"In 1977, Star Trek was gearing up for a comeback. After being canceled in 1969 and enjoying a brief return as an animated series in 1973, the beloved sci-fi series was finally coming back to live action. History will tell you this resulted in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but before that, there were very serious plans for a sequel TV series, generally referred to as Star Trek: Phase II."
""The Child" from Season 2 of TNG is the most famous, as it's a tear-jerker in which Troi (Marina Sirtis) has an alien baby. But the forgotten 1977 reboot from Phase II that sometimes gets overlooked is the 1991 TNG Season 4 episode, "Devil's Due," which got a much wilder rewrite than you might think. On February 4, 1991, this quirky episode dropped, with a very strange origin baked into its premise."
"In The Next Generation, "Devil's Due" is a delightful, fairly simple story about a woman named Ardra (Marta DuBois) who claims to be the literal Devil, relative to the inhabitants of a planet called Ventax II. (Why do these people use a number designation to refer to their home planet? A quirk of the universal translator?) The long and short of it is this: A thousand years prior, the population made a deal with the Devil for an era of peace and prosperity,"
Plans for a Star Trek sequel TV series, Star Trek: Phase II, reached full pre-production in 1977 before cancellation. The Phase II project was aborted and development shifted into the 1979 feature Star Trek: The Motion Picture, leaving thirteen proposed episodes unproduced. Two Phase II stories survived and were adapted for Star Trek: The Next Generation, including "The Child" and a reworked installment that became "Devil's Due." "Devil's Due" aired on February 4, 1991, and centers on Ardra, who claims to be a literal Devil demanding a millennium-old contract be honored on Ventax II, while Picard investigates.
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