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An Alternate Trek

A late 20th century popcultural, Star Trek themed timeline, set in the United Kingdom. Created by Lindseyman in cooperation with various other AH.commers, particularly viewcode.

While the timeline is a smaller project, its development has been ongoing since 2013. You can find it here.


Premise and POD

What if the original 1960s Star Trek was produced by the British on ITV instead of Americans on NBC ?

The timeline started out primarily as a discussion of what could the original, 1960s Star Trek have been like, had it been sold by Roddenberry to a British television broadcaster instead of an American one. Over time, the discussion started morphing into a more coherent timeline, with Lindseyman as the main compiler and author of the approved ATL ideas.


Chapters

For greater ease of reading and finding individual chapters, the timeline's large amount of chapters is sorted into more specific sections.

Beginnings and pre-production

Issues with Spock and a Patrick McGoohan replacement

Problems with the lead

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - The Bridge Crew

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - Other Bridge Crew

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - Engineering and Medical Staff

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - Uniforms

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - Timekeeping

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - Klingons

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - The Human/Klingon Conundrum

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - The DTI

Series 1

List of ATL early Star Trek episodes

S1E01 "The Cage", first aired 7:30pm on Saturday 7th January 1967 (Star Trek premiere)

Advertising for Star Trek series launch on ITV

S1E02 "Inhibitions", broadcast January 14th 1967

S1E03 "Yesterday is Tomorrow", broadcast Jan 21st 1967

S1E04 "The Herschel", broadcast 28th January 1967

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - Andorians

S1E05 "The Mind Sifter", broadcast 4th February 1967

S1E06 "The Federation", broadcast 11th February 1967

S1E07 "Shiva", broadcast 18th February 1967

S1E08 "The Guardian of Time" (broadcast 25th February 1967), S1E9 "Court Martial" (broadcast 4th March 1967)

ITC and BBC controversy after "Guardian of Time" broadcast

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - Vulcanians

S1E10 "Where No One Has Gone Before", broadcast 11th March 1967

S1E11 "Yin and Yang", broadcast 18th March 1967

Cast Readjustments

S1E12 "The Aphrodite Syndrome", broadcast March 25th 1967

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - The Rhihannaun

From the ITC Star Trek Script Writer's Handbook - The Rhihannaun and Earth

S1E13 "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear", broadcast April 1st 1967

S1E14 "The Lost Broadcast", broadcast April 8th 1967

S1E15 "Brothers", broadcast April 15th 1967

S1E16 "The Forgotten", broadcast April 22th 1967

S1E17 "Charlie's Law", broadcast April 29th 1967

S1E18 "Mutual Destruction", broadcast May 6th 1967

S1E19 "Old Wounds", broadcast May 13th 1967

S1E20 "Organia", broadcast May 20th 1967

S1E21 "To Thine Ownself", broadcast May 27th 1967

S1E22 "The Computer War", broadcast June 5th 1967

S1E23 "The Spores", broadcast June 12th 1967

S1E24 "I Shot an Arrow", broadcast June 19th 1967

S1E25 "Where it Landed", broadcast June 26th 1967

S1E26 "Janus", broadcast July 3rd 1967

Series 2

Series 2 of Star Trek

TV Times coverage of series 2 of Star Trek, Saturday 2nd September to Friday 8th September

List of Series 2 episodes

S2E01 "The Return of the Forgotten", broadcast September 2nd 1967

S2E02 "The Ultimate Weapon", broadcast September 9th 1967

S2E03 "Triskelion", broadcast September 16th 1967

S2E04 "Growing old is bad for you!", broadcast September 23rd 1967

S2E05 "The Dragon", broadcast September 30th 1967

S2E06 "Gemini III", broadcast October 7th 1967

S2E07 "The Map", broadcast October 14th 1967

S2E08 "Whom the Gods Destroy", broadcast October 21st 1967

S2E09 "The Return of Harry Mudd", broadcast October 28th 1967

S2E10 "A Day in the Life", broadcast November 4th 1967

S2E11 "Omega IV", broadcast November 11th 1967

S2E12 "Treat Both the Same", broadcast November 18th 1967

S2E13 "Checkmate", broadcast November 25th 1967

Aftermath of Series 2

Some TV highlights of 1967

Some Changes to TV SF

Series 3

TV Times weekly issue, Saturday 6th January

S3E01 "Tomorrow's Endeavour", broadcast January 6th 1968

S3E02 "The Message", broadcast January 13th 1968

S3E03 "Through the Looking Glass", broadcast January 20th 1968

S3E04 "What They Found There", broadcast January 27th 1968

S3E05 "Of Mhysse and Men", broadcast February 3rd 1968

S3E06 "Decline and Fall", broadcast February 10th 1968

"Decline and Fall" novelisation by James Blish

S3E07 "The Quest", broadcast February 17th 1968

S3E08 "The Zoo", broadcast February 24th 1968

S3E09 "Between a Rock...", broadcast March 2nd 1968

S3E10 "The Conference", broadcast March 2nd 1968

S3E11 "Reset", broadcast March 16th 1968

S3E12 "Shock", broadcast March 23th 1968

S3E13 "Tempus Fugit", broadcast March 30th 1968

Episode list for Series 3 (second half of Season 2 elsewhere)

