5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (236+ words) These 'Star Trek' books explore missing years, lost concepts and adventures that never reached the screen'from "The Original Series" to the "Phase II" Era SUMMARY: Gene Roddenberry"s novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Pictureretells the story of Kirk"s…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (921+ words) Gene Roddenberry on how childhood dreams, network battles and creative risks led to 'Star Trek' "I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at seven, eight, and nine years old, falling totally in love with Tarzan, Lord of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (780+ words) Leonard Nimoy reinvented 'Star Trek' with whales, comedy and time travel'and audiences loved it LEONARD NIMOY: "We decided early on that we wanted to do a time-travel story. When I say we, I'm talking about Harve Bennett and I. We were…...

4+ week, 19+ hour ago  (281+ words) With 'Strange New Worlds' ending and 'Year One' uncertain, fans fear Trek is leaving TV behind And looming over all of it is the uncertain future of the long-rumored Star Trek: Year One, a spin-off TV series, which reportedly would…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (437+ words) Explore the fallout of the creator's departure and how a sabotaged Season 3 saved the franchise By the spring of 1968, Star Trek had become something television had rarely seen before: a series whose viewers refused to let it die quietly. Faced…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (563+ words) From time travel chaos to cosmic disaster, these early ideas almost defined 'Trek' on film One of the earliest efforts came from Gene Roddenberry himself, with a script that has come to be known as The God Thing (and which…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (346+ words) Produced right after the pilots, 'The Corbomite Maneuver' shows the moment the show really clicked Helping to shape that early identity was director Joseph Sargent, who would later go on to helm such films as Colossus: The Forbin Project and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (708+ words) William Shatner reveals how budget cuts forced him to scrap a massive battle for the 1989 climax As originally conceived, everything plays out exactly as it does in the finished film'right up until the moment the crew realizes that the being…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (893+ words) A look at how the story that began as a two-hour TV movie became the 1979 feature film When people think of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, they tend to think of it as the moment the franchise finally made the…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (378+ words) Before she was Samantha Jones on 'Sex and the City,' she was Spock's prot'g'e, Lieutenant Valeris 35 years and many more Star Trek movies and shows later, you may have forgotten about Cattrall's role in the sci-fi franchise. The story of…...