Star Trek: The Original Series
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In 2024 , theStar Trekfranchise is built on spinoff appearance , but during the heyday ofStar Trek : The Original Series , such things remain a piping dream for Almighty Gene Roddenberry . The concept of aStar Trekspinoff show would n’t become a viable conception until the premiere ofStar Trek : The Next Generationin 1987 , though that was more of a dealership revivification than a spinoff . WhenStar Trek : Deep Space Ninepremiered in 1993 , the spinoff TV show was born , and the franchise has n’t looked back since .
Over 20 class sooner , Gene Roddenberry , and the mesh , were considering whichStar Trek : TOScharacterscould conduct their own spinoff shows . Four potentialTOSspinoffs are cognise about , via existing documentation and the construct being conform elsewhere . Some approximation had the Great Bird of the Galaxy ’s full championship , while another potentialStar Trekspinoff wasrejected by Roddenberry , despite being the one with the self-aggrandizing audience potential .
After Gene Roddenberry ’s death in 1991 , Majel Barrett built on his Star Trek bequest by producing two antecedently unmade project , including Andromeda .
Gene Roddenberry Did Want A Harry Mudd Spinoff
NBC was interested in a Harry Mudd show.
A version of Harry Mudd ( Roger C. Carmel ) existed in Gene Roddenberry ’s earliest outline forStar Trek : The Original Series , it just take author Stephen Kandel to name and fully train the intergalactic swindler . Appearing in two episodes ofTOS , Mudd became an iconicStar Trekcharacter , played with grand shabbiness by Roger C. Carmel . It ’s intelligible , therefore , that NBC were interested in developing a Harry Mudd TV show . The details on the Mudd spinoff are vague , as the projection only came to light afterThe Original Serieswas strike down .
Harry Mudd is the only theatrical role , aside from Khan Noonien Singh ( Ricardo Montalban ) to face up Captain Kirk ( William Shatner ) more than once on - screen .
A Harry Mudd show in spades give the sack the imagination ; it ’s sluttish to see Roger C. Carmel go aStar Trekspinoff in the vein ofThe Phil Silvers ' Showwith Harry Mudd as Sgt Bilko . woefully , the undertaking never made it beyond Gene Roddenberry ’s desk due to timing constraints in the yield ofTOS . In a 1988 interview withStarlog , Roger C. Carmel explain how he came to bump out about the Harry Mudd spinoff :
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" Gene said , ' It ’s a pity that series thing for you never worked out . ' I enjoin , ' What series affair ? ' He said , ' Oh , did n’t you recognise ! ? Well , after the successful Harry Mudd instalment [ in TOS ] , NBC desire to know if I would recrudesce a spin - off series for you starring the Harry Mudd grapheme . A space pirate ship , intergalactic con - human race sort of affair . ' ' My God , Gene , I did n’t know anything about that ! What happened ? ' He say , ' Well , the artist did n’t have enough time to grow it . ' And of path , you could n’t blame Gene , he did n’t want to let somebody take it off in a direction he did n’t sanction of . Since he did n’t have fourth dimension to handle it all , the Mudd serial projection go bad . "
Star Trek : DS9 season 2 set about to match a Harry Mudd - manner character against Quark , but the Ferengi ’s competitor could n’t accommodate a candle to the TOS ikon .
Gene Roddenberry Did Want A Gary Seven Spinoff
Roddenberry saw Assignment: Earth as a Star Trek replacement.
Star Trek : The Original Seriesseason 2 , episode 26 , " Assignment : Earth " started animation as a archetype for a completely dissimilar science fiction series . A story outline , entitled " Seven " , was conceived by Gene Roddenberry in 1965 , while oeuvre continued onTOSseason 1 . Roddenberry eventually pitched theAssignment : Earthseries in late 1966 ( viaOrion Press Fanzines ) to no avail . Undeterred , Roddenberry dust off the idea and co - write " Assignment : world " with Art Wallace , hoping that it may spin off fromStar Trekinto a serial of its own .
… it ’s promiscuous to see how the show would work as a compounding ofMission : ImpossibleandDoctor Who .
