and the developing federation when the Expanse should be on the other side of Sector 001, more off in the boonies away from the other great powers (on the upper left of the map shown at 2:08). That’s what every previous map I’ve seen shows.

don't forget the Skagaren planet where humans had been forcibly settled in the episode "North Star".

I think the Q stayed out of the affairs of Earth for so long due, at least in part, to the Temporal Cold War everyone got drawn into. I say this because some of Q's best lessons to Picard involved the non-linearity of time. This truly goes a long way towards opening the minds of later generations... Right in time for the Temporal Cold War to start to rear its ugly head. And as an aside, I fear for Guinan's health once the Cold War REALLY gets going.

The planet from dear doctor so we can get some closure on phlox's decision

Another one that I'll throw into the ring is Teplan, since while the blight was wiped out in subsequent generations it's still extant in the current generation. And Julian made it very clear that he still intended to find a cure to the blight in the current generation and it'd be nice to get a follow up on that

The star trek that I've wanted to see ever since TNG ended was the romulan side of things during the TNG era. That's a star trek I'd watch.

Useful for the next time I run a Trek RPG. I included the Xindi in my last campaign.

I always thought that the Cerritos should second contact Kavis Alpha IV, the planet the Federation gave the nanites to. I mean, they went from bug to sentient in 24 hours. What have they done in 20 years? It would be a great reason to get Gates McFadden and Wil Wheaton on the show too.

What place I would like to visit again is the planet Miri from the episode of the same name. They never actually explained why it was an identical copy of earth circa 1960 in main canon (Beta canon says it was earth's solar system pulled through from another universe) but it would be nice to know how the planet of immortal children are faring. Have they adopted federation technology from the teachers (and truant officers) Kirk sent them? Would the Prime Directive apply to them then? they don't really have a civilization left to affect?

great line of thought!

I would love to see some resolution on the origin of the Bluegill creatures. I'm still interested. 😆

FunFact - there were two mentions of what happend on Sigma Iotia II in the 1980s - in the StarTrek comics, the communicator was returned to McCoy by one of the gangsters when the Iotians "handed" in the federation's cut. However, in the StarTrek RPG (I forget which source book)- the Iotian's were visted after the incident and thier societ greatly resembled that of the Federation based on the communicator left behind. I believe they petitioned for admission into the Federation. I wish I can say more precesisely, but I sold those books and comics in the early 1990s.

On a note Shoreleave planet disappeared by the 24th century. It's been noted it could have left because it wants to experience other galaxies.

*Definitely* Riza 😏

No contact with the Q and no reported contact with the Q are not the same thing, It's also not unimaginable to think the Q could simply wipe the memories of those they encounter if they wish to remain in the shadows.

Not sure if it was mentioned, but the Bluegills were nicely expanded upon in Star Trek Online and I felt their creation story and lore were rather ingenious. As with Iconia and the Borg Cooperative.

I would not mind seeing a follow-up for the Ocampa, the Delta Quadrant's fishbowl. Did Kes go back home and help repair the damage to her planet, thereby saving a doomed species? Are they all able to use their mental abilities like her and the others they were in contact with during 'Fury'? Can the females of the world create more than one offspring? As written the Ocampa were at a genetic dead-end. Were they able to repel the Kazon at all?

My curiosity lies with the planet in Eye of the Needle from Voyager, it was out of sync with the universe so development was massively fast, surely worth a visit (or maybe they can visit the Alfa Quadrant)

Checking in on various planets is definitely something they need to do. Like, oh, if someone had swung by Ceti Alpha V, a lot of trouble would have been avoided.

Gotta visit Talos IV and see how Pike and Vina are getting along!

I figured that Section 31 check up on some of these like Azati prime because they do take security rather seriously 😐

think about it i would watch a Series about klingon pest control. A intergalatic spinoff of the famous german series "Der Tatortreiniger" (The Cleaner)

Aldea (aka Epsilon Mynos III) from *TNG* episode _'When the Bough Breaks'_ should be checked on, too.

And by the 32nd century there was a mention of "Survivors of the Iconian Empire during the build up to searching of the 10C species.

I know Star Trek Online isn't cannon, but it should be. The story arcs on that game are beautiful from the True Way Cardassians, Alpha Quadrant Jem Hadar, the Klingon Civil War, The Hur'q invasion, Omega Particles and Dyson Spheres all over the place, and of course, The majesty of the entire Iconian saga. So many loose ends from the various series are addressed, and the Iconian war pretty much tied together the entire fictional universe under a single story line that included Captain Nog, The Klingon Khaless clone Emperor, Tasha's daughter Sela, and so many others. I love everything about that game all the way down to the memorial plaque on the Mezzanine at Earth Spacedock with the names of all of the Star Trek actors that have died.

Sigma iotia 2 was revisited. In the Star Trek nes game. You wind up getting McCoy's communicator back. 😉

While I ❤ Loqer Decks, i always thought a more serious series dealing with second contact or follow-up visits would be fun. However the powers that run Star Trej seemed determined to leave money on the table, just like no Sulu series, no Worf series, no Temperal War series, and still no Legacy series.

I would have liked the USS Discovery visit Malcoria and Mintaka 3.

I'd add System 892 (Bread and Circuses, ToS), Ekos and Zeon (Patterns of Force, ToS), and Gamma Trianguli VI (The Apple, ToS) as candidates for that list. As a pre-warp civilization System 892 might be off limits, but being observed remotely. Ekos and Zeon, are/were early interplanetary/warp-threshold civilizations, and Ekos is a 'contaminated world' in a cultural sense (Severe Prime Directive Violation). A follow up might be enlightening as they possibly attempt to join the Federation (24th Century). A possibly a visit to a near-warp Zeon, in the time of 'Strange New Worlds' might also be possible, unaware of the upcoming events underway on Ekos, caused by John Gill. Gamma Trianguli VI, we saw these folks in a cameo in 'I Have no Bones, Yet I Must Flee' (St:LD), might be interesting, as by the 24th Century they seem to be Federation Members? A visit and a recap of history, and maybe an explanation of Vaal might be interesting. Was the vile computer god a relic of a previous era of the planet's civilization, or was it an overseer for a lost colony, or something else entirely?

Following up on dangling plot threads could become a whole series 😅

A piece of the action is my favorite Star trek episode

Solais V, Minara II and a visit to Betazed would be on my list of must visits for updates. I would even like to see a ship manned by these extra sensory gifted people. Why should Marvel be the lone entity supporting the Deaf or perceptive?

8 was a dropped plot line, brought about by the writers strike of 1988 and the reimagining of the “big bad” that the signal was going to, into the Borg. Originally, what became the Borg, were supposed to be insect like creatures who had an insect hive mind. They used the parasites in #8 to infiltrate and weaken enemy forces from within. However, they brought in new writers & they weren’t allowed to use any specific characters/creatures the original writers came up with, so the were changed into the Borg we all know now.

#2: They did mention Iconian survivors in Discovery season 4