TOs season 4 ; what would have happended ?

[Outpost4]

I want to say it was in Solow's and Justman's book, although I just scanned through the book's index listings for "NBC" and didn't see it. I remember the story as a suggestion by the network as a way to build ratings.

Who knows? Maybe it's a myth I read somewhere over the years. Does anybody else remember hearing this?

 

[Ronald Held]

I find that highly improbable.

 

[jayrath]

The budget would have stayed exactly the same, or maybe just mildly improved. Paramount made deep cuts already for the third season. As a result -- no matter who produced -- the small sets, small casts, small SFX and small writing budgets would have remained the same. Or worse, since the cast would have received raises built-in to their contracts.

The show's creator -- who had already distanced himself -- would be all but unavailable, since he was deep in work at MGM.

TAS scipts would NOT have been introduced, since all were explicitly written to explore "impossible" visual elements, such as giant Vulcans, etc.

A fourth season would not have been pretty. Better that TOS died when it did.

 

[Peacemaker]

Three Words: Temporal Cold War...

 

[DumbDumb2007]

Jeannie would have blinked herself onto the Enterprise ? i got her autog once. she wass Gorgeous !

 

[Stag]

Peacemaker said:
Three Words: Temporal Cold War...

OK, Braga, we're on to you...come out with yer hands up!!

 

[Profhig]

CBS would pick up the show after seeing the demographic it reached and slightly increased its budget. The show's ratings would'nt have goten much better but it would still be reaching a key domo, it would then get a 2 season run and end with a well writen send off. Perhaps ending with the 5 year mission completed and Kirk turning down a promotion for admiral and choosing to continue exploring on the Enterprise. I could see tese last 2 years having more conflict with the Klingons. The final episode may have even been similar to the events in STVI in that a peace agrement with the Klingons would be reached somehow through kirk and company. Still, Trek would return in the 80's after the mega monster known as Star Wars.

 

[blakbyrd]

Profhig said:
CBS would pick up the show after seeing the demographic it reached and slightly increased its budget. The show's ratings would'nt have goten much better but it would still be reaching a key domo, it would then get a 2 season run and end with a well writen send off. Perhaps ending with the 5 year mission completed and Kirk turning down a promotion for admiral and choosing to continue exploring on the Enterprise. I could see tese last 2 years having more conflict with the Klingons. The final episode may have even been similar to the events in STVI in that a peace agrement with the Klingons would be reached somehow through kirk and company. Still, Trek would return in the 80's after the mega monster known as Star Wars.

That would have been perfect.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

jayrath said:
TAS scipts would NOT have been introduced, since all were explicitly written to explore "impossible" visual elements, such as giant Vulcans, etc.

Not according to the interview article on the TAS dvds...several of their scripts WERE in fact either unproduced S4 scripts or ideas that were being PITCHED for S4 scripts, including "BEM" and "The Albatross", if memory serves.

 

[EnsignJulka]

We would have been introduced to McCoy's daughter, if there had been a fourth season...

 

[M'Sharak]

DumbDumb2007 said:
TOs season 4 ; what would have happended ?

I think it's quite obvious: Season 4 would have been happended onto the end of Season 3.

Mallory said:

I wonder what TGT would have called the fourth season.

Too easy. Much too easy.

 

[Nebusj]

M´Sharak said:

DumbDumb2007 said:
TOs season 4 ; what would have happended ?

I think it's quite obvious: Season 4 would have been happended onto the end of Season 3.

I think they would have been more creative and slipped season four in between episodes 23 and 24 of the second season.

 

[Trevacious]

Outpost4 said:I think in the fourth year, Chekov would have finally gotten laid.

At least, he might've been seen pulling his boots back on.

 

[EnsignJulka]

who knows they might still be considering a fourth season if they're doing to this prequel...

 

[Angel Ruse]

My guess is something like this:

 

[EnsignJulka]

Wow that picture is either disturbing or secretly desirable....

 

[USS Excelsior]

Maybe a different class of starship, perhaps even a woman captain.

 

[ALF]

Kirk would have landed on the moon.

 

[Therin of Andor]

There was also a live-action script (often bootlegged at conventions) awaiting confirmation by Milton Berle that he'd take on the charismatic guest lead. (Was that "He Walks Among Us"?)

darkwing_duck1 said:
several of their scripts WERE in fact either unproduced S4 scripts or ideas that were being PITCHED for S4 scripts, including "BEM" and "The Albatross", if memory serves.

Yep. "More Tribbles, More Troubles" was pitched as a fourth season live-action story, too.

Marc Daniels' TAS script seems to have been based on his pitched live-action story, "The Beast".

"The Time Trap" seems to be loosely based on "The Stars of Sargasso" by DC Fontana (a live-action script again attempting to introduce Joanna McCoy).

The first original Kumara the Klingon story (ie. Kirk's exchange student roommate) in the "Star Trek Log Seven" TAS adaptation, written by Alan Dean Foster, was based on a two-parter Season Four pitch by ADF. He was told to "come back" with the story when/if TOS went into its fourth season. The background to this is in the serialized essay in the recent ST Logs reprint omnibuses. ADF recently admitted to a penpal of mine at a book signing that he can no longer recall the scripts' title.

 

[ToddPence]

>"The Time Trap" seems to be loosely based on "The Stars of Sargasso" by DC >Fontana (a live-action script again attempting to introduce Joanna McCoy).

"Time Trap" is actually a rip off of a Gold Key comic book story of unknown authorship. The plots are far too identical for it to be coincidence.