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A drawing of the Enterprise , refitted for Phase II

Star Trek: Phase II , also known by its official title Star Trek II (not to be confused with the earlier 1975-1976 revitalization attempts bearing the same title), was planned to be the first live-action spin-off television series of Star Trek: The Original Series . While ultimately not realized, it did serve, in more ways than one, as the starting point for its immediate successor Star Trek: The Motion Picture .

• 2 Production
• 3.1 "In Thy Image"
• 3.2 "Tomorrow and the Stars"
• 3.3 "The Child"
• 3.4 "Cassandra"
• 3.5 "Kitumba"
• 3.6 "Practice in Waking"
• 3.7 "Deadlock"
• 3.8 "The Savage Syndrome"
• 3.9 "Are Unheard Melodies Sweet?"
• 3.10 "Devil's Due"
• 3.11 "Lord Bobby's Obsession"
• 3.12 "To Attain the All"
• 3.13 "The War to End All Wars"
• 4.1 "Ghost Story"
• 4.2 "Merlin's Magic"
• 4.3 "Paradise Lost"
• 4.4 "The Prisoner"
• 5.1 James T. Kirk
• 5.3 Will Decker
• 5.5 Leonard McCoy
• 5.6 Montgomery Scott
• 5.10 Christine Chapel
• 5.11 Yeoman
• 6 Merchandise gallery
• 7.1 Production staff
• 7.2 Uncredited production staff
• 7.3 Uncredited production companies
• 8 Further reading
• 9 Special features
• 10 External link

History [ ]

In 1977 , Paramount Pictures President Barry Diller began working on the idea of launching a new, fourth television network, officially announced on 10 June 1977 as "Paramount Television Service" (PTVS). Following the rapid growth of Star Trek fandom , and a general growing interest in science fiction programming, Diller, who had just pulled the plug on the Star Trek: Planet of the Titans movie project, revived the property by drawing up plans to launch a new Star Trek television series as the network's flagship program, covering a second five-year mission. Having been passed over for Planet of the Titans , Gene Roddenberry was brought back to serve as writer and executive producer for the new series. The Enterprise was to be refit , and new characters were to be introduced. By August , construction on the sets had begun, and the Star Trek II Writer's/Director's Guide was published on 12 August 1977 , with the premiere expected in spring of 1978 .

Unfortunately, with pre-production in full swing and filming of the feature-length pilot, " In Thy Image " scheduled to begin on 28 November 1977, the network deal already fell through in late July 1977 as Gulf+Western head, Charles Bluhdorn , thought the project would lose too much money due to lack of advertiser interest (though the studio did contribute programming to the syndicated programming service Operation Prime Time, and used the intended PTVS logo for some OPT programs, and, with a new beginning added on, as a logo for their home video division). Something of a pet project of Bluhdorn, who had become enamored with Star Trek due to the unexpected success of The Original Series in syndication, he allowed subsidiary Paramount to continue working on the pilot in order to recoup the costs already underwritten as it was furthest in development, while scrapping every other production concept for the abandoned network, including George Pal 's proposed War of the Worlds television series, based on his classic 1953 Paramount film of the same title, that was to serve as back-up for Phase II . However, the Star Trek project was now to be limited to a medium-sized stand-alone television film only. Yet, influenced by the huge success of Star Wars , which studio executives had at first thought to be a fluke, the decision was made on 21 October 1977 to upgrade the project to a full-fledged major theatrical feature, which quickly became known as Star Trek: The Motion Picture . ( Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series , pp. 21-22, 34, 49, 69; Star Trek Movie Memories , pp. 59, 77-78)

Several scripts already completed were later used as episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation . In fact, many of the series concepts from Phase II became the basis of The Next Generation , such as the "lost love" relationship between new first officer Decker and Ilia, which led to similar scenes in TNG's first season between Riker and Troi .

In 1997 , the reference book Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series , written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens , was published, containing the original scripts for "In Thy Image" and " The Child ", and synopses of the original story treatments for the other commissioned stories.

In 2007 , in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction , an assortment of Phase II costumes were auctioned off. A large portion of these costumes were purchased by James Cawley for the fan-made series Star Trek: New Voyages (which has since been re-named Star Trek: Phase II ). Another costume which was sold off on IAW was previously used in the television series Mork & Mindy . [1] An olive-colored costume from the series was included in the displays at Star Trek: The Exhibition , in Blackpool.

Production [ ]

Early The Motion Picture teaser poster, still featuring the Phase II Enterprise

The refit of the original Enterprise formed an integral part of the plot of "In Thy Image". Originally, designer Ralph McQuarrie – best known to the public for his production designs for the Star Wars films – was invited to England to work under Ken Adam to help develop the designs for the Star Trek: Planet of the Titans movie project, ultimately abandoned to make way for Phase II , the television series.

Their Enterprise design, however, was abandoned, and Gene Roddenberry asked Original Series veteran Matt Jefferies , who only agreed to work on Phase II on a temporary basis (and who had actually already worked on PTVS's The War of the Worlds back-up production), to update the famous starship to reflect the refit that the ship had undergone. Jefferies' redesign changed the engine nacelles from tubes to thin, flat-sided modules, and tapered their supports. He also added the distinctive photon torpedo ports on the saucer connector. " Basically, " Jefferies said, " what I did to it was change the power units, and make a slight change in the struts that supported them. I gave the main hull a taper, then I went flat-sided and thin with the power units, rather than keeping the cylindrical shape. Trying to work out the logic of the refit, I knew a lot of the equipment inside would change, but I didn't see that there would be any need to change the exterior of the saucer. Certainly, though, the engines would be a primary thing to change. Part of the theory of the ship's design in the first place was that we didn't know what these powerful things were or how devastating it would be if anything went awry, so that's why we kept them away from the crew. And that meant they could be easily changed if you had to replace one. " After Jefferies had to return to his regular job, Mike Minor and Joe Jennings continued to refine Jefferies' redesign up to the point where detailed construction plans for the filming model could be drawn up. ( Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series , pp. 26-27)

Unlike the first redesign of the Enterprise , Jefferies' new version was built this time by Don Loos , supervised by Brick Price of Brick Price Movie Miniatures , to whom Magicam, Inc , the company contracted at the start of September 1977 to provide all the visual effects (VFX) for the upcoming television project, had subcontracted the construction of the "hero" model . ( Starlog , issue 27, p. 26) But when Paramount abandoned its plans to create a fourth television network and subsequently began in December 1977 transforming the pilot episode " In Thy Image " of the third Star Trek series into the first movie, that the six-foot Enterprise model, along with other Phase II studio models Magicam had already built or was in the process of building, were scrapped as a new art director – Richard Taylor of Robert Abel & Associates , the company contracted the subsequent month to do the VFX for the feature film – was brought in and who assigned Andrew Probert to do a second (co-)redesign with him of the ship, essentially keeping with Jefferies' new lines, while adding the extensive detail that was necessary for motion picture big screen requirements. ( Star Trek: Creating the Enterprise , p. 46) Magicam, a Paramount subsidiary, was however retained to rebuild most of the studio models for the feature film, including the new, larger eight-foot refit- Enterprise studio model .

Aside from the hero ship itself, Jefferies also worked on the redesign of its shuttlecraft , using the Leif Ericson shuttlecraft – itself resulting from his more aerodynamic initial designs for the Original Series ' Class F shuttlecraft – as starting point. [2] (X) Construction plans for a full scale mock-up of his redesign were actually drawn up for the Phase II production, which came to naught however, when the upgrade to a motion picture occurred and where a radically different shuttle was featured, designed by Andrew Probert . For the occasion of the 1997 The Lost Series book publication, John Eaves created retrospective color concept art of the shuttle based on the construction plans, both of which featured in the color insert of the book. Incidentally, Jefferies' original 1968 design for the Leif Ericson was repurposed as the "hyperspace carrier Pegasus ", the hero ship for George Pal's proposed War of the Worlds television series, in 1975. ( Star Trek Movie Memories , 1995, p. 59; [3] (X) ) Concept drawings of the Ericson' s shuttlecraft, repurposed by Jefferies for intended use in Phase II , were also used in pitch reels for the series. [4]

Mike Minor 's designs for the interior sets for the new Star Trek series are clearly an evolutionary step between the original series and The Motion Picture . The bridge set built for Phase II survived almost intact, though partially redesigned, to the film, while the transporter room was essentially a recreation of the original set with more streamlined console and new wall displays.

Other areas that received upgrade were the recreation deck and sickbay . On Minor's drawings, crew members can be seen playing three-dimensional chess and some kind of anti-gravitational game in the ship's recreation room, while others engage in intimate conversation.

Several fans were consulted for props and set pieces for Phase II , one being NASA Engineer and Shuttle Manager Roger D. Manley of Huntsville, Alabama. Manley played a huge part in adding factual descriptions of space travel and propulsion systems that was used in the later series.

