10 Scrapped Star Trek Releases You Never Got To See

One thing I probably should have pointed out at the start was the recurring theme of JJ Abrams 2009 Star Trek movie. In short, there has never been a more yawning chasm for the franchise than the years between the end of Enterprise and the green-light being given to that, and about a million different concepts were pitched to Paramount as a result.

One of the more appealing - and certainly one that enjoyed the most development in pre-production before getting canned - was the movie Star Trek: The Beginning. Designed to pick up where Enterprise left off and conclude with where the Original Series started, Band of Brothers writer Erik Jendresen got as far as penning a script for it before the plug was pulled.

Said script concerned a one Tiberius Chase (a distant relative of a one James T. Kirk and the most Hollywood name Star Trek's ever seen) taking matters into his own hands following a devastating attack on Earth. Stealing the USS Spartan from the Federation and embarking on his own revenge mission against the Romulans, the film was planned as a trilogy but ended up on the scrapheap when Paramount shuffled their management structure around.

The new bosses wanted to shelve any Star Trek projects for a few years and, when they decided to revisit the franchise, the Abrams film was the direction they wanted to go in.