Forgotten Trek

[johnmiic]

This website seems to be a good resource for lost Star Trek designs and failed Trek series like Star Trek Phase II.

Forgotten Trek | Phase II

[samurainoir]

I love the Giger-esque Borg designs!

[Meule]

I like the early Ferengi designs

[UnderdogDJLSW]

This is really cool. I remember seeing those Ralph McQuarrie sketches before TMP came out and being worried that they would use that concept for the new Enterprise.

[johnmiic]

This is pretty imaginative-yet unseen:

“Cetacean Ops” is a facility onboard the Enterprise-D that, though referred to only twice—in the episodes, “The Perfect Mate” and “Yesterday’s Enterprise”—speaks to the imagination of fans every since Rick Sternbach and Mikael Okuda described and depicted it in their Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual as containing dolphins!

It is stated in the Manual that guidance and navigation research is conducted by a cetacean crew of twelve Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus gilli) who are apparently supervised by two Takaya’s Whales (Orcinus orca takayai). The “Takaya’s Whale” is not an actual species; the name is a homage to the fictional character, “Noriko Takaya” of the Japanese animated series, Aim For The Top! Gunbuster in which “espers and electronic-brained [bottlenose] dolphins” navigate a spaceship.