Sometimes it really helps to go back to the original source! But watching the episode—or even skimming it—can be time consuming. So why not let the computer search the text for you? I’ve collected the scripts of every episode of The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine , and the first 10 movies.
All episodes are stored in plain text format.
Archivist’s Note: All of these scripts were obtained from other published sources; the complete scripts for TOS, Voyager , and Enterprise are not available right now. (Please don’t ask me about getting more scripts added, I’ve posted all the files I’ve found.)
Star Trek: The Movies
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- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Star Trek: Generations
- Star Trek: First Contact (Draft Version)
- Star Trek: Insurrection
- Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Episode 1-2: “Encounter at Farpoint”
- Episode 3: “The Naked Now”
- Episode 4: “Code of Honor”
- Episode 5: “Haven”
- Episode 6: “Where No One Has Gone Before”
- Episode 7: “The Last Outpost”
- Episode 8: “Lonely Among Us”
- Episode 9: “Justice”
- Episode 10: “The Battle”
- Episode 11: “Hide and Q”
- Episode 12: “Too Short A Season”
- Episode 13: “The Big Goodbye”
- Episode 14: “Datalore”
- Episode 15: “Angel One”
- Episode 16: “11001001”
- Episode 17: “Home Soil”
- Episode 18: “When the Bough Breaks”
- Episode 19: “Coming of Age”
- Episode 20: “Heart of Glory”
- Episode 21: “The Arsenal of Freedom”
- Episode 22: “Symbiosis”
- Episode 23: “Skin of Evil”
- Episode 24: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
- Episode 25: “Conspiracy”
- Episode 26: “The Neutral Zone”
- Episode 27: “The Child”
- Episode 28: “Where Silence Has Lease”
- Episode 29: “Elementary, Dear Data”
- Episode 30: “The Outrageous Okona”
- Episode 31: “The Schizoid Man”
- Episode 32: “Loud as a Whisper”
- Episode 33: “Unnatural Selection”
- Episode 34: “A Matter of Honor”
- Episode 35: “The Measure of a Man”
- Episode 36: “The Dauphin”
- Episode 37: “Contagion”
- Episode 38: “The Royale”
- Episode 39: “Time Squared”
- Episode 40: “The Icarus Factor”
- Episode 41: “Pen Pals”
- Episode 42: “Q Who?”
- Episode 43: “Samaritan Snare”
- Episode 44: “Up the Long Ladder”
- Episode 45: “Manhunt”
- Episode 46: “The Emissary”
- Episode 47: “Peak Performance”
- Episode 48: “Shades of Grey”
- Episode 49: “The Ensigns of Command”
- Episode 50: “Evolution”
- Episode 51: “The Survivors”
- Episode 52: “Who Watches the Watchers?”
- Episode 53: “The Bonding”
- Episode 54: “Booby Trap”
- Episode 55: “The Enemy”
- Episode 56: “The Price”
- Episode 57: “The Vengeance Factor”
- Episode 58: “The Defector”
- Episode 59: “The Hunted”
- Episode 60: “The High Ground”
- Episode 61: “Déjà Q”
- Episode 62: “A Matter of Perspective”
- Episode 63: “Yesterday’s Enterprise ”
- Episode 64: “The Offspring”
- Episode 65: “Sins of the Father”
- Episode 66: “Allegiance”
- Episode 67: “Captain’s Holiday”
- Episode 68: “Tin Man”
- Episode 69: “Hollow Pursuits”
- Episode 70: “The Most Toys”
- Episode 71: “Sarek”
- Episode 72: “Ménage á Troi”
- Episode 73: “Transfigurations”
- Episode 74: “The Best of Both Worlds, Part I”
- Episode 75: “The Best of Both Worlds, Part II”
- Episode 76: “Family”
- Episode 77: “Brothers”
- Episode 78: “Suddenly Human”
- Episode 79: “Remember Me”
- Episode 80: “Legacy”
- Episode 81: “Reunion”
- Episode 82: “Future Imperfect”
- Episode 83: “Final Mission”
- Episode 84: “The Loss”
- Episode 85: “Data’s Day”
- Episode 86: “The Wounded”
- Episode 87: “Devil’s Due”
- Episode 88: “Clues”
- Episode 89: “First Contact”
- Episode 90: “Galaxy’s Child”
- Episode 91: “Night Terrors”
- Episode 92: “Identity Crisis”
- Episode 93: “The Nth Degree”
- Episode 94: “Qpid”
- Episode 95: “The Drumhead”
- Episode 96: “Half a Life”
- Episode 97: “The Host”
- Episode 98: “The Mind’s Eye”
- Episode 99: “In Theory”
- Episode 100: “Redemption, Part I”
- Episode 101: “Redemption, Part II”
- Episode 102: “Darmok”
- Episode 103: “Ensign Ro”
- Episode 104: “Silicon Avatar”
- Episode 105: “Disaster”
- Episode 106: “The Game”
- Episode 107: “Unification, Part I”
- Episode 108: “Unification, Part II”
- Episode 109: “A Matter of Time”
- Episode 110: “New Ground”
- Episode 111: “Hero Worship”
- Episode 112: “Violations”
- Episode 113: “The Masterpiece Society”
- Episode 114: “Conundrum”
- Episode 115: “Power Play”
- Episode 116: “Ethics”
- Episode 117: “The Outcast”
- Episode 118: “Cause and Effect”
- Episode 119: “The First Duty”
- Episode 120: “Cost of Living”
- Episode 121: “The Perfect Mate”
- Episode 122: “Imaginary Friend”
- Episode 123: “I, Borg”
- Episode 124: “The Next Phase”
- Episode 125: “The Inner Light”
- Episode 126: “Time’s Arrow, Part I”
