A killing-time-at-work project for this week - This is my 1/350 E in some Bryce 3D backgrounds. I put her into some TOS title screens using titles of unproduced scripts mentioned on Memory Alpha. Except for #1 which is the title of a fanfic I'm writing, and #9, which is the name of the destroyer kitbash in the pic.
Yeah, I just read about that in the 3rd volume of These are the Voyages. Dorothy Fontana wrote the treatment as a generation gap story, based on McCoy's daughter coming aboard as a nursing student, and revealing she was only doing it to please him, but she hated it. Fred Freiberger rejected it, because he was an idiot, and thought McCoy was the same age as Kirk, thus too young to have a 21-year-old daughter. Meanwhile Koenig complained he didn't have enough to do on the show. Fontana's idea got rewritten and twisted around into the space hippie story, and McCoy's daughter got rewritten and twisted into Chekov's old girlfriend. That was the last straw for Fontana, and she got her agent to get her out of her contract and left the show. In the end we got a story about hippies written by a 65-year-old man, directed by a 54-year-old man, wherin only one of the hippies was under 26 (Deborah Downey, 18), and one was 32 (Charles Napier).
On the other hand the "Starcruiser Aurora" looked pretty nice. Too bad the remastered TOS made it look like a 1950s movie reject.
...which would have been totally appropriate to the time the show was made. What we got was just the Tholian ship with a couple of pods stuck on. Quick and dirty. Not that I'm a particular fan of the new effects, but they did okay with that one.