Arguments between Gene Roddenberry and Lew Grade

Excerpt from an interview given by Malcolm Hulke in 1976

Excerpt from an interview with Terence Dicks in 1988

Interview with Brian Clemens in 1976

From an interview with Terence Dicks in Doctor Who Magazine, October 2013

ATL Dad's Army premiere, Wednesday 31st July 1968

Extract from an interview with Majel Barrett-Rodenberry in 1992

Summer of Sport

Series 4

Broadcast dates for Series 4 and 5 of Star Trek

The Klingon "Problem"

The "New" Tellurians

List of Series 4 episodes

S4E01 "Interphase", broadcast September 7th 1968

S4E02 "Quandry", broadcast September 14th 1968

S4E03 "A Solution ?", broadcast September 21st 1968

S4E03 "Revelations", broadcast September 28th 1968

S4E04 "Resquiat in Pace", broadcast October 5th 1968

Cast Changes

S4E05 "Colossus", broadcast November 2nd 1968

S4E06 "Stein's Epiphany", broadcast November 9th 1968

S4E07 "The Trodons", broadcast November 16th 1968

S4E08 "Farmers", broadcast November 23rd 1968

S4E09 "The Station Terror", broadcast November 30th 1968

S4E10 "The Emrix Terror", broadcast December 7th 1968

S4E11 "The Revanche", broadcast December 14th 1968

S4E12 "The Revanche", broadcast December 21st 1968

Aftermath of Series 4

Star Trek in the US

Series 5

S5E01 "Morgannig", broadcast January 11th 1969

S5E02 "Zetar III", broadcast January 18th 1969

S5E03 "Ancient Philosophy", broadcast January 25th 1969

S5E04 "Those Pesky...", broadcast February 1st 1969

S5E05 "The Parasite", broadcast February 8th 1969

S5E06 "Uneasy Lies The Crown", broadcast February 15th 1969

S5E07 "Clear as Mudd", broadcast February 22nd 1969

S5E08 "Springheel", broadcast March 1st 1969

S5E09 "Njark", broadcast March 8th 1969

S5E10 "The Clarke", broadcast March 15th 1969

An Ill-fated Tour : The MCC Tour of South Africa 1968-69

S5E11 "The Blink of an Eye", broadcast March 22nd 1969

S5E12 "First Impressions", broadcast March 29th 1969

S5E13 "A Good Deed", broadcast April 5th 1969

Series 5

Part of an interview with Terence Dicks in 1990 (part 1)

Part of an interview with Terence Dicks in 1990 (part 2)

A Review of "The Daleks"Special Edition DVD boxset August 2013

Part of an interview with Brian Clemens in 1982

Part of an interview with Barry Letts in Doctor Who Magazine February 2005

Series 6

Broadcasting for Series 6

S6E01 "Lazarus", broadcast September 20th 1969

S6E02 "Without End", broadcast September 27th 1969

S6E03 "Leave", broadcast October 6th 1969

S6E04 "Quo Vadis", broadcast October 13th 1969

S6E05 "Stephanie", broadcast October 20th 1969

S6E06 "Contagion (part 1)", broadcast October 27th 1969

S6E07 "Contagion (part 2)", broadcast November 3rd 1969

S6E08 "The Erebus", broadcast November 10h 1969

S6E09 "The Bismarck", broadcast November 17th 1969

Rumours from across the pond

S6E10 "The Carnyate", broadcast November 24th 1969

S6E11 "UXB", broadcast December 1st 1969

S6E12 "The Gandhi (part 1)", broadcast December 8th 1969

S6E13 "The Gandhi (part 2)", broadcast December 15th 1969

Series 6

British TV in 1969

More from an interview with Barry Letts in Dr Who Magazine February 2005

Series 7

Cast changes for Series 7

Broadcast dates for Series 7

S7E01 "A New Start", broadcast Saturday 3rd January 1970

S7E02 "Mitosis", broadcast Saturday 10th January 1970

S7E03 "Lab Rats", broadcast Saturday 17th January 1970

S7E04 "Voyager IV", broadcast Saturday 24th January 1970

S7E05 "A Warning Broadcast", broadcast Saturday 31st January 1970

S7E06 "Any Sufficiently Advanced...", broadcast Saturday 7th February 1970

S7E07 "A Stitch in Time", broadcast Saturday 14th February 1970

S7E08 "Mudd in Your Eye", broadcast Saturday 21st February 1970

S7E09 "Legends", broadcast Saturday 28th February 1970

S7E10 "Myths", broadcast Saturday 7th March 1970

S7E11 "The Beginning of the End", broadcast Saturday 10th March 1970

S7E12 "The Fall of the Commonwealth", broadcast Saturday 10th March 1970

S7E13 "Finis", broadcast Saturday 10th March 1970

Series 7

Gene has a brainwave

Names and Timing

Problems

The 1970 World Cup

The South African Cricket Tour of 1970

The James Blish Novelisations of Star Trek


CSS Endeavour - The “hero” starship of the series.

The Alternate Trek Universe with analogues from OTL Star Trek


Popcultural Timelines

Timelines based on existing fiction