- Episode 127: “Time’s Arrow, Part II”
- Episode 128: “Realm of Fear”
- Episode 129: “Man of the People”
- Episode 130: “Relics”
- Episode 131: “Schisms”
- Episode 132: “True Q”
- Episode 133: “Rascals”
- Episode 134: “A Fistful of Datas”
- Episode 135: “The Quality of Life”
- Episode 136: “Chain of Command, Part I”
- Episode 137: “Chain of Command, Part II”
- Episode 138: “Ship in a Bottle”
- Episode 139: “Aquiel”
- Episode 140: “Face of the Enemy”
- Episode 141: “Tapestry”
- Episode 142: “Birthright, Part I”
- Episode 143: “Birthright, Part II”
- Episode 144: “Starship Mine”
- Episode 145: “Lessons”
- Episode 146: “The Chase”
- Episode 147: “Frame of Mind”
- Episode 148: “Suspicions”
- Episode 149: “Rightful Heir”
- Episode 150: “Second Chances”
- Episode 151: “Timescape”
- Episode 152: “Descent, Part I”
- Episode 153: “Descent, Part II”
- Episode 154: “Liaisons”
- Episode 155: “Interface”
- Episode 156: “Gambit, Part I”
- Episode 157: “Gambit, Part II”
- Episode 158: “Phantasms”
- Episode 159: “Dark Page”
- Episode 160: “Attached”
- Episode 161: “Force of Nature”
- Episode 162: “Inheritance”
- Episode 163: “Parallels”
- Episode 164: “The Pegasus ”
- Episode 165: “Homeward”
- Episode 166: “Sub Rosa”
- Episode 167: “Lower Decks”
- Episode 168: “Thine Own Self”
- Episode 169: “Masks”
- Episode 170: “Eye of the Beholder”
- Episode 171: “Genesis”
- Episode 172: “Journey’s End”
- Episode 173: “Firstborn”
- Episode 174: “Bloodlines”
- Episode 175: “Emergence”
- Episode 176: “Preemptive Strike”
- Episode 177-178: “All Good Things...”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Episode 1-2: “Emissary”
- Episode 3: “A Man Alone”
- Episode 4: “Past Prologue”
- Episode 5: “Babel”
- Episode 6: “Captive Pursuit”
- Episode 7: “Q-Less”
- Episode 8: “Dax”
- Episode 9: “The Passenger”
- Episode 10: “Move Along Home”
- Episode 11: “The Nagus”
- Episode 12: “Vortex”
- Episode 13: “Battle Lines”
- Episode 14: “The Storyteller”
- Episode 15: “Progress”
- Episode 16: “If Wishes Were Horses”
- Episode 17: “The Forsaken”
- Episode 18: “Dramatis Personae”
- Episode 19: “Duet”
- Episode 20: “In the Hands of the Prophets”
- Episode 21: “The Homecoming”
- Episode 22: “The Circle”
- Episode 23: “The Siege”
- Episode 24: “Invasive Procedures”
- Episode 25: “Cardassians”
- Episode 26: “Melora”
- Episode 27: “Rules of Acquisition”
- Episode 28: “Necessary Evil”
- Episode 29: “Second Sight”
- Episode 30: “Sanctuary”
- Episode 31: “Rivals”
- Episode 32: “The Alternate”
- Episode 33: “Armageddon Game”
- Episode 34: “Whispers”
- Episode 35: “Paradise”
- Episode 36: “Shadowplay”
- Episode 37: “Playing God”
- Episode 38: “Profit and Loss”
- Episode 39: “Blood Oath”
- Episode 40: “The Maquis, Part I”
- Episode 41: “The Maquis, Part II”
- Episode 42: “The Wire”
- Episode 43: “Crossover”
- Episode 44: “The Collaborator”
- Episode 45: “Tribunal”
- Episode 46: “The Jem’Hadar”
- Episode 47: “The Search, Part I”
- Episode 48: “The Search, Part II”
- Episode 49: “The House of Quark”
- Episode 50: “Equilibrium”
- Episode 51: “Second Skin”
- Episode 52: “The Abandoned”
- Episode 53: “Civil Defense”
- Episode 54: “Meridian”
- Episode 55: “ Defiant ”
- Episode 56: “Fascination”
- Episode 57: “Past Tense, Part I”
- Episode 58: “Past Tense, Part II”
- Episode 59: “Life Support”
- Episode 60: “Heart of Stone”
- Episode 61: “Destiny”
- Episode 62: “Prophet Motive”
- Episode 63: “Visionary”
- Episode 64: “Distant Voices”
- Episode 65: “Through the Looking Glass”
- Episode 66: “Improbable Cause”
- Episode 67: “The Die Is Cast”
- Episode 68: “Explorers”
- Episode 69: “Family Business”
- Episode 70: “Shakaar”
- Episode 71: “Facets”
- Episode 72: “The Adversary”
- Episode 73-74: “The Way of the Warrior”
- Episode 75: “The Visitor”
- Episode 76: “Hippocratic Oath”
- Episode 77: “Indiscretion”
- Episode 78: “Rejoined”
- Episode 79: “Starship Down”
- Episode 80: “Little Green Men”
- Episode 81: “The Sword of Kahless”
- Episode 82: “Our Man Bashir”
- Episode 83: “Homefront”
- Episode 84: “Paradise Lost”
- Episode 85: “Crossfire”
- Episode 86: “Return to Grace”
- Episode 87: “Sons of Mogh”
- Episode 88: “The Bar Association”
- Episode 89: “Accession”
- Episode 90: “Rules of Engagement”
- Episode 91: “Hard Time”
- Episode 92: “Shattered Mirror”
- Episode 93: “The Muse”
- Episode 94: “For the Cause”
- Episode 95: “The Quickening”
- Episode 96: “To the Death”
- Episode 97: “Body Parts”
- Episode 98: “Broken Link”
- Episode 99: “Apocalypse Rising”
- Episode 100: “The Ship”
- Episode 101: “Looking For par’Mach in All the Wrong Places”
- Episode 102: “...Nor the Battle to the Strong”
- Episode 103: “The Assignment”
- Episode 104: “Trials and Tribble-ations”
- Episode 105: “Let He Who Is Without Sin...”
