Undeveloped Star Trek episodes

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Numerous undeveloped Star Trek episodes were written for various Star Trek series that were submitted or developed for production, but for various reasons never aired, as was the case with several other undeveloped Star Trek projects.

Star Trek is..., the very first series outline, listed a number of short ideas for episodes, some of which were later worked out. David Gerrold presents his case of failed story, outline or script submittals during his early attempts to write for Star Trek: The Original Series. These outlines were later presented in his book The Trouble with Tribbles.

James Van Hise further explored in his book, Trek: The Unauthorized Behind-The-Scenes Story of The Next Generation, several other unfilmed or unproduced episodes written for Star Trek: The Next Generation, most notably the controversial episode, written by Gerrold, entitled "Blood and Fire".

Further episodes can be found at Star Trek: Phase II.

The Original Series

Aladdin's Asteroid

Step outline by Robert Barry dated 22 May 1967.

The Aurorals

Story outlines by Frank Paris dated 13 June 1968 and 20 June 1968.

Bandi

"Bandi" was a story premise written by David Gerrold that he submitted in February 1967. [1]

Gerrold adapted his story for the third volume of Star Trek: The Manga.

Though Gerrold later speculated that Kirk would instead temporarily take command of another starship to investigate reports of laxity, his outline primarily set it aboard the Enterprise. Kirk discovers there's a mascot smuggled aboard by a crewmember; the creature, named Bandi, has an empathic ability to cause sympathy for it. Kirk wants it confined but Bandi always gets out by persuasive empathy to a crew member nearby. When a crewmember dies because of a distraction caused by Bandi, Kirk wants it off the ship; Bandi turns the crew against Kirk, but once Spock kills Bandi, the crew snaps out of it. This behavior by the crew led Gerrold to speculate Kirk temporarily commanding another ship where the problem happens. Gerrold also said if the outline sold, he'd come up with a better name than Bandi. Nevertheless, the name was later reused for "Encounter at Farpoint", the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The Beast

Story outline by Marc Daniels dated 1 July 1968.

BEM

Story outlines by David Gerrold dated 14 March 1968 and 4 April 1968.

Beware of Gryptons Bearing Gifts

Story outline by David P. Harmon dated 16 April 1968.

Dead Man's Shoes

"Dead Man's Shoes" would have been about a planet of assassins. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 28)

The Deadliest Game

"The Deadliest Game" was once described by Robert Justman as "playing aboard the Mary Celeste on a quest for the treasure of Sierra Madre, which is a fountain of youth located on a hell planet!" (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 28)

Destination: Infinity

Story outline by Robert Barry dated 30 March 1967.

For They Shall Inherit

Undated story outline by Jerome Bixby.

The Forbidden

Undated story outline by science fiction writer Hank Stine.

The Forces

Undated story outline by Charles Parker.

The Forseeable Future

Story outlines by Jean Lisette Aroeste dated 22 August 1968 and 16 September 1968.

From the First Day To The Last

Undated draft outline by unknown author.

The Fuzzies

"The Fuzzies", later titled "A Fuzzy Thing Happened to Me...", was written by David Gerrold and submitted in February 1967. This episode would later evolve into "The Trouble with Tribbles". [2]

The Godhead

"The Godhead" was written by John Meredyth Lucas. Outlines dated 15 March 1968, 17 April 1968, and 7 November 1968. [3]

Happy Birthday to You

"Happy Birthday to You" was an abandoned Star Trek episode. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 28)

He Walked Among Us

"He Walked Among Us" was a script written by Gene L. Coon and Norman Spinrad for TOS Season 2. Story outlines dated 12 May 1967, 17 May 1967, and 18 May 1967. The first draft was dated 25 July 1967, and a later draft dated 28 September 1967.

The story involves a Federation health food nut taking over a planet, so flagrantly breaking the Prime Directive that Kirk can't ignore him. He has set himself up as a god, refuses to depart from the planet when asked to and has so tightly woven himself into the planet's society that Kirk is unable to force him to leave without completely disrupting the society himself.

