Part II’ and See What May’ve Been

The existence of Star Trek: Phase II—the plans for a Star Trek continuation sequence within the mid-Seventies that ultimately gave option to Star Trek: The Motion Picture—has been recognized for a really very long time at this level. We’ve seen concept art, we’ve seen story concepts, and we’ve seen it for lengthy sufficient to see how these nuggets have gone on to affect the Star Trek that we might go on to get for one more 50 years. And but, there’s nonetheless loads to take pleasure in on this new documentary concerning the bumpy highway Star Trek nearly made on the journey residence again to our screens.

Produced by the Roddenberry Archive and OTOY—the businesses behind these viral Star Trek short films and a litany of different archival Trek projects and videos—Misplaced Voyages is a 30-minute documentary that charts the story of what occurred when Paramount realized the success it had on its fingers when Star Trek turned a syndication hit. It covers early potential motion pictures that by no means occurred, all over the ideation and early manufacturing work for the following Star Trek present—and the way issues fell aside when the last-minute determination was made to take certainly one of its episodes, “In Thy Picture,” and switch it right into a theatrical Star Trek film.

Alongside perception from Part II producer Jon Povill and writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (and even Trek icons George Takei and Walter Koenig), Misplaced Voyages gives plenty of fascinating perception into how Part II happened and provides loads of crisp appears to be like at behind-the-scenes materials from the present’s manufacturing. In fact, in OTOY’s fashion with these Trek lookbacks as properly, there’s plenty of 3D material replicating idea work performed for the sequence, extrapolating how its units might need seemed just like the up to date Enterprise bridge (which might be iterated on and used for The Movement Image), or imagining the completed and finalized mannequin for the preliminary Enterprise refit.

Whereas a lot of the historical past is already recognized about Part II, it’s nonetheless an intriguing look again at what might need been—in a method we’ve by no means actually seen it earlier than.

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