- Episode 106: “Things Past”
- Episode 107: “The Ascent”
- Episode 108: “Rapture”
- Episode 109: “The Darkness and the Light”
- Episode 110: “The Begotten”
- Episode 111: “For the Uniform”
- Episode 112: “In Purgatory’s Shadow”
- Episode 113: “By Inferno’s Light”
- Episode 114: “Doctor Bashir, I Presume?”
- Episode 115: “A Simple Investigation”
- Episode 116: “Business as Usual”
- Episode 117: “Ties of Blood and Water”
- Episode 118: “Ferengi Love Songs”
- Episode 119: “Soldiers of the Empire”
- Episode 120: “Children of Time”
- Episode 121: “Blaze of Glory”
- Episode 122: “Empok Nor”
- Episode 123: “In the Cards”
- Episode 124: “Call to Arms”
- Episode 125: “A Time to Stand”
- Episode 126: “Rocks and Shoals”
- Episode 127: “Sons and Daughters”
- Episode 128: “Behind the Lines”
- Episode 129: “Favor the Bold”
- Episode 130: “The Sacrifice of Angels”
- Episode 131: “You Are Cordially Invited...”
- Episode 132: “Resurrection”
- Episode 133: “Statistical Probabilities”
- Episode 134: “The Magnificent Ferengi”
- Episode 135: “Waltz”
- Episode 136: “Who Mourns for Morn”
- Episode 137: “Far Beyond the Stars”
- Episode 138: “One Little Ship”
- Episode 139: “Honor Among Thieves”
- Episode 140: “Change of Heart”
- Episode 141: “Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night”
- Episode 142: “Inquisition”
- Episode 143: “In the Pale Moonlight”
- Episode 144: “His Way”
- Episode 145: “The Reckoning”
- Episode 146: “ Valiant ”
- Episode 147: “Profit and Lace”
- Episode 148: “Time’s Orphan”
- Episode 149: “The Sound of Her Voice”
- Episode 150: “Tears of the Prophets”
- Episode 151: “Image in the Sand”
- Episode 152: “Shadows and Symbols”
- Episode 153: “Afterimage”
- Episode 154: “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”
- Episode 155: “Chrysalis”
- Episode 156: “Treachery, Faith, and the Great River”
- Episode 157: “Once More Unto the Breach”
- Episode 158: “The Siege of AR-558”
- Episode 159: “Covenant”
- Episode 160: “It’s Only a Paper Moon”
- Episode 161: “Prodigal Daughter”
- Episode 162: “The Emperor’s New Cloak”
- Episode 163: “Field of Fire”
- Episode 164: “Chimera”
- Episode 165: “Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang”
- Episode 166: “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges”
- Episode 167: “Penumbra”
- Episode 168: “‘Til Death Do Us Part”
- Episode 169: “Strange Bedfellows”
- Episode 170: “The Changing Face of Evil”
- Episode 171: “When It Rains...”
- Episode 172: “Tacking Into the Wind”
- Episode 173: “Extreme Measures”
- Episode 174: “The Dogs of War”
- Episode 175-176: “What You Leave Behind”
Star Trek: Voyager
- Episode 34: “Death Wish”
- Episode 68: “Scorpion, Part I”
- Episode 69: “Scorpion, Part II”
- Episode 74: “The Raven ”
- Episode 89: “The Omega Directive”
- Episode 93: “One”
- Episode 94: “Hope and Fear”
- Episode 30: “Death Wish”
- Episode 44: “False Profits”
- Episode 53: “The Q and the Grey”
- Episode 95: “Night”
- Episode 104: “Counterpoint”
- Episode 110: “The Disease”
- Episode 111: “Dark Frontier, Part I”
- Episode 112: “Dark Frontier, Part II”
- Episode 120: “ Equinox , Part I”
- Episode 121: “ Equinox , Part II”
- Episode 129: “The Voyager Conspiracy”
- Episode 140: “Good Shepherd”
- Episode 157: “Shattered”
- Episode 158: “Lineage”
Star Trek: Enterprise
- Episode 1: “Broken Bow” (Draft Version)
- Episode 69: “Azati Prime”
- Episode 76: “Zero Hour”
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TOS Original Scripts
Authentic scripts from Star Trek: The Original Series are great collectibles. In addition to them being historic pieces, they make fascinating and educational reading. With regards to this latter aspect, since different drafts exist of the scripts for the produced and unproduced episodes, you can learn about the Trek s that almost happened but didn’t. Furthermore, since genuine scripts are sometimes peppered with handwritten notes from the cast or crew, it’s possible to find nuggets of undocumented, inside information in them.
