What mental ideas did the writers float but not do?

[AntonyF]

Star Trek has always abandoned story ideas, doesn't matter which Star Trek.

It does when you're in a TNG forum and I said "sort of compiling a list to the 'Are you mad?' moments of the TNG writers."

 

[FredH]

The real problem, imho, is that Chekov is the bad guy in the story, and that feels like something that you really shouldn't do in a piece of tie-in fiction. I think Koenig probably would have relished the opportunity to portray the tragic downfall of a long-ago hero on screen, though, and it's a pity that it never came to be.

I’d have been heartbroken to see it as a viewer, though. That’s worse than Jim Phelps.

 

[Uxi]

Increasingly like the idea of the either Picard dying or being untrusted and desk promoted out of the way to make Riker captain after Best of Both Worlds.

Frakes really should have shaved for Thomas Riker and wore a fake beard for Will until he could grow it out again. Or given Thomas a fake Castaway long beard. Probably given him a fake scar or something, too. Having slightly messy hair with exact same beard did not really work for their "face to face" confrontation.

 

[NCC-73515]

It was not the same beard, Tom's had more cheek hair

 

[Starflight]

This is on the Memory Alpha page for unmade TNG episodes:

One of the many spec scripts which were submitted to the series concerned a planet where everything about it, even its spaceships, was made of Velcro.

God it'd have been so good, if you really focus, you can actually see it in your mind's eye as if it's a real season one episode.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Going right back to the beginning of TNG, Riker was planned to dislike Data on account of him being artificial. It is a feature of Diane Carey's Ghost Ship, written before TNG premiered (IIRC going on the "Encounter at Farpoint" script, cast photos and show bible) a surreal look at how TNG could have turned out.

 

[FredH]

This is on the Memory Alpha page for unmade TNG episodes:

God it'd have been so good, if you really focus, you can actually see it in your mind's eye as if it's a real season one episode.

What on earth would the plot have been? Mysterious plague is making all the structures release their grips?

 

[knightgrace]

It does when you're in a TNG forum and I said "sort of compiling a list to the 'Are you mad?' moments of the TNG writers."

Well, first of all, any Star Trek is an exercise in mental agility...

In other words,we are pre trained to deal with the mentally ill. Especially Science Fiction buffs...

Don't believe me?

The motion picture 'Alien'. The Alien in particular.

 

[Firebird]

Well, first of all, any Star Trek is an exercise in mental agility...

In other words,we are pre trained to deal with the mentally ill. Especially Science Fiction buffs...

Don't believe me?

The motion picture 'Alien'. The Alien in particular.

None of which deals with the actual topic of the thread, which once again is Star Trek: The Next Generation.