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00:00Hello my friends, Sean Farrick here for Trek Culture and today's video is brought to you by Star Trek Flea...
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00:08When Star Trek first hit the screens in 1960...
00:10...there were a lot of ideas that were swirling around this brand new show and what Roddenberry's team...
00:15...of writers could come up with. Ideas and suggestions abounded with entire fleshed out...
00:20...proposals dismissed and hastily rewritten. Plot threads and episode ideas were hashed out and rewritten...
00:25...rehashed out over and over again until a finished product could be brought to screen.
00:30While some stories and ideas would fall foul of creative differences, some would be discarded due to...
00:35...scheduling conflicts and production difficulties. This is true of almost every television show...
00:40...even just how vast the franchise of Star Trek has become over the decades since Captain...
00:45...first sat in the captain's chair. There's a lot that was left on the cutting room floor. With a fan...
00:50...based as passionate as Trek's, it's no surprise that many of these details have been dug up and...
00:55...discussed at length. So with that in mind then, I'm Ellie with Trek Culture and here are ten...
01:00...abandoned Star Trek ideas that would have been incredible.
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02:25Right away, let's go.
02:26Number 10, Maurice Hurley's plans for Q. After the tomorrow...
02:30...uncultuous production of The Next Generation's first season, head writer Maurice Hurley was ready to...
02:35...pack in the whole bridge crew and start afresh. He had said in an interview with William Shatner that he...
02:40...he had hoped to kill off the main cast and build the second season around finding a new crew for the Enterprise.
02:45Pretty drastic. Maurice Hurley eventually left the show at the end of the second season...
02:50...and the 1988 writer's strike put pay to many of his plans. Many of the episodes...
02:55...that he had intended weren't produced, and those that did make the screen were often last-minute replacements...
03:00...to scrapped plans. Hurley's plans for Q would have been extensive. The idea was...
03:05...that early in the second season Q would pay another visit to the Enterprise to torment Picard and...
03:10...warn him of the dangers that were out there. Because of this, Q would be stripped of his powers and...
03:15...have to live on the Enterprise for a time until he was able to regain his abilities. If...
03:20...all of this sounds familiar, it's because this plot was condensed into two episodes, Q, who...
03:25...and Deja Q. The missing Q arc was essentially Q having to adjust to humanity and learn how to...
03:30...get along with Picard as an almost equal. Ronald D. Moore later commented that Hurley...
03:35...he's plans were more plot-focused and after his departure from the series, the show became much more...
03:40...character-focused. He stressed that they didn't want to overuse characters like Q, which this arc made...
03:45...may well have done. Pivotly, however, there was one difference in Q who that didn't make it...
03:50...into this arc. Q wouldn't have introduced humanity to the Borg, that would have been something else...
03:55...entirely. Number 9. Maurice Hurley's plans for the Borg.
04:00Q wasn't the only Season 2 plan that Maurice Hurley had to leave by the wayside. Initially...
04:05...his plans were for the first season finale episode, The Neutral Zone, to be the first of two...
04:10...parts. The second part would focus on the Enterprise and the Romulans being forced to work...
04:15...together to unravel the mystery of the missing colonies in both their territories. The answer to that...
04:20...mystery? A migratory insectoid hive-mined species called the Borg.
04:25That's right, in the eyes of the man who came up with them, the Borg weren't meant to be a race of cyborgs...
04:30...they were meant to be Space Army Ants. They were extracting all materials from planning...
04:35...in their way. The Enterprise would discover that they were heading deeper and deeper in the Federation...
04:40...and would have to scramble to collect allies in facing off against this threat. The Romulans and Klingons...
04:45...would be among them. This plan would have seen the complete defeat of the Borg at the conclusion of the...
04:50...the second season. Just think on that for a moment. The Borg were only meant to appear for a single...
04:55...season and they weren't introduced by Q. Perhaps it's for the best that the writers strike through...
05:00...these plans asunder, because afterwards Maurice Hurley left the show and it took a very different...
