10 Scrapped Star Trek Releases You Never Got To See

Set nearly two centuries after Nemesis and, more importantly, developed to be cost-effective enough that Paramount wouldn't say 'no' straight away, Star Trek: The Final Frontier would have done the same for the franchise in 2005 as The Clone Wars would later do for Star Wars.

The premise was really smart. An animated series of undetermined length, warp travel has become nearly impossible after a deadly weapon renders huge areas of space untraversable. Thus, with exploration off the table, Starfleet falls back on its role as an intergalactic peacekeeping force, much to the disapproval of the Enterprise's latest Captain, Alexander Chase. Yep, that name again.

"The war with the Romulans hasn't just cost Starfleet its primary means of transport, it's cost us our soul as well" he'd presumably say while staring out the ready room window.

Starfleet eventually relents and allows him to push back into those "strange new worlds" to try and find a solution to the galaxy's various problems. Dave Rossi and Doug Mirabello, two very experienced Star Trek producers, were both brought onboard and the whole thing got as far table-reads and unpolished illustrations before Paramount canned it for... you guessed it, the 2009 movie.