• For a more detailed breakdown of the production history, please see: Star Trek: The Motion Picture production history

The first thirteen episodes [ ]

Concept art for "In Thy Image"

Work on developing installments of Phase II began. Alan Dean Foster noted, " A number of writers were called in to submit treatments for hour-long episodes. " ( The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years , p. 321)

The Lost Series (p.235) states " With an initial order for a two-hour pilot and thirteen episodes, Phase II quickly earned a reputation as one of the toughest shows to sell in Hollywood. Unlike most other series starting their first season, Phase II had the added complication of being a continuation of an earlier series, of which seventy-nine stories had already been told – 101 including the animated episodes. "

As story editor, Jon Povill " had the responsibility of listening to literally hundreds of pitches from a stream of writers, to select those stories he felt were worthy of being considered by the producers. " ( Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series , p. 235) Story work on potential episodes continued even after it was announced that the series would be aborted in favor of a theatrically released feature film. " As I was under contract as story editor, I continued working with writers and bringing in commissioned scripts until my contract ran out, " said Povill, " even though we were told that they were going to feature sometime in the middle of my story-editor tenure. " ( The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years , pp. 331-332) Two of the first thirteen stories were rewritten to appear as episodes of The Next Generation – becoming " The Child " (by Jaron Summers & Jon Povill, and Maurice Hurley ) and " Devil's Due " (by Philip LaZebnik , story by Philip LaZebnik and William Douglas Lansford ) in the second and fourth seasons of TNG, respectively.

"In Thy Image" [ ]

This script , written by Harold Livingston , from a story by Alan Dean Foster, ultimately evolved into Star Trek: The Motion Picture .

"Tomorrow and the Stars" [ ]

Written by Larry Alexander , "Tomorrow and the Stars" was a time-travel story that was reminiscent of " The City on the Edge of Forever ", with Kirk falling in love with a woman on Earth at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. However, this time, Kirk's passion was for a married woman, giving the romantic angle of the story a slightly edgier approach. At the start of the tale, the Enterprise returned to Earth after a devastating Klingon attack. When Kirk beamed down to Earth, a transporter malfunction turned him essentially see-through and transported him back in time to Pearl Harbor. There, Kirk faced a similar dilemma of knowing he must not take action to save the lives of thousands of people – including the woman he loved – or he would forever alter history.

The writing of the script for "Tomorrow and the Stars" began when Gene Roddenberry gave Larry Alexander a copy of "The Apartment", an undeveloped story Roddenberry had written for the aborted TV series Genesis II . It was Roddenberry's idea that Kirk would travel back to Earth's past; Roddenberry also selected Pearl Harbor as the time and place. " It seemed a very obvious choice, " Alexander observed. He was pleased, though, that setting the episode in Pearl Harbor would allow for the inclusion of footage from various relevant war films. On the other hand, Alexander was disappointed that the setting of the story allowed for very little historical irony in the script. He therefore didn't want the responsibility of writing it. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 101)

An unrevised final draft of "Tomorrow and the Stars" was issued on 18 January 1978 . In that script, Kirk responded to the transporter malfunction by crying out, " Xon! What have you done with me?? " That line was an attempt to allude to Kirk's bitterness that Xon wasn't Spock. Larry Alexander felt similar resentment over the fact that he wasn't able to write for Spock in the script, although he did consider Xon to be a Spock substitute "from a character point-of-view." Given his irritation with not being allowed to write for Spock himself, Alexander thought devising the line "seemed the 'logical' thing to do." ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 101)

"The Child" [ ]

"The Child" was written by Jaron Summers and Jon Povill. In the story, Lieutenant Ilia was mysteriously impregnated, and, within days, gave birth to a baby girl, Irska, who appeared to be fully Deltan. A curious alien lifeform wished to study the crew, but her presence threatened the ship.

This plot was likely based on "Infection", one of multiple suggested story ideas proffered by Gene Roddenberry in his 1964 series proposal " Star Trek is... ". Jon Povill recalled, " In one of the [series' story] meetings, a writer named Jaron Summers pitched a story about space eggs that we were going to reject, but I suggested it could be reworked. Jaron agreed to have me work on it with him; and from that came our draft of 'The Child'. " ( Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series , pp. 2-3) Povill was tasked with writing "The Child" in one week, as a condition of becoming story editor on Phase II . " I had Jaron Summers do a first draft and then I had to do a pretty complete rewrite, " Povill recalled. " It had to get into shape for shooting, and the way that script came out would determine whether or not I could be the story editor. " The teleplay Povill wrote was sufficiently satisfactory that he got the job. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 100) An unrevised final draft script of "The Child" was issued on 9 January 1978 .

When this premise was ultimately used for TNG : " The Child ", Ilia's role was allocated to Deanna Troi . Remarked Jon Povill, " Perhaps this is just writer's ego, but I believe the version of 'The Child' that Jaron and I wrote is far superior to the one that ultimately emerged on Star Trek: The Next Generation." ( Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series , p. 3) The original Phase II version of the story has been produced as an episode of the Phase II fan-film series , with Povill himself directing.

"Cassandra" [ ]

Written by Theodore Sturgeon , "Cassandra" was about a clumsy yeoman and a tiny, trouble-causing creature, intended to have joined the ranks among such comedy episodes as " The Trouble with Tribbles " and " A Piece of the Action ".

"Kitumba" [ ]

Written by John Meredyth Lucas , this two-part episode provided a glimpse at an alternate Klingon Empire , a culture that had never been examined in detail in The Original Series . The "Kitumba" two-parter featured a complex plot, cloak-and-dagger action, and political maneuverings. Although the Klingon culture later developed along substantially different lines in The Next Generation , the "Kitumba" scripts contained many of the elements that later showed up in TNG episodes involving Klingon and Romulan politics. Like "The Child", "Kitumba" was made into an episode of the Phase II fan-film series .

"Practice in Waking" [ ]

Written by Richard Bach , "Practice in Waking" anticipated The Next Generation 's penchant for placing stories in virtual-reality recreations of historical settings, though here the mechanism was directed dreaming, and not the holodeck .

In this tale, the Enterprise found a sleeper ship with only one passenger; upon beaming over to investigate, Decker, Scotty and Sulu discovered a woman in suspended animation. Scotty inadvertently touched a control panel and the three officers collapsed to the deck, only to reawaken in ancient Scotland without any memory of their lives aboard the starship. They met the same woman and protected her from mobs who accused her of being a witch. On the Enterprise , McCoy determined that the landing party's life signs were becoming progressively weaker. His prognosis was that the longer the trio remained in their dreaming state, the closer they came to dying, so Kirk and his crew had to somehow awaken them before they drifted off into final sleep.

The staff of Phase II expected this narrative would be extremely well received, owing to the fact that Richard Bach had written a couple of best-selling novels in the 1970s. Harold Livingston, for example, noted at the time, " His story should make one hell of an episode. " "Practice in Waking" never made it to script form, but was one of the most popular story ideas among the Phase II staff. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 100) Jon Povill enthused, " Richard Bach's 'Practice in Waking' surely would have been a classic. " ( Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series , p. 3)

"Deadlock" [ ]

Written by David Ambrose , "Deadlock" (which had the working title "All Done with Mirrors") built a portrait of a Starfleet gone mad – practicing mind-control techniques on its personnel, lying to them, and experimenting upon them by altering their perceptions of reality. However, there was another explanation for what Kirk and his crew experienced, leading to a scene in which Kirk defended Humanity to a group of aliens.

An earlier story treatment that was written by David Ambrose and was called "All Done with Mirrors" had the same story as "Deadlock" but a different conclusion. Instead of Starfleet personnel turning out to actually be the aliens in disguise, that early version of the story featured faux Starfleet officers who were part of an underground organization of "dedicated fanatics" who wanted to overthrow the Federation and had pledged to sacrifice their own lives for the cause. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 102)

Harold Livingston expected "Deadlock" would be "an extremely exciting story." ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 102) An unrevised final draft script of "Deadlock" was dated 20 January 1978 .

"The Savage Syndrome" [ ]

Written by Margaret Armen and Alfred Harris , "The Savage Syndrome" featured a technology that unleashed dark urges repressed in Humans. Originally, Armen and Harris pitched the story to Gene Roddenberry, who approved of it because, in Armen's words, "he was looking for something different." ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 100) An unrevised final draft script of "The Savage Syndrome" was issued on 27 December 1977 .

"Are Unheard Melodies Sweet?" [ ]

Written by Worley Thorne , "Are Unheard Melodies Sweet?" ( aka "Home" and "Id's Delight") called for nudity and suggestive situations that probably would not have been filmed, let alone allowed to air. Yet, the story was a standard Star Trek adventure, with the Enterprise once again being trapped in a failing orbit without dilithium , while an alien race attempted to capture the crew. By the time of The Next Generation , damaged or missing dilithium was recognized as an overused plot element, and the bible for that series specifically stated that the new Enterprise 's dilithium could easily be replaced. Regarding "Are Unheard Melodies Sweet?", Thorne noted, " This was an opportunity to do something I had always wanted to do, " referring to a long-held desire to work on Star Trek . ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 103)

"Devil's Due" [ ]

In its Phase II format, "Devil's Due" was written by William Douglas Lansford. In the story, the Enterprise made first contact with the planet Neuterra, just as a mythical creature, who had sold the planet in exchange for peace millennia earlier, appeared. In Jon Povill's opinion, this story could " work very well. It had all the elements necessary for a very exciting, involving episode. " Harold Livingston likened the plot to "The Devil and Daniel Webster", then went on to say, " The story has been developed to a point where we all feel it will be a most exciting Star Trek." ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 102) The original script of "Devil's Due" was issued in 1978.