05:05...direction. A better one? Perhaps not, but a fascinating one, certainly.
05:10Number 8. Giant Ferengi. A script by Steven DeKnight for Deep Space Nine...
05:15...was simply going to be called Giant and would have placed a humorous bent on Ferengi evolution...
05:20...Wolf, while accompanying Jadzia Dax for a drink in Quark's bar, would have found a Ferengi...
05:25...hitting on Jadzia and angrily dismissed him. He would have uttered the line, there's no honour...
05:30...fighting a single Ferengi, only to hear...
05:32...I'd say the same thing about Klingons from Bahia.
05:35Worf would then be faced with a Ferengi who was at least his equal in height and body...
05:40...class, and the two of them would engage in a traditional barroom brawl.
05:43Eventually, it would turn out that the...
05:45These two Ferengi, one little and one large, were brothers on the run from Ferengi space.
05:50Worf and Dax would have been tasked with escorting them back there, discovering that the two of them had discovered...
05:55...a scientific formula to activate the genes for physical strength and prowess that was deep...
06:00...within the Ferengi genome. They explained that Ferengi were once large and strong but had developed down...
06:05...an evolutionary path to be smaller, sneakier and thus not considered a threat by larger...
06:10...species. When the four of them were attacked by Jem'Hadar on the way, they'd all have to work together...
06:15...to survive. Eventually, Worf would have to acknowledge the history of the Ferengi as warriors...
06:20...in their own right. Could have been fun!
06:22Number 7. Ronald D. Moore's Observe...
06:25...session with musicals. Yes, before Buffy the Vampire Slayer hit us with its...
06:30...beloved musical episode, Ronald D. Moore wanted the next generation to have a musical episode...
06:35...when the idea didn't go over particularly well there, he attempted to get it made on Deep Space Nine...
06:40...and was again shot down. Ron's ideas were never fully fleshed out, his desire sprang simply...
06:45...from thinking that making a musical episode for either show would be fun. He's quoted as saying...
06:50...some tech virus that infects the crew and they can only communicate in song, you know? And just do it and...
06:55...have a ball! Alas, nobody was interested in pursuing it and the idea went nowhere. Coincidentally...
07:00...Lynda Park pushed to have a musical episode on Enterprise as well, given that she was a...
07:05...trained singer, as were John Billingsley and Scott Bakula. This idea didn't go anywhere...
07:10...either. Given the enduring popularity of Buffy's Once More With Feeling, maybe it might have been why...
07:15...to cash in on the musical vibe. Also, has anyone attempted to adapt that Buffy episode into a stage show?
07:20...if not, why not? Number 6. The Literal Year of Hell.
07:25Scuttlebutt would have us believe that the plans for Voyage's Year of Hell were much more extensive than the two...
07:30...part episode that we eventually received. While this two-parter was sufficiently brutal as...
07:35...as we witnessed the degradation and crippling of our beloved Voyager over an extended period of time...
07:40...it could have been more. The plans for the Year of Hell were for it to have spanned an entire...
07:45...season, with the Krenim temporal ship haunting them for more than 20 episodes. Voyager...
07:50...we would have accumulated more and more damage as time went by, as there would be nowhere for the ship to repair...
07:55...itself, and they would slowly lose crew members. The two-part episode did do an excellent job of...
08:00...conveying the damage that Voyager is continually subjected to. But picture that breakdown spread over a whole...
08:05...season. Picture the sense of loss and isolation that could have been worked into the very fabric...
08:10...of the show as it progressed, mirrored by the increased frustration of Anoraks as he tries to...
08:15...shape an entire quadrant to his liking until it's unrecognisable. The ultimate conclusion of...
08:20...the season would still have been the same, with Janeway destroying both the crippled Voyager and the Krenim...
08:25...kindship in a spectacular final space battle. Eventually, the plans for the season-long arc were...
08:30...reduced to the two-part episode we watched. Jerry Taylor and Brannon Braga felt that a season-long...
