Other Episodes - Continued
Savage Syndrome
This story had some great writers involved in it David Gerrold was one of the ones involved in the original premise and Margaret Armen was involved in the development alongside Alfred Harris. Basically technology overly projects negative emotions on the crew, resulting in them turning on each other. Could have been cheesy, or could have been really good.
Are Unheard Memories Sweet?
The nudity in this episode wouldn't have made it to air, that much is certain. The rest of the premise is that the Enterprise is out of dilithium and is falling into orbit of a planet while an alien race abduct the crew. It was written by Worley Thorne, who was later credited as one of those who re-wrote the teleplay for The Next Generation episode Justice. Not really all that confidence inspiring then.
Devil's Due
A great deal more differences in this episode when it was remade for Star Trek: The Next Generation than The Child. Watch that version of Devil's Due then come back here. I'll wait. Ready? Ok. Now remember that episode but replace Data with the Enterprise computer itself, and hide McCoy in a wall. Confused? I am too not an easy premise to follow. Involves old people de-aging and prophets and all manner of fooey. The Next Generation version took the basic idea and improved it greatly. In fact it amuses me that people say that it was like an episode of The Original Series, because only the "devil" character itself remains the same, pretty much all other characters are different and only a single element of the basic plot remains.
Lord Bobby's Obsession
This story expanded the Star Trek universe with stories about the development of the Britannic Commonwealth, and also added some more to the Klingons (or whatever we should call them) as it turns out they were abducting humans in the 1950s in flying saucers. I wish I was making it up.
To Attain The All
A Norman Spinrad story, so it might have turned out a great deal better than I'm about to describe it. The Enterprise attempts to decipher a solar system sized logic puzzle in order to obtain a cache of advanced knowledge. Coming from the guy who wrote The Doomsday Machine it would have probably been quite good.
The War To End All Wars
Although this was on the drawing board, I doubt it would have ever been shot as originally intended it would have been far too expensive and there is no way it would have fit into a single episode as intended. Kirk comes across a planet where wars involving androids has essentially become a spectator sport. So on the budget list, we have armies of androids, android tanks, massive battle scenes... it wasn't going to happen, was it?