Harlan Ellison's Acclaimed Star Trek Script Comes to Comics

[Danlav05]

I hope IDW does a 'lost/alternate movie' range, adapting early drafts or discarded stories.

e.g. Trek I Planet of the Titans, Trek II Roddenberrys JFK, Trek VI Bennetts Starfleet Academy, Trek VII Yesterdays Enterprise The Movie, Trek VIII Borg in the Renaissance, Trek IX Heart of Darkness. Trek XI Spiner/Logan Crossover Nemesis sequel or Bermans The Beginning trilogy

There isn't a "Trek VII Yesterdays Enterprise The Movie" script. Rick Berman said later that, in retrospect, that story could have worked for a generations crossover. I'm not sure I really agree with him; I'm not sure the best way to introduce Star Trek: The Next Generation to film is with an alternate timeline version of Picard's crew.

The alternate path on Generations was Maurice Hurley's script, which had Picard consulting with a holodeck Kirk when the Federation was attacked by an enemy from outside normal space.

As for the rest of your list, don't forget Roddenberry's "The God-Thing" and the Eddie Murphy Star Trek IV. There's also Walter Koenig's pitch for Star Trek VI, "In Flanders Fields." And some of the early developmental scripts for Star Trek II would be interesting.

Oh I'd love a series like this, movies that never were.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Anybody know the exact release date of the first issue? I keep seeing "June." You'd think, with Tuesday, 5-27-14, being Ellison's 80th birthday, they might release it then.

Anybody in the know out there?

June 4th, per Diamond.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

^^^Thanks.

And include me as another who would like to IDW do "Roads not taken" for the TOS films.

Sir Rhosis

 

[Danlav05]

^^^Thanks.

And include me as another who would like to IDW do "Roads not taken" for the TOS films.

Sir Rhosis

The only TNG one would really be the Spiner/Logan one.

Despite being not an enormously long list - I think a range like this has a short span i.e. won't go on forever - I think they should just stick mainly to the movies as there are 100s of episodes, however of course Phase II were forbidden to make the lost Norman Spinrad script, so maybe that could be done officially?

 

[SoM]

You'd think, with Tuesday, 5-27-14, being Ellison's 80th birthday, they might release it then.

The basic question has been answered, just pointing out that would never have happened since comics are (barring holidays or Things Going Wrong) always released on Wednesdays.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

^^^Interesting. Thanks for that.

Sir Rhosis