Great question! I would have really enjoyed it. I don’t think it’s really all that much of a Doctor Who ripoff because Gary was still human and I believe he was operating under orders. The concept of Isis was great and we’d get to see Terri Garr in a weekly show!
I wouldn’t mind if it only had that one link to Star Trek either. I don’t think every Star Trek spinoff needs to be about Starfleet, the Federation or any of that. It can be a springboard for all kinds of stories in all kinds of places and times.
She is indeed. She was also in an episode of The Monkees, she was in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and she was in my favorite Scorsese film, After Hours.
I totally don’t remember this, but it’s on Memory Alpha:
In 2024, during his encounter with the watcher Tallinn, who also described herself as a supervisor, Jean-Luc Picard recalled how “Kirk’s Enterprise crossed paths” with Gary Seven. Picard explained that Seven, like Tallinn, “was recruited by superior beings as an agent who would, in [her] words, protect the tapestry of history.”
I would love to see a remake of The Questor Tapes, one of Roddenberry’s pilots that never got picked up. It was about an android trying to find his creator. There was a very stupid scene in it that was made stupid by network executives- Questor had to get information from a woman. Originally, she only agreed to give it if he had sex with her (which Roddenberry said would have been suggested tastefully). They changed it to being friends with her.
Well, apparently they were really close to doing an actual crossover with Doctor Who but it never happened. I could see this episode being a reworked script of that crossover episode.
“There were Romulans—there was a whole thing. The idea was that Guinan’s bar was presented as a normal bar in Los Angeles, but if you knew the right thing to do, you could go into the back through the telephone phone booth and that was Rick’s Café and it was a stopping point for all these different species that were actually there on Earth with a ‘Do not interfere’ thing happening. So you had a lot more Star Trek happening in the backdrop of it. Ultimately, the powers that be at that time were like, ‘This is too much.’ But there were some really good ideas there that were pretty cool.”
On the one hand, Star Trek being called “too Star Trek” is moronic. On the other hand, that is cliched as hell.
I still didn’t like season 2, but I don’t think that would have been an improvement. Pre-First Contact Earth has way too many aliens on it as it is.
He talks a lot, but really, it’s just a lot of filler.
12 minutes of slow talking and he has three main arguments.
1: It’s a lot bigger than the original enterprise.
2: It had a lot of modeled details that went unused.
3: It would have been so big, that there would have been a lot of stresses on the hull during acceleration.
Those arguments are pretty weak. They had to design the ship before the first episode, so they would have had no idea what would be needed for a long running show, if they didn’t put a lot of details into the ship, the writers wouldn’t have options. They didn’t know if the budget would allow for a bigger engineering set, or a captains yacht set, etc.
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