Undeveloped Star Trek : Voyager episodes Numerous undeveloped " Star Trek " episodes were written for . These stories were submitted or developed for production , but for various reasons never aired . In the 1990s , Christopher L . Bennett pitched to " Voyager " twice ( by phone ) , getting as far as one of his concepts being discussed in a production meeting . ( " Voyages of Imagination " , p . 146 ) Many undeveloped spec scripts written for VOY were read by Mike Sussman , during an intership he went through on the show , and several that he approved of were summarized by him to Michael Piller , as Sussman was required to do as a temporary intern . " " The problem is they all sucked , " " he later remarked . Some ultimately discarded story pitches were submitted by Lisa Klink , prior to her joining the writing staff of " Star Trek : Voyager " . ( ) Other undeveloped story ideas were suggested by Chakotay actor Robert Beltran , while having a meeting with three writing staffers . " " There was Ken [ Biller < nowiki > ] < / nowiki > , Brannon [ Braga < nowiki > ] < / nowiki > and Joe [ Menosky < nowiki > ] < / nowiki > , we were having dinner and they were asking me what I would like to do and with holodeck with Chakotay , " " Beltran remembered . " " And I gave them some ideas and they said , ' Nah , nah , we already did this or that on " " [ . . . ] What I told them at the meeting was when it comes to sci - fi , everything seems possible , so nothing seems that interesting to me . I said , ' If I chose this thing , I miss out on a myriad of other possibilities , so I would rather it come from you guys . ' The several episode suggestions I had , and they weren ' t really heartfelt , they were just things off the top of my head , so I didn ' t have any strong feelings about a Chakotay episode . " " Biomimetic lifeforms ' homecoming . A story that was under consideration by the writing staff of " Star Trek : Voyager " involved " Silver Blood " duplicates of the ' s crew , biomimetic lifeform s that would ultimately appear in the episodes and . The undeveloped plot would have featured the duplicates being welcomed " back " to the Alpha Quadrant . ( " " , p . 5 ; " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 31 , No . 11 , p . 49 ) Jeri Taylor explained , " " Everybody thinks that " Voyager " is home and there are celebrations , and they see their loved ones , etcetera , etcetera . And it turns out to be an invasion or a dark plot of some kind . " " ( " " , p . 5 ) Joe Menosky elaborated , " " Brannon [ Braga ] had some great images . One was opening with " Voyager " above Earth , this great homecoming sequence . There are fireworks in the sky , and everybody is going down to their homecomings . Janeway has a wonderful tearful reunion with Mark . She kisses Mark and she then snaps his neck , end of teaser . Then he had this image of like a thousand " Voyager " s converging on Earth . Somehow , these duplicate " Voyager " s were being created that didn ' t even know who they were . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 31 , No . 11 , p . 49 ) According to Jeri Taylor , another of the plot ideas was that the duplicates would arrive , amid great fanfare , at Deep Space 9 . ( " " , p . 5 ) The story was devised at the end of " Voyager " s third season . " " Writing the teleplay , it just didn ' t seem to work , " " said Joe Menosky . " " We shelved it , and did ' Scorpion ' [ and ' Scorpion , Part II ' ] instead . " " During the fourth season , the shelved plot was repeatedly reconsidered , as a possible two - parter , but was replaced first by and , and then ( months later ) by and . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 31 , No . 11 , p . 49 ) It was also considered as a potentially usable but unlikely fourth season finale , towards the end of that season ( specifically , shortly before and on , just prior to the writing of the actual fourth season finale , ) . ( " " , p . 5 ) Joe Menosky commented , " " The mimetic aliens got to have this really weird reputation as being a negative muse . It was this weird thing that no one wanted in the room . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 31 , No . 11 , p . 49 ) At about the end of the fourth season , Jeri Taylor offered , " " The more we discussed it , the more we thought that once they go home , even if it isn ' t really our characters , well , it undercuts whatever will happen when the " real " crew actually does get home . Which we " do " intend to have happen . " " ( " " , p . 6 ) Regarding the fact that the alien duplicates of the discarded narrative ultimately turned up in " Demon " and " Course : Oblivion " , Joe Menosky concluded , " " Ironically , the mimetic alien show became a two - parter in a strange way . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 31 , No . 11 , p . 49 ) " Do No Harm " . This story had The Doctor being forced to kill someone to protect another crew member while on a medical mission of mercy on a war - torn planet . This contradiction of his Hippocratic Oath programming left The Doctor disturbed . He worked through his issues by talking about violence with fellow crew members like former Maquis Chakotay and B ' Elanna Torres , and by visiting a number of violent holodeck programs . The story was rejected as being too similar to , and because Bryan Fuller was of the opinion that The Doctor would not be so naive concerning death and violence . Home . " Human Option " . " Human Option " was a story focusing on Seven of Nine who , after an accident , lost seventy - five percent of her Borg nanoprobe s . This would have left her more Human . For example , she was no longer able to regenerate and thus had to learn to sleep . However , while Janeway welcomed this opportunity , Seven herself set her sight on a medical procedure that would restart nanoprobe production . The story was rejected by Bryan Fuller because it was too similar to a seventh season story ( presumably ) which had been broken just a week earlier , in which Seven ' s Borg regulator failed and and one of the Borg children , Icheb , wanted to donate a piece of technology to save her . Jamahl Epsicokhan pitches . In 2000 , " Star Trek : Voyager " reviewer Jamahl Epsicokhan was invited to pitch stories for the series . On 10 March , he traveled to Los Angeles and pitched four stories to Bryan Fuller , all of which were rejected . The pitches were titled " Momentum " , " Human Option " , " The Warning " and " Do Not Harm " . " Momentum " involved a planet travelling at warp , threatening to destroy an alien medical research facility . " Human Option " was about Seven of Nine suffering an accident , which caused her Borg implants to shut down . " The Warning " would have been about a time - travelling alien , who tried to stop the " Voyager " from causing a subspace disaster . Fuller rejected this pitch , among other reasons , for being too similar to . " Do Not Harm " would have seen The Doctor killing somebody on an away mission , causing an ethical conflict for him . Again , this pitch was rejected for being too similar to an existing episode , this time . Janeway on trial . Former and writer Ronald D . Moore pitched an idea that would have involved putting Captain Janeway on trial . Moore stated : " When we were talking story before the season began , I thought , ' One of the shows you should do is the trial of Captain Janeway . You should have the crew , one day , put her on trial . ' That would be a real major thing in [ the ] life of the ship , if the crew can do that , if they really have the power to take command away from her at any moment . If they are really willing to put her under that kind of microscope , it calls into question the entire structure of the show , the entire social fabric , the command structure . Why are we behaving in this way ? Why do we hew to these rules anymore ? Do the rules still apply to us ? What do we find within the rules that work ? What do we find that doesn ' t work ? What does it say about Janeway ? I thought that there is ground to play there . " " Momentum " . This story would have seen " Voyager " mediate a dispute between an asteroid base on a critical mission of mining a substance used in battling an epidemic , and a rogue planet steered into the system by its inhabitants to escape a supernova . The insertion of the planet in its new orbit would wipe out the asteroid belt and thus the base . One Little Ship precursor . René Echevarria offered " Star Trek : Voyager " a story about a spacecraft being shrunk and the ensuing events . The story had a long developmental history , as Echevarria had written it as a spec script , unsuccessfully submitted it for that series , then recently submitted it to without it being bought for that series either . " " I went to [ Executive Producer ] Brannon Braga , and said , ' If you want to do the show on " Voyager " , feel free . I think there could be a lot of fun here , " " Echevarria recalled . " " He said yes , and he went to [ Executive Producer ] Rick Berman with it , and Rick said , ' I think you ' ve lost your mind . ' So Brannon completely forgot about it . " " Shortly thereafter , the plot ended up being produced as . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 30 , No . 9 / 10 , p . 