So, with that TEASER, let’s FADE IN on this article about the original scripts of TOS . Our ACTS here will present an overview of the types of scripts that were written and, consequently, the types that are available today. Our discussion in this STORY will also include the context in which the scripts were produced to help illustrate the relationship between the various drafts as well as some other characteristics of the scripts. However, before DOLLYING IN, we want to point out that our exposition will focus on scripts that were written in TOS’ s era. The process today, and the physical appearance of the resulting scripts, are a bit different. CUT TO:
Scripts, by the Numbers
As you know, TOS had 79 episodes and two pilots, which meant that it had to have at least 80 scripts (the two-part “ The Menagerie ” only had one script). We use the words “at least” on purpose because, if you count the first story outlines (which are technically not scripts, but for the purposes of this article we'll include them), the first drafts, the second drafts, the final drafts, the revised final drafts and so on, you’ll quickly discover that there were hundreds of different scripts prepared for the series. At this late date, it’s difficult to know exactly how many, but there were a lot. And when you realize that Gene Roddenberry, Fred Freiberger, Bob Justman, Gene Coon, Dorothy Fontana and the rest of the production company were cranking out episodes on a weekly basis, it’s no surprise that TOS had both good and bad episodes… like most television shows and movies.
The Outline
A potential episode of TOS started with an idea, of course, which was then committed to paper as a story outline. These outlines were typically short, from 2-25 pages, and were generally structured using TEASERS (the part before the opening narration designed to hook you) and ACTS (the four long parts in the middle of the episode separated by commercials). At this early stage, there were usually no scenes or dialogue in the outlines, but the stories were complete from beginning to end, and set and location changes were often indicated.
The physical form of the story outlines for TOS was pretty simple. They were typed on plain white paper or onion skin, had no formal covers and were usually stapled in the upper left-hand corner.
(Here are two pages from “The Aurorals,” an unproduced TOS story outline written by Frank Paris. Please note that we’ve joined the pages together vertically for ease of reading.)
Early Drafts
After an outline was approved, which meant that the production company, studio and network were okay with it (more on that in a moment), a writer – usually the writer of the outline, but not always – was tasked to write the first draft of the script using the outline as a guide. This first draft was usually 50-80 pages long, had cast and set lists, and scenes that were consecutively numbered, fully described and contained dialogue. The script was bound in a yellow cardstock cover using two brads. (A picture of the cover of a first draft script is presented towards the end of this article.)
Following the completion of the first draft, it was read by the principal cast members, department heads, studio and network, so that a decision could be made as to whether the basic story would work for TOS – e.g., that it would fit the format and could be done on budget – and the writer could do a good job. Everyone realized that this initial attempt was just a first shot and revisions would be necessary – no one expected it to be immediately shootable.
At this point in the process, the writer was frequently given extensive notes on the script and asked to make revisions. S/he went back to the typewriter (yep, no computers in the late 1960’s) and, if all went well, produced a final draft. It was not unheard of, however, for the writer to be asked to write a second draft, and then maybe a third draft, before proceeding to a final draft. Those second and third draft scripts, incidentally, also had yellow covers.
(The below excerpt is from the first draft script of “The Cage” written by Gene Roddenberry.)
Final Drafts
Final draft scripts weighed in at around 65 pages and were close to what the production team hoped to put before the cameras. Their format was similar to the first draft scripts, except their cover colors were gray; a few had blue covers, however, but these were the exceptions. The change of color on the cover signified that the script was locked for production, which meant that the various departments could start their serious planning and budgeting discussions. This did not mean, however, that changes weren’t made to the scripts. In fact, many were altered after they went to gray cover due to a variety of reasons, and any changes were handled through the use of colored pages to make sure that everyone could easily identify them. These colored “change pages” had dates at the top – called revision slugs – and each successive change was denoted by a different color. Their colors followed the standard scheme which started with white pages in the initial draft followed by blue, pink, yellow, green, etc. However, this scheme was not set in stone in TOS and we’ve seen exceptions to it.
(Shown below are examples of colored change pages from “ The Man Trap ” and “ Miri .”)
We should note that when significant changes were made to the script that required a lot of change pages, the script version was incremented to the next one, e.g., a final draft became a revised final draft, a revised final draft became a 2nd revised final draft and so on. Additionally, the cover color was often changed to red.
Finally, when the last revision of the script was as “done” at it could be, the episode was ready to be shot. If all went well, this final version was completed before the first day of filming. However, there are a few instances where the script was revised while the episode was filmed. Two examples of this situation include “ Mudd’s Women ” and “ The Enemy Within .”
We mentioned earlier that the scripts were written fast. To give you an idea of the speed at which they were, an average first draft script typically was turned into a final draft in 2-3 weeks and a final draft script (or higher revision) typically went before the cameras in 5-18 days following its completion.
(The below shows examples of authentic, production-used scripts – a yellow first draft, two gray finals, and one red revised final. Note the information on the covers, including the large “STAR TREK” written in shadow block font and the blue machine-stamped script number in the upper right-hand corner.)
