
An internal memo at Paramount studios from 1987, just months before the second instalment of the franchise premiered, has recently been making the rounds on the rounds on the internet regarding casting for
Star Trek: The Next Generation, which
Bob Canada explores in detail. A few of these alternatives and understudies we had heard about—like
Yaphet Kotto for
Captain Picard or
Bunty Bailey for Tasha Yar, but the majority were surprising to us and would have made for a very different reboot and could have possibly been the end of the continuing voyages.