Trivia / Star Trek: New Voyages

• Approval of God: In addition to featuring Recycled Scripts such as the ones mentioned below, the series was made with the express blessing of Paramount and featured cameos — or in some cases, full-episode guest star performances — by several Original Series and Next Generation alumni.
• Development Hell: Unusually, not so much pre-production Development Hell — episodes tended to spend years in post-production. In a span of almost exactly twelve years (the "pilot" was released on January 16, 2004, and the last released episode came out on January 15, 2016), eleven episodes were released, an average of less than one per year. At least one episode (a Harry Mudd story which was to feature Trek regular J.G. Hertzler) entered pre-production but was ultimately never filmed. Two more were in post-production when the series was cancelled in 2016.
• Dueling Shows: The series enjoyed more-or-less undisputed supremacy at the top of the Star Trek fanfilm heap for just about a decade, from the first proper episode "In Harm's Way" in 2004 to the premiere of Star Trek Continues in 2013. From that point forward, the two web series were bitter rivals^note Vic Mignogna had been part of the Phase II camp until Creative Differences led him to try his own hand at a TOS fanfilm series, and by all appearances the split between the two parties seems to have been somewhat acrimonious until the fallout from the Axanar lawsuit led New Voyages producer James Cawley to cease production on all current and future episodes in 2016.
• Fanwork Ban: With the success of the J. J. Abrams films, Paramount has rescinded access to previously abandoned scripts from The Original Series and Phase II, with the intent of using them in future feature films.
• The Other Darrin: Almost every role in the series has been recast, often multiple times. There have been three Spocks, Sulus, and Uhuras. Only three Chekovs have appeared onscreen but a fourth was cast for the unfinished episodes. Charles Root appeared as Scotty in all but the Canon Discontinuity "pilot" episode, and John M. Kelley played Dr. McCoy in all but one of the episodes that were ultimately released. Oddly, most of the minor characters have been played by a single actor.
• Recycled Script: "The Child" was an episode of The Next Generation that was itself recycled from the original Phase II concept. As mentioned on the main page, "Blood And Fire" was also originally written for TNG, but was never produced. "World Enough And Time" had been pitched for Phase II, but never made it to script stage. Several episodes which never got out of the planning stages were also based on rejected Original Series and Phase II stories.
• What Could Have Been:
  • "The Sky Above, The Mudd Below" was planned (complete with a promo poster released) and would have had the crew once more tangling with con artist Harry Mudd. However, the actor slated to play Mudd was injured in an accident and the episode had to be delayed until the legal complications prevented it from ever being filmed.
  • In 2012, New Voyages announced they would adapt Norman Spinrad's "He Walked Among Us", an unmade script Spinrad sold to the show after "The Doomsday Machine". Since Star Trek was a going concern again after the JJ Abrams movie, CBS stopped them, on the basis that scripts they owned could be used as official material in future. (They had turned a blind eye to earlier adaptations of pre-existing material since the series was dormant at the time.)

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