Any chance of an unmade scripts book?
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I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the Roddenberry 366 Vault comes through in the next month or two with full scripts of 'The God Thing' and 'Planet of the Titans.' Anything after that, like more Phase II scripts or rejected drafts/scene rewrites from TMP or whatever the hell Gene originally had in mind for what became TWOK, is icing on the cake.
Eh, the continuity is only optional, there's nothing saying all books have to fit into it. Plenty of recent TOS books are completely standalone, for example.
The amount of work part, though, yeah it probably would be.
That would be fantastic if it happened.
I'd love a novelization of that one unmade episode - don't know if it even had a title - where the Enterprise is investigating a black hole but there is a complication and several crewmembers are missing.
It starts out with the Enterprise hanging dead in space, everyone on board has been killed. Then the bodies slowly heal and return to life. The crew manages to get their bearings again and they remember that they were investigating a black hole, but something went wrong and there was a massive explosion which killed everybody. But Spock and his science team are still missing.
They quickly learn that history has been changed, because a passing Vulcan ship attacks them and its captain claims that Earth does not exist and he's never heard of the Federation. Spock is actually on Vulcan, and Kirk evades the Vulcan ship and goes to retrieve Spock.
Long story short, the science team is found on Earth, which is a dystopia, like the Macintosh "1984" commercial. Seems that this is all the fault of Scotty, who tried to travel in time to prevent the black hole incident but found himself in the 1940's surrounded by German WWII soldiers. He stunned them with his phaser and, realizing he probably won't ever see home again, used his knowledge of the future to advance the technology of 1940's Earth. This is what leads to the dystopia in the future.
They quickly learn that history has been changed, because a passing Vulcan ship attacks them and its captain claims that Earth does not exist and he's never heard of the Federation. Spock is actually on Vulcan, and Kirk evades the Vulcan ship and goes to retrieve Spock.
Long story short, the science team is found on Earth, which is a dystopia, like the Macintosh "1984" commercial. Seems that this is all the fault of Scotty, who tried to travel in time to prevent the black hole incident but found himself in the 1940's surrounded by German WWII soldiers. He stunned them with his phaser and, realizing he probably won't ever see home again, used his knowledge of the future to advance the technology of 1940's Earth. This is what leads to the dystopia in the future.
oh god, unmade movie scripts would be flipping amazing!!
Have they released any complete scripts of other things?
Have they ever! So far we've had
- The original 1964 sales pitch (granted, that was already out there)
- The story outline, rough draft and revised draft of 'The Cage'
- Story synopsis for 'Where No Man Has Gone Before'
- Early story outlines for 'Court Martial,' 'The Changeling,' 'A Piece of the Action,' 'The Trouble with Tribbles,' 'Wink of An Eye'
- Scripts (multiple drafts on some) for 'The Galileo Seven,' 'Journey to Babel,' 'The Way to Eden,' 'Day of the Dove,' 'Plato's Stepchildren,' 'Whom Gods Destroy'
- From the TAS era, we get scripts for 'The Lorelei Signal,' 'Point of Extinction' (unmade), 'One of Our Planets is Missing,' 'BEM,' 'Eye of the Beholder' (unmade), and the original 1969 Filmation pitch 'No Space to Grow and No Place to Go' (which earned a thread of its own over in the TOS forum and has to be read to be believed).
- The original 1964 sales pitch (granted, that was already out there)
- The story outline, rough draft and revised draft of 'The Cage'
- Story synopsis for 'Where No Man Has Gone Before'
- Early story outlines for 'Court Martial,' 'The Changeling,' 'A Piece of the Action,' 'The Trouble with Tribbles,' 'Wink of An Eye'
- Scripts (multiple drafts on some) for 'The Galileo Seven,' 'Journey to Babel,' 'The Way to Eden,' 'Day of the Dove,' 'Plato's Stepchildren,' 'Whom Gods Destroy'
- From the TAS era, we get scripts for 'The Lorelei Signal,' 'Point of Extinction' (unmade), 'One of Our Planets is Missing,' 'BEM,' 'Eye of the Beholder' (unmade), and the original 1969 Filmation pitch 'No Space to Grow and No Place to Go' (which earned a thread of its own over in the TOS forum and has to be read to be believed).
Star Trek: Phase II by the Reeves-Stevens has two complete scripts in it, In Thy Image and The Child. As well as these it also had the initial In Thy Image proposal and synopses of the remainder of the initial 13 episodes.
Not to mention but the Star Trek The Next Generation & Deep Space Nine Companion CD-Roms in some cases had early drafts of scripts. Plus some of what were called Final drafts were changed on set so the script on CD does not reflect the final aired episode in some cases.
I'm very interested in unproduced scripts especially for the movies.
David Gerrold's unsold TOS script, "Bandi", first mentioned in "The Trouble With Tribbles: The Making of the TV Episode", made it into manga form for TOKYOPOP's third collection, "Uchu". A mysterious, teddy bear-like creature Bandi runs amok on the Enterprise.
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