"Lord Bobby's Obsession" [ ]

"Lord Bobby's Obsession" was written by Shimon Wincelberg . In the narrative, the Enterprise came across a derelict Klingon cruiser with one lifeform aboard: one Lord Bobby from Earth's 18th century . A step outline of "Lord Bobby's Obsession" was written, a revised draft of which was issued on 4 November 1977 .

"To Attain the All" [ ]

"To Attain the All" was written by Norman Spinrad . In the story, the Enterprise became caught in a solar system-sized logic game where the prize was attaining "the All," a huge repository of knowledge. Spinrad commented, " It was about the crew of the Enterprise somehow becoming a hive mind, due to contact with some alien presence. " ( The Star Trek Interview Book , p. 144) Elements from this story are similar to such episodes as TNG : " The Last Outpost " and " Contagion ". Another similar story is TOS : " Return to Tomorrow ", as "To Attain the All" also involved the Enterprise crew discovering a race of disembodied aliens who had highly powerful mental powers but who tried to occupy the bodies of the crew.

"The War to End All Wars" [ ]

Written by Arthur Bernard Lewis , "The War to End All Wars" was derived from a discarded script treatment about warring androids on the planet Shadir ("A War to End Wars" by Richard Bach ). In the story, Kirk rescued a female android, Yra, whose planet's successful philosophy of "peace through war" had been corrupted by a humanoid leader named Plateous III.

Non-commissioned episodes [ ]

There were several episodes that were devised for Star Trek: Phase II but were neither commissioned nor produced. For instance, Margaret Armen and Alf Harris pitched three stories to Gene Roddenberry, despite only "The Savage Syndrome" ultimately being selected. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 100) Likewise, prior to working on "In Thy Image", Alan Dean Foster pitched three story concepts, neither of which was accepted for the series. ( The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years , p. 321)

"Ghost Story" [ ]

"Ghost Story" was a story outline by Larry Alexander. [5] The plot was a precursor of "Tomorrow and the Stars" (also by Alexander) and was heavily influenced by the science fiction film Forbidden Planet .

In "Ghost Story", Kirk and a landing party arrived on a planet lying in ruins. They discovered highly advanced technology on the planet, but no sign of a living civilization. Kirk entered a science lab and was projected backwards in time. In the past, he encountered a pair of scientists who had developed a machine to scan the mind, though it operated quite differently on a Human. Hooked up to Kirk's mind, the device caused him extreme agony. Demons from within his mind, the Id, materialized and destroyed all life on the planet, resulting in the destruction witnessed at the beginning of the tale.

Larry Alexander was careful to point out, in the course of the narrative, that Kirk wasn't technically responsible for the planet's destruction. " He asked them not to do it. I was very strict about that, " the writer clarified. " He didn't volunteer to do this, and when he realized what was going on, he did everything possible to stop it. All of that, I think, holds up on that basis. I was thinking very strictly about what happened to Kirk in many episodes where things didn't turn out the way he hoped. " One such example was Kirk's inability to prevent the death of Edith Keeler at the end of " The City on the Edge of Forever ". " It's like that when the people of this planet find that it's his demons which have destroyed their world, not theirs, " the writer added. " It makes it that much more ironic. "

Indeed, Larry Alexander was very proud of "Ghost Story", commenting, " I thought it was a wonderful story idea to have Captain Kirk responsible for the death of a planet, and it's the one step beyond Forbidden Planet that had never been dealt with. It makes it much more Human and, to me, much more of an interesting irony. That's the kind of material I think is interesting and I was shocked when Gene Roddenberry said he didn't want to go with it. " Whereas Roddenberry opted for Alexander to instead write "Tomorrow and the Stars", Alexander was more appreciative of the irony in "Ghost Story" than what little irony could be written into a tale about Kirk going back in time to Pearl Harbor. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 101)

"Merlin's Magic" [ ]

"Merlin's Magic" was a story outline by Steve Kelly . [6]

"Paradise Lost" [ ]

"Paradise Lost" was a story outline by Arthur Heinemann. [7]

"The Prisoner" [ ]

"The Prisoner" was a story treatment written by James Menzies . [8] In the story, Albert Einstein suddenly appeared on the Enterprise 's main viewscreen, startling the bridge officers. He appealed for their help, and explained that he and many other scientists from Earth had been abducted and kept alive by a "storage battery" on an alien planet. Kirk was skeptical that he was talking with the real Einstein, but his curiosity was piqued, so he ordered the Enterprise to the planet where, purportedly, Einstein was. While the ship orbited that world, six scientists from Earth's past (circa the 20th century) appeared in the transporter room. Xon quickly discerned that they were not actually living beings, but rather highly realistic illusions.

Realizing the trap they had been caught in, Kirk ordered the Enterprise to break orbit, though that turned out to be impossible. He himself then beamed down to the planet's surface, where he encountered Logos, an alien who was the culprit behind the charade. His goal was to assume all Human life, starting with Kirk and his crew. Logos felt this was only fair, given the extreme savageness of the Human race, constantly living under the threat of nuclear annihilation. Kirk argued that the Earth which Logos spoke of was ancient history, but the alien refused to accept that, insisting that man would never change. A battle of wills ensued between Logos and the Enterprise crew, with the future of Humanity at stake. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 101)

Characters [ ]

The original cast returned to reprise their roles (with the notable exception of Leonard Nimoy ), alongside several new characters: Xon (replacing Spock as science officer), navigator Ilia , and first officer Willard "Will" Decker .

James T. Kirk [ ]

William Shatner returned to Star Trek to reprise the role of Captain James T. Kirk . The writers/directors guide, written, among others, by Gene Roddenberry and Jon Povill between May and August of 1977, described Kirk as follows:

Phase II image of David Gautreaux as Xon

Leonard Nimoy was offered a role as Spock in only two of the projected thirteen episodes, an offer that he thought was insulting to both himself and the character of Spock. Once he had declined this offer, a new actor, David Gautreaux , was cast to fulfill the role of the Vulcan science officer aboard the Enterprise . Xon, however, did not make it into the final script of The Motion Picture due to Nimoy's return in the role of Spock . The actor made a cameo appearance as Commander Branch of Epsilon IX station .

Elements of the character of Xon, such as his search to understand Humans, were transferred later into TNG 's character of Data . Also, the concept of a full-blooded Vulcan having to deal with "barbaric" Humans was explored with T'Pol aboard Enterprise NX-01 .

The writers/directors guide, written, among others, by Gene Roddenberry and Jon Povill between May and August of 1977, described Xon as followed:

Will Decker [ ]

Decker ( Stephen Collins ) as he appeared in Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Willard "Will" Decker was another of the new characters among the cast, supposed to fulfill the role of ship's first officer . The role had not been cast at the time of the series shutdown; Stephen Collins played the character in The Motion Picture . Much of what had been laid down for the character of Decker formed the basis for First Officer William "Will" Riker of The Next Generation , as is apparent from how the character is described in the writers/directors guide, written, among others, by Gene Roddenberry and Jon Povill between May and August of 1977.

Phase II publicity photo of Persis Khambatta as Ilia

The third new character to Star Trek came in the form of Lieutenant Ilia (pronounced "Il-ee-ah"), performed by Persis Khambatta . Gene Roddenberry's and Jon Povill's 1977 writers/directors guide described her as:

Certain characteristics of Lieutenant Ilia, such as her relationship to the young first officer and empathic abilities later formed the basis for the character of Counselor Deanna Troi of The Next Generation .

Leonard McCoy [ ]

DeForest Kelley was to reprise his role of Dr. Leonard McCoy on Phase II . Gene Roddenberry's and Jon Povill's 1977 writers/directors guide described him as:

Montgomery Scott [ ]

James Doohan was to reprise his role of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott on Phase II . Gene Roddenberry's and Jon Povill's 1977 writers/directors guide described him as having:

Walter Koenig was to reprise his role of Pavel Chekov on Phase II . Gene Roddenberry's and Jon Povill's 1977 writers/directors guide described him as follows:

Christine Chapel [ ]

Majel Barrett was to reprise her role of Christine Chapel on Phase II . Originally a nurse on the original Star Trek , she returned as a full doctor to serve as McCoy's associate. Gene Roddenberry's and Jon Povill's 1977 writers/directors guide described her as being:

Phase II would have featured Rand herself in "In Thy Image", and a Yeoman Jennifer York – an exo-linguist – in "Lord Bobby's Obsession", with the rank of yeoman also to have been mentioned in "Kitumba, Part I".

