Now we know that there's the eventually aired TOS pilot The Cage and then there's the unaired version of Voyagers Pilot with Geneivieve (sp?) Bujold but I was wondering if there were any unaired pilots or scenes of the pilots of the other shows, TNG, DS9 and Enterprise that might have slipped out from obscurity and made known to anyone?
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There was a different and bigger version of the Battle of Wolf 359 filmed for Emissary. It was later decided to reshoot it and make it shorter. (See the DS9 Companion for more info!)
There's also a deleted scene from Emissary where Sisko takes the Orb back to Opaka, who tells him his journey is just beginning.
There's also a deleted scene from Emissary where Sisko takes the Orb back to Opaka, who tells him his journey is just beginning.
Also, there were scenes in the premiere DS9 script that essentially reintroduced the character of Keiko O'Brien to ST viewers, and featuring her trying to settle in to life on DS9, worrying about Molly, Jake and Nog running wild, deciding to open a school, etc. The scenes are in the novelization of "Emissary" but missing from the episode as aired. However, they are simply transposed to the first early episode to feature Keiko: "A Man Alone". I'd assume they weren't even filmed until after "Emissary" wrapped principal photography.
You won't find too many ideas that didn't make it into TNG's "Encounter at Farpoint" script, because that episode started life as a one-hour story, and when it was decided to make it telemovie length, Gene Roddenberry wrote the Q material to be grafted onto DC Fontana's "Farpoint" storyline. (The novelization by David Gerrold does contain brief mention of Data being created on a human colony world, Kiron III - but by mysterious unknown aliens - which was overruled/rethought/ignored by the episode "Datalore".)
There is a different, original edit of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - the one that is housed at the Smithsonian (and used to play on a monitor next to the Enterprise model display when it was first donated). This version has different opening credits and "Quinn-Martin Productions" style segment titles, such as "Act One", etc, just like the old "The Streets of San Francisco".
Glad they did this. No point in launching in to Keiko's whining in the very first episode.
there's a deleted scene in Broken Bow where Archer talks to the space-port controller on Rigel X and they discuss the Klingon dude's ship.
Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II was his effort to bring Trek's human-morality stage to Earth. Another idea ahead of its' time...CBS did air the pilot, however.
This is slightly OT and maybe crazy, and therefore couse a lot of heated debate, but ive always wondered if there's any reason why Genesis II would not fit within the established trek history, maybe say, just after the WW III? It would seem to be a great addition to the fan chronologies if it could be,IMHO?
Agreed, and I believe that the post-atomic courtroom from "Encounter at Farpoint" was a tip of the hat to Genesis II...
There were a few scenes from 'Broken Bow' which had Jolene Blalock donning an odd longer wig instead of the bowl cut we got in the aired version and the series. They decided to change it pretty sharpish and re-shot the scenes they had done with her wearing it. IIRC, the scenes are on the DVD.
You can see a shot of it here. Although I wasn't keen on modern ST's tendency to feature every Vulcan with the same hairdo, the bowlcut she ended up with was much better than that monstrosity IMO.
You can see a shot of it here. Although I wasn't keen on modern ST's tendency to feature every Vulcan with the same hairdo, the bowlcut she ended up with was much better than that monstrosity IMO.
wow, ug-lee.
t'pol looked better with the long hair in Twilight and IaMD
t'pol looked better with the long hair in Twilight and IaMD
It almost looks like a mullet.
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