Norman Spinrad was originally asked to write the story as a vehicle for Milton Berle, who expressed interest in appearing on Star Trek.The story was ultimately rewritten by Gene L. Coon. Unhappy with the result, Spinrad asked Gene Roddenberry to discard it. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 24)

Image Of The Beast

Story outline by science fiction writer Philip José Farmer dated 27 March 1966. Though he may or may not have reworked the Star Trek proposal for this, Farmer would subsequently publish the dark erotic science fiction/horror novel also entitled Image of the Beast.

Joanna

"Joanna" was written by Dorothy Fontana, as the first episode to feature Joanna McCoy, the daughter of Leonard McCoy. The outline was submitted 27 August 1968 and was later heavily rewritten to become "The Way to Eden". [4] The original story featured Joanna coming aboard the Enterprise and having a romantic fling with Kirk, causing major conflict between Dr. McCoy and Kirk, and Dr. McCoy and his daughter. [5]

Journey To Reolite

Story outline by Alfred Brenner dated 18 April 1966.

The Joy Machine

Story outlines by Theodore Sturgeon dated 16 May 1967 and 23 June 1967. First draft teleplay by Meyer Dolinsky dated 21 October 1968. This script was later novelized under the same title, The Joy Machine, by James Gunn in 1996.

The Land of Counter-Pain

"The Land of Counter-Pain" was an abandoned Star Trek episode. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 28)

The Lost Star

"The Lost Star" was written by John Meredyth Lucas. It was outlined on 24 June 1967. [6]

Machines Are Better

Story outline by veteran science fiction writer A.E. Van Vogt dated 29 March 1967.

The Machine That Went too Far

"The Machine That Went too Far" was an abandoned Star Trek episode. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 29)

Mere Shadows

Story outline by Philip Jose Farmer dated 26 March 1966.

Miss Gulliver

"Miss Gulliver" was to have been about a woman who grew to gigantic proportions due to an accident related to an unsuccessful experiment in regrowing limbs. At the episode's conclusion, her lover also underwent the experiment, so that he too could undergo massive growth, and the couple were left to found a planet of giants. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 29)

Mission Into Chaos

"Mission Into Chaos" was written by David P. Harmon and Gene L. Coon, with the first draft dated 28 September 1967. This episode would be heavily rewritten to become TOS: "A Piece of the Action". [7]

Mother Tiger

Undated draft by Jerome Bixby

The Orchard People

Story outline by Catherine Turney and John Collier dated 3 April 1967.

Pandora's Box

Story Outline 29 August 1967 by Daniel Louis Aubry.

The Pastel Terror

"The Pastel Terror" written by Larry Niven. This story was never submitted but would be published in the fanzine Apa-L in 1971 and in the fanzine T-Negative 17 in 1972. [8]

Perchance To Dream

"Perchance To Dream" was written by J.M. Winston, outlined 28 June 1969.

The Protracted Man

"The Protracted Man" was written by David Gerrold and submitted February 1967. [9]

Although warp drive allows speedy travel, it still involves travel over immense distances; Starfleet is participating in a test of a space warp corridor that will take seconds to cross several light years. The Enterprise will wait at the exit point to recover the shuttlecraft being piloted through. However, something goes wrong, the shuttle can't exit, and the pilot is beamed out from within the warp corridor. The pilot, however, is protracted: three visual representations - each of a different color (e.g. blue, red, yellow) - move a fraction of a second apart when the man is moving; his voice is similarly garbled by a separation in time; the pilot is drawing energy from the Enterprise to maintain himself. The protraction keeps increasing, particularly when the ship tries to move at warp speed to get to a point in space where all power can be shut down briefly to try to restore the pilot to normal. The transporter is used to reintegrate the man by dematerializing the multiple images then overlaying them.

Gerrold was inspired by a "protraction"-type sequence in West Side Story's theatrical release, wondering what the effect would suggest, then writing the script outline. In the West Side movie, the teens go to a dance, with the teens appearing in a similar way, though the walls of buildings stay solid and grim-looking, by combining the film colours out of synchronization.

