Editing Star Trek: Phase II (section)

==Legacy==
After production was underway on ''The Motion Picture'', and Nimoy signed up for the film, Gautreaux requested that Xon be eliminated from the script entirely instead of being shown in a reduced capacity. Gautreaux would go on to portray Commander Branch in the film instead, in his only appearance in the franchise.<ref name="casualty"/> At the time of the production on the film, the idea was to keep Xon in reserve for a future film or television series.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sackett|first1=Susan|author-link=Susan Sackett|title=Star Trek Report|journal=Starlog|date=September 1978|issue=16|pages=20–21|url=https://archive.org/stream/starlog_magazine-016/016#page/n19/mode/1up}}</ref> Gautreaux was subsequently called in for an interview with Nimoy during the early work on ''[[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]]''. The pair started talking about the impact that Nimoy's return to ''Star Trek'' had made on Gautreaux, with the latter telling Nimoy that he had treated it as a play that had been cancelled on the first night of the performance, which had not made a major impact on his career.<ref name="casualty"/>

The ''Phase II'' sets were located on stage 9 of the Paramount lot. The main layout and structures remained when those sets were overhauled to appear in ''The Motion Picture'' and various following films within the franchise. The sets were re-worked and converted prior to the start of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' to appear on television for the first time, and when ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' aired, they were used once more. It was only with the start of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' that the setup of the ''Star Trek'' sets at Paramount were completely changed and the ''Phase II'' foundations no longer remained.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Höhne Sparborth|first1=Christian|title=Rick Sternbach On Voyager Sets|url=http://www.trektoday.com/news/080401_02.shtml|publisher=TrekNation|access-date=August 3, 2016|date=April 8, 2001}}</ref>

The idea of a young male Vulcan scientist was once again proposed early in the work on ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]'', which was attributed by later reviewers to the influence of Xon from ''Phase II''. The gender of this character was subsequently changed to female, and called [[Saavik]]. She was played by [[Kirstie Alley]] in that film,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Carter|first1=Alex|title=Looking back at Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-trek-ii/33813/looking-back-at-star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan|publisher=Den of Geek|access-date=July 24, 2016|date=January 26, 2015}}</ref> and later by [[Robin Curtis]] in ''The Search for Spock'' and ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Robin Curtis Looks Back At Saavik & TNG, Part 1|url=http://www.startrek.com/article/robin-curtis-looks-back-at-saavik-tng-part-1|publisher=StarTrek.com|access-date=July 24, 2016|date=January 4, 2012}}</ref>

Several minutes of test footage, including a view of the redesigned Engineering Room, costume tests with crew, screen test footage of Gautreaux as Xon and costume test footage of Khambatta as Ilia, were included in a featurette on the [[DVD]] release of the Director's Edition of ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rahner|first1=Mark|title=You may want to pass on this 'Golden' opportunity|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-80040092.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121004047/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-80040092.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 21, 2018|access-date=July 24, 2016|work=The Seattle Times|date=November 13, 2001|via=[[HighBeam Research]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The presence of a second five-year mission, as would have been shown in ''Phase II'', was included in the ''Star Trek'' timeline in the ''[[Star Trek Chronology]]'' book by [[Michael Okuda|Michael]] and [[Denise Okuda]] in 1993. This would have taken place after the events of ''The Motion Picture''.{{sfn |Okuda|Okuda |1993 |pp=70–71}}

A book based on the production of the series, ''Star Trek Phase II: The Lost Series'' was published in 1997 by [[Pocket Books]]. It was written by [[Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens]], and went into detail about the conception of the planned and later aborted series, looking at several aspects of production, with behind-the-series information, color artwork, storyboards, blueprints, technical information and photos. It also contained two full scripts from the planned series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/article/ten-for-ward-10-favorite-star-trek-behind-the-scenes-books|title=Ten For Ward: 10 Favorite Star Trek "Behind the Scenes" Books|last1=Ward|first1=Dayton|author-link=Dayton Ward|date=November 20, 2014|publisher=StarTrek.com|access-date=July 24, 2016}}</ref>