Lincoln Scripts
Before concluding this article, we want to comment on the scripts sold by the mail-order company Lincoln Enterprises. We’ve examined many that were purchased from them and can attest that quite a few were production-used; they contained colored change pages and had crew names written on their covers. Others, the majority, were reproductions, some of which were high quality and similar to the studio scripts, while others were not. The higher quality reproductions were printed on mimeograph machines and collated with two brads to mimic what was done by the studios. These copies were also done in red cover cardstock with nearly identical printing as the originals. At some point though – we believe in the mid-to-late 70’s – Lincoln discontinued the red cardstock covers and used other colored, non-cardstock paper. However, all of these Lincoln copies contained all white pages with differing revision dates at the top, a clear indicator, one of several, that the scripts were reproductions. Additionally, the scripts that Lincoln sold were not always the “shooting drafts” as they advertised – they were whatever versions they got access to.
(An assortment of Lincoln Enterprises reproduction scripts, sold through the years, is shown below. Their covers are generally plain relative to the original scripts, and the words “STAR TREK” are written in a variety of different font styles. Also, the script numbers were most often written by hand, but some early ones were machine stamped in black ink.)
And with that, we’ll FADE OUT and say THE END. Until next time.
Biographical Information
David Tilotta is a professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC and works in the areas of chemistry and sustainable materials technology. You can email David at [email protected]. Curt McAloney is an accomplished graphic artist with extensive experience in multimedia, Internet and print design. He resides in a suburb of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and can be contacted at [email protected]. Together, Curt and David work on startrekhistory.com. Their Star Trek work has appeared in the Star Trek Magazine and Star Trek: The Original Series 365 by Paula M. Block with Terry J. Erdmann.
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The bulk of the collection contains scripts from the original Star Trek television series. Also included are record albums, books and miscellaneous materials pertaining to the series.
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Gene Roddenberry’s 1964 Star Trek pitch online
| February 5, 2011 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 69 comments so far
The script made its way online courtesy of the pop culture blog Between the Pages (you can download and read the pitch — in pdf form — at this link ). Some of the pitch has actually been published before specifically in the Stephen E. Whitfield / Gene Roddenberry book "The Making of Star Trek", however for many others, this is the first glimpse into some of the original ideas behind “Star Trek”.
Revelations include Roddenberry’s original captain being named Robert April, not James Kirk and not Christopher Pike, the ship’s name being the Yorktown, not the Enterprise and other topics including character descriptions, episode details and more. Here’s an excerpt from the 16-page outline describing the lead character Robert April:
The “skippper”, about thirty-four, Academy graduate, rank of captain. Clearly the leading man and central character. This role is designated for an actor of top repute and ability. A shorthand sketch of Robert April might be “A space-age Captain Horation Horn-blower”, lean and capable both mentally and physically. … A colorfully complex personality, he is capable of action and decision which can verge on the heroic — and at the same time lives a continual battle with self-doubt and the loneliness of command.
And then there’s Mr. Spock, described by Roddenberry as the captain’s “right-hand man, the working level commander of all the ship’s functions from manning the bridge to supervising the lowliest scrub detail.” Initially, Roddenberry also had a completely different look in mind for Spock, describing his character thusly:
And the first view of him can be almost frightening — a face so heavy-lidded and satanic you might almost expect him to have a forked tail. Probably half Martian, he has a slightly reddish complexion and semi-pointed ears.
Roddenberry also spoke of his desire for Spock to have a “quiet temperament”:
But strangely — Mr. Spock’s quiet temperament is in dramatic contrast to his satanic look. Of all the crew aboard, he is nearest to Captain April’s equal, physically and emotionally, as a commander of men. His primary weakness is an almost cat-like curiousity over anything the slightest “alien”.
The outline also contains Roddenberry’s description of the show:
And lastly, in the outline Roddenberry reveals several plot ideas some of which even formed the basis for eventual episodes including the show’s first pilot, “The Cage”. Other episodes referenced in the pitch include "Charlie X", "A Piece of the Action", and "Mudd’s Women". Perhaps even more fascinating to some are the episode ideas that didn’t make it to the TV screen. The 16-page outline can be downloaded and read at this link . Give it a look as it’s sure to contain at least a few surprises.
As noted in the comments, this pitch originally surfaced on the internet a few years ago. For a more detailed analysis, be sure to check out the Ex-Astris .
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There is no doubt in my mind, that Genes concept was greatly influenced by the movie Forbidden Planet.
“happily eliminating the need to encumber our stories with tiresome scientific explanation”
well – that didn’t work out too well later on :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGAahDeceHI
Good story i never knew some of those lost details!
@2: lol! Hadn’t seen that in a while.
Also shows the difference between the 1960’s Gene Roddenberry who created a show without fan input, and the 1990’s Gene Roddenberry who had solidified what Star Trek was with fan involvement. It went from mighty to meh!
Troppi cuochi guastano la cucina.
This was already online at Ex-Astris… as of a few years back.
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek_is …
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/trek_history.htm
Don’t forget no decade has recreated what happened in the 60’s hence why TOS may have been mighty, it was also the first show of its kind. To say it went from might to meh because of fan input your nuts. Ok DS9 and VOY may not stand up. But TNG was more mighty than TOS if you take away the power of the 60’s.
5. Alex Fletcher / Sulfur
As we mentioned, this isn’t necessarily new, but we thought it was important to bring up for those not fully aware of the show’s history.