Return To Eden

Story outlines by Alvin Boretz dated 9 May 1966 and 23 May 1966.

Rites Of Fertility

Story outline by Robert Sheckley dated 6 May 1966.

Rock-A-Bye Baby, Or Die!

Story outline by George Clayton Johnson dated 2 August 1966.

The Search For Eternity

Story outline by A.E. Van Vogt dated 11 April 1967.

The Shadow of Space

"The Shadow of Space" was written by Philip José Farmer in 1966. [10] The story involved the Enterprise traveling outside the universe. Farmer published a prose adaptation of the idea, under the same title, but with names changed from the Star Trek version for copyright reasons. The story first appeared in the science fiction magazine Worlds of If and subsequently in single author collection of Farmer's short fiction.

Shol

Story outlines by Darlene Hartman dated 24 June 1967, 15 July 1967, and 24 July 1967. First draft teleplay dated 23 August 1967.

Shore Leave II

Story outline by Theodore Sturgeon dated 24 April 1968.

Sister In Space

Story outline by Robert Sheckley dated 14 June 1966.

Skal

Undated outline by Jerome Bixby.

Sketches Among The Ruins of My Mind

"Sketches Among The Ruins of My Mind" was written by Philip José Farmer in 1966. As with his another proposal, "The Shadow of Space", Farmer later used the idea as the basis of a published short story, though in this case he removed all vestiges of its Star Trek origin. According to Farmer, Roddenberry found the idea too sophisticated for a general audience. [11]

Sleeping Beauty

Undated outline by Robert Bloch.

Space Moby Dick

"Space Moby Dick" would have involved the crew hunting a space-borne deadly monster through the galaxy. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 28) Obviously, the episode's name was most likely a working title, owing to its use of the name Moby Dick.

The Squaw

Step outline by Shimon Wincelberg dated 15 July 1966, revised outline dated 28 July 1966.

The Stars of Sargasso

"The Stars of Sargasso" was written by Dorothy Fontana. It had a draft date of 14 May 1969 and was intended for the undeveloped TOS Season 4. It was the second attempt to introduce Joanna McCoy.

The Surrender Of Planet X

Undated outline by Don Masselink.

The Takeover

"The Takeover" was an abandoned Star Trek episode. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 28)

Tomorrow the Universe

"Tomorrow the Universe" was written by Paul Schneider. The first draft was dated 1 March 1967 and was intended for TOS Season 2.

Tomorrow Was Yesterday

"Tomorrow Was Yesterday" was a sixty page outline written by David Gerrold in 1966, intended to be a two-part episode. Gerrold stated that he wrote the story as a two-parter for two reasons: a) "for more money" for him, and b) "it would have meant a greater spread of money in the budget for sets, costumes and actors."

According to Gene Coon, "Mr. Gerrold's outline was by no means inadequate. It is, as a matter of fact, very adequate." He further stated despite this, "to film the two-part story outlined here would probably cost $6-700,000" and that it was "too elaborate for television. What he has written is a good motion picture treatment for ideally a $2-3,000,000 picture."

Gerrold attempted to turn the outline in to a novel during the late 1960s, but he took the story into a different direction, retitling the manuscript as "Yesterday's Children," which was later published by Dell Books in July 1972, and later renamed "Starhunt." In 1980 he revisited his original story in the novel The Galactic Whirlpool. This story was completely unrelated to TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday".

The Enterprise comes upon a relic, a generation ship launched from Earth and long forgotten; the people on the ship have forgotten why they are aboard or that there is anything outside the ship's walls. There are two factions aboard fighting each other.

The Uncoiler

Story outlines by Philip Jose Farmer dated 1 April 1966 and 5 April 1966.

Untitled

The World of Star Trek revealed a story premise that DeForest Kelley had always wanted to see, featuring himself and Nichelle Nichols, described as "something where the two of us were thrown onto a planet where there was a great racial problem, only reversed. The fact that I am a Southerner and she is black, and that we're trapped on this planet together."

