It was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed it, but I kept wishing it was Star Trek up there on that big screen." ( Return to Tomorrow - The Filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, pp.47-48)Īs history has shown, The Motion Picture never came close to the phenomenal success the first Star Wars film had, both in critical as well as financial terms, which did not at all come as a surprise to then- Phase II/ Motion Picture Production Illustrator Mike Minor, who said " I love science fiction, but it's proved itself to be costly, damaging in human terms, costly in terms of money and time, and it is just much of a bankroll to bet too often. There were so many Trek fans, we could have held a convention right there in the parking lot. I saw one of those great, long lines around the block for Star Wars one time, and I recognized face after face from Star Trek conventions. 78, 83) Roddenberry himself had stated in 1979, " At the time Star Wars came out and turned box offices into money-making machines, Paramount said, and rightfully so, "Good Lord, what are we doing making a television show out of it, when we have what is really the original property of this type? " This, of course, was what I had been trying to tell them all along, through all these starts and stops. When the television series Star Trek: Phase II, then in development, was upgraded on 21 October 1977 to the theatrical feature Star Trek: The Motion Picture because of Star Wars, Roddenberry, accompanied by then-Director Robert Collins, made several trips to the cinema to get a feel for what they wanted their film to look like visually.
Gene Roddenberry had actually viewed the first Star Wars installment several times a few months after its release on. It was the young King Arthur growing up and. In 1986, he commented, " I like Star Wars. His father approved of Star Wars, considering it "fun" with "nothing wrong" about it. From its very inception in the form of the first 1977 Star Wars film installment, there has been a definite rivalry between the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, which Rod Roddenberry – son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry – learned of through first-hand experience, though he was a much bigger fan of Star Wars than Star Trek during his childhood. Star Wars is a science fantasy/fiction multi-media franchise created by George Lucas.
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