6. Chadwick – February 5, 2011
TNG was meh. Happy to be called nuts. :-)
And by the way, if anyone can stream Netflix, I highly recommend you search out “Tapped,” a documentary on bottled water. You ought to know. And if you drink bottled water, you might as well start drinking your water out of lead goblets. That’s how good it is for your health.
@7: The wording both here and on the other blog is suggestive that this is the first time the pitch has surfaced.
Something that is incorrect. It surfaced in late November 2008.
Hey Rosario. That was a great Article. Have not seen that in a long time. But was fun to read. If Bob orci does another Trek series I thonk the next Capt should be Named Capt Robet April of the U.S.S Interprise. The First Federation Star Ship. Maybe as his First Officer is a younger Comander Chris Pike.
#5 Yup. “Resurfaced” isn’t true because it was available all the time at least since 2006. I don’t mind the blog taking it from my site without bothering to credit me because I just re-composed the PDF. But in light of the fact that something posted on an obscure blog rather gets noticed in fan circles than content on a major Trek site, I somehow feel let down…
I found the pitch at trek5.com a couple of years ago and decided to preserve it when the site went down. (Look into the PDF properties, where trek5.com is credited along with Gene Roddenberry because I put it there.)
I thought it was interesting that one of the story ideas sounded just like the genesis of the movie “Alien.” Really!
@4 Are you really calling The Next Generation, a series that was nominated for Best Drama at the Emmy’s a “meh” Star Trek series?
@13: I am! And keep in mind that my “meh” is actually much more charitable than the opinion of the total audience available to watch TNG which wasn’t inspired to watch it at all!
Its nice to know that, at one point, Roddenberry wanted to avoid the very Treknobabble that became the lowlight of so many Trek episodes (in all its various incarnations) in the years to follow.
For those of you who have never read “The Making of Star Trek,” I highly recommend it. Great read, although I guess the book is hard to find these days…
1 – Skipper of a deep space cruiser? Think so? Of course, once you throw anything into a studio, it begins to mutate. And I’m glad it did. Didn’t know his first choice was “Yorktown.” Nice decision to go with “Enterprise.” Even love Gene’s typos. “Horation.” This article is SO cool. This is what keeps me coming back to TrekMovie.com.
“Space: 1995” *snicker*
You’re totally welcome to your opinion, of course, but I have to disagree. I happened to enjoy TNG very much. Still do.
Though in some ways, I feel that “Deep Space Nine” is the best series. Maybe because it covered things more in depth (like war, politics, religion, economics) more than the other series did.
18. DS9 for me too! It and TOS are my favorite Treks.
I loved all of them. But in order. 1. Tos. 2. Ds9. 3. Tng. 4 Enterprise. 5. Voyager. Loved all of the Series and seen all Eps of every Trek made and that does include the Animated Series.
I would love to see a Remaster of the Animated Series like Clone Wars. Would be so Kool to have that.
Not a fan of “The Animated Series”. The stories were good, but the animation sucks.
Oh yea, i agree 100 percent that the animations sucks. But not bad for a 1970’s cartoon.
Where’s the gay character?
*runs away*
Thanks for this Rosario!
An interesting glimpse at the thought process in creating the original show. Although I have to wonder why Gene thought that 2995 would be close enough to our time that we could relate. I can’t imagine what people will be like in a thousand years. Fortunately he didn’t go that far ahead.
#25. Where’s the gay character?
When I find you. Agoniser Booth you will go
This one is my favorite:
“THE PET SHOP. Exactly duplicating St. Louis 1918, a city where women are so completely the masters that men have the status of pets. Something of a satire on “people and dogs”, this story shows men treated in that fashion, caged in kennels, others clothed and perfumed and treated as lapdogs, as long as they continue to fawn, appreciate and selflessly love.”
@Red & jas, re: ST-TAS.
I’ve said for a few years, that using the recorded voice tracks from TAS, and enlisting Nimoy, Nichols, and Takei while we still have them, it would be a fun ILM-type project to redo it with CGI. Expand the stories out. Add in Chekov. I’d even say voice recast as necessary to create new lines for Bones (since Urban did such a spot-on job) and Scotty (since Chris Doohan can do the Scotty better than anyone)… and make them into fuller episodes. CGI for the space sequences could be really interesting, with photo-realistic for characters. I’d pay to see them that way.
@28: It got filmed during TNG as “Angel One”, after also being used in the pilot for the series Genesis II. Gene loved that concept. I’m not sure what it says about him.
It would be SO easy for some ..ahem… enterprinsing fan or filmmaker to use the Animated series audio and lay new CGI animation on top of it. Then we’d have good stories and something actually watchable, with the original stars! Like all new TOS!
I don’t know if they still exist, but I’m sure that hundreds of extra hours of alternate and unused dialogue takes also exist. They might be able to even flesh out the stories a little.
They REALLY ought to also re-record the various aliens and guest characters that Doohan and Nichols played in an attempt to save money. They are straining too much to not sound like themselves so the acting comes off badly.
“Star Trek; The Reanimated Series”. Just make sure you list me in the credits :-)
@31, that’d be an incredible thing to see, but I think you overestimate the ease with which it could be done. Animation of any sort is very difficult, especially as a fan undertaking.
But I do totally agree that it’d present a chance to re-dub the alien voices, something that, even as a huge fan of the old ‘toon, I believe it sorely needs.