Merchandise gallery [ ]

Credits [ ]

Aside from the cast, a production staff end credit roll was already foreseen and was, tentatively, projected to read as follows ( Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series , pp. 354-355):

Production staff [ ]

Uncredited production staff [ ].

Extensive though this might have seen, there were more than enough production staffers that went without credit, including,

• Gregory Jein – Magicam, Inc .: Model Maker
• Don Loos – Brick Price Movie Miniatures : Model Maker
• William Norton – Director of Photography: Screen Tests
• Brick Price – Brick Price Movie Miniatures: Supervising Model Maker
• Jim Rugg – Special Effects
• Mark Tanz – Special Effects

Uncredited production companies [ ]

• Brick Price Movie Miniatures – Sub-contracted/Models, miniatures and props

Further reading [ ]

• The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , March 1980 – Chapter 4: "The Almost (Again) Television Show"
• Trek: The Lost Years , December 1987
• Lost Voyages of Trek and The Next Generation , August 1992
• The Art of Star Trek , November 1995
• Star Trek: Phase II - The Making of the Lost Series , March 1997
• Star Trek Monthly  issue 26 , pp. 30-32
• Star Trek: Waypoint, Issue 6 : " The Fear "
• Bonus issue 8, January 2018
• Bonus issue 19, October 2019

Special features [ ]

• Phase II: The Lost Enterprise ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture  (The Director's Edition) DVD , disc 2, 2001)
• Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen – Chapter 1: "The New Frontier: Resurrecting Star Trek" ( Star Trek 50th Anniversary TV and Movie Collection Blu-ray set, bonus disc, 2016)

External link [ ]

• Phase II  at Forgotten Trek
• Star Trek: Phase II at Wikipedia

• Cast & crew
• User reviews

Episode list

Star trek phase ii.

S1.E0 ∙ Come What May

S1.E1 ∙ In Harm's Way

S1.E2 ∙ To Serve All My Days

S1.E3 ∙ World Enough and Time

S1.E4 ∙ Blood and Fire: Part One

S1.E5 ∙ Blood and Fire: Part Two

S1.E6 ∙ Enemy Starfleet

S1.E7 ∙ The Child

S1.E8 ∙ Kitumba

S1.E9 ∙ Mind-Sifter

S1.E10 ∙ The Holiest Thing

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The continuing voyages of Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701 as seen in the 1966-69 television series, Star Trek. The series was cancelled after its third season. We are restarting the series as if it were in its fourth year. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCRs3f5cMsPpoV2LGKihpBg https://vimeo.com/startreknewvoyages

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La continuación de los viajes del Capitán Kirk y la tripulación de la USS Enterprise NCC-1701, tal y cómo se vió en la serie de televisión de 1966 a 1969. La serie fue cancelada tras su tercera temporada. Estamos reiniciando la serie como si estuviera en su cuarto año.

Mitte der 1960er Jahre begeisterte eine Science-Fiction-Serien Millionen Menschen auf der Welt: Star Trek (Raumschiff Enterprise). Aus einem einfachen Fernsehprojekt entwickelte sich innerhalb einiger Jahrzehnte ein riesiges Franchise aus 726 TV-Episoden, 12 Kinofilmen, zahlreichen Romanen, dutzenden Computerspielen und anderen Werken. Doch die erste Serie „Star Trek - The Original Series“ (TOS) war 1969 bereits nach drei Staffeln eingestellt worden. Das Star Trek New Voyages Team fing an neue Folgen zu drehen, basierend auf der original (Star Trek) Serie um dort weiter zu machen wo Kirk und seine Mannschaft aufgehört hatten, als ihre Serie abgesetzt wurde. Sie nummerieren ihre Folgen sogar wie die „vierte“ Staffel.

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Star Trek New Voyages, van 2008 tot 2015 bekend als Star Trek: Phase II, is een door fans gemaakte science-fiction webserie die zich afspeelt in het fictieve Star Trek-universum. De serie is bedoeld als voortzetting van de originele Star Trek (ST: TOS), te beginnen in het vijfde en laatste jaar van de 'vijfjarige missie' van het ruimteschip Enterprise.

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Web series 'Star Trek: Phase II' gets new home, new Kirk

Crave's Michael Franco talks with Assistant Director Dennis Hotston about the new digs and the new actor, called by some fans "a better Captain Kirk than Captain Kirk."

Forty-five years ago this week, NBC cancelled a TV series that boldly took viewers to a place they'd never been before, ending what was to be a five-year mission for the Starship Enterprise. But that in no way grounded the explorations of Kirk and crew -- since that date, the Star Trek franchise has launched a dozen movies, four TV shows (not counting the animated series), and at least two fan fiction Web series.

I wrote about one of these -- " Star Trek Continues " -- recently on Crave, and was soon contacted by Trekkies everywhere to make sure I knew about an even longer-running Trek spin-off called " Star Trek: Phase II ." I'm happy to say that now, after a talk with Dennis Hotston, first assistant director, I know lots about it as well.

First launched in 2003, the Web series is named after a reboot of the TV series that was planned by Paramount but got scrapped in favor of its first "Star Trek" movie. Thus far, the series has produced nine episodes and is about to release its 10th in the next few months.

That episode, called "The Holiest Thing," will also be the first to star Brian Gross as a new Captain Kirk, who was formerly played by James Cawley, the show's senior executive producer. Gross has appeared in a variety of TV shows, including "NCIS: Los Angeles," "CSI: NY," and "Saving Grace," and done voice work on the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic. Hotston says that when fans saw the new episode starring Gross at a private screening, some commented that "he was a better Captain Kirk than Captain Kirk."

The thing that has the "Phase II" crew the most excited these days is that they're in the process of moving into a new studio in Ticonderoga, N.Y. Hotston says that it's a big step up after having filmed for years in a converted car dealership. "James Cawley has the original blueprints from Desilu ," he told me. "Not reproductions -- but the real blueprints -- and we are building those sets exactly as they were at Desilu Studios in 1966."

The warehouse in which the sets are being built covers 13,000 square feet. The bridge, corridors, and transporter room are pretty much completed at this point, Hotston says, adding that once those are ready, a new episode called "Mind Sifter" will begin filming there.

To help with funding the studio expansion, and to raise funds to continue producing the fan-based series, the "Phase II" folks have launched a Kickstarter campaign . They shattered their $10,000 goal, having raised over $46,000 to date, but they're still trying to hit bigger goals with six days left in the campaign. The funds will not only be used for the studio move, but to produce future episodes, which the creators say cost about $15,000 each to make.

Even though fans can now contact the production and ask for permission to see the sets, some day the new studio might be made available to the general public for tours. "It's an amazing feeling to step up to the sets because James Cawley has such a such a great eye for detail. Things like the paint colors, the trim...all these things are exactly like they were in the '60s. He's taken years to find props for Kirk's quarters, and just little things like that make all the difference when the episode hits the air."

Until the next episode is ready, Hotston says fans can get a peek at the new Captain Kirk in this clip. Live long and prosper.

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JAMES CAWLEY releases the unfinished STAR TREK: PHASE II “Origins: The Protracted Man”!

It’s been five years since fans have seen anything new from STAR TREK: PHASE II (a.k.a. STAR TREK: NEW VOYAGES ). The most recent completed Phase II episode to debut was “ The Holiest Thing ” in January of 2016. But that changed last week with the unexpected release of a never-completed episode filmed way back in 2010-2011: “Origins: The Protracted Man,” directed by DAVID GERROLD and co-written by him along with Trek novelist DAVE GALANTER.

Phase II founder and show-runner JAMES CAWLEY had announced, shortly before the unveiling of the fan film guidelines by CBS in June of 2016, that Phase II would cease all fan film production. Then two weeks after the guidelines came out, James announced that his TOS sets in Ticonderoga, NY would become a brand new, licensed STAR TREK Original Series SET TOUR .

Fans were certainly excited by the opportunity to walk these amazing TOS set recreations that had previously been reserved only for fan filmmakers and special guests. But what about the episodes of Phase II that had already been filmed (or partially filmed)? Would these be completed and released? There were still three unfinished Phase II projects: “Bread and Savagery” (a sequel to the TOS episode “Bread and Circuses), “Torment of Destiny” (a sequel to “For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” and featuring the now-deceased RICHARD HATCH), and “Origins: The Protracted Man.”

The answer seemed to be that these three episodes would forever remain in limbo. None was in any condition to be released (or so we were told), and with Retro Studios in upstate New York now turned into a licensed set tour, James didn’t appear to be in interested in having any of these remaining Phase II projects completed. In fact, in the case of “Bread and Savagery,” the director, MARK BURCHETT, had passed away in 2014. Certain actors were also no longer available, and in some cases, the footage that had been filmed wasn’t shot properly (camera and/or sound issues), and wouldn’t be usable…and reshoots were rather problematic.

And so these three episodes remained hidden away, inaccessible to fans beyond this really exciting trailer for “Torment of Destiny” and this equally exciting trailer for “Origins: The Protracted Man” (along with a couple of scene clips, including one of Kirk’s Koybashi Maru test and another in sickbay).

