Undeveloped Star Trek projects Many projects have been partially developed for " Star Trek " , beginning in the 1970s . There have also been deleted scene s for completed projects . Movies . Untitled initial movie projects . The notion of a " Star Trek " movie was originally considered amid the making of TOS Season 2 , while DeForest Kelley , Gene Roddenberry , and Gregg Peters were having lunch together . " " The three of us came up with the idea of doing a motion picture version of the show during the hiatus , " " remembered Kelley . " " That far back , we thought , what a terrific thing that would be . Had we done it , God knows what might have been the result of it . It was much later that " " and " Star Wars " came along . We were all ahead of our time in the thinking , even then [ . . . ] We kicked the idea about off and on and then it was kicked out the window ; ' Who would ever think of making a motion picture out of a television show ? " " Despite that being the verdict which the creative staff reached at the time , the idea of making a " Star Trek " motion picture persisted for years to come . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 9 , No . 2 , p . 43 ) At the in ( shortly before the third season of TOS began airing ) , Gene Roddenberry mentioned the idea of a " Star Trek " movie . " " Gene spoke to an adoring crowd , " " explained Garfield Reeves - Stevens , " " and he said that he was talking to Paramount about making a feature film version of " Star Trek " that would tell the story of how Kirk , Spock and McCoy met at the Academy . " " ( " The Longest Trek : Writing The Motion Picture " , " " special features ) In , Gene Roddenberry again approached Paramount with the idea of a " Star Trek " movie . He wanted Herb Solow ( formerly the Desilu executive in charge of production on the first two seasons of ) to produce the film . Roddenberry also wanted Solow to negotiate with Paramount on his behalf . Roddenberry based the plot idea on the outline " A Question of Cannibalism " in his series proposal , " Star Trek is . . . " ( the title was reworked as " The Cattlemen " ) . Solow thought the script had to be heavily rewritten , because " " it did not foreshadow an enjoyable night at the movies . " " Despite this , Paramount was eager on the project . However , Roddenberry refused to accept the screenwriting fee and equity proposed by the studio . After several unsuccessful negotiations , Paramount backed away from the project , and the movie was never made . Solow commented that the studio could have made the film without Roddenberry , but they did not want to alienate the fanbase . ( " " , pp . 420 - 421 , 430 ) With the popularity of " Star Trek " conventions , as well as re - runs of , a revival of the franchise remained up in the air during the mid - 1970s . While no network had approached Gene Roddenberry to support a new " Star Trek " series , he made clear his preference for how to resume the franchise , stating , " " The best way to bring " Star Trek " back on television now would be to do it as several movies - of - the - week each season . There we would have the time and the budget to make it better than before . " " ( " TV Showpeople " , ) Around this time , mid - , Paramount announced they would be producing a " Star Trek " movie for theatrical release . It was later revealed , in the premiere issue of " " ( vol . 1 , no . 1 , , pp . 25 - 26 ) , that plans for the first feature film were already in the works : " " The movie ( title undecided ) is to be written and produced by Gene Roddenberry – as soon as he finishes another movie , " Magna I " , a production about life under the sea , set in the year 2111 . " " It was noted that " a number of story outlines have been prepared and are under consideration . " While Roddenberry ' s " Magna I " project was eventually scrapped , little progress was also made with his " Star Trek " film project . The second issue of " Starlog " ( vol . 1 , no . 2 , ) reported that the still " untitled , unwritten , and uncast " " Star Trek " movie had been an on - again , off - again project , which had already missed the original announced filming date of . It was reported that : " " When Paramount Pictures announced they would be producing a " Star Trek " movie for theatrical release – nearly a year and a half ago – Gene Roddenberry immediately began work on possible screenplay ideas . His first was one concerning the formative years of the characters – their days at the Space Academy , their first assignments , their coming together to man the Starship " " , and the construction and launching of the UFP Starfleet . This idea never made it to the submittal stage [ . . . ] The film ' s largest problem at this point is that Paramount still has not approved any of the screenplays or outlines that have been written . Both Robert Silverberg and Chris Knopf have written full screenplays ; and Harlan Ellison , Dick Simmons , and Theodore Sturgeon have written outlines . All of them have been rejected by Paramount . In an attempt to get the production off the ground , Roddenberry has completed yet another story treatment which will soon be shown to Paramount executives . Aside from the fact that this new story takes place five years after the " Enterprise " s ' five - year mission to seek out and explore . . . ' no information is available concerning plot . According to Susan Sackett , Roddenberry ' s secretary ( and an accomplished writer herself ) , Gene is now deciding on just one writer – a skillful and highly experienced screenwriter – who will develop what will be the film ' s screenplay – just in case Paramount decides not to use Gene ' s latest treatment . " " Because the TOS " Enterprise " sets had been destroyed , new sets had to be built for the upcoming movie , and they needed to be built with enough detail as to withstand the scrutiny of the big screen . Explaining some of the other production considerations for the film at that time , the article continued : " " The film – budgeted at a big $ 5 , 000 , 000 – is now to start shooting in January [ 1977 ] [ . . . ] [ Compared to the television series , ] the movie version will show considerable improvement in the effects department – due to the large production budget and a new process called Magicam [ . . . ] New " Enterprise " settings will be built and will be designed in much greater detail than was needed for TV . All of the " Star Trek " original cast will be back to make the feature film , if all are available and if all will agree to the contracts Paramount offers them . At this point , negotiations are still in progress to secure the services