08:35...investment that would be reversed at its conclusion was too much for the audience to bear. Voyager thought...
08:40...all of the excellent solo episodes that are within it, overall lacked cohesion as a series and...
08:45...this missed opportunity could have paved the way for more overarching stories, the kind that Voyager...
08:50...is very premise demanded, but it wasn't to be. Number five, who's...
08:55...the great Voyagers of the Delta Quadrant? And why, yes, that title is directly taken from...
09:00...who is killing the great chefs of the Europe. The premise of this episode, put forward by Brian Fuller...
09:04...was to...
09:05...to follow the adventures of several alternate reality Voyagers. These different Voyagers are being...
09:10...systematically hunted down and destroyed by an unknown force that can somehow jump between these...
09:15...realities. Ideas included a completely Klingon version of Voyager where the Klingon Empire...
09:20...had defeated the Federation back in Kirk's day, complete with Kate Mulgrew in full Klingon makeup.
09:25...and a version that was completely crewed by Holograms as well as a few others. Eventually...
09:30...our Voyager and her Captain Janeway would discover what's happening. They would be confronted by another...
09:35...voyager, this one commanded by Chakotay, whose marquee crew had overwhelmed the Starfleet.
09:40This alternate Chakotay had become convinced that Janeway was responsible for them being strangled...
09:45...and landed in the Delta Quadrant. And while he had found a way to jump timelines, he hadn't yet found a way to...
09:50...cross the vast distance to return home. While this episode never panned out, it would have given Chakotay...
09:55...a lot more to do and probably would have been pretty fun. We'd already seen Worf jump from time...
10:00...line to timeline in the Next Generation episode parallel, so why not a rampaging alternate Voyager?
10:05Number 4. The Tantalus Prison of James T. Kirk. You will remember the Tantalus...
10:10...device, yes? It was a minor plot point in the classic original series episode Mirror...
10:15...when Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy, Uhura, and Scotty are transported to the Mirror...
10:20...universe by a freak ion storm. Kirk discovers a device in his opposite number's quarters.
10:25This is the Tantalus device, something that could simply make a selected target completely...
10:30...disappear. This device later cropped up in the palette of Emperor Georgiou when she used it to...
10:35...keep an eye on a wayward Michael Burnham. Frequent Star Trek novelist Judith and Garfield...
10:40...Reeve Stevens had pitched a two-part episode for Star Trek Enterprise that featured the Tantalus...
10:45...device, where it would have been revealed that it didn't kill people at all. It simply transported them back in...
10:50...time, about 150 years, to an isolated penal planet. Since Mirror Spot...
10:55...Roc, resplendent in his goatee, had used the device on Mirror Kirk just after the end of Mirror Mirror...
11:00...this means that Kirk could still be there in the 2150s, when Captain Jonathan...
11:05...and Archer and his crew would find him. You see, in the original pitch for this episode...
11:10...the Mirror Universe hadn't been created by the 2150s. It didn't exist yet. Mirror Kirk and...
11:15...Archer would have tried to figure out what happened to it, and somehow, in some grave experiment, they...
11:20...would have accidentally created it. Yes, the plans for the Mirror Universe episode in a...
11:25...and Mirror Darkly originally included a role for the evil version of Captain Kirk. While the episodes were...
11:30...we did receive were amongst the strongest of Enterprise's fourth season, just imagine having had Kirk...
11:35...in the mix as well. Number three, the first season of Enterprise. So the...
11:40...the first season of Enterprise could have turned out very different from the one that we watched. The pitch by Rick...
11:45...Burman and Brannan Braga was for a show that was set entirely on Earth for the first season...
11:50...at least. Much of the premise still made it into pilot episode Broken Boat, but some of the plot points...
11:55...from the fourth season, such as anti-alien resentment amongst some humans, would have made it...
12:00...into this storyline. Essentially, the series would begin with first contact with the Klingons...
12:05...which would have left Starfleet Command scrabbling to finish their first warp 5 capable ship. So...
