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Wagon Train to the Stars doesn't work so well on the big screen. The closest they got was probably Star Trek the Motion Picture....and that was kind of boring.
I don't know if they could pull off a non-adventure Star Trek that didn't have a big bad guy for a feature film. Nearly two hours for a exploration of the human condition film in space likely wouldn't sell tickets, not would they be able to justify the budget for the effects and actors. Something like "A Private Little War", "Return to Tomorrow", or "The Mark of Gideon" would probably not go over well in a theater. There are others that have more action and not a real big bad "The Enterprise Incident" or "A Piece of the Action" that were popular for one reason or another.
One of the most popular would be "City on the Edge of Forever", which is basically a love story. A tragic love story really.
And of course "The Trouble with Tribbles". They did manage to make Star Trek IV The Voyage Home a comedy film, so that is possible. It did sort of turn Mr. Scott into the comic relief instead of the wizard engineer he'd been before that who'd just as soon blast a Klingon than drink with him (though he might do that too).
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