Star Trek: 50 Years on the Final Frontier by Robb Brian J

Author:Robb, Brian J. [Robb, Brian J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Glencairn Press
Published: 2016-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

One of the problems with Star Trek Generations may have been its very proximity to the TV series that spawned it. Star Trek fans were desperate for a new movie in 1979, as it had been a decade since the Enterprise crew had been seen on screen, apart from in a two-dimensional animated form. The struggle to revive Star Trek throughout the 1970s had been followed closely by fans who witnessed the project mutate from a movie to a new TV series and back to a movie again. When Generations was released in 1994, it came mere months after the conclusion of seven years of television adventures, while Star Trek on television was an on-going concern in the shape of Deep Space Nine and the upcoming Voyager. While Paramount had been keen to trade on The Next Generation momentum with a new movie following 1991’s The Undiscovered Country, fans were not as starved of Star Trek material in 1994 as their 1979 counterparts had been. This potential ‘franchise fatigue’ (the fear that there was just too much Star Trek available) would become a serious problem for later Star Trek TV shows and movies.

The second The Next Generation movie (the eighth in the series overall) would enjoy a different reception upon release in November 1996, two and a half years on from the end of the series. By this time fans of The Next Generation had seen enough time pass since their heroes beamed away from regular television episodes to be excited about seeing Picard and his team in action once again. In addition, this time they’d be up against one of the television series’ iconic foes, the Borg.

Generations had been a muddled movie, trying to achieve too much in just one film. It was yet another send-off for (some of) The Original Series crew, an introduction for The Next Generation team to the big screen, a chance for icons of the series Kirk and Picard to meet, and it had to tell a story of its own. Star Trek: First Contact would be different—this time Star Trek would be an all-out blockbuster action movie.

Rick Berman was still in charge of Paramount’s Star Trek franchise, and he turned once again to Generation’s scripters Brannon Braga and Ron Moore for story ideas, suggesting he’d like to see something involving time travel. “All of the Star Trek films and episodes I have been most impressed with—The Voyage Home, Yesterday’s Enterprise, The City on the Edge of Forever, and I could give you half a dozen more—have all been stories that deal with time travel,” said Berman. “In a way, Generations dealt with time travel. Nick Meyer’s wonderful movie Time After Time, dealt with time travel. The paradoxes that occur in writing, as well as in the reality of what the characters are doing and what the consequences are, have always been fascinating to me. I don’t think I’ve ever had as much fun as being involved with Yesterday’s Enterprise, and having to tackle all the logical, paradoxical problems that we would run into and figure out ways to solve them.

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