12 Abandoned Star Trek Ideas That Would Have Been Incredible

So the first season of Enterprise could have turned out very different from the one that we watched. The pitch by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga was for a show that was set entirely on Earth, for the first season at least. Much of the premise still made it into pilot episode Broken Bow, but some of the plot points from the fourth season (such as anti-alien resentment amongst some humans) would have made it into this storyline.

Essentially, the series would begin with first contact with the Klingons, which would have left Starfleet command scrabbling to finish their first Warp 5 capable ship. So far, so familiar, but there was no Temporal Cold War in this proposal and humanity would have stumbled at the first hurdle. The brand new Enterprise would have been destroyed in its first attempt at a launch, leading the design team to go back to the drawing board.

Eventually, this idea was rejected and the show we got was a lot more like it's predecessors in The Original Series, The Next Generation and Voyager. Eventually, Enterprise would shake up its format with the Xindi War, but the first two seasons were not what they could have been.