10 Star Trek Deleted Scenes You Must See

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Please note that the footage of these scenes is not due to arrive until Tuesday.

BY JACK KIELY
FEBRUARY 3RD, 2023

There are plenty of reasons for a scene to find itself sacrificed to the cutting room floor (or bin for those less messy editors) – at one time as a lonely strip of film, but now likely relegated to the back-end of a hard drive. A scene might be unnecessarily expositional, slow, tonally inapt, not quite family-friendly, out-and-out bad, or simply redundant full stop. When the film/episode is already too long, certain moments may get the chop more easily than others. We didn’t really need to see Hoshi learning the Denobulan for 'xiphoid process' in the Enterprise season two episode Minefield, or Captain Picard spilling food all over himself in Insurrection, for example. Both segments were best left as curiosities for the collector.

The reverse is also true. Invoking a sense of 'let’s-have-a-look-at-what-you-could’ve-won' as part of the special features, certain deleted scenes really should have made it to air or to the cinema in the first place. We are left wondering why they were cut when they help explain key plot points. Other scenes have only seen the light of day decades after their celluloid severance, such as the material found in the 'Roddenberry vault' to be discussed below.

As fans, we can already feast on director’s cuts, remastered looks; steelbooks, special ('ABC') versions, box-sets, theatrical excursions; Blu-rays, 4Ks; standalones or stream from homes. With these comes a wealth of material that never made it to screen. Here are 10 such deleted moments that you really need to see.