Fan were desperate to see more, as these two episodes looked amazing. They were also quite special for other reasons. In addition to “Torment of Destiny” featuring the late RICHARD HATCH, “Origins” featured actor COLIN CUNNINGHAM as Christopher Pike (Cunningham’s extensive Hollywood career includes recurring and regular roles in such series as Stargate SG-1 , Falling Skies , and Preacher ). Also, voice-over actor JEFF JOHNSON turned in such an amazing performance as Cadet Finnegan that you would’ve sworn they’d managed to kidnap original Finnegan actor BRUCE MARS by beaming him through time!

Other members of the cast would go on to become familiar faces in the Star Trek fan film community. In 2012, FRANK HERNANDEZ would play Dr. Gene Carter, the father of JOHN BROUGHTON’s character of Captain Jack Carter in STARSHIP FARRAGUT ‘s “ The Price of Anything .” KIM STINGER , who played Uhura in a number of New Voyages / Phase II episodes, would go on to the play the same iconic character in the entire run of STAR TREK CONTINUES . Also appearing briefly as a helmsman in the framing sequence of “Origins” was TODD HABERKORN , who later became STC ‘s Mr. Spock.

But certainly the most notable and familiar fan film face in the cast was VIC MIGNOGNA , who would go on to portray Captain Kirk in all eleven episodes and three vignettes of STC . But this time, Vic was portraying George Kirk, Captain Kirk’s father, and did an amazing job in the role. At the time (“Origins” was filmed in the summer of 2010 and additional scenes were shot the following winter), Vic was a rising star in the world of Phase II . The previous year, he had directed their most ambitious episode to date “ Kitumba ,” along with playing the Klingon character Malkthon, a fairly significant role. Unfortunately, not long after filming his scenes in “Origins,” Vic and Phase II would part ways among quite a bit of conflict and controversy (but that’s a blog for another day).

Speaking of Captain Kirk, “Origins” marked the final time that Phase II founder James Cawley would don the gold tunic as the iconic character, and only in two brief framing sequences bookending the episode. Following “Origins,” actor BRIAN GROSS would be brought in to play Kirk beginning with his introduction as the character in the vignette “ Going Boldly .”

A final familiar fan film face appearing briefly in “Origins” was ALEC PETERS, playing Garth of Izar a fictional decade before the events of the TOS episode “Whom Gods Destroy.” This was actually Alec’s first trip to Retro Studios in upstate New York and his first-ever appearance as Garth. He would return as Garth in the Phase II “Going Boldly” vignette, and then later in the groundbreaking Star Trek fan film PRELUDE TO AXANAR . Alec will be reprising the role again in the upcoming fan films INTERLUDE and the two-part AXANAR sequel.

“Origins” actually got its start way back in 1967 when script writer David Gerrold was hoping to land a job writing for TOS. After turning down David’s first script submission, Star Trek producer GENE L. COON asked David for five additional story ideas. One eventually developed into the fan-favorite episode “The Trouble with Tribbles.” The other four were never used, but one of them was titled “The Protracted Man.” ( You can read a synopsis here —don’t ya just love the Internet?)

David Gerrold had initially gotten involved with Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II a few years prior to 2010 when he co-wrote the two-part “Blood and Fire,” based on a ST:TNG script idea dealing with homosexuality and AIDS that had been rejected by Paramount for being too hot-button. However, when David joined the group in Ticonderoga, that script was adapted by CARLOS PEDRAZA, and David directed the episode, the first to transition the series name from New Voyages to Phase II .

Star Trek novelist DAVE GALANTER came aboard for Phase II ‘s next episode, “ Enemy: Starfleet ” (based on a story by Dave and writing partner GREG BRODEUR ), and also updated the writers guide for the series. When the opportunity came to adapt David Gerrold’s “The Protracted Man” into an episode of Phase II , the idea merged with something that Dave Galanter had wanted to try: a story focusing on young Cadet James Kirk at Starfleet Academy. The J.J. ABRAMS’ 2009 Star Trek reboot had premiered the year before, establishing that Jim Kirk’s father, George Kirk, had served in Starfleet. The hybrid story, co-written by both David and Dave, used certain elements of the original 1967 idea but with Cadet Kirk trying to save his father George, who is serving on board the U.S.S. Enterprise under command of Fleet Captain Christopher Pike, first officer Number One, and an annoying Vulcan science officer named Spock.

Last week on January 4, 2021, without any fanfare or explanation, James Cawley quietly posted “Origins: The Protracted Man” in its unfinished format. The film is still very close to completed, but there are some obvious places where the sound and/or image quality is off, the VFX are low resolution or missing entirely, and some scenes remain unfilmed. And the entire film is has a slight horizontal compression. But nevertheless, there is enough to get a good feel for how this excellent fan film would have turned out…including amazingly powerful performances by Colin Cunningham as Pike, Vic Mignogna as George Kirk, BRANDON STACY as Spock, and perhaps most impressive, MATTHEW EWALD as Cadet James Kirk.

I’ve reached out to James Cawley to see why he decided to post this 2-part fan film now, but he has not yet responded. It’s possible that James felt it was appropriate to release “Origins” now following the untimely death of Dave Galanter on December 12, 2020. Six weeks earlier, Dave had announced via Facebook and Twitter that he had cancer originating in his bile ducts and had been fighting the disease for the past year. His doctors now said that he had perhaps another 3 to 6 months to live, but sadly, he passed away only a month and a half later. It seems appropriate that this fan film that he worked on is now finally being shown to the public.

UPDATE – A day after this blog was posted, the two videos of “Origins” were removed from YouTube by James Cawley, a week after initially being posted.

Just as I was considering pulling down this blog, I was made aware of a separate YouTube channel posting the same episode as a single 52-minute video. I’ve just spent some time thinking about whether to publish this link or just pull down this blog entry. You see, unlike “Torment of Destiny”—which James Cawley had also posted online in an uncompleted version and then took down but which will, in fact, one day be finished—“Origins” will never be completed. There is footage that was never shot, and the actors who need to finish it are no longer available and are a decade older now anyway. So really, this is the only chance for fans to see this important piece of Star Trek fan film history.

And so, after much thought, and in honor of Dave Galanter’s recent passing, I have decided to keep the blog posted and include the following new link to a separate posting of the episode. Not being the one to have posted the video, I am simply linking to a version of the videos that are out there anyway. Assuming that this person leaves the video posted, fans will be able to view it below…

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28 thoughts on “JAMES CAWLEY releases the unfinished STAR TREK: PHASE II “Origins: The Protracted Man”!”

It’s a very nice tribute to Mr Galanter and a nice bts peek for some of us who wonder how it goes together.

Oh, and it seems a very rough, but complete copy of “Torment of Destiny” (Missing music, all of the FX, no Captain’s Logs voice over) James had actually posted (but I’m guessing it was “unlisted”) some time ago is now also available.

This is a good example showing how Fan Films are put together. I’m grateful James had made these two available.

I’m actually surprised ViacomCBS had no problem with him releasing the unfinished version…

I’ve removed the link to “Torment” from you comment, Herb, because I was asked not to publish it. That was a very early rough edit given to James Cawley as a courtesy and never intended to be shown publicly. One actually wonders why James didn’t contact the person with the original footage to tell them that it was now finally okay to finish “Torment” the way it was always intended. That would honor Richard Hatch’s performance much better than this unfinished rough cut. The episode is actually ready to be properly completed with editing, sound-mixing, VFX, etc., but it will require a concerted effort by a number of people to bring that to fruition (and probably some crowd-funding…I’lll keep you posted). Until then, however, I have chosen not to facilitate people linking to the rough cut.

Fascinating is that in “Origins…” like later in DISCO Pike is shown as kind of joker. Accidental (???) continuity, and the same direction of retcon explaining his words from “The Cage” that sounds today as sexist and outdated.

It’s hard to judge 1965 by the standards of 2020. In the same way, I am certain that 2075 (assuming we make it) will look back at 2020 with great disdain for our “outdated” opinions. 🙂

I’m not attacking TOS, Jonathan. Yes, times are changing, and collective consciousness is changing too 😉 . And… for its times The Original Trek was progressive as hell 😉 .

I didn’t think you were attacking TOS; I simply wanted to point out (as you just did, too) that even a progressive show for its time still suffered from many of the societal naiveties of its era. As it happened, Pike’s comment was actually pretty forward-thinking for its time. He, a man living 300 years in the future, couldn’t get used to women on the bridge. What Roddenberry was saying was that he believed that women would eventually be treated as equals…Roddenberry simply believed it would take another 300 years to happen. He, like most men of the 60s, had no idea that they were onlly one decade away from the women’s rights movement and the dawn of the E.R.A.

Awe to get this in any form…How about a campaign to get “Torment of Destiny” completed AND released in memory of Richard Hatch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2op9JsNwuo0 Allegedly it’s all in the can and just needs post (not a small task I realize), but it was shot before the guidelines as were many now seeing the light of day (Yorktown: A time to Heal being imminent too). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb1gFKzfzpg

None of these will be 15 min for sure…. Any takers?

