Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
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.
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.
Good rant, by the way. I was just getting into it with my own rant, when it said something about 300 Gigabytes storage, or whatever. :-)
Yeah, I knew. DCPhantomEditor must've known that he was stealing the title "In Thy Image" from an entirely different story.
I imagine he did it because he edited it to be his idea of the premier episode of "Phase II". And, well, the title fits.
And did you know that "In Thy Image" was originally a detailed treatment that GR wrote as a proposed episode for "Genesis II", called
"Robot's Return"? I've read it, it's pretty good. It had most of the major elements - and yet a very limited special effects bill.
Dagnabbit. LincolnEnterprises->Roddenberry.com doesn't seem to carry that stuff anymore. I didn't get it all.
Also Roddenberry wrote "The God Thing" as the first proposal for the first movie.
It had some elements in common with Shatner's original concept for ST5 - like the ones the studio hated.
It even had the "God" turning into Satan thing. (Although real information is extremely sparse).
Anyway, "In They Image" was going to be a 2 "hour", 3-Mega-Buck TV movie, before it got turned into TMP. Work was paid for, to continue developing the series, so-as to keep the movie a great-big-scary-secret. (They were negotiaing contracts, and, well, that's Hollywood...).
Foster wrote the episode treatment, Livingston wrote the first draft.
Foster wrote the movie, as far as I can tell, then Livingston & Roddenberry wrote their many versions.
After that, I started to go off on that rant, starting with the history of Studio vs. Roddenberry... other Trekly subjects...
Here's a short one:
How about all those Not-Trek various-movie moments that Roddenberry and/or the actors objected to. Turned out the fans hated 'em too.
On one hand the studio is cool with the fans making derivitive works, and stuff, when non-profit.
On the other hand they seem to think we're the last people they should listen to. And they charge double to quadruple for series-es DVD's.
They slashed the budget of the TOS 3rd-season because Lucy's 2nd husband wanted to make "Love American Style".
(Forcing the invention of the "Filler Episode"). And they cut the first 3 new series-es short at 7 Seasons, tho' every added season means several more profitable years in re-syndication. (Grossly outweighing the budget increases from actor salary increases, and all that stuff).
They encoraged filler episodes for non-Ratings-Sweeps-periods, instead of investing for a humongous return in syndication. (Also, keeping a steady viewership means much bigger ratings in the sweeps). But, to be fair, the whole industry thinks that way, just less drasticly.
And I don't know if they knew they were going to ditch Enterprise before or after they cut the budget & Berman handed the 4th season over to (WooHoo!) Manny Coto, (a TOS fan, and an accomplished producer-writer) but either way, truncating it sucks donk.