"He Walked Among Us"

[GSchnitzer]

Sorry to hear that.
Did they at least inform you early enough before many resources were invested into the script?

We don't have many resources to invest--but yes. We have another episode to shoot in June before we were going to tackle "He Walked Among Us" later in the fall. So we had been focusing on the more pressing episode.

Any plans for a new fall production?

We're pretty well focused on our June shoot of "Bread and Savagery." We're not giving a lot of thought as to what we might be doing later in the fall. We do have some pick-up shots to do for "Kitumba" and "The Protracted Man" and "Mind-Sifter," so we might just try to knock those out. We also have some work left on our "Back to the Wild, Wild West" episode "Night of the Golden Spikes." Lastly, I'm not sure what the current state of our "Buck Rogers Begins" production is, but that might be an option. In short, we'll probably use the fall to tie up some outstanding loose ends on some earlier episodes, rather than tackle something completely new. But then we never know when some oddball thing might fall into our laps, so we try and be flexible.

 

[Barbreader]

Sounds very reasonable.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Also, Paramount made its money on that Phase II book with the unproduced scripts already. Perhaps they're considering such a thing for TOS which would have its value lessened by the production of such a P2 episode.

And there was this "lost" Star Trek book:

The Star Trek That Never Was (1988)

"On a quarterly basis, Locus, the 'newspaper of the science fiction field', lists books due to be published in the next several months. In June, 1988, Locus listed The Star Trek That Never Was by Allan Asherman as a planned October, 1988 release from Pocket Books. It was also listed, with a reproduction of the cover art, in the September, 1988 issue of Science Fiction Chronicle, again as an October release. According to novelist Margaret Wander Bonanno's website, this book 'was produced, shipped to the warehouses and, the night before it was due to arrive in bookstores, sent to the shredders instead.'

"Judging by the cover copy ('adventures written for the original series and its planned sequel'), this was a book about unproduced episodes of Star Trek, covering the same subject as the thin, overpriced books The Star Trek That Never Was and The Star Trek That Almost Was published by the Star Trek Files Magazine group (also known as Schuster and Schuster, Couch Potato Press, Pioneer Books, etc.). Those little ripoffs had plot summaries of episodes written for the original Star Trek and the aborted Phase II series. Interestingly, the cover copy for Pocket's book says that it was 'compiled by Allan Asherman, featuring material by Norman Spinrad' et al. Perhaps this book actually reproduced scripts and story treatments, rather than just summarizing them...

"As for the original series material, Theodore Sturgeon's proposed episode, which would have been in this book, has since been adapted into novel form (The Joy Machine by James Gunn), but we may have lost some other intriguing stories."

http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lostbooks.html