> James Cawley has announced changes to his "Star Trek: New Voyages"
> project:
>
> From now on, the project will be called "Star Trek: Phase II."
> Cawley
> is going to start using concepts from the abortive Phase II series
> that Roddenberry had proposed in the 1970s. Eventually he will
> migrate
> toward the concepts of ST:TMP as well. The uniforms worn by the cast
> will be those for Phase II and eventually for ST:TMP. And he is
> adding the character of Xon, a Vulcan who Roddenberry had proposed to
> replace Spock.
>
> Several other cast changes as well.

> James Cawley has announced changes to his "Star Trek: New Voyages"
> project:
>
> From now on, the project will be called "Star Trek: Phase II." Cawley
> is going to start using concepts from the abortive Phase II series
> that Roddenberry had proposed in the 1970s. Eventually he will
> migrate toward the concepts of ST:TMP as well. The uniforms worn by
> the cast will be those for Phase II and eventually for ST:TMP. And he
> is adding the character of Xon, a Vulcan who Roddenberry had proposed
> to replace Spock.

> "Jaxtraw" knickersjaxtrawstudios.com> wrote in
> news:47bbe175$0$8426$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk:
>

>> We're especially pleased with the idea of
>> introducing Xon, a character whom the viewers will know every time
>> he is on screen is doomed to end his life as a twisted mass of
>> screaming flesh in a transporter accident, as depicted in TMP.

>
> Someone doesn't know Trek from Uranus. Sonak died in the transporter
> accident, the character of Xon was never in TMP.

> "Steven L." earthlink.net> wrote...

>> James Cawley has announced changes to his "Star Trek: New Voyages"
>> project:
>>
>> From now on, the project will be called "Star Trek: Phase II." Cawley is
>> going to start using concepts from the abortive Phase II
>> series that Roddenberry had proposed in the 1970s. Eventually he
>> will migrate toward the concepts of ST:TMP as well. The uniforms
>> worn by the cast will be those for Phase II and eventually for
>> ST:TMP. And he is adding the character of Xon, a Vulcan who
>> Roddenberry had proposed to replace Spock.

>
> I have a bad feeling about this...
>

>Originally, Roddenberry invented the Xon character to take the place of
>Spock, when Leonard Nimoy was hesitating about playing Spock in ST:TMP.
> An actor had already been cast to play Xon when Nimoy consented to
>wear the ears again.

> Sonak died in the transporter
> accident, the character of Xon was never in TMP.

> "JD in TX" nospam.com> wrote...

>> Sonak died in the transporter
>> accident, the character of Xon was never in TMP.

>
> Xon had his ears bobbed, changed his name
> and met his end on the Epsilon 9 space station.
>
> GeneK

> And then had his voice replaced in the special edition DVD so they
> could
> make V'Ger smaller.

> GeneK wrote:

>> "Steven L." earthlink.net> wrote...

>>> James Cawley has announced changes to his "Star Trek: New Voyages"
>>> project:
>>>
>>> From now on, the project will be called "Star Trek: Phase II." Cawley is
>>> going to start using concepts from the abortive Phase II
>>> series that Roddenberry had proposed in the 1970s. Eventually he
>>> will migrate toward the concepts of ST:TMP as well. The uniforms
>>> worn by the cast will be those for Phase II and eventually for
>>> ST:TMP. And he is adding the character of Xon, a Vulcan who
>>> Roddenberry had proposed to replace Spock.

>> I have a bad feeling about this...
>>

>
> Yup.
> Didn't they already flash forward to this sort of thing in their first
> episode when they 'redid' movie scenes?