The Star Trek franchise had a well-known open-submission policy. This meant that writers were allowed, even encouraged, to submit scripts for the show. If the series’ producers liked your script enough to use it, you suddenly had a writing credit on your resume.
Some really successful writers got their start pitching ideas for Star Trek, although maybe not the first time they tried. There’s even a catalog of episodes that were never aired and filed as “undeveloped.” Vulture talked to eight screenwriters about scripts they had submitted for Star Trek. Jose Molina, who has written scripts for Firefly, The Tick, Agent Carter, and Sleepy Hollow, tells about one he wrote for Star Trek: TNG.The spec was called “Endangered Species” and was written near the end of TNG’s sixth season. It features the return of Lore, who seeks out Data with a dual purpose. First, he wants to return the emotions chip he stole in…
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