10 Star Trek Episodes That Never Got Made

In a move that might have bolstered flagging ratings during Enterprise's fourth season, the production team wanted to involve William Shatner in a two-part story. As Shatner and series lead Scott Bakula were both keen, the writers attempted to come up with a workable way to bring an older Kirk into the Star Trek prequel series.

Shatner pitched a concept which would allow him to play an older version of Tiberius. The episode would reveal that the evil Mirror-Kirk had been sent back in time rather than executed. When Archer's Enterprise comes across the adrift Tiberius, he hijacks the ship's transporter to attempt to return to the Mirror Universe. Realising it no longer exists, he and Archer work together to discover that their meeting is the divergent event that created the darker timeline.

Another concept revealed that the original Enterprise's chef was an ancestor of Kirk. The chef is sent forward in time with Captain Archer to keep history on-track when temporal agents kidnap Kirk. Shatner preferred his own concept, but neither storyline was worked out due to negotiations between Paramount and Shatner breaking down.