Actually, there are wheels that have just started spinning on this. However, there will need to be quite a large amount of crowd-funding–likely in the low-to-mid five-figure range–to finance post-production properly. But I know that fans loved Richard Hatch and will want to see this project completed. Stay tuned.

You probably already know that the videos are marked “Private” and “removed by uploader”.

Too bad. I was a real fan of the collaboration between the professionals and fans back in the “New Voyages”/”Phase II” days. And I was looking forward to seeing these videos.

Look again. A fan from the other side of the planet decided to download the videos while they were still available and then reposted them. I’ve decided to re-link to those uploaded versions so that fans will be able to keep enjoying this film.

I came across it by chance on YT a couple of days ago, under the rather innocuous title of VTS (parts 1&2). I even considered e-mailing you in case you were unaware, but silly me – of course you were!

I thought it was absolutely terrific. Such a shame it wasn’t released as intended, but even in its unfinished and un-polished form it still told an exciting and engaging story with action and pathos in good measure, and highly respectful of characters and canon. Pike’s dressing-down of cadet Kirk was top notch, and well played by both actors. Kinda nice to see James Cawley back in the centre seat too, despite some of his rather unkind detractors. And overall I thought it was a good deal more entertaining, dramatic and credible than any episode of Discovery to be honest, but that would lead to a well-worn rant…

I was (pleasantly) surprised that it was released TBH, given all that has happened. I’m not a great student of ST fan films or the emerging rivalry between P2/NV and STC, but there’s little doubt that both camps delivered some highly impressive productions. I think that “World Enough and Time” from P2/NV (with George Takei) was probably one of the finest examples of Star Trek of any kind, despite being a fan production. And STC’s “Lolani” was also right from the top drawer.

I seem to remember you were planning to write a detailed blog entry about P2/New Voyages. Is that still on the cards?

The blog history of ST:NV/P2 is gonna be a real bear to write, and the problem is that James Cawley doesn’t seem inclined to communicate with me or others that I know who know him. Not sure what happened there, as I did interview him back in 2015 for “Mind-Sifter.” There are, of course, certain others who were involved in that series whom I can talk to, but it’s still gonna be a ridiculous amount of work piecing together 13 years of fan film history (not all of it pretty). And right now, I’m focusing on Starship Valiant. After that, my next major established fan series history will likely be either Natures Hunger or George Kayaian’s early work. I also never wrote a history of Prelude to Axanar (a history of just the fan film, that is, not the lawsuit). That one needs some time, too. So NV/P2 is definitely far out on long-range sensors.

What the!! I watched part one and now they’re gone. What happened?

No idea. But thanks to a fan down under, there’s a new link to “Origins” to watch.

Where do I look for the link?

Scroll to the bottom of the blog under the videos.

Any word why James decided to take “Origins” down?

Nope. I reached out to two people who had been reaching out to James to find out why he posted them in the first place. Nobody has heard anything back about why they were posted nor why they were then taken down.

James released the episode just for those who worked on the production to see. He thought all copies had been lost, but then found a copy on DVD and he simply uploaded the files for folks to see with a statement that it will never be finished. It was not intended as a public release and he gave instructions not to announce this anywhere. When we was made aware of this page, we was angry and took his videos offline again. You should have obtained his permission before publishing this article.

I did try to contact James via Facebook and e-mail, Peter (using the last Yahoo e-mail I had from back in 2016). I also asked Alec Peters to reach out to James in case I didn’t get a response (which I didn’t). I even waited a couple of days to give James a chance to contact me back. Beyond that, I don’t have any contacts who know how to get ahold of James except for two people who, sadly and for different reasons, refuse to talk to him anymore (and yes, I did reach out to them, as well, which is how I know they won’t talk to him). So yes, Peter, the effort to reach out to James was indeed made.

To be honest, I didn’t even know that the videos had been posted until three different readers messaged me, very excited, late last week. As we al know, once something is released onto the Internet, it’s out there. The newly uploaded videos are now posted elsewhere and will remain out there whether my blog exists or not. So from a purely journalistic perspective, it seems reasonable to leave the blog up.

It is nice to know, however, the reason that James posted both video, so I appreciate you commenting, Peter.

I came back to see what was up with the last posting of videos and all I see is “publishing in progress”. Oh well. Too bad.

Check again. I updated the page with hyperlinks.

“Origins”… I understand your motivation for not linking crude version of “Torment of Destiny” when it was publicly available but… if your mysterious friend “George Kirk” has its copy of this episode too and will upload it on his Dailymotion account, I will be really glad.

I’ve actually asked him not to, and if he chooses to, I won’t share the link. “Torment of Destiny” can actually be finished properly, and I’ve been asked not to publicize any version of it in the current rough cut stage.

Links, thumbs, regardless all I see is “Publishing in Progress”… it may be down again.

I don’t know what to say, Scott. It’s showing up for me. Have you tried clearing your cache?

I checked with the poster, and he says he can see it, too.

instead of banning star trek continues and star trek phase two they those despicable people should have paid to air those and following episodes they are great and take us back to real star trek….the production for such a small budget words fail me totally bummed

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FanMade: New Phase II Enterprise + OGAM on DVD

| August 28, 2008 | By: Anthony Pascale 190 comments so far

New Phase II Enterprise As we have previously reported, Star Trek Phase II (formerly Star Trek New Voyages ) is taking the ‘post TOS season 3 concept’ further and trying to bridge the gap between The Original Series and Star Trek The Motion Picture . A big step in that will be the evolution of the USS Enterprise herself. In the upcoming two-part episode "Blood and Fire" (showing at Dragon Con this weekend and premiering online this Fall), the ship gets damaged, and in the follow-up episode "Enemy: Starfleet" we will see a repaired and modified Enterprise, which very much has elements of the original Phase II design from the 70s as well as TMP elements. This new Phase II Enterprise was designed by our friend Daren Dochterman, who worked on the digitally enhanced Star Trek The Motion Picture Director’s Edition DVD. Here are a couple of shots of the new E, sent to us by producer/star James Cawley.

TrekMovie asked Dochterman to detail how he put this new Enterprise together, here is what he said:

I wanted to keep it in line with what Matt Jefferies was planning on… I used the plans that Jefferies himself drew, so the proportions are correct. There are a lot of reference pictures of the Brick Price model that was started… but they are all unfinished, unpainted, quickly assembled shots that were obviously thrown together to get approval from Roddenberry. The closest view of what they were going for was in the teaser poster painted by the late, great John Berkey… where the ship is obviously the Phase II design shown at its completion… Mike Minor also did a production painting of this version. At this point Richard Taylor and Andy Probert and the team at Robert Abel and Associates ASTRA hadn’t yet incorporated their design ideas… so this was where they started from. I also used my own design sense in incorporating some of the textures and colors from the TOS Enterprise to help bridge the 10 year gap between TOS and TMP… I can’t wait to see what Joel Bellucci and the fx guys can do with it.

James Cawley, along with members of his crew and the stars of previous Phase II episodes Walter Koenig and George Takei, will be on hand at Dragon Con this weekend to show and discuss both parts of "Blood and Fire." The presentation is at 7:00 PM Saturday at the Sheraton Savannah. More info at Dragon Con’s TrekTrak site . More info on Phase II, at startrekphase2.com .

OGAM: Wins Awards + announces DVD The other high-profile fan series making news this week is Of Gods and Men, the now completed three part miniseries starring Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Alan Ruck and an plethora of other Trek vets. This past week SyFyPortal announced the winners of their SyFy Genre Awards, and OGAM took home the award for Best Web Production. Director Tim Russ stated on the win: 

For everyone who poured their time, energy and creativity into the making of this project, I give my sincerest congratulations.

The other big news from the OGAM team is that they just announced plans to release the mini-series on DVD. The DVD will be re-mastered and edited to 87 minutes as a single film and will include some special features.

Of course selling Star Trek related material is a no-no according to CBS, and that is not the plan according to producer Sky Conway. He tells TrekMovie that they are just trying to respond to the high demand for a DVD release, which will certainly be welcome over the online streaming viewing experience. Details are still being worked out on how they can do it, but the current plan is for fans to make a charitable (and tax-deductible) donation to a non-profit and then get a ‘complimentary DVD.’ More details will be provided this Fall, and for now you can sign up for the email list to be notified when the details get worked out. More info on the DVD and more at the OGAM website .

And if you are in Atlanta this Sunday, then check out the showing of Of Gods and Men , hosted by Rus and stars Walter Koenig and Cirroc Lofton. The festivities kick off at 1:00 PM at the Sheraton Grand Ballroom, more info at TrekTrek.com .

More FanMade coming up Next week FanMade will be back with more updates on other fan productions, including some exclusives from Hidden Frontier and Farragut.

The Phase II Enterprise looks interesting…..but that’d still be one heckuva refit job. One that would take quite some time, months at least. Then to do an even bigger refit just a little over a year and a half later that would take two years doesn’t seem very efficient.

I’d prefer that Phase 2 just ignore everything after Season 3 and create their own future and look.