@2: Kinda sad that the guy doing that video rendered “That Which Survives” as “That Witch Survives” (I guess he thought it was referring even more specifically to Losira) and that he apparently thinks “antimatter” is made-up sf gibberish. Sadly, he’s not alone on the latter point–there was an article posted on Kotaku a while back that talked about antimatter and the LHC, and half the comments boiled down to: “Antimatter is REAL!?”
As much as I like geeking out on Trek tech, I think they ought to take a page from Ron Moore’s book and tone it waaaay down if they do another series. Technobabble really can bog things down.
Old news is still news – and TrekMovie.com is in desperate need of ANY news!
Thanks for posting, Rosario. :)
#13. “@4 Are you really calling The Next Generation, a series that was nominated for Best Drama at the Emmy’s a “meh” Star Trek series?”
…when you look at the writing and performances of the show that beat out TNG, Picket Fences, I’d say it’s nomination was totally out of place and nothing more than a token gesture to Trek in general, made with full knowledge that the show didn’t have a chance in hell of winning.
#29 and #31 I completely agree about reanimating and expanding the animated series. I would add that they should do the same thing with the video games from the 90s.(25 anniversary, judgement rites and the unreleased secret of vulcan fury). Get the actors back that are still alive and expand it to an hour. They would double the amount of animated episodes. These episodes could be the 4th and 5th year and thus complete the 5 year mission.
The problem of reanimating the animated series lies in the legalities. The original writers would have to be paid, so would all of the actors. Plus it would cost a heck of a lot of money just to pay the animators. Somehow, I doubt CBS would want to spend that kind of money.
Thanks for that
Chris — Since you’re such a good chum of JJ, can you get him to shake free a few million and make a re-do of TAS possible? Even a package of glommed together eps (see how the novelizations linked them together) would be a great treat. Four or six 90-minute specials, released on SyFy or Comedy Central or whatever. New music; improved animation; added voice parts married to the original cast performances. As others have mentioned, there’s nothing in the interim for us fans, an we’re HUNGRY.
I remember reading this pitch in an old book (about 1984-ish or so) called “The Star Trek Compendium” by Allan Asherman. Well researched book it was, too. He came out with a newer edition in 1986 as well (with a ‘preview’ of Star Trek 4). He also gave terrific first hand accounts of seeing Star Trek previewed at a world science fiction convention in 1966 (before Trek premiered). Good read for any TOS Star Trek fan.
TSTC had some of the Robert April/Chris Pike bible information in it as well. Another good making-of Trek book was “The Making of Star Trek” written by ‘Stephen Whitfield’ (a nom de plume for Stephen Edward Poe) in the late sixties (the episode guide didn’t even include the as-yet-unproduced-at-the-time third season). I believe that book contained some of the early pitch info as well, as well as some terrific sketches, studio inter-department memos (some of which are hilarious) and photos of the props and sets.
Looks like both books are still available on Amazon.com (no doubt the last editions of which were updated considerably).
Also — I think James Doohan did a great job in the voice acting department. If they want to run it through a harmonizer, that couldn’t hurt, but there’s no need to replace it entirely. What does Clone Wars have, 2 voice actors? Hey, it’s about Clones. Yeah, that’s it!
Would love to see a new TAS! Star Trek is pretty stagnant compared to other franchises.
We get Superman and Batman incarnation after incarnation, but Star Trek is still treated as the crazy aunt of tentpole properties.
Your right this isnt’s new. It was in the making of Star Trek back in 1969. And TrekWeb had this story and the Chris Pine story posted almost a week ago. Can we ask what has happened to Trekmovie? Weeks can go by with no news, and the when the news is finally updated it’s cribbed from another site.
What is going on?
love April.
9. Alex Fletcher / Sulfur
That was probably my fault, I think I gave Russ the idea to spin it to say that it was now available online. I didn’t know it was on the web already, though I guess I should have. My bad.
I really suck at this co-piloting business. And this was just an article I advised on, just imagine the ones I’ll actually write! OMG, they’re gonna be *horrible!*
44. “love April”
Really, Bob?? I’ve always liked June myself! ‘Course, you don’t know her like I do!
43. James Durdan (and everyone asking the same thing)
Anthony has unexpectedly gone MIA. Once we realized it’s been a while since he left and may be a while before he came back, we didn’t know if it was proper to continue posting stories without him. Yesterday, Russ and I agreed we should push forward. Russ has volunteered to pick up the mantle in Anthony’s absence, and I will be assisting.
Having explained the situation, Russ and I ask that you please bear with us while we try to bring the site up-to-date and keep it that way. Neither of us has a large amount of time to work on the site, so it may be a while before we get caught up and it may be difficult *staying* caught up. We will endeavor to follow the standards which Anthony set forth and keep TrekMovie.com the number one source for everything new in Trek. All we ask is for your patience and understanding.
Thank you all.
Re-animate! Re-animate!
The scientific element of Star Trek is one of its greatest features. To some extent, I think Gene Roddenberry pulled one over on the studios. He sold it as a Wagon Train because that was something to which they could relate. Western adventures were a staple of the early 60s. I think he intended both.
What would be neat is for Bob Orci and the new team to reference some of this in the new reboot…just a brief piece of dialogue refering to April captaining the Yorktown maybe a short time after the Kelvin, a little easter egg for us lot…
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Scripts for "Star Trek: The Original Series," created by Gene Roddenberry and broadcasted on NBC from September 8, 1966 to June 3, 1969. The collection contains scripts for 78 of the 79 episodes produced, organized according to original air date. Lacks script for "The Savage Curtain," prod. #60043-77, Season 3 Episode 2, original air date March 7, 1969.
