I know the mythical "facts" of this are off, but I had this idea earlier.
We open up to a swirling cloud of vapor around a bright, yellow object, on the outter edge of which is a dim, reddish, light source. A caption comes up and says, "Solar System... 4.6 Billion Years Ago"
The camera moves around as the swirling gases and vapors eventualy coalesce into the vaugely familiar versions of our planets and moons. The camera pulls way out beyond A forming, (right side up) Neptune and the Dwarfs to that dim reddish light source which seems to shrink into itself into a black "hole" in space and "orbits" out of view. (Obvious the timescale/rate in this opening sequence is accelerated.)
Flash forward to "today" (Which, of course, in the context of the Trek movies at the time is the late 24th century) and an establishing shot of Starfleet Command. "Solar System. San Francisco, North Ameirca. Earth - 2379.
A tensed and huffy Admiral rushes into a large office and tells the head of Starfleet, "Sir. I think it's happening." Cut to later, in walks Picard and Riker and greet the Admiral and the head of SF who corgily invites them to sit down and lays it out.
"For centuries scientists have anticpated, searched for, and believed that there was a sister dwarf star to The Sun informally called "Nemesis" orbiting our solar system in the furtherst reaches of it, nearly a light year from here in the Oort Cloud. For almost that same length of time other scientists have laughed at and mocked the idea." The next bit is enhanced with a 3D holographic in the middle of the room. "In 2215 we found Nemesis with some of the earliest quantum-resolution subspace scanners. Nemesis is a very rare, and very unusual dark star, invisible to the naked eye but it has the mass of neutron star all of that mass seems to be burried in subspace -or some form of it- which is why it cannot be easily detected. That mass is about to emerge out of subspace into normal space. When that happens it's mass will drasticly unbalance the gravitational forces of the Sol system, the result could be a new bianary star system. A fascinating prospect if we didn't have nearly 5 billion lives living in it."
Picard and Riker look on in horror, surprise and shock.
"Jean-Luc. The mission we're going to put you on is not only highly dangerous, but perhaps the most important one in Earth's history since Jim Kirk traveled back in time nearly 100 years ago to respond to an alien probe."
"Your mission is to travel to this planet," (more on the holo-overhead/whatever) "A six-month journey just beyond the edge of Federation space and close to Romulan territory, where lies a hostile war-raveged planet which we believe has the technology we need to prevent Nemesis from emerging, technology that'll make the Omega Particle look as harmless as oxygen. Aquire that -anyway you can. Diplomacy is best, force may be required, and since you have to cross the Neutral Zone and skirt by Romulan terrirotry you may encoutner resistance there as well. Which is why we've outfitted the Enterprise with a Federation Cloaking Device." (Note: It's not a phase-cloak.)
And this, so far, is about as far as I thought.
Thoughts?
Changes?
Additions?
We open up to a swirling cloud of vapor around a bright, yellow object, on the outter edge of which is a dim, reddish, light source. A caption comes up and says, "Solar System... 4.6 Billion Years Ago"
The camera moves around as the swirling gases and vapors eventualy coalesce into the vaugely familiar versions of our planets and moons. The camera pulls way out beyond A forming, (right side up) Neptune and the Dwarfs to that dim reddish light source which seems to shrink into itself into a black "hole" in space and "orbits" out of view. (Obvious the timescale/rate in this opening sequence is accelerated.)
Flash forward to "today" (Which, of course, in the context of the Trek movies at the time is the late 24th century) and an establishing shot of Starfleet Command. "Solar System. San Francisco, North Ameirca. Earth - 2379.
A tensed and huffy Admiral rushes into a large office and tells the head of Starfleet, "Sir. I think it's happening." Cut to later, in walks Picard and Riker and greet the Admiral and the head of SF who corgily invites them to sit down and lays it out.
"For centuries scientists have anticpated, searched for, and believed that there was a sister dwarf star to The Sun informally called "Nemesis" orbiting our solar system in the furtherst reaches of it, nearly a light year from here in the Oort Cloud. For almost that same length of time other scientists have laughed at and mocked the idea." The next bit is enhanced with a 3D holographic in the middle of the room. "In 2215 we found Nemesis with some of the earliest quantum-resolution subspace scanners. Nemesis is a very rare, and very unusual dark star, invisible to the naked eye but it has the mass of neutron star all of that mass seems to be burried in subspace -or some form of it- which is why it cannot be easily detected. That mass is about to emerge out of subspace into normal space. When that happens it's mass will drasticly unbalance the gravitational forces of the Sol system, the result could be a new bianary star system. A fascinating prospect if we didn't have nearly 5 billion lives living in it."
Picard and Riker look on in horror, surprise and shock.
"Jean-Luc. The mission we're going to put you on is not only highly dangerous, but perhaps the most important one in Earth's history since Jim Kirk traveled back in time nearly 100 years ago to respond to an alien probe."
"Your mission is to travel to this planet," (more on the holo-overhead/whatever) "A six-month journey just beyond the edge of Federation space and close to Romulan territory, where lies a hostile war-raveged planet which we believe has the technology we need to prevent Nemesis from emerging, technology that'll make the Omega Particle look as harmless as oxygen. Aquire that -anyway you can. Diplomacy is best, force may be required, and since you have to cross the Neutral Zone and skirt by Romulan terrirotry you may encoutner resistance there as well. Which is why we've outfitted the Enterprise with a Federation Cloaking Device." (Note: It's not a phase-cloak.)
And this, so far, is about as far as I thought.
Thoughts?
Changes?
Additions?