That ship looks fantastic. Just what I expected the phase II Enterprise would be like.

And dare I think it, 1st?

Ship looks great BTW, but I can’t imagine why they would refit the ship, then refit it AGAIN two years later.

Starfleet must have money to burn, oh wait, they don’t have money in the 23rd century.

Meh… the *real* Phase II ought to be taking place *AFTER* TMP, not before. They’re going way off the reservation when they didn’t need to.

Telling tales of the SECOND 5YM is a much more ‘novel’ idea… but I know then they couldn’t utilize their standing sets if they did that.

Perhaps they should have considered that more fully and called this “Phase I” instead.

Darest you not, Mark. I always hit refresh when I’m that quick on the draw.

Phase II E looks great! I can’t wait to see her in action, either. Nice work, Doc.

Do those of us who were already on OGAM’s email update list get a notification about the DVD’s? Or do we have to re-register?

This is the BEST Star Trek production that I have ever seen. Maybe this should have been Trek 11. Excellent acting from the leads, great special effects. This is truly great.

Daren does amazing work. And I respect his decision to follow Matt Jefferies original drawings, but I for one am quite glad that this version never hit the screen before. It’s pretty ugly. From the seemingly randomly placed windows on the sides of the primary saucer, to the weird chevron shapes on the front sides of the nacelles. It just looks like highly unrefined to me. I’m not sure how much of the eventual refinement for TMP was directly due to Andrew Probert, but based on his drawing style, I figure he made the biggest contribution to really making the Big-E shine when it made it’s first appearance in theatres back in the 70s. Of course the ultra-detailed Aztec painting scheme really helped a lot too, but this version of 1701 just looks sad to me…

When they say “Of Gods & Men” has been “remastered,” what does that entail? Did they improve the effects or something?

Has someone already said ‘cool.’ Dang. Still… Cool.

and… I’m… SPENT!

whoa baby, FanMade happenings seriously make my day. And I have submitted a proposal for “FanMade® by hitch1969© at trekmovies dot com” which essentially puts me in the driver’s seat of this column. Which also, when approved, will make me equally as excited. in tandem and conjunction. Big words n stuff.

THE WOMEN!!

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

8 – This design had many features that were revised further to get the Star Trek: TMP enterprise.

When you consider that it was designed for a TV budget rather than a movie budget, what they did to update the design makes sense.

The rendering looks FANTASTIC! Looks as if Jefferies made it himself. Kudos.

I’m sorry but that looks awful. The design was never intended to carry over the TOS aesthetic, and they just don’t work together.

Also, the idea of trying to shoehorn in the failed phase 2 concepts into existing canon just doesn’t work. I could see incorporating a few TMP bits into the classic Enterprise, but this is neither logical or inspired.

A nice ‘in-between” look. I guess Starfleet decided they’d save some pennies patching up the Big E for the time being and use it to test out some new tech, figuring that it’d get a complete overhaul 18 months later

KUDOS to the James Cawley and crew! F-A-N-T-A-S-T-A-C-T-I-C!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#2 Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I’m surprised that Cawley is going in this direction, as I always thought he was more of a TOS purist. Considering Phase II was never produced, he’s essentially making stuff up now instead of seemingly continuing the original mission. I’m curious to see how it turns out.

Way to go, James (and crew), looks GREAT!

Always great to see work that respects the original designs and the original designers. If its trying to be “Star Trek” (colon nothing), then visually it must begin and end with Matt Jefferies. Its so great to see this version of the Enterprise given life. Terrific work, Daren.

The franchise suffered through 25 years worth of episodes of trek (7 years each for 3 series and 4 years for Enterprise)(Plus six trek movies) over the course of 17 years. We have pages of posts of fans slamming Nemesis. If anyone has any background in business please confirm what I’m saying. The market was over-saturated with trek over the last twenty years. These fan made productions do not help JJ Abrams to reinvent the franchise. Someone at CBS needs to step in and take charge. Is there anyone over there with the title BOSS?

Daren, I love it!!! You’ve obviously studied all the source material well, down to the round torp tubes. But wasn’t there supposed to be one instead of two?

If you go by their time frame it’s more like 7 years not 2, the Enterprise was suppose to have completed a second 5 Year mission inbetween the series and the Motion Picture.

An interesting ship, however one of the major concerns from fans who first watched TMP was that the engine nacelles lost the colorful rotation effects in the bussard collectors.

The rest of the ship being redesigned didn’t really cause the consternation that changing the engine design once did.

Nice work from the Dochter, though.

I like this version of the E! Nicely done.

That looks pretty sweet. A nice halfway point.

Now I’m waiting to see which news website picks these up as the JJ Enterprise first…

I just don’t understand why they will license books, comics, games and even recreated music scores for commercial release but not videos. So many Trek veterans are involved in both of these productions so it is getting harder to call these anything other than professionally produced. Should be a Win-Win for CBS/Paramount and they take a royalty in for something they put $0 into. But hey, what do I know? they’ve certainly been doing a great job over the last few years with the franchise right? ;-)

Hi Thomas Jensen (24) Gotta say I never liked the glowing nacelle tips. I vastly preferred the look of the movie Enterprise and Excesior. The orangce-glowing nacelle tips in the TNG era really annoyed me and felt like a backwards step!

And Michael (27) if you allow a fan production like Of Gods and Men a licence, why not new Voyages/Phase II or Starship Exeter or any of the other fan productions. Where do you draw the line? Paramount owns the copyright for Trek and perfectly sensibly wants to keep it for themselves: after all, they’re making their own Star Treks. The last thing any business would want to do is farm out the name to anybody and everybody, potentially diluting their franchise. The fan films are fan films. Some are very good, some are not so good. They are what they are and none the worse for it!

So, just to clarify, the Phase II ship is canon?

Revisionist history is illogical.

Whatever about the pointlessness of the re-fit, they did a nice job, I must say.

Well done. Nice to see how a gap in the Trek universe can be so cleverly and creatively filled – even when it tests the so-called canon. After all Trek is about good story telling with strong characters, and many of us are eager to explore those missing pieces. My complements to Cawley et al. for having the courage and imagination to take on the task.

I do have one request for those gifted effects artists out there. It would be a nice treat if someone were to create a high quality inspection type flyby (a la Star Trek: The Motion Picture) of the original Enterprise. Just a little something to say farewell to the old girl before her re-imagined version hits the big screen.

Some Star Wars fans need to make an internet production of a Star Wars story. See how fast Lucas pounces on you with lawyers and lightsabers. He used to understand how not to over-saturate the market with his product. I don’t know these days with this new animated movie.

Just one question. Why is the refit being done by piecemeal, such as, just the engines now, the saucer later, the deflector dish after that. My thought of a refit was, a ship goes into spacedock for a year or two and they do all the upgrades at once? No? Too logical?

Nice job, Phase II – you guys keep getting better and better at this thing!

I really like the design of the Enterprise, but the blue domes…they need to be toned down so that they don’t match the color on the warp nacelles, or go back to a yellowish color like the orignal.

Wow. I’m really not sure how I feel about this version of the Big E.

I like Daren’s work and I’m all for updating TOS for the 21st century but it feels a little … clunky? I don’t have a word to descibe my reaction at this point. I don’t hate it but I’m not in love with it either….

Gonna make it my desktop wallpaper to give my eye some time to get used to it…

Could they release the movies to youtube or whatever? I’d like to watch them.

@37 – Agreed. Can we see it in motion?

#33. In the episodes “Blood and Fire” and “Enemy Starfleet” the ship is heavily damaged. So, while the ship is being repaired, why wouldn’t Starfleet use uprated components?

During the original 3 year run, the Enterprise was constantly upgraded. Look at the Pilot version of the ship, vs. the “Where No Man Has Gone Before” version, vs. the 1st Season version, vs. the 2nd and 3rd year versions of the ship.

The bridge was changed, Sickbay changed, the Transporter room changed…

Starfleet CONSTANTLY upgrades the ships, as does our own Navy.

There’s no inconsistency here. Especially since the new Nacelles could have been designed as “Plug-in” replacements for the older ones, and exterior hull changes are just changing plates. A large enough engineering crew could have made all the changes in a month or two.

And the crew would have either pitched in, or gotten some needed shore leave.

Calling make-believe pretend stuff “history” isn’t logical, either.

if anyone wants to “give” me a free DVD of any of these fine productions, i will gladly “give” them a donation equal or above whatever the thieves at paramount charge for garbage like “Nemesis: The Producer’s Cut”.

phase II ent looks mighty fine. i think it’s a hoot that one of the last things to go is the very 1950’s deflector dish though. shoving it back into the hull is a good start, i guess. the future sure is weird.

That ship looks amazing! It’s nice to see the Phase II prototype actually fleshed out and given life. Cheers!

39. Didn’t Will Decker oversee the refit of Enterprise? He told Kirk how he knew everything about the Enterprise, that it had been totally redesigned. How could he if the refit was done over time, piece by piece? What then did the “official” refit consist of?

