The Literary Classic Star Trek’s Producers Had Never Heard Of

Talking of tales, the story of how this Star Trek episode happened is fairly bizarre: all of it started when Shankar had dinner with prolific franchise author and producer Brannon Braga. Voyager was nonetheless being developed, however that didn’t maintain these two from brainstorming episode concepts, and so they ultimately settled on the thought of the holographic Physician happening a Viking-themed holodeck journey to avoid wasting lost crew members. Quickly, Shankar made the connection no person else appreciated when he formally pitched the episode: “We go into this Viking village, persons are disappearing, and all people’s scared–that is Beowulf!’

Braga clearly cherished Shankar’s concept, however the author nonetheless needed to win over the opposite Star Trek producers. On that entrance, he confronted some excellent news and a few unhealthy information. The excellent news was that “all people cherished the premise.” The unhealthy information, not less than in his thoughts, was that no person else within the room had learn Beowulf, a narrative that Shankar (and us, too) thought was customary studying materials.