10 Star Trek: Voyager Episodes That Were Almost Completely Different

Night was considered a risky season opener by the writing team. While the admittedly cool idea of the more realistic huge gaps in space between stars was fun to portray, the team had to figure out what the actual threat inside the Void was going to be - other than Neelix's nihlophobia that is.

The original idea always had Voyager flying through a darkened area of space, but they would discover a planet that had somehow managed to form and evolve without any light or solar interference. Naturally, a landing party would travel down to the surface, where all sorts of craziness would ensue.

The planet, it transpired, would have been akin to King Tutankhamun's tomb, though replete with half-alive, half-dead creatures defending its secrets. They would swarm the landing party, and their vessels would come out from nothingness, ready to attack the ship itself.

Writer Joe Menosky wrote 'about ten pages' of material around this, before he and the rest of the team took a step back, took a breath, and realised that none of it was truly working. That was when they opted to concentrate on Janeway's melancholy, the introduction of the Malon, and those badass-looking Void ships that sadly never returned.