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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Roddenberry had a number of ideas for the film versions (apparently few of which were acceptable to film makers).

Most of them dealt with ersatz missions like “finding God” (a variation of which was used in one of the less successful films).

The film makers wanted adventure stories (like The Wrath of Khan).

The other film makers generally prevailed.

The disks (which held much less storage than modern disks) ‘probably’ deal with his later film ideas, and not the series (and despite the high number of disks, there is probably not as much text there as their numbers would suggest, for the above noted reason)


7 posted on 01/05/2016 9:47:13 AM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: CondorFlight

Is it me, or does the author seem unaware there WAS no such thing as a floppy disc when the original series was on?

I agree - whatever is on there, it probably has to do with the later films, which elevates this “news story” (at least for me) into the realm of “so what?”.


9 posted on 01/05/2016 9:51:58 AM PST by Pravious
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To: CondorFlight

Yeah, Roddenberry’s ideas for the movies were generally pretty bad. When they reigned him in, the movies were good. When they didn’t, they were mediocre. When the cast members started writing and directing, they became REALLY bad.


34 posted on 01/05/2016 11:41:34 AM PST by Boogieman
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