Before Star Trek returned to theaters in the form of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, the Enterprise crew nearly came back in a very different form. The plan was a new television series titled ...
By the time Star Trek: The Motion Picture reached theaters in 1979, the journey to the big screen had already been a saga worthy of the franchise itself. A decade earlier, Star Trek had ended its ...
If Shatner’s prediction about the future of Star Trek had been correct, we wouldn’t have DS9, TNG, or even Wrath of Khan.
The cultural landscape had shifted dramatically by the late 1970s. 2001: A Space Odyssey had redefined what science fiction could look and feel like on screen, while Star Wars had proven that ...