[[James Cawley]] purchased the costumes that would have been used in ''Phase II'', and later repurposed them for his fan series ''[[Star Trek: New Voyages]]''. He felt that they represented the step between those seen in ''The Original Series'' and the uniforms in ''The Motion Picture''. The series also made other references to ''Phase II'', as Xon was added in the episode "[[Blood and Fire (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Blood and Fire]]", which was based on an unused script for ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. In ''New Voyages'', Xon was played by Patrick Bell.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pascale|first1=Anthony|title=New Voyages Latest Episode Back Online – Team Planning New Episodes [UPDATED]|url=http://trekmovie.com/2007/09/05/new-voyages-latest-episode-back-online-team-planning-new-episodes/|publisher=TrekMovie.com|access-date=July 24, 2016|date=September 5, 2007}}</ref> In February 2008, Cawley announced that ''New Voyages'' would be re-titled ''Phase II'' in reference to the abandoned 1970s series.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pascale|first1=Anthony|title=New Voyages Heads To Phase II|url=http://trekmovie.com/2008/02/18/new-voyages-heads-to-phase-ii/|publisher=TrekMovie.com|access-date=July 24, 2016|date=February 18, 2008}}</ref> The change was reverted following an announcement by Cawley on June 9, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Return to the original "New Voyages" name on June 9, 2015|url=http://www.startrekphase2.de/en/phase_ii.php|publisher=Star Trek: New Voyages International|access-date=July 24, 2016|archive-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404042202/http://www.startrekphase2.de/en/phase_ii.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===''Star Trek: The Next Generation''===
''Phase II'' would prove influential on ''The Next Generation'', whose creation began just over seven years later.{{sfn |Reeves-Stevens|Reeves-Stevens |1997 |p=35}} The characters of Xon, Decker and Ilia were used as the basis for the creation of [[Data (Star Trek)|Data]], [[William Riker]] and [[Deanna Troi]].{{sfn |Reeves-Stevens|Reeves-Stevens |1997 |p=28}} However, the series was allowed to be different in tone from the planned ''Phase II'', for the feature films that had come before it had changed the audience expectations of what ''Star Trek'' was.{{sfn |Reeves-Stevens|Reeves-Stevens |1997 |p=352}} It was originally proposed in Gerrold's ''The Worlds of Star Trek'' to have the second-in-command leading the [[Away team (Star Trek)|away team]], and it was anticipated that this would be included in ''Phase II'' – it was instead first introduced in ''The Next Generation''.{{sfn |Nemecek |2003 |p=4}}

Owing to the [[1988 Writers Guild of America strike]], work on the [[Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2|second season]] of ''The Next Generation'' was delayed. The producers sought scripts that could be put into production as quickly as possible once the strike was lifted, and so "The Child" from ''Phase II'' was picked as one that could be used in the new series with Ilia's place in the script swapped out in favor of Troi.{{sfn |Nemecek |2003 |p=66}} A further ''Phase II'' script was adapted later in the series, when "Devil's Due" was converted for ''The Next Generation'' in the [[Star Trek: The Next Generation season 4|fourth season]].{{sfn |Nemecek |2003 |p=154}}

Certain elements of [[Klingon]] culture, such as the Emperor, and a general influence of Japanese culture with honor at the forefront, were first explored with the script for the two-part "Kitumba". Writer [[John Meredyth Lucas]] said that "I wanted something that we had never seen before on the series, and that's a penetration deep into enemy space. I started to think of how the Klingons lived. Obviously for the [[Romulan]]s we had [[Roman Empire|Romans]], and we've had different cultures modeled on those of ancient Earth, but I tried to think of what the Klingon society would be like. The Japanese came to mind, so basically that's what it was, with the [[Emperor of Japan|Sacred Emperor]], the [[Shogun|Warlord]] and so on." While the episode itself was later filmed for the fan production ''[[Star Trek: New Voyages]]'',<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gross|first1=Edward|title=Star Trek: 10 Unfilmed Episodes|url=http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/star-trek-10-unfilmed-episodes/#r3z-addoor|access-date=July 24, 2016|work=Empire|date=April 7, 2016}}</ref> ''Star Trek'' first visited the Klingon homeworld in ''The Next Generation'' episode "[[Sins of the Father (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Sins of the Father]]", and the themes would be revisited through the series.{{sfn |Nemecek |2003 |p=120}}

===''Star Trek: Voyager''===
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens described ''Voyager'' as the "conceptual cousin" of ''Phase II'', in that it was used to launch the [[United Paramount Network]] (UPN) in January 1995. This was the fifth network, as Diller had moved to the [[Fox Entertainment Group]] in the years between ''Phase II'' and ''Voyager'', where he launched the fourth network, the [[Fox Broadcasting Company]].{{sfn |Reeves-Stevens|Reeves-Stevens |1997 |p=350}} They hypothesised that ''Phase II'' would have seen a similar decline in ratings as seen by ''Voyager'' during the course of the first season, except this decline would have resulted in the cancellation of ''Phase II'' at the time of first broadcast in 1970s. While they felt this would not have been the end of the franchise, they suggest it would have resulted in a more immediate reboot with the entire crew re-cast.{{sfn |Reeves-Stevens|Reeves-Stevens |1997 |p=352}}