10 Most Unique Star Trek Episodes

Star Trek: Prodigy offered, in its fifth episode, something of a glorious treat for long-term fans of the franchise. Kobayashi sees the return of Gates McFadden, René Auberjonois, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, and Leonard Nimoy to Star Trek - despite almost all of them having passed away by the time the episode was released.

In fact, writer Aaron Waltke revealed in an episode of the Clonestar Podcast that when the episode was originally pitched, both Auberjonois and Nichols were still in a position to record new dialogue. However, the nature of the Hollywood machine delayed it sufficiently and this never came to be.

So, in a way, the episode becomes something of a scrapbook for fans. Stock dialogue was used for Odo, Uhura, Scotty, and Spock's dialogue. While recording technology had evolved somewhat by the 90s, there was very little that could be done to make the recordings from the 60s sound as though they were as fresh as Dal's quips.

Hours and hours of research were done to source the words, and having the recordings exist in their original form is now a sweet coda to some of their performances. We dare anyone not to get dewy-eyed hearing those giants of Trek speak, one more time.