Episodes
Two scripts for the series ("The Child" and "Devil's Due") were rewritten for use in Star Trek: The Next Generation due to a Hollywood writer's strike. "Kitumba" and "The Child" were filmed as episodes of the Star Trek: Phase II fan series.
Several episodes of Star Trek: Phase II were scripted:
| Episode | Writer | Description |
|---|---|---|
| "In Thy Image" | Alan Dean Foster | The two-hour pilot that eventually became Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Alan Dean Foster's story outline was based on a premise written by Gene Roddenberry for Genesis 2, named "Robot's Return". A huge starship crosses the universe looking for its creator on Earth. |
| "Tomorrow and the Stars" | Larry Alexander | During a Klingon attack, Kirk orders an emergency beamup and is transported to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and falls in love with a woman living there. The plot is similar to that of the 1980 film The Final Countdown and of the Original Series episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" . |
| "Cassandra" | Theodore Sturgeon | The Enterprise mediates a dispute between two worlds over "The Monitor", while a clumsy ensign takes care of an infant alien who can foretell the future. Based on the story of Cassandra. |
| "The Child" | Jaron Summers and Jon Povill | A being of light impregnates Ilia to experience life as a Deltan. The Enterprise's hull begins to fail as they come across a strange nebula. The idea for this episode was later used as the basis for a Next Generation episode of the same name. |
| "Deadlock" | David Ambrose | While searching for a missing starship, the Enterprise is recalled to a Starbase to engage in a very strange war game. |
| "Kitumba" | John Meredyth Lucas | The Enterprise is sent to the Klingon homeworld to help Ksia, a tutor for the underage Klingon leader, stop his regent from making war on the Federation. This would have been a two-part episode. |
| "Practice in Waking" | Richard Bach | The Enterprise comes across a sleeper ship where Decker, Scotty, and Sulu get trapped in a simulation of the 16th century witch burnings. |
| "The Savage Syndrome" | Margaret Armen and Alfred Harris | While investigating an ancient starship, the Enterprise is hit with a blinding light which brainwashes the crew, reverting them to savages. A similar situation was featured in episode 15 of Space: 1999 and in the Next Generation episode "Genesis". |
| "Are Unheard Melodies Sweet?" or "Home" | Worley Thorne | While searching for a missing starship, the Enterprise comes across a world in need of men. The Next Generation episode "Angel One" has a similar premise. |
| "Devil's Due" | William Douglas Lansford | The Enterprise has a first contact with the planet Neuterra just as a mythical creature, Komether, who was sold the planet in exchange for peace millennia earlier, appears. The idea for this episode was later used as the basis for a Next Generation episode of the same name. |
| "Lord Bobby's Obsession" | Shimon Wincelberg | The Enterprise comes across a derelict Klingon Cruiser with one life form aboard - one Lord Bobby from Earth's late 19th century. |
| "To Attain the All" | Norman Spinrad | The Enterprise gets caught in a solar system sized logic game where, if you win, you "attain the All", a huge repository of knowledge. |
| "The War to End All Wars" | Arthur Bernard Lewis | Derived from part of a discarded script treatment about warring androids on the planet Shadir ("A War to End Wars" by Richard Bach), the Enterprise rescues a female android, Yra, whose planet's successful philosophy of "peace through war" has been corrupted by a leader named Plateous III. |
Several writers, including Shimon Wincelberg, Norman Spinrad, Theodore Sturgeon, Margaret Armen, and John Meredyth Lucas had written Star Trek episodes before. Worley Thorne would get story credit on, and wrote the teleplay for, the first season TNG episode "Justice".
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