Gerrold added a footnote to Kelly's premise, stating: "As a matter of fact, the idea was one that very definitely had been considered. A script version had even been written. And rewritten. And rewritten. The story involved a planet where blacks were the masters and whites were the slaves, but either the premise was too touchy for television or nobody could quite make it work. The script never reached a form where Roddenberry or Coon wanted to put it into production."

The basis of this episode was probably a story premise in Roddenberry's 1964 proposal Star Trek is..., entitled Kongo, about a planet with the "Ole Plantation days" with reversed roles of blacks and whites.

The V.I.P.s

Undated story outline by Gene Lasser and Malachi Throne.

Warrior's World

Story outlines by Stephen Kandel dated 22 April 1965, 28 April 1965, and 7 May 1965.

The Well of Death

"The Well of Death" was an abandoned Star Trek episode. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 28)

The Next Generation

Blood and Fire

"Blood and Fire" was a controversial episode written by David Gerrold which involved allegedly gay characters and an allegory on AIDS. The rejection of this episode is what ultimately led to Gerrold leaving TNG. [12]

Gerrold later adapted and directed the script for the fan series Star Trek: Phase II. The episode also featured Denise Crosby.

Blood and Ice

"Blood and Ice" was Herb Wright's second draft of Gerrold's "Blood and Fire". Wright kept the same basic adventure, but removed the allegedly gay characters and the AIDS allegory, replacing them with zombie crewmen. Despite the rewrite, this version remained unfilmed as well.

The Bonding

"The Bonding" was written by Lee Maddux, draft dated 9 October 1987. It was completely unrelated to TNG: "The Bonding".

Children of the Light

"Children of the Light" was written by Michael Okuda

The Crystal Skull

"The Crystal Skull" was written by Patrick Barry

Dead On My Feet

"Dead On My Feet" was written by Richard Krzemien, draft date 19 November 1987. (The Making of the Next Generation From Script to Screen - Part Two)

Deadworld

"Deadworld" was written by James Van Hise in 1987. According to Van Hise:

"I wrote the story in 1987 at the behest of a mutual friend of Gerd Oswald. Oswald had directed a couple of Star Trek episodes in the sixties ("The Conscience of the King", "The Alternative Factor") and I'd spoken to him while he was directing an episode of the new Twilight Zone for CBS when I visited that studio in 1986. Oswald was looking for a story he could take to Paramount for The Next Generation which he could attach himself to as the director. He read this outline but rejected it as being "too depressing." I told my friend that Gerd, who was then in his seventies, was obviously a man who had never come to terms with his own mortality. Gerd Oswald died two years later of cancer."

Ferengi Gold

"Ferengi Gold" was a second season two-parter written by Gene Roddenberry. The story would have involved a combination of some of Roddenberry's favorite themes: alien worlds developing civilizations very similar to those of Earth, aliens (in this case, the Ferengi) utilizing superior technology to appear godly, attractive women appearing for no good reason, and the moral perfection of the Federation. The concept of Ferengi posing as gods would be used, years later, in "False Profits". (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 27)

The Hands of Time

"The Hands of Time" was written by Ken Glidin.

The Immunity Syndrome

"The Immunity Syndrome" was written by J.D. Kurtz. It was completely unrelated to TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome".

The Legacy

"The Legacy" was written by Paul Aratow. It was completely unrelated to TNG: "Legacy".

The Lost and the Lurking

"The Lost and the Lurking" was written by Robert Wesley.

Maxa Junda

"Maxa Junda" was written by Kevin L. Hing, draft dated 25 November 1991.

