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Airdate: September 28, 1987
1 of 176 produced
1 of 176 aired
Introduction
The movie franchise finally having convinced Paramount that Star Trek could be a money making property, Gene Roddenberry was courted by studio executives to create a new television show based upon it. This new show would be syndicated, meaning no direct network control or censorship. It would have a budget of $1 million per episode, relieving some of the dire financial pressure that squeezed TOS so harmfully. In effect, Roddenberry is promised a certain degree of carte blanche, and he takes it and runs with it. Re-uniting some of the key players from his TOS production crew (Bob Justman, D.C. Fontana, William Ware Theiss, and David Gerrold, among others), and adding great new talent discovered over the run of the movies (Andrew Probert, Rick Sternbach, Herman Zimmerman, and the incomparable Mike Okuda), Roddenberry sets out to "do it right," creating a show that aims to be superior in every way to TOS, better stories, better production values, more realism, fixing some of the problems of the previous show. Does he succeed? Time will be the judge. In this first installment, written by D.C. Fontana and Roddenberry, we meet our new crew, see their new vessel, and run into a chaotically omnipotent entity who threatens to mothball the whole new voyage before it even begins.
The movie franchise finally having convinced Paramount that Star Trek could be a money making property, Gene Roddenberry was courted by studio executives to create a new television show based upon it. This new show would be syndicated, meaning no direct network control or censorship. It would have a budget of $1 million per episode, relieving some of the dire financial pressure that squeezed TOS so harmfully. In effect, Roddenberry is promised a certain degree of carte blanche, and he takes it and runs with it. Re-uniting some of the key players from his TOS production crew (Bob Justman, D.C. Fontana, William Ware Theiss, and David Gerrold, among others), and adding great new talent discovered over the run of the movies (Andrew Probert, Rick Sternbach, Herman Zimmerman, and the incomparable Mike Okuda), Roddenberry sets out to "do it right," creating a show that aims to be superior in every way to TOS, better stories, better production values, more realism, fixing some of the problems of the previous show. Does he succeed? Time will be the judge. In this first installment, written by D.C. Fontana and Roddenberry, we meet our new crew, see their new vessel, and run into a chaotically omnipotent entity who threatens to mothball the whole new voyage before it even begins.
The mothballs are hidden inside the foofy hat.
