Unpublished works

In the long history of the Star Trek franchise there have been numerous novels, comics, games and other licensed works. However there have also been quite a few projects that never quite made it, this page chronicles those unpublished works.
 * ''See also New and Future Releases, for projects which are due to, but have not yet been published.

The God Thing
Originally announced in the late 1970s The God Thing was a TOS novel by Gene Roddenberry. The story was originally conceived as the first Star Trek film or the start of a new Star Trek TV series, however Star Trek: The Motion Picture was made instead. The novel would reportedly deal with humanities relationship with Gods. Originally commissioned by Bantam Books the novel went through various delays and was eventually passed onto Pocket Books. Over the years several other authors have rewritten the novel, including Walter Koenig and Michael Jan Friedman. The novel is still in limbo and may someday find its way onto bookshelves.
 * ''For more information see The God Thing page at The Complete Starfleet Library.

Harm's Way
Harm's Way was to be the second trilogy of the TOS "lower decks" relaunch. The trilogy was to be written by Jerry and Kathy Oltion. However following The Janus Gate trilogy by L.A. Graf the relaunch continued with Kevin Ryan's Errand of Vengeance.

The Yesterday Saga
Following the success of A.C. Crispin's Yesterday's Son and Time for Yesterday the author set about a sequel, a trilogy of books taking Kirk Spock and Zar to Vulcan's past and the time of Surak. Working titles for the trilogy were Return to Yesterday, Yesterday's Vulcan and Yesterday's Destiny'. The trilogy was apparently almost completely written but for some reason was cancelled.

Walking Wounded
A post-finale DS9 novel by Bradley Thompson, Walking Wounded was to cover a group of Starfleet veterans recovering from the Dominion War. The novel was cancelled in 2005.

Trial By Fire!
Number 22 of Gold Key Comics Star Trek series, Trial By Fire was to be written by John Warner but the series was cancelled before the comic’s completion. The story was to a feature the Enterprise rushing to save a planet from a huge fireball.
 * ''A script and more information can be found at the bottom of this page at the Star Trek Comics Checklist.

Star Trek: Realities
Realities was a "what-if?" comic series planned by Marvel Comics. At least two stories were planned before it was cancelled:
 * "What if Gul Dukat had become the Emissary?", by Andy Mangels and Michael Martin, would have featured the destruction of the Enterprise, the victory of the Borg, and a lead into a sequel.
 * A story by Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton showing what might have been if Edith Keeler had survived The City on the Edge of Forever.

A similar novel series "Other Times" is currently in the planning stages.

Borg Assimilator
Borg Assimilator was game by Activision in which the player attempted to assimilate ever more resistant worlds in the hopes of acquiring the right technologies to create a stable omega molecule.
 * ''For more information see the Borg Assimilator page at TrekCore.com.

Secret of Vulcan's Fury
This game was an original series tale cantered around Vulcan, a relic from it's history; the divesting space station Vulcan's Fury and a Romulan plot to go to war with the Vulcan's under the guise of peace.

The game was cancelled, however, there is a great deal of interest in getting the material from the game released in some form by fans as it was the last time the entire Original Series cast contributed to a Star trek project. Fan schemes range from getting a new company to complete the game, the materials being realised for them to do so, or a new TAS episode being created around it. Unfortunately so far, much of the material for the game seems to have been misplaced and for the time being it remains a project that is not to be.
 * ''For more information see the Secret of Vulcan's Fury page at TrekCore.com.

The Unseen Frontier: Declassified Images from the History of the Federation
A book of new computer generated images by Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz inspired by the success of the Ships of the Line calendars, chronicling the history of the Federation in a National Geographic style layout. After several years of delays the book was cancelled.

A Ships of the Line book was published in 2006 collecting together images previously published in the calendars but other than the covers not including any original images as this book would have.

Enterprise Season 5
In the wake of Star Trek: Enterprise's cancellation a number of planned stories were not told:
 * Shran the Andorian was to join the crew of the Enterprise as a regular character.
 * The construction of the first Starbase was to be shown, as hinted at in the episode Bound.
 * Enterprise was to visit the planet Ardana from the TOS episode The Cloud Minders. Whilst not an Enterprise story, Ardana is due to be visited in a forthcoming CoE story; Signs From Heaven.
 * Further tales from the mirror universe were planned. Mike Sussman, the writer of Enterprise's mirror universe episode In a Mirror, Darkly has written a sequel, Age of the Empress: The Reign of Sato I, due to be published in 2007.
 * Section 31 were due to be featured again after their appearances earlier in the series and are now set to appear in the first Enterprise relaunch novel The Good That Men Do.
 * Finally a visit to Dr Phlox's homeworld of Denobula was planned.

Connections

 * Lost Books page at 'The Complete Starfleet Library.