10 Scrapped Ideas For Star Trek: Enterprise Season 5
9. Revisiting The Cloud Minders From Stratos
The Cloud Minders is a third season episode of The Original Series, which is surprisingly good, despite the poor ratings that the season received. It depicts local apartheid on the planet of Ardana, where the wealthy and elite live on Stratos, the city in the clouds, and the greatest example of anti-gravity engineering, according to Spock.
Manny Coto has stated on several occasions that he had plans to include a mini-arc of Enterprise visiting the planet. As Stratos was the Federation's main supplier of Zenite, it stands to reason that either Archer could have made first contact with the planet on behalf of Starfleet, or T'Pol could have informed them of its existence.
The original design of Stratos was sketched by Matt Jefferies, though never finished. The remastered episodes of the Original Series finally depicted the city in all of its glory, standing as one of the most beautiful locations in all of early Star Trek. The city did in fact make several cameos in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It appeared on screens in the replimat, alongside Risa, advertising both as popular holiday destinations.