Phase ii star trek

With live-action Star Trek having been canceled in but the popularity of Star Trek soaring in the s The Animated Series running between and , Paramount were thinking, by , of setting up their own TV channel. Having faced problems with making a Star Trek movie recent abortive attempts were called The God Thing and Planet of the Titans , they decided to instead do Star Trek as a TV series again, to air on the channel.

Paramount intended to launch the new show in , with a two-hour special and then twelve other episodes, with hopefully more to follow. He ploughed on, getting writers for all the episodes, keeping an eye on their efforts and getting sets designed; as always, Gene micro-managed everything himself. Although Ralph McQuarrie had been hired to help redesign the Enterprise for the earlier Planet of the Titans movie, Gene wanted the original Enterprise simply updated, not redesigned.

Unlike with the Planet of the Titans redesign of the Enterprise , one actually real model was created for filming the Phase II version, measuring six feet long. The USS Enterprise , which has been on a refit, is hastily prepped to stop the craft, as Kirk tries to reassemble his old crew. After losing contact with Earth, the probe has been heavily modified by a race of sentient machine aliens….

Like, does that ring any bells?

Star trek ii

Hey, if an idea works, use it again and again; Terry Nation used to do it with Dalek plots on Doctor Who all the time! At Paramount Studios, the idea of launching their own TV channel was floundering. Fate intervened at this time… In , Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the first Star Wars movie were released, both becoming huge hits.