The May Fly

"The May Fly" was written by Richard Krzemien, draft date 1 October 1987. (The Making of the Next Generation From Script to Screen - Part Two)

The Neutral Zone

An unproduced Romulan story, also featuring aspects that made their way into "Too Short a Season", was entitled "The Neutral Zone". It was completely unrelated to the later "The Neutral Zone". Scripted by Greg Strangis, the story featured famous Starfleet security expert Billings, who, confined to a wheelchair and clearly distant and lonely, had led the mission which had rescued Natasha Yar from her brutal home world. Yet in spite of Yar's efforts to better make his acquaintance, he is completely oblivious to her attempts. Billings' mission is revealed in short order: the Enterprise is to take part in a trade negotiation which will involve, for the first time, the Romulan Empire. Picard's mission will be to get the Romulan delegates there, and Billings is on hand to assure that all goes well.

To implement this, he compiles a list of all Enterprise personnel who have had contact with Romulans, and orders that they be dropped off at a starbase for the duration of this sensitive mission. Ironically, this group includes inveterate Romulan-hater Worf, who Picard defends; Worf manages to remain on board, where he becomes involved in the obligatory Wesley subplot. Meanwhile, Beverly proposes an operation involving fluid drawn from Data's spine to help Billings who brusquely declines.

Romulan commander Gar, obviously against the accord he has been assigned to promote, beams aboard and dissension ensues. Matters grow complicated when the transporter malfunctions while the rest of the Romulan delegation is beaming over; after some tense moments, they are safely returned to their own ship, but Gar is less than pleased, especially when Data discovers a sabotaging device inside the transporter controls console.

Unfortunately for Wesley and Worf, their separate subplot took them, without authorization, into the transporter room; this does not bode well for them until Tasha turns up with security tapes, showing Gar inserting the device. The Romulan remains insouciant, claiming that the negotiations were leading to disaster anyway and that his actions were merely getting the problem out of the way quicker. With all this sorted out, Billings consents to Dr. Crusher's proposed operation, and is able to walk. (Trek: The Unauthorized Behind-The-Scenes Story of The Next Generation)

It is interesting to note that a passing reference by Picard to an engagement with a Romulan ship sometime in his career is inconsistent with the history of Romulan isolation as described in the actual episode.

The One and Lonely

"The One and Lonely" was written by Richard Krzemien, draft date 18 June 1987. (The Making of the Next Generation From Script to Screen - Part Two)

Q Makes Two

During the fifth and early sixth season of The Next Generation, the writing staff struggled with two premises using Q that were both ultimately rejected, leading to an unintentional season-long absence of the recurring antagonist.

In "Q Makes Two", Q would have duplicated the Enterprise and the crew according to some uniform characteristic. Brannon Braga recalled, "There was a sense of doom from the moment we started 'Q Makes Two.' I think we broke it three times. René wrote two drafts and it was ultimately abandoned. It's an interesting notion that Q comes onboard and Picard's saying people are inherently good and we have managed to get rid of our darker elements in the 24th century and we're better people. Q says, 'So you don't think you have dark components and you think you're better without them, well I'm going to show you a thing or two,' and so he extracts the darker components and puts them into doubles. The clean, good components suffer and so do the darker components and neither functions without the other. We see that dramatically, but for some reason we made it more complex than it needed to be. It's a show that could still work. The image in my mind that we never really got to was the two Enterprises shooting at each other, that's what you want to see."

Jeri Taylor added, "'Q Makes Two' was a debacle and it plunged us into a nightmare of having to get "Man of the People" ready." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)

According to Taylor, the idea of splitting a starship in two would later inspire the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Deadlock". (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)

The plot also notably resembles the original series episode "The Enemy Within", except with the entire crew duplicated, rather than just the captain.

I.Q. Test

In the other scrapped premise, entitled "I.Q. Test", Q would have had a wager against another member of the Q Continuum that would have led to a deadly contest between the crew and the Zaa-Naar, a dangerous alien race. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 27) In fact, Q would have used the crew in a sort of Olympics against the other Q, and the Zaa-Naar would have been the other Q's chosen race of supermen. (AOL chat, 1998) The episode was based on a story by a new writer and involved input from Herbert J. Wright. (Star Trek Monthly issue 26, p. 27) However, the story was scrapped on account of Michael Piller. Ronald D. Moore later remarked, "In defense of Michael, the Q-Olympics story was ludicrous and needed to be deep-sixed." (AOL chat, 1998)

Despite rumors that Arnold Schwarzenegger would have appeared in the episode, Ronald D. Moore clarified, "There was never -- ever -- any chance that Arnold was going to appear on the show." (AOL chat, 1998)

Shattered Time

"Shattered Time" was written by Eric A. Stillwell, first draft dated 8 August 1988.

