10 Scrapped Star Trek Releases You Never Got To See

In 2003, it was strongly rumoured that Viacom was looking to cancel Star Trek: Enterprise. William Shatner, very publicly not a fan of the show, leaped into action with his idea for a replacement - the adolescent adventures of a much younger Kirk and Spock back at Starfleet Academy.

He developed the idea as fully as he could, sounded out directors, writers, and a potential cast, and then finally pitched the idea to Viacom who promptly told him they'd decided not to cancel Enterprise after all. You'd have paid actual money to see the look his face but, never one to be put off by something as trivial as the word 'no', Shatner decided to develop the idea as a book series instead.

Thus Star Trek: Academy - Collision Course hit shelves in 2007, written by Shatner himself, and retconned the very first moment Kirk and Spock meet to be in, of all places, a strip club. Fans weren't particularly blown away by the story and the proposed series stopped at just the solitary outing following poor sales. Enterprise, in fairness, didn't do much better.