William Shatner’s Concept For Celebrity Trek II Would Have Altered The Path Of The Franchise

For the ones no longer savvy, “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” noticed the go back of Khan from the fresh sequence episode “Space Seed” (February 16, 1967) and adopted up with that episode’s conclusion. In “Space Seed,” Khan, a genetically enhanced super-soldier and one-time dictator of Earth, was once thawed then a couple of centuries in cryo-sleep. He attempted to enter the the Undertaking, however Kirk were given the leave on him, foiling his plans. Khan was once given a problem by means of Kirk: create a grasp population on a close-by unoccupied planet, Ceti Alpha V, as evidence that he may just certainly create a population from scratch. “Star Trek II” returned to Ceti Alpha V years nearest simplest to search out the planet were remodeled right into a akin uninhabitable hellhole by means of an environmental cataclysm. 

Shatner famous that the “make a sequel to one of the original episodes” method that Paramount took didn’t take a seat neatly with him, a minimum of to start with. He stated to IGN: 

“Did I know what was going to take place? Yes … I recall that they began to talk about the second movie, and the talk began to be about what segment of the 79 [original ‘Star Trek’ episodes] that we shot would be useful. And I kept saying, why do we want to go to a segment? Why don’t we invent something absolutely new?”

If Shatner was once allowed to offer enter — or certainly, if Roddenberry was once allowed to produce his bizarre JFK film — nearest there can be refuse “Wrath of Khan.” Shatner would in the end sound the idea of “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,” which he additionally directed. That movie noticed the Undertaking touring to the middle of the galaxy to confront God — sure, God — face-to-face. Consider if that movie got here out in 1982.