From the moment Star Trek began, Spock was a character who captivated fans’ imaginations. However, actor Leonard Nimoy was the member of the original cast most reluctant to return in future projects. So much so that before Paramount decided to make a feature film, Star Trek: Phase II was going to replace Spock with a new Vulcan character named Xon.In between the creation of Star Trek: The Animated Series and The Motion Picture, Paramount couldn’t decide what they wanted to do with the show. In the years since it went off the air, Star Trek: The Original Series only grew more popular in syndication. Paramount knew there was money to be made by bringing it back. Yet, they couldn’t commit to how to do it. There were a number of attempts to find a feature script that worked, including the Star Trek: Planet of the Titans movie. Eventually, rather than make a low-budget film, Paramount decided to launch Star Trek: Phase II as the flagship series of its newly proposed network. Financing problems and the success of both Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind had finally pushed them to make a feature. David Gautreaux, the young actor chosen to play Xon, found out the series became a film the day he was hired, according to The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. However, Leonard Nimoy’s eventual return as Spock saw Xon disappear into oblivion.The plans for Star Trek: Phase II was to reunite the former cast from The Original Series. Series creator Gene Roddenberry approached the role like George Lucas did for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He would oversee the production, hiring others to do the day-to-day work. One of the people he hired, Future Cop series creator Harold Livingston, created nothing but problems for him. Livingston did not like the original Star Trek, believing it lacked action and was too “allegorical,” according to The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman. Roddenberry gave him the writer’s guide he created for the show, which Livingston called “this unintelligible pamphlet, which I never read.”RELATED: Star Trek: Planet of the Titans Is the Franchise’s Lost Movie
From the moment Star Trek began, Spock was a character who captivated fans’ imaginations. However, actor Leonard Nimoy was the member of the original cast most reluctant to return in future projects. So much so that before Paramount decided to make a feature film, Star Trek: Phase II was going to replace Spock with a new Vulcan character named Xon.
In between the creation of Star Trek: The Animated Series and The Motion Picture, Paramount couldn’t decide what they wanted to do with the show. In the years since it went off the air, Star Trek: The Original Series only grew more popular in syndication. Paramount knew there was money to be made by bringing it back. Yet, they couldn’t commit to how to do it. There were a number of attempts to find a feature script that worked, including the Star Trek: Planet of the Titans movie. Eventually, rather than make a low-budget film, Paramount decided to launch Star Trek: Phase II as the flagship series of its newly proposed network. Financing problems and the success of both Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind had finally pushed them to make a feature. David Gautreaux, the young actor chosen to play Xon, found out the series became a film the day he was hired, according to The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. However, Leonard Nimoy’s eventual return as Spock saw Xon disappear into oblivion.
The plans for Star Trek: Phase II was to reunite the former cast from The Original Series. Series creator Gene Roddenberry approached the role like George Lucas did for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He would oversee the production, hiring others to do the day-to-day work. One of the people he hired, Future Cop series creator Harold Livingston, created nothing but problems for him. Livingston did not like the original Star Trek, believing it lacked action and was too “allegorical,” according to The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman. Roddenberry gave him the writer’s guide he created for the show, which Livingston called “this unintelligible pamphlet, which I never read.”
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