After Star Trek's cancellation, the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, faced limited prospects. The opinion of many industry execs was that Star Trek was a failed and dead property and Roddenberry's reputation suffered because of it.
But he did work. He wrote a movie script and tried to sell several TV show concepts. But always under the surface in the early 70s was Star Trek, now on TVs around the country in syndication. It bubbled in our collective consciousness, always there. By the middle of the decade, it was clear that the show had a huge audience and Paramount was ready to try again.
Co-hosts Bob Turner and Kelly Casto take a look at Gene Roddenberry's activities in the early years of the 1970s, and the events that led to him returning to write a Star Trek movie in 1975.
