For the first 20 years of Star Trek’s existence, the entire canon consisted of 79 episodes of the classic show, which fans held up as a kind of modern scripture. Yes, there was The Animated Series in 1973, and the first four films, but in many ways, before The Next Generation, the individual episodes of The Original Series served as the bible for the Star Trek experience.
But what if those 79 episodes had been different? What if certain episodes were made that we never saw? There are countless paths not taken in the long and winding warp of Star Trek history, but lost episodes of The Original Series represent a truly bizarre world of pop culture that is almost impossible to imagine.
