Star Trek : The Motion Picturewill always be divisive among Trekkies . The film sacrifice a lot of the wit and charm of the original TV serial publication in favor of a more methodical coming to science fabrication , in the same vein as Stanley Kubrick’s2001 : A Space Odyssey . But as nebulous and fox as some of the motion picture ’s ideas are , apparently series Jehovah Gene Roddenberry had an even more off-the-wall premise planned for the franchise ’s expectant screen debut .
Over onThe Hollywood Reporter , there ’s an extract from the bookThe Fifty - Year Mission : The Complete Uncensored , Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek — The First 25 Years , where it ’s revealed that Roddenberry ’s first stab at aTrekmovie script sport the crew of theEnterprisecoming side - to - side with God — or , at the very least , an foreign claim to be God .
appear in front of the crew in the familiar form of Jesus , it would n’t be long before Captain Kirk engaged in some erstwhile - fashioned fistfight with this intