Star Trek Set To Have Captain Archer Meet Sisko And Kirk During The Tribble Crisis
By Chris Snellgrove | Published
As an ignorant English professor, I often think of the wise words of John Greenleaf Whittier: “Of all the sad words of the tongue or the pen, the saddest is, ‘It might have been.'” No matter what current events bring you down (and boy, do you have a lot options now), nothing will hurt like the thought that things could have been better. That’s not just true of personal or global events, either. In this case, it is also true Star Trek: The Enterprise.
At this year’s TrekTalks (an annual live fundraiser for the Hollywood Food Coalition), several Business writers and producers were reunited, including Brannon Braga, Mike Sussman, Phyllis Strong, André Bormanis, and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. In the middle of the stream, they eat some of the cooler ones Business rejected episode episodes. Some of them (including the Borg Queen origin story and a crossover with both The Original Series again Deep Space Nine) would have been great, and making those episodes do what once seemed impossible: save the much-hated Star Trek spinoff from cancellation.
Hello, You, Come Down From My Cloud
Star Trek: The Enterprise it was a show that, to put it bluntly, you couldn’t figure out what you wanted to be. Sometimes, it was proto-The Original Series frontier adventure, and other times, was a post 9/11 nationalistic parable. In season 4, the runner Manny Coto had changed Business in a must-see Star Trek show, but the damage was already done, and the show was canceled. That made it the first Trek show since then Animated series getting less than seven seasons, too Business considered a failure. However, the writers and producers reunited on Trek Talks revealed some rejected episodes that may have saved this underappreciated series.
For example, André Bormanis made a prequel to this game The Original Series episode “The Cloud Minders,” which features an upper class of citizens who literally live in the clouds while the lower class work in the mines below. Bormani created an episode that would show a city in the sky being built while social unrest and income inequality worsened. Coto wanted to film this episode for Season 5, but Business it was canceled before that happened.
From the Romulan War to World War III
Talking about Coto and his ruined plans Businesshe was really determined to finally bring the Romulan War to the screen. Mike Sussman confirmed that the late showrunner wanted to finally show the audience the Earth/Romulus conflict that had been talked about in the past. The Original Series. Brannon Braga came in and referred to Coto to schedule this for Season 5, confirming that the first cancellation of the Business he removed another good story from us.
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens confirmed that they released the episode where Colonel Green (who was previously seen in the film). TOS episode “The Savage Curtain”) would survive and torment the descendants of those who fought him, the audience learned that Reed’s grandfather supported Green. In case his name doesn’t ring a bell, Green is a war criminal often credited with starting World War III. Bringing him in Business The episode would have shed light on the mysterious and often unexplored era of Star Trek, but the episode was rejected because it was too similar to stories involving Augments like Khan, which are remnants of the WW3 Earth era.
Borg Queen Origin Story
The same writing duo also created an episode where Alice Krige plays the head of Starfleet Medical and voluntarily chooses to “join the Team.” For better or worse, this would have provided an origin story for the Borg Queen, a character many Star Trek fans felt never made much sense.
This would have been a high-risk, high-reward story because it could have ultimately included this unknown character in the existing canon or destroyed the Borg altogether. However, Reeves-Stevens has an excellent track record (they also wrote some of the best fiction and non-fiction books in Trek history), so if or anyone they can take it out, that’s them.
Arrow Meets Kirk And Sisko Amid Trouble With Tribbles
Husband/wife writing last of two rejected Business the pitch, by far, was the greatest desire of all. If the show had made it to Season 7, they wanted to include the final episode of the Temporal Cold War where Captain Archer and his crew would have to return to space station K-7 during the events of “The Trouble With Tribbles.”
There, they met Kirk’s team from the first episode and Sisko’s team from “Trials and Tribble-ations.” In retrospect, such an epic episode it would have been away better than Business the latter, which turned the show’s final story into a strange simulation of Commander Riker’s holodeck.
Path Not Taken
That series finale was so bad that many Star Trek fans are thankful for it Business it was canceled before it got any worse. However, regardless of the ending, Season 4 was the high point of this controversial show, and these rejected stories reveal the series’ untapped potential.
Now, I can’t help but wonder if these episodes could have turned the metaphorical ship, getting both the fans and the network to get more adventures with the franchise’s brilliant crew. If that happened, Business could not be canceled, and the future of Star Trek may not have been in the hands of the world’s most feared villain: Alex Kurtzman.
