don't you know that "In thy image" was the name of the script that was eventually made into star trek the motion picture? it was written by alan dean foster, who i credit with authorship of the film. I could care less what paramount says.

Paramount would'nt give william shatner the funding to finish his original vision of star trek V when it was released on dvd. He wanted to replace the totally unconvincing effects with new digital cgi shots of a terrifying vision of the alien/god/the devil creature and complete his shots of the rock men and his dante inferno hell concept, they thought they had journeyed to heaven but only found hell instead. The studios made him change satan into an alien just pretending to be god, weakening the story.

Paramount also would'nt let him have ILM for the movie, who did the effects on all of the biggest star trek top grossers. Star treks II, III IV, and VI, as well as generations, and first contact. THe effects in Insurrection, the final frontier, and nemesis were truly less than spectacular. Star Trek I had great artists doug trumbell from 2001, and fromer ILM'er John Dykstra who worked on the first star wars, that is one reason why people generally mistake the first movie to be a ILM job.

Then again paramount only cares about bleading the fans dry, like getting water out of a stone or blood out of a rock, and cares only about money. They killed star trek with there cost cutting and greed, look at how much they charge for the box sets a hundred dollars or more good grief. and they even cancelled my current favorite show on television enterprise. They clearly missed the boat, but that always happens when banker types and suits don't permit storytellers or artists to realize their vision.

Berman did nothing to lobby them for the fans, too bad gene's dead because he would be livid and outraged.

to end this rant I ask as i did in a previous post "anyone want to send me a copy of this on dvd? pm me" please if anyone would be so kind.