See Spot Run

"See Spot Run" was written by Michael Halperin.

Somewhen

"Somewhen" was written by Vanna Bonta.

The USS Enterprise-D received a distress call from the transport ship Pleides which got caught in the Docleic-Triangle, a space version of the Bermuda Triangle. The Enterprise followed the distress call and went into this area of space, filled by several energy rings. While passing each energy ring, a different time continuum was created. The changes during these leaps in time include a living Jack Crusher who served as first officer to a beard wearing Captain Jean-Luc Picard and a different Geordi La Forge, who can see, has a wife and three children, and never joined Starfleet.

Data is the only crewmember who realized all these changes and convinced Captain Picard that the Enterprise should leave this area of space because of a nearby ion storm. Aboard the Pleides no one answered the hailings. While travelling back through the leaps of time, Doctor Beverly Crusher decided to stay in one of the created alternate timelines and following Wesley Crusher was never born. The Enterprise went back to the timeline and Captain Picard convinced Dr. Crusher to return with the crew. (Das Star Trek Universum, Band 2)

Terminus

"Terminus" was a story written by Philip and Eugene Price, revised by Robert Lewin and Dorothy Fontana. It featured a character that was later re-conceived as Lore.

Two Yuffs Two Many

"Two Yuffs Two Many" was written by Richard Krzemien, draft date 9 July 1992. (The Making of the Next Generation From Script to Screen - Part Two)

Untitled environmental story

Following his work on "Transfigurations", René Echevarria was asked by Michael Piller to work on an environmental story for the show. Echevarria recalled, "I came up with something for which I wrote many, many drafts, but it never got off the ground. Towards the end of that process, he said he had a script that he wanted me to write. It involved every environmental story that people had done and seemed fairly obvious. They in fact commissioned a teleplay that was literally smokestacks, and it would have been very obvious to the audience that it was the cause of the blindness and mutations in a tribe that was kept on a little island called the Island of Tears. They were kept there, hidden from view, in order for the rest of the society to be able to maintain its mode of production, which was highly exploitive and environmentally unsound. The audience would have guessed at the end of the first act what was going on. What I came up with was a Federation colony that mined dilithium and they're natives to the planet. The twist was that what was causing the problems were these organisms that had evolved in the presence of electromagnetic fields of dilithium. Its removal was creating mutations." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)

Deep Space Nine

Day at Quark's

Ronald D. Moore pitched an episode that would have revolved around an entire day at Quark's. (AOL chat, 1999)

Dysfunctional

Ezri secretly arranges to have the Dax symbiont removed. (SFX: The Essential Guide to Deep Space Nine) [13]

Klingon Hell

Ron Moore's original concept for DS9: "Soldiers of the Empire" was for Worf and the crew of the Rotarran to enter Gre'thor. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion). While ultimately unused in DS9, this concept was later developed into VOY: "Barge of the Dead". (AOL chat, 1999)