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The opening title sequences for Star Trek: The Original Series featured the USS Enterprise flying through space and past planets , narrated by William Shatner : " Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise . Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. "
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Picture This
George takei 'lost freedom' some 80 years ago – now he's written that story for kids.
Samantha Balaban
George Takei was just 4 years old when when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066:
"I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military Commanders... to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded..."
It was Feb. 19, 1942. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor two months earlier; For looking like the enemy, Japanese and Japanese American people in the U.S. were now considered "enemy combatants" and the executive order authorized the government to forcibly remove approximately 125,000 people from their homes and relocate them to prison camps around the country.
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George takei recalls time in an american internment camp in 'they called us enemy'.
Star Trek actor George Takei has written about this time in his life before — once in an autobiography, then in a graphic memoir, and now in his new children's book, My Lost Freedom.
It's about the years he and his mom, dad, brother and baby sister spent in a string of prison camps: swampy Camp Rohwer in Arkansas, desolate Tule Lake in northern California. But first, they were taken from their home, driven to the Santa Anita racetrack and forced to live in horse stalls while the camps were being built.
"The horse stalls were pungent," Takei remembers, "overwhelming with the stench of horse manure. The air was full of flies, buzzing. My mother, I remember, kept mumbling 'So humiliating. So humiliating.'"
He says, "Michelle's drawing really captured the degradation our family was reduced to."
Michelle is Michelle Lee, the illustrator — and researcher — for the book. Lee relied heavily on Takei's text and his excellent memory, but it was the research that both agree really brought the art to life.
"I'm telling it from the perspective of a senior citizen," Takei, 87, laughs. "I really had to wring my brains to try to remember some of the details."
So Takei took Lee to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the board. They had lunch in Little Tokyo, got to know each other, met with the educational director, and looked at the exhibits. Then Lee started digging into the archives.
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"I looked for primary sources that showed what life was like because I feel like that humanizes it a lot more," Lee explains. She found some color photographs taken by Bill Manbo, who had smuggled his camera into the internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. "While I was painting the book, I tried as much to depict George and his family just going about their lives under these really difficult circumstances."
Takei says he was impressed with how Lee managed to capture his parents: his father, the reluctant leader and his mother, a fashion icon in her hats and furs. "This has been the first time that I've had to depict real people," Lee adds.
To get a feel for 1940s fashion, Lee says she looked at old Sears catalogues. "What are people wearing? All the men are wearing suits. What kind of colors were clothes back then."
But a lot of information has also been lost — Lee wasn't able to see, for example, where Takei and his family lived in Arkansas because the barracks at Camp Rohwer have been torn down — there's a museum there now. "I didn't actually come across too many photos of the interior of the barracks," says Lee. "The ones I did come across were very staged."
She did, however, find the original floor plans for the barracks at Jerome Camp, also in Arkansas. "I actually printed the floorplan out and then built up a little model just to see what the space was actually like," Lee says. "I think it just emphasized how small of a space this is that whole families were crammed into."
One illustration in the book shows the work that Takei's mother put in to make that barrack — no more than tar paper and boards stuck together — a home.
"She gathered rags and tore them up into strips and braided them into rugs so that we would be stepping on something warm," Takei remembers. She found army surplus fabrics and sewed curtains for the windows. She took plant branches that had fallen off the nearby trees and made decorative sculptures. She asked a friendly neighbor to build a table and chairs.
"You drew the home that my mother made out of that raw space, Takei tells Lee. "That was wonderful."
Michelle Lee painted the art for My Lost Freedom using watercolor, gouache and colored pencils. Most of the illustrations have a very warm palette, but ever-present are the barbed wire fences and the guard towers. "There's a lot of fencing and bars," Lee explains. "That was kind of the motif that I was using throughout the book... A lot of vertical and horizontal patterns to kind of emphasize just how overbearing it was."
Takei says one of his favorite drawings in the book is a scene of him and his brother, Henry, playing by a culvert.
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"Camp Rohwer was a strange and magical place," Takei writes. "We'd never seen trees rising out of murky waters or such colorful butterflies. Our block was surrounded by a drainage ditch, home to tiny, wiggly black fishies. I scooped them up into a jar.
One morning they had funny bumps. Then they lost their tails and their legs popped out. They turned into frogs!"
"They're just two children among many children who were imprisoned at these camps," says Lee, "and to them, perhaps, aspects of being there were just fun." The illustration depicts both childlike wonder and — still, always — a sense of foreboding. Butterflies fly around a barbed wire fence. A bright sun shines on large, dark swamp trees. Kids play in the shadow of a guard tower.
"There's so much that you tell in that one picture," says Takei. "That's the art."
"So many of your memories are of how perceptive you are to things that are going on around you," adds Lee, "but also still approaching things from a child's perspective."
Even though the events in My Lost Freedom took place more than 80 years ago, illustrator Michelle Lee and author George Takei say the story is still very relevant today.
"These themes of displacement and uprooting of communities from one place to another — these are things that are constantly happening," says Lee. Because of war and because of political decisions ... those themes aren't uncommon. They're universal."
Takei agrees. "People need to know the lessons and learn that lesson and apply it to hard times today. And we hope that a lot of people get the book and read it to their children or read it to other children and act on it."
He's done his job, he says, now the readers have their job.
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