Star Trek: Unproduced Stories That Were Never Filmed

Star Trek The Beginning With Star Trek celebrating its 47th anniversary this month, now is the perfect time to reflect on what could have been. With 6 television incarnations, 12 movies and a seemingly never ending series of novels it could be argued that at somewhere or at sometime every story has been told in the Trek universe. Au contraire gentle reader! Today we take a look at stories that were envisioned, but never got past the conceptual stage...

Kongo

Screen Shot 2013 09 20 At 14 44 18 In Gene Rodenberry€™s first draft proposal, €œStar Trek is€.€ He proposed an episode called Kongo, where Uhura and Dr. McCoy encounter a planet where roles have been reversed and black people have enslaved whites. Star Trek writer David Gerrold said, "As a matter of fact, the idea was one that very definitely had been considered. A script version had even been written. And rewritten. And rewritten. The story involved a planet where blacks were the masters and whites were the slaves, but either the premise was too touchy for television or nobody could quite make it work.."
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Jamahl Simmons has been a sportscaster, a Member of Parliament and a talk radio host. With a love of Doctor Who, Comics and absolutely horrendous movies, he now brings his talents to WhatCulture!