Voyager

Biomimetic Lifeforms' Homecoming

A story that was under consideration by the writing staff of Star Trek: Voyager involved "Silver Blood" duplicates of the USS Voyager's crew, biomimetic lifeforms that would ultimately appear in the episodes "Demon" and "Course: Oblivion". The undeveloped plot would have featured the duplicates somehow completing the journey to the Alpha Quadrant and arriving, amid great fanfare, at Deep Space 9. Jeri Taylor explained, "Everybody thinks that Voyager is home and there are celebrations, and they see their loved ones, etcetera, etcetera. And it turns out to be an invasion or a dark plot of some kind." According to the book Star Trek: Action!, the story was never scripted but was repeatedly considered, being devised at the end of Voyager's third season (although replaced with the two-parter "Scorpion" and "Scorpion, Part II") and considered as a potentially usable but unlikely fourth season finale towards the end of that season (on 2 February 1998, specifically – shortly before the writing of the actual fourth season finale, "Hope and Fear"). Jeri Taylor commented, "The more we discussed it, the more we thought that once they go home, even if it isn't really our characters, well, it undercuts whatever will happen when the real crew actually does get home. Which we do intend to have happen." (Star Trek: Action!, pp. 5 & 6)

Enterprise

Pulp-fiction-like story

According to Linda Park in Star Trek: Communicator issue 147, Connor Trinneer pitched a story similar to Pulp Fiction, told from the perspective of aliens. The Enterprise NX-01 crew would speak gibberish until they found a way to communicate.

William Shatner two-parter

During the fourth season there were efforts to put William Shatner in an episode. (Inside the Mirror Episodes, ENT Season 4 DVD special features). At the Grand Slam XIII Star Trek convention in March 2005, executive producer Manny Coto recalled, "We had talked about doing a mirror universe episode ever since we got into Season 4. But then we had the possibility of getting William Shatner. Coincidentally, the Reeves-Stevens [Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who had worked with Shatner on several Star Trek novels] were a pair of writers whom I desperately wanted to bring on the show. And they, it turned out, had an idea for a mirror universe two-parter which would feature the return of William Shatner." Shatner himself pitched the story concept to executive producers Manny Coto, Brannon Braga and Rick Berman over lunch. At the convention, Garfield Reeves-Stevens explained, "The idea was that the Tantalus field was not a disintegrator, it was a humane way of dealing with prisoners, by sending them back in time to a sealed penal colony. Enterprise (NX-01) comes upon the colony – and Tiberius [mirror-Kirk] is there. Tiberius thinks, 'Finally, a ship with a transporter – I can get back to my own universe, my own time.' He basically goes on the NX-01, gets to the transporter, sets it to go back to the mirror universe – the mirror universe doesn't exist." "It hasn't been created yet," Judith Reeves-Stevens added. Garfield continued, "So Tiberius and Archer work together to figure out where the division point is between the universes, what point that one split off into the other. And as it turns out, Tiberius and Archer together are responsible for the creation of the mirror universe." The story idea was well received by Coto, Berman and Braga. However, Berman then pitched an alternative concept, this one having been devised by Mike Sussman. The idea was totally unrelated to the mirror universe and involved Shatner playing Enterprise's Chef. As Shatner and Paramount were unable to reach an agreement, the plans to have him included in the series were discarded. Template:Brokenlink. However, the desire to visit the mirror universe remained, and resulted in the production "In a Mirror, Darkly".

Colonel Green story

An emblem which the producers hoped to link to Colonel Green

During the fourth season, Manny Coto wanted to do a story featuring colonel Green (with Peter Weller as Green). In the words of Judith Reeves-Stevens, "it's lunch was eaten by the Soong", or in other words, it became hard to do another story featuring genetically engineered humans. Both Green and Weller were later seen in "Demons". ("Terra Prime" audio commentary)

One detail that would have featured in the episode was a flag first seen on Q's World War III uniform seen in "Encounter at Farpoint", which would have been tied to Green's faction. A flag featuring the emblem was produced for "In a Mirror, Darkly", with the hope that it could be reused, but this never came to pass. [14]

Mars independence story

During the fourth season, Manny Coto wanted to make an episode dealing with the Fundamental Declarations of the Martian colonies. The audio commentary for "Terra Prime" described it as a sort of Cuban Missile Crisis on Mars, with the comets used for terraforming the planet being aimed at Earth. The story never materialized, but the idea of comets being used for terraforming mars found it's way into "Demons".

