10 Insane Movie Sequels Actors Actually Wanted To Make

After a quarter of a century on screen and five previous movies, story ideas for the original Star Trek cast were running a bit thin by the 1990s and the executives at Paramount were only too happy to listen to the cast's own suggestions.

Before eventually opting for Leonard Nimoy's idea about bringing an equivalent to post-Cold War detente to the age old Federation-Klingon rivalry, Star Trek VI very nearly took an odder, darker tone from the mind of Walter Koenig, better known as the Enterprise's navigator Pavel Chekov.

Koenig presented a story outline whose name, taken from John McCrae's First World War remembrance poem, provides a pointer to its downbeat approach.

In contrast to Nimoy's story about the end of conflict, In Flanders Fields would have taken place during a full-on Romulan-Klingon war during which the old Enterprise crew have to come out of retirement to rescue their replacements from a planet of monstrous alien worms.

Koenig described the creatures as "things that the monsters in Aliens evolved from", so his story could have been the closest thing to a Star Trek horror film. In place of Kirk's death at the end of the actual Star Trek VI, Koenig's version would have killed off virtually the entire cast (including himself), leaving just Spock and Bones to survive.

Perhaps it's that latter point that made Paramount pass on this entry in a franchise they still wanted to milk further, even if death was what its actor wanted.