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Star Trek Episodes That Almost Happened
By Scott Baird, SCREENRANT

The Star Trek franchise is one of the few series that can claim to have done it all. There have been many Star Trek TV shows, movies, novels and video games; the series has won numerous Emmys, Hugos, Saturns and even an Academy award (for Best Makeup, but still . . . ). Spock even had his own album (not Leonard Nimoy, the actor; Spock, the character).

Star Trek is a series that has six TV shows (soon to be seven) and is approaching it's fiftieth anniversary. It is no surprise that the franchise has had more episodes and movies planned than actually made it to screen. The show even had a whole series that nearly came to pass — Star Trek: Phase II, a direct sequel to Star Trek: The Original Series involving the original crew (minus Spock). Star Trek: Phase II was shelved due to the success of Star Wars, leading to the series of films instead.

With so much unused material building up since the 1960's, we are here to countdown the interesting concepts left on the cutting room floor. From killer teddy bears terrorizing Captain Kirk to the Voyager crew encountering a planet full of Star Trek fans, here are the fifteen Star Trek episodes that almost happened.

BDT: good list; I had only heard of 2 or 3 on this list. On the other hand, they left out a few other story ideas.

READ THE FULL LIST HERE: http://screenrant.com/star-trek-episodes-that-almost-happened/

Gord Green · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 10:52 pm Post subject:

As mentioned in the article some of the ideas were resurrected by some of the fan based series. Unfortunately we won't be seeing too much more from that area thanks to the new guidelines from CBS-Paramont.

I recall speaking to Alice Krieg at a convention once and she mentioned that there were plans for the Borg queen to appear again. Alas! By the way she is a way cool lady!

At the same con I talked to Nana Visitor and she told me her favorite role was as Ellen Dolan in the Spirit tv movie. I told her that I thought the crawling in the bathroom window scene was the sexiest scene ever in broadcast tv! She winked , smiled, and said "I'm glad you liked it!".

Bud Brewster · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 11:40 pm Post subject:

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You mean this scene? My goodness, I need to watch this movie pronto, Tonto!

___________ Nana Visitor - The Spirit (1987)

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Gord Green · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:06 am Post subject:

Oh yes.......That's the one! I loved this cheezzey movie!
Nana said she had so much fun filming it .

Bud Brewster · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 12:47 pm Post subject:

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I still haven't found a download of this movie yet, but in the meantime we can enjoy this three-minute clip. Very Happy

_________________ The Spirit (Preview Clip)

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Gord Green · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 12:06 am Post subject:

I used to have a bootleg VHS copy that I took to a convention for Nana to sign. When she told me how much she loved doing it and she didn't have a copy I gave it to her as a gift.

I haven't seen another copy anywhere, but I don't regret giving mine to her. Someday I'll find another one. It's a bit of a Holy Grail for me now.