Porthos stories

In a special features for ENT Season 4 DVD, André Bormanis claimed that many ideas for Porthos episodes have been pitched. These included Porthos becoming intelligent, Porthos being the only member of the crew that can communicate with a canine alien, and even Porthos having to take command of the ship. Bormanis suggested that these stories weren't made in part because they didn't want Porthos stealing the show. Given the generally humorous tone of the segment, it might be that Bormanis was merely making these pitches up.

In addition, Breezy's handler claimed, in the segment, that he had suggested a story in which Porthos changes sex in a transporter accident, so to explain why the male Porthos was played by a female dog.

Enterprise season 5 ideas

As Star Trek: Enterprise was officially canceled on 2 February 2005, its fifth season was never produced. The series' producers, however, had already devised plans for future seasons, which could have begun to air by September 2005. Most information is based on comments by producer Manny Coto.

At the 2009 VegasCon, Coto suggested that two story arcs of the season would have been to show "origins of the Federation" and "whispers of the Romulan war". Consequently, the Romulans would be the major villains of the season, although other species may have appeared in the mini-arcs. Brannon Braga noted that he and Rick Berman had considered making "Future Guy" a Romulan. [15]

Manny Coto has also said, had the series been given a fifth season, the recurring character of Shran may have joined the Enterprise as an "auxiliary or an advisor" [16] [17]

Kzinti story

Proposed design of a 22nd century Kzinti starship

A Kzinti episode had been suggested which would have served as a prequel to TAS: "The Slaver Weapon". The concept progressed as far as a "rough rendering" of a Kzinti starship which writer Jimmy Diggs commissioned. The story was provisionally titled "Kilkenny Cats." [18]

First starbase

Plans existed for an episode showing the construction of the first starbase, most likely in the Berengaria system. Foreshadowing as to this had already given in "Bound". Template:Brokenlink

Stratos story

The Enterprise was due to visit Stratos, showing the split-up of its society as depicted in TOS: "The Cloud Minders"

Enterprise was due to revisit (or actually previsit) the cloud city Stratos on Ardana. The episode would have shown the formation of the two castes seen in TOS: "The Cloud Minders". Template:Brokenlink

Mirror Universe story

Revisiting the mirror universe and possibly featuring Hoshi Sato as Empress of the Terran Empire was discussed for Season 5.

Revisits to the mirror universe and Hoshi Sato, now Empress of the Terran Empire, had also been discussed. At the 2009 VegasCon, Coto revealed that one idea was to spread four or five episodes through the season, as a kind of "mini-series inside a series". He said that it was his "big regret" that he had not managed to follow through on the idea. [19]

Borg Queen origin story

Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens pitched a story with Alice Krige as a Starfleet medical technician who makes contact with the Borg from Season 2's ("Regeneration") and becomes the Borg Queen. [20]

T'Pol's father

Writer/producer Mike Sussman hoped to have T'Pol finally meet her father, and reveal to the audience that he was in fact a Romulan agent who had posed as a Vulcan officer prior to faking his own death. The suggestion that T'Pol was half-Romulan would have shed light on her affinity for Humans as well as her interest in experimenting with emotions. (Undeveloped Star Trek episodes at StarTrek.com, Information provided by Mike Sussman)

Flint story

According to Entertainment Weekly, a there was an episode "on the drawing board" to reportedly have featured Flint, under a previous alias, coming into contact with the crew of the Enterprise. The episode never made it to a script write, but initial storyboard ideas suggested a confirmation of Flint's alias of Abramson as a famous Earth scientist with possible connections to Flint knowing either (or both) Henry Archer and Zefram Cochrane. The episode would have ended with some type of discovery of Flint's nature by Phlox, leading to Flint's negative views on discussing his background with anyone, thus avoiding the "disaster of intervention" that he mentioned later in the TOS episode.

Other ideas

In a 2009 interview, Welsh writer/producer Russell T Davies, showrunner of the British series Doctor Who, said that he had considered proposing a crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek, but that the latter was canceled before the idea could be pursued.[21]

A design for a fifth season refit of the Enterprise is included in the 2011 Star Trek: Ships of the Line Calendar.[22]

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