Unfilmed 3rd Season Episodes

Well, Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes were TV shows based on films, so they fit (but not space faring if that's what you mean). They were just kinda awful.

 

And after the television season ended, either the show would air only reruns, or there would be a summer replacement show, either first runs or reruns of another show.

I happened to get sick while watching "The Derelict", the second episode of Lost in Space, and missed the ending of it. I figured that it would be the second rerun shown when the summer reruns started. But the reruns skipped the first few episodes, so I didn't get to see how "The Derelict" turned out until I saw in it in syndication a few years later.

I remember watching "Balance of Terror" in our living room in Jenkintown, PA, with a teenage boy who said that the Romulan commander looked like "Spock's old man", and of course the Romulan Commander and Sarek were both portrayed by Mark Lendard.

"Balance of Terror" was broadcast. on Dec. 15, 1966, and was rerun in the summer of 1967.

"Journey to Babel" was broadcast on Nov. 17, 1967 and probably rerun in the summer of 1968. And in September 1968 my family moved to another town. So I wonder how that boy could possibily have seen "Journey to Babel" before watching "Balalanc eof Terror" in our living room in Jenkentown. PA, before September 1968.

Were any Star Trek episodes shown in syndication iby stations in the Philadelphia area before September, 1968?

If so, possibly a station showed "Balance of Terror" sometime between November 17, 1967 when "Journey t o Babel" first aired and September, 1968 when we moved.

 

Form everything I've read, Star Trek was not available for American syndication until the series ended. That doesn't mean a delayed broadcast couldn't have happened by an affiliate. Or perhaps the affiliate plugged in a rerun to fill a slot.

 

This listing of all the NBC broadcasts has been posted, and should be informative here as well:

http://wikibin.org/articles/history-of-star-trek-on-nbc.html

 

Hahaha. I didn't realize they made TV shows out of them! Logan's Run is at the latter end of the 70s, so kind of gets lumped in with BG and so on. There's an episode of Wonder Woman that has a SF con where folks are cosplaying Logan's Run -- and lo and behold, both were CBS shows!!!!

But PotA is smack dab in the period I'm talking about. It is space-adjacent, I guess.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(Star_Trek)
A shuttle had been suggested initially during the production of "The Enemy Within", but was ultimately rejected due to the cost.[1]

1. Cushman & Osborn 2013, p. 302.

If this is the Cushman?
Did they consider a shuttlecraft for Enemy Within ever? If so then half the drama of the episode would have been gone. I mean they had the time crunch of evil Kirk's body was going to fail but having the boys in peril on the planet made the episode better.

 

They could have used a line of dialogue about not being able to use the shuttle due to some sort of upper atmospheric interference. That's implied, I guess.

 

Or the entire shuttle fleet was working through a recall because the catalytic converters were defective and known to start fires. You can't hang up the starship Enterprise for that, so it was flying a few missions with no shuttles, and would swing back to Starbase 11 to pick them up when the work order was completed.

Either way, we just weren't in the room when somebody remarked on the situation.

 

This is along the lines of what I thought. Like they had a couple of accidents and both shuttles were in for repair.
Or they just didn't have shuttles at all until later.

Why do they need shuttles when they have transporters would be the bureaucratic thinking?
After Enemy Within Kirk organises shuttles for the Enterprise or for them to come sooner. That's my canon until evidence proves otherwise.

 

There's no mention of a shuttle in the outline, script drafts or production memos I've seen. Maybe @Maurice and @Harvey have seen something.

 

Well, we look at the series in two ways: in-universe and Real Life. In-universe, either they didn’t have any shuttles yet or the atmospheric conditions prevented anyone from landing. They probably talked about it during the commercials.

In Real Life, they didn’t construct shuttlecraft yet, they couldn’t afford them and if AMT wasn’t talking to them yet, then nobody was making a deal to create them. So even if Jeffries and Roddenberry envisioned that rounded end cap to be a hanger deck, they weren’t gonna mention it in the episodes if they couldn’t show them. So, in Real Life: no shuttles so don’t mention them.

Classic Trek was inventing all of this stuff as budgets and stories permitted. World building was on an as needed basis. Everything happening to the crew was “the first time” for a lot of stuff that works well for a standalone series, but for a franchise, it requires retcons (the gymnastics Enterprise performed in the 4th season were impressive). Spock’s first command in The Galileo Seven is fine until they had to use the pilot footage to add a “free episode” to the schedule (airdate order messed that up tho). The Enemy Within’s lack of shuttles is no big deal since it’s early and without constant reruns, MOST people wouldn’t have made the connection later (even as late as The Doomsday Machine nobody mentioned shuttles on the Constellation which could have helped Decker save some of his crew).

Honestly, only a very few people at home watching would have thought “hey, the ship should have landing craft.” Maybe the SF fans and people who went to cons.

When you think about it, living on the Enterprise in those days was risky since there was no sure fire way to evacuate everyone quickly. Fan theories and set changes aside, during the run there was only transporter and even after establishing the shuttles, there were only a handful which could seat, what? 8? No real mention of escape pods at all. Spock mentions “life boats” in the second pilot but not in reference to their own ship. When Kirk threatens to blow up the Enterprise because Bele is being a jerk, he never orders an evac. And even IF there were two dozen transporters, if the power went out, you’re screwed. Manually cranking open a shuttle bay and powering a transporter were two different things and you could save a portion of the crew but just a fraction.

In-universe fan justification is a fun pastime but I give 60’s TV a huge break. A lot of these shows were making it all up as they went and figured their shows would be off the air totally after 5 reruns.

 

This being 1966, it's more likely they were in the shop to be equipped with catalytic converters.

 

Transporters have limited range. Shuttles can travel farther, and can go on side missions while the ship is occupied.

My understanding back in the day was that the entire saucer section was supposed to be the lifeboat if they had to jettison the warp drive. Which, frankly, makes much more sense than the "escape pod" concept that's become annoyingly common in sci-fi since Star Wars. I mean, what use is a dinky little lifeboat in deep space? How are you going to get anywhere or survive long enough for help to come when the nearest ship might be weeks away? Per The Making of Star Trek, the saucer was designed to operate independently and provide everything the crew needed except warp drive. It could support the crew long enough for help to arrive, or make a safe landing on a nearby habitable world.

In one of the first Pocket novels from the early '80s, Black Fire, the bridge was blown up and the saucer so badly damaged that the crew had to jettison it and use the engineering hull as a lifeboat. I remember being bothered by that because it was doing it backward compared to the way I'd always read it was supposed to work.

 

Interesting, I didn't know about this. I once tried to contact Allan Asherman but with no success. However a book titled "The Star Trek That Never Was" was released by John Peel.

From my collection:

https://i0.wp.com/fantascienza.tv/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/LostTrekBibliografia18

 

I used to have both of these. To clarify, the Almost Was volume is the one that covers unmade TOS scripts and story treatments, while the Never Was volume covers the unfilmed outlines for the Phase II revival that was abandoned in favor of ST:TMP. I still have the Almost volume, but I sold the Never volume years back, because its outlines were also covered in Pocket's Phase II: The Lost Series book by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, so it seemed redundant to keep it.

 

Not familiar with those.

DEEP MUDD would have been a fun romp.

 

There was plenty of what one could call science fiction in the 1970s. The issue is not all of it was in network primetime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1970s_American_science_fiction_television_series