Section II’ and See What Might’ve Been

The existence of Star Trek: Phase II—the plans for a Star Trek continuation sequence within the mid-Nineteen Seventies that ultimately gave technique to Star Trek: The Motion Picture—has been identified 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 get pleasure from on this new documentary in regards to the bumpy street Star Trek nearly made on the journey dwelling 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 arms when Star Trek turned a syndication hit. It covers early potential motion pictures that by no means occurred, throughout 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 one among its episodes, “In Thy Picture,” and switch it right into a theatrical Star Trek film.

Alongside perception from Section II producer Jon Povill and writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (and even Trek icons George Takei and Walter Koenig), Misplaced Voyages provides numerous fascinating perception into how Section II took place and offers loads of crisp seems at behind-the-scenes materials from the present’s manufacturing. In fact, in OTOY’s fashion with these Trek lookbacks as effectively, there’s plenty of 3D material replicating idea work executed for the sequence, extrapolating how its units might need appeared 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 identified about Section 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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