39 ) Q on a beach . A Q story for " Star Trek : Voyager " was pitched by Q actor John de Lancie . Supervising Producer Joe Menosky explained , " " Brannon [ Braga ] and I went to Rick Berman ' s house for Thanksgiving dinner , and Brent Spiner and John de Lancie were there [ . . . ] John had an idea for a Q episode . He had a couple of interesting images , of Q on an ocean somewhere on a beach , either having lost his complete identity as Q , or lost his will to live . Somehow he gets involved with an everyday kind of person , and that person ' s fate and life somehow affects Q . That was his pitch , and it had some nice images . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 31 , No . 11 , p . 51 ) This not - developed story idea influentially sparked the writing of the fifth season " Voyager " episode . The story is similar to some elements in de Lancie ' s later novel , " I , Q " . Siamese twins story . Mike W . Barr devised a story for submission to . He later explained , " " I had had the idea of Siamese twins conjoined at the spine for some time before I first utilized it as a plot pitched to the producers of " Star Trek : Voyager " , which was rejected . " " Barr later reused the story idea in his novel " Gemini " . ( " Voyages of Imagination " , p . 136 ) " The Terminator drone " . In the process that ultimately lead to him writing , Harry " Doc " Kloor pitched several other stories . The filmed episode evolved from a very different pitch , called " The Terminator drone " . It involved Seven of Nine ' s nanoprobe s infecting the holo - emitter , creating a killer drone . This was further modified and became " Drone " . Tom Paris story . In the process that ultimately lead to him writing , Harry " Doc " Kloor pitched several others . His first idea had Tom Paris crashing on an alien planet , his arm almost completely ripped off . A character from an advanced race present on the planet then re - attaches the arm with Borg technology . The idea was rejected as too gory . Universal translator story . One of the stories Mike Sussman read during his internship involved a malfunctioning universal translator . " " There was some kind of space anomaly and it turned out that everyone on the ship was actually speaking their own native language all along , like Tuvok was always speaking Vulcan and I guess Chakotay was speaking some Native American tongue . And because the universal translator was also offline , nobody could talk to each other any more , " " Mike Sussman stated , with a laugh . However , he also commented , " " Maybe it would have made a good episode . " " Visit to a Small Planet . About two years before the release of Galaxy Quest , Jack Treviño and Toni Marberry pitched this story where the crew came upon a planet that had been observing their lives on " Voyager " for the last three years , and where everyone was dressed as members of the crew . As such , the crew are forced to see themselves through alien eyes . The writers felt that the fans would not accept the show having fun at their expense . In some elements , this premise is similar to , , and . " The Warning " . This story would see " Voyager " lending assistance to a planet suffering the ill effects of a recent wormhole - creation experiment gone awry . " Voyager " s crew also met an alien , which maintained that any help from " Voyager " would cause more disaster . Ultimately , the alien tried to stop " Voyager " himself , causing an event that sent him back in time with only the memory that " Voyager " had to be stopped , a paradox . The story was rejected as too complex , and the alien ' s motivations similar to Captain Braxton ' s in . " Who ' s Killing the Great Voyagers of the Delta Quadrant ? " . During the show ' s sixth season , Bryan Fuller , a fan of alternate timeline s and mirror universe s , came up with an episode concept he nicknamed " Who ' s Killing the Great Voyagers of the Delta Quadrant ? " , the title being a pun on the film . Fuller described the story as : " ( . . . ) we ' d follow the crews of several alternate " Voyager " s . There was a Klingon crew with a " Mistress Jan ' toch " – Captain Janeway in Klingon make - up – that was native to a universe where the Klingon Empire conquered the Federation two hundred years ago , a holographic crew that was essentially The Doctor to the infinite power , and several others . In each of these instances , some unseen force would destroy the alternate " Voyager " and its crew . Ultimately , the real Captain Janeway and her posse would discover that another alternate " Voyager " with a twisted Chakotay in command was responsible . He was from a universe where the Maquis overthrew the Starfleet crew . He had a personal vendetta against Janeway and " Voyager " , and wouldn ' t stop until he had snuffed each and every one of them out of existence . It was a fun , broad concept and for a brief time there seemed like a possibility that we might do it , but ultimately it never came to pass . "