12:10...so far, so familiar. But there was no temporal Cold War in this proposal, and humanity would have...
12:15...stumbled at the first hurdle. The brand new Enterprise would have been destroyed in its first attempt at a...
12:20...launch, leading the design team to go back to the drawing board. Eventually, this idea was rejected and the...
12:25...show we got was a lot more like its predecessors in the original series, The Next Generation and...
12:30...Voyager. Eventually, Enterprise would shake up its format with the Xindi War, but the first two seasons...
12:35...were not what they could have been. Number 2. The Godhead. A scrapbook...
12:40...episode from the third season of the original series, The Godhead was meant to be the 26th...
12:45...episode. This would have put it to be the very last, beating out the somewhat troublesome...
12:50...to learn about Intruder. In this episode, the crew of the Enterprise would have discovered an ancient alien...
12:55...that had discovered a way to accumulate all of their vast knowledge and place it inside a single person.
13:00While the details of who this single person were to be weren't released, it was likely to have been...
13:05...one of the crew, but unlikely to have been either Kirk or Spock. Whoever they turned out to be, the...
13:10...Godhead themselves would have been driven mad with power and would have become determined to use the...
13:15...Enterprise to conquer the galaxy. This story was actually put into the first stages of production...
13:20...but the final two episodes of the third season were cancelled by NBC, and this one never saw the...
13:25...light of day. The Godhead is one of many original series episodes that could have been...
13:30...in fact, our very own Brie has made a whole video talking about them, which includes some Oscar-worthy...
13:35...and the acting by Adam Cleary, so be sure to check that out. But for now, number one.
13:40Star Trek The Beginning. The tentative title for an eleventh film that never came...
13:45...to pass. The beginning was meant to be the first of a trilogy of films that bridged the gap between...
13:50...Star Trek Enterprise and Star Trek The Original Series. A full treatment was approved and...
13:55...multiple versions of the script were written, but the project fell apart in favour of going with J.J. Abrams...
14:00...reboot film in 2009. Set four years after the events of Terra Prime, the...
14:05...United Earth's Stellar Navy is being folded into Starfleet, and a few officers are resentful of the...
14:10...move. One called Tiberius Chase has family ties back to the Terra Prime movement, who wanted...
14:15...to drive all alien influence from Earth. Somewhat suddenly, a massive Romulan attack fleet...
14:20...emerges from behind Earth's moon. They demand for Earth to turn over all of the Vulcans...
14:25...living on the planet, to which Admiral Gardiner refuses and manages to rally Starfleet and UES...
14:30...SN forces. When the Romulans are just barely driven off, it's discovered that the Romulans are planning...
14:35...to regroup with reinforcements. Tiberius Chase and his band of survivors tracked down the...
14:40...nuclear stockpile of an isolationist group, then hijacked the USS Spartan from its dry...
14:45...and attempt to bring the war to the Romulans. This would be the opening moves...
14:50...of the much-talked-about Earth-Romulan war, during which the two sides did not see each other...
14:55...to face. The war was fought entirely in ships and a subsequent neutral zone treaty was negotiated...
15:00...over subspace transmission. In one final detail, Tiberius Chase would be sending...
15:05...letters to Penelope Gardiner, the daughter of Admiral Gardiner, who was a schoolteacher in Iowa...
15:10...where a certain captain was born. While the 2009 reboot of the franchise seemed like...
15:15...a better bet, the franchise lost a lot by not following through with this project. But given...
15:20...how much of Star Trek there is, we, its faithful fans, must always remember that there were so many...
15:25...more ideas out there. Many would have sucked, but so many would have been just awesome!
15:30In theory, out there in an alternate timeline, they all got made for our viewing pleasure. Just think...
15:35...on that one. And that concludes our list. If you can think of any other examples, then do let us know...
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15:50...a great little child. I've been Ellie with Trek Culture. I hope you have a wonderful day and remember...
15:55...to boldly go where no one has gone before.
16:00Thank you very much.
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