Toward the remnant ofStar Trek : The Original Series ' second time of year , the show ’s future was in doubt , so " Assignment : Earth " feel like a Hail Mary from Gene Roddenberry . Gary Seven ( Robert Lansing ) is a compelling character , and it ’s easy to see how the show would lick as a combination ofMission : ImpossibleandDoctor Who ; Gary Seven even had his own sonic screwdriver . This particularStar TrekandDoctor Whocrossovernever came to clear , but Gary Seven continues to influence modernStar Trekwith references to the Supervisor appearing in bothPicardandProdigy .
Set in the 23rd century, this iconic science fiction series follows the starship USS Enterprise and its crew as they embark on exploratory missions across the galaxy. The series examines themes of diplomacy, ethics, and the unknown, often highlighting diverse cultures and futuristic technologies.
Robert Lansing is the onlyStar Trek : TOSguest star to have his name seem as an on - screen credit , presumptively to deal Gary Seven as a unique character .
Gene Roddenberry Did Want A Dr. M’Benga Spinoff
Hopeship would have been a Star Trek medical drama.
Interestingly , Darlene Hartman is credited for create Dr. Joseph M’Benga ( Booker Bradshaw ) , in Marc Cushman ’s playscript , These Are The Voyages : TOS Season Two . Writer Darlene Hartman had originally written a specification script , entitle " Shol " , for thoughtfulness inStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 2 . Hartman ’s playscript involved the classicStar Trektrope of a electronic computer - check major planet . The episode was ultimately rejected because of the similarities to " The Apple " , which had since entered production . Cushman ’s book also states that Gene Roddenberry and Darlene Hartman went on to conceive aStar Trekhospital play , feature M’Benga and set on a medical ship .
Darlene Hartman ’s script for " Shol " is where Dr. M’Benga ’s first name of Joseph originates , as it is never mentioned on - sieve inStar Trek : The Original Series .
It ’s likely that thisStar Trek : The Original Seriesspinoff , dubbedHopeship , never made it beyond the informal ideas microscope stage . AstheStar Trekmedical drama never go into production , the concept remain dormant until 1994 , whenDarlene Hartman adaptedHopeshipinto a novel , written under her pen name of Simon Lang . However , the concept of a show that ’s rivet solely on those gay officer from Starfleet Medical is still an enticing concept for a spinoff , which could now be realized byStar Trek : Strange New Worlds ' Dr. M’Benga ( Babs Olusanmokun ) .
Nigerian - American role player Babs Olusanmokun breathes new life into the character of Dr. Joseph M’Benga on Star Trek : Strange New Worlds .
Gene Roddenberry Didn’t Want A Spock Spinoff
NBC suggested a Spock series could continue the Vulcan’s story.
Susan Sackett and Gene Roddenberry ’s bookThe Making of Star Trek : The Motion Picturerevealed the fascinating entropy that NBC wanted Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) to chair his own show . This was propose to Gene Roddenberry concisely afterStar Trek : The Original Serieswas offset . The primal idea propose to Roddenberry by the connection wasa serial jell on Vulcan , that would focus on Spock ’s interactions with his own people . In 2024 , the prospect of an self-examining , character - lead serial calledStar Trek : Spockwould match neatly into the media landscape , but it ’s severe to see what the seventies version of this would be .
Perhaps Roddenberry was pertain that Spock would eclipse the widerStar Trekuniverse , but there ’s no denying there would have been an appetite for the spinoff .
Whether NBC wanted a Spock origin narration , or tell the write up of why the Vulcan result Starfleet is undecipherable , largely because it was just an out of work cerebration . The idea of Leonard Nimoy leading aStar Trek : The Original Seriesspinoff was ultimately nixed by Gene Roddenberry rejecting the opportunity to produce it . Perhaps Roddenberry was refer that Spock would overshadow the widerStar Trekuniverse , but there ’s no deny there would have been an appetency for the spinoff . After all , audience are still hungry for unexampled Spock stories 55 year afterStar Trek : The Original Seriesended .
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Set in the 23rd one C , this iconic science fiction serial publication follows the starship USS Enterprise and its crew as they embark on exploratory missions across the galaxy . The serial examines themes of diplomacy , ethics , and the strange , often highlight diverse acculturation and futuristic technologies .