CBS/Paramount will not allow this DVD sale to happen. People are very touchy about their creations or concepts they own, even if they are giving it away for free themselves. A group who created the greatest free Bible study program of all time got miffed when I distributed it on CD for free. The problem? Yes, I wasn’t charging anything for the program or the media, but I was distributing it with a small ‘Compliments of..[my company name].” at the bottom of the disk’s packaging.

A cease and desist order came very quickly. This was 2004 and I live in a town of 1500 people. Word gets out quickly these days.

My guess is CBS/Paramount’s reaction will be much swifter and very devastating. Don’t look for this to fly at all.

Phase II Enterprise… fascinating…

This is like a dream come true. Like James Cawley, I’ve been obsessed with the “Lost Generation” of Trek and I’m happy to see that version of the ship see the light of day in an actual production. I also like that Dochterman brought a bit of his design aesthetic to Jefferies’ original design; although, I’m not sure about the nacelle caps but they do invoke a 70s flare. It’ll probably grow on me when I see the ship in action.

Good job, Darren!

Stunted duck

I think Phase II is cool, but I had always assumed that they parked the ship in spacedock looking basically like it did in TOS. Then the ship is totally refit into what Kirk drove out of spacedock chasing V’Ger.

But then I though she was built in space too.

And if my Grandmother had wheels she’d be a wagon.

My guess about James Cawley’s decision to go ahead with the Phase II storyline is to avoid having to listen to the majority of nattering naybobs disapproval of his work.

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January 1, 2014 By S. K. Sloan 11 Comments

This episode boasts of several new developments. It is the last in which Cawley will star as Captain James T. Kirk after 10-years in the center seat. His duties as Senior Executive Producer of this and several other growing projects within his production company ( Cawley Entertainment Company/Retro Film Studio LLC ) can no longer afford him the pleasure of portraying his childhood idol – James Kirk. The seat on the bridge of the Enterprise will now be filled by actor Brian Gross as Captain Kirk when the episode “The Holiest Thing” debuts later this year.

The story written by John Meredyth Lucas was a concept originally submitted for the undeveloped continuation of Captain Kirk and crew for a followup television production in the 1970’s which would have seen the return of William Shatner and the rest of the Star Trek actors to their former roles in the Original Series. However, the network never picked it up and the Star Trek movie franchise was born with “Star Trek the Motion Picture.”

Cawley’s Star Trek Phase II series ( formally called Star Trek New Voyages ) opted the Lucas script for their famous online Trek series. Many of the ideas formulated in the original script were eventually made manifest in some of the Klingon backstory found throughout the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series.

Cawley makes very little change to the Lucas script keeping in tact much of the original ideas and concepts found there. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are sent on a secret mission to the Klingon home world Qo’nos, much of which is still very shrouded in mystery to the Federation and Starfleet. With the help of a Klingon that is aiding the Federation, Starfleet intelligence learns that a strong faction within the Klingon government is planning a war on a massive scale against the United Federation of Planets in strict violation of the Organian Treaty. The leader of this growing faction is bold because it appears the Organians are no longer monitoring the activity between the Federation and the Empire. It becomes the job of Kirk and crew to thwart this attempt at war which would ultimately mean the destruction of both sides. Kirk finds himself walking on the razor-sharp edge of Klingon tradition, duty and their perception of honor.

This “Kitumba” episode is a major informational bridge between what we knew of the Klingons from The Original Series (TOS) and how we came to understand them in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine and if for no other reason for canon and continuity sake that makes this a must see episode. Fortunately, Cawley and his top notch professional cast and crew give us many more reasons than just this one to watch.

“Kitumba” continues the Phase II tradition of bringing in favorite top named sci-fi stars and crew members of the original series and other favorite iconic shows. Gil Gerard ( Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ) makes an appearance as Admiral Jack Sheehan. John Carrigan ( The Brittas Empire, Star Trek: Renegades ) returns as the Klingon Captain Kargh. Vic Mignogna ( Star Trek Continues, Star Trek: Renegades ) deliciously portrays the antagonist Malkthon, and Kario Pereira-Bailey ( Alpha House ) takes on the role of the mysterious adolescent Emperor of the Klingon Empire and blood descendent of Kahless.

Costume designer William Ware Theiss worked to bring the attire of both Federation, Klingon and other alien races fit perfectly in that TOS world. Theiss was a costumer on the set of The Original Series and The Next Generation.

It is in this episode we finally learn how the Klingon Empire we became so familiar with during The Next Generation’s 7-year run was born. How it moved from Emperor worship to the beginnings of the Klingon Chancellory, the early stages of the Klingon High Council and the importance of the different ruling Houses in that Council. Most importantly we learn why the one-time honorable House of Duras was cursed and why by the 24th Century the Duras sisters Lursa and B’Etor were so desperate to regain their family honor by the rule of Klingon.

The picture quality is the best I have yet seen on any sanctioned or non-CBS/Paramount production of Star Trek and rivals anything seen in a theatrical release. Cawley spared no expense to ensure the viewer a stunning view of space, starships and the first real glimpse at the Klingon home world in Kirk’s era.

As with all productions of this sort the acting appears a bit stiff at times and forced at others but that is completely overshadowed by the Patty Wright adaptation of Lucas’ well written script and production quality of the piece.

As a fan of anything Star Trek this one rates high on my must see meter. Download it ASAP – if you have a big screen HD TV I highly recommend viewing it from that medium over your smaller screen computers because the detail and resolution is just that good.

About S. K. Sloan

Samuel K. Sloan's love of Star Trek brought him to Slice of SciFi, where he was Managing Editor from 2005-2011, and returned from 2013-2014 before retiring once again from scifi news gathering.

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January 1, 2014 at 6:19 pm

I watched it today and LOVED it. Great episode all the way around.

January 1, 2014 at 9:10 pm

I watched it and was very much impressed! Can’t wait to see the next one!

January 1, 2014 at 9:15 pm

Thanks for the awesome review! Everyone worked very hard on this episode…both production and post production was a labor of love and blood! I do want to correct a basic error though…this episode is changed a lot from JMLs original story drafts. JML set up the Klingon Empire as a mirror to feudal Japan and Sparta. It was going to be the first time we ever saw Klingon culture. We had to change all that because of what we learned about the Klingons in the Feature Films and later Trek series. So, we built a story that (hopefully) explained what happened to the TOS Klingons that turned them into the Klingons we see later in the Trek universe. (We also got rid of the Organians to make it all possible.) Everything “we learn about the Klingon empire” in this episode is original to Phase II – not JMLs original story. In fact, JML only wrote two “writer’s drafts”…this script is Phase IIs, based on the mission JML set up. But I thank you for citing it as a “well written script”.

January 2, 2014 at 8:06 am

Thank-you Patty for clearing some things up here but *mostly* for your fantastic writing that has brought such an important, necessary and very-well-realized story to life! Coupled with your work on “Enemy Starfleet” all fans of TOS owe you a debt of thanks!

January 1, 2014 at 9:16 pm

The animation is superb, Hollywood-quality! The sets, props and costumes are perfect.

January 1, 2014 at 9:22 pm

Also, the Kitumba was a young 8 year old that didn’t really believe Kirk in the end. We turned him into a force to be reckoned with. Actually, we turned him into Peter the Great LOL

January 2, 2014 at 12:10 am

Please give proper credit where it’s due. The teleplay was written by Patty Wright. She took a treatment for what could have been a ponderous two-parter, trimmed it down to one hour, and made it work very well.

January 2, 2014 at 2:09 am

Where to find english subs?

January 2, 2014 at 4:07 am

Great job. Only comments would be to hire better actors. When veterans like Gil Gerard show up, you can really see the difference. He was perfect. Klingon guy…. Not so much. Line delivery was poor and voice NOT Klingon! Vic, however, was awesome! So…. Acting, acting. acting…. Hire real actors with screen cred to polish these gems. Awesome job! Thanks for giving us these new adventures!!!!

January 2, 2014 at 11:38 am

I could not disagree more with Tom. Having watched BOTH STC and Phase 2, I found this episode to be polished and well made. And based on what I have read online, Cawley and Co. have now turned things to accomplished actors with REAL cred. Mignonga played things completely over the top and made a hash up of what could have been an excellent character. The other Klingon “Kesha” played things more in line between the attitude of the TOS Klingons and what would later be TNG Klingons. In addition, he was an older and more educated Klingon and I thought that this part played extremely well on the screen. For a Klingon warrior (past tense) to be a “teacher” and also having to join forces with the Federation….he had a perfect mixture of tolerance and disdain. As for the rest of the team at Phase 2, I applaud this effort and look forward to so much more. STC has yet to grab me. Other than flashy names and part-time celebs, the stories are trite and the characters are vastly overacted. The only character from STC’s first episode that I truly enjoyed other than Chris Doohan was the female officer they cast. She was a bit melodramatic at times but at least I felt that I could believe her character more than the others. But I will watch for more and see if things improve….first episode and all.

January 2, 2014 at 6:02 pm

Overacting is a hallmark of Trek. I would rather see rug-chewing than listless line-delivery.

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