of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy . Roddenberry told " Starlog " that he wants to use not only the original actors but the production people as well . ' I ' d like to use all of the original production people on the film . People like Fred Phillips with makeup , Matt Jefferies with set design , Bill Theiss with clothes design , and all the others . I thought they were the best when we were first doing " Star Trek " , and I still do now . I think the story with them is the same as it is with the actors . If available , they ' d all like to do the film . ' Roddenberry will be producing the " Star Trek " movie under Executive Producer Jerry Isenberg , a man who has spent many years working in television . " " These unproduced movie ideas ( which also included " The God Thing " , " The Billion Year Voyage " , and " " ) ultimately led to the creation of . " Star Trek : The Next Generation - The Movie " . A draft of this never - produced " first " TNG film was developed by Rick Berman and Maurice Hurley in 1993 . A draft of this untitled film was writted by Hurley in October 1993 , but the project never moved forward . Berman posted an image of the drafted script on Twitter , in August 2014 . " Nemesis " follow - up . An eleventh " Star Trek " movie was initially planned during production on the tenth film , . " Nemesis " co - writers John Logan and Brent Spiner intended to follow that film with a " crossover " sequel . After " Nemesis " failed financially , however , this plan was abandoned . Patrick Stewart clarified that the film was intended to be the fifth and final TNG movie . He also commented , " " It was a very exciting idea for a screenplay . It would have been a real farewell to " Next Generation " , but it would have involved other historic aspects of " Star Trek " as well . " " Spiner himself explained , " " “ One of the ideas that John Logan and I had about what the next film would have been was a Justice League of " Star Trek " . Something would bring all the great " Star Trek " villains together , from Khan to Shinzon , and Picard is the only person who could stop them and he actually has to go through time and pluck out the people he needs to help him . He goes back to the moment before Data blows up and takes him back to get Kirk and Spock , and go even further back and get Scott Bakula ' s character , Archer . The problem with that more than anything is cost – how do you pay for that ? " " " Star Trek : The Avengers " . A similar film concept ( reported in " SFX " magazine ) was devised by Brannon Braga and likened by him to an story , because it took a " superhero teamup " approach . ( " SFX : The A - Z of Star Trek " , p . 107 ; ) The story would have collected Starfleet ' s greatest minds to defeat a terrible threat . ( " " , ENT Season 1 Blu - ray special features ; " SFX : The A - Z of Star Trek " , p . 107 ; ) Braga recalled this concept in a discussion with Rick Berman on . ( " " , ENT Season 1 Blu - ray special features ) " " We were gonna get Picard , Data , Odo , the holographic Doctor . . . all the " Star Trek " characters on one ship , like a think tank , " " commented Braga . He went on to say , " " It was like " Star Trek : The Avengers . " ( " " , ENT Season 1 Blu - ray special features ; " SFX : The A - Z of Star Trek " , p . 107 ; ) Braga couldn ' t recall at what stage they had discussed the film idea , and Berman couldn ' t remember having spoken about it at all , but they both agreed that it was still " a good idea . " Berman also suggested , " " You might as well throw Kirk in there as well . " " ( " " , ENT Season 1 Blu - ray special features ) Animated " Star Trek " . 1970s series . Before the making of was given the go - ahead , one concept for an animated series that was offered to Gene Roddenberry involved the " Enterprise " crew landing on strange planets and shooting everything on sight that was different or seemed ugly . ( " " , p . 18 ) 1990 animated " Star Trek " . In , Paramount Pictures attempted to sell an idea for an animated series that combined characters from and . None of the networks or syndicators at the time were interested in the series and it was unsold . Rick Berman said such a project would have " diluted the franchise . " Cel art from this series has been seen in various " Star Trek " conventions over the years , and it has been stated to be well - drawn . CGI cartoon based on the original series . In the late 1990s , Paramount briefly considered creating a CGI cartoon , inspired by the success of , and art ( using motion - capture for the characters ) of the unreleased game " " . Animated Ferengi series . Around or , Armin Shimerman and a friend of his devised an idea for an animated series about the teenage years in the lifetimes of the Ferengi Quark and Rom . " " We got pretty far with that , " " stated Shimerman , " " but in the end , when we got to the last pitch session with MTV , they said they didn ' t want a space cartoon show . But everyone was very happy with the ideas that we had come up with . " " ( " Star Trek Explorer " , Vol . 4 , No . 4 , p . 11 ) " Star Trek : The Lions of the Night " . Around , " Star Trek : The Lions of the Night " was a concept , by writer Jimmy Diggs , to produce a movie - era , CGI , animated " Star Trek " adventure . He described the plot the following way ; " " Captain Sulu takes command of the and must stop a Kzinti invasion of Federation Space . " " Artist Court Jones created several sketches to depict a new concept of Kzinti that looked more dangerous than they had in , as well as a concept of how the Kzinti assault fleet would look . The material of this animated series was recycled by the writer for an article in ( ) and later for undeveloped season five episode " Kilkenny Cats " . Alternate reality series . After the release of the film , Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman pitched an animated series to CBS , similar to their series for . However , Orci said the success of the first film did not indicate whether a new show would be viable , explaining , " " One movie doesn ' t make a trend . Two movies starts to indicate that there is a trend and its viable . It will become more real as the year goes on . " " In 2013 , a CBS Studios representative reiterated interest in reviving " Star Trek " for television , in response to a comment from J . J . Abrams that he had heard the studio was not interested . A year later , Brannon Braga commented , " " I surmise they probably won ' t do one until the movies have run their course is what the word on the street is , " " while Rod Roddenberry said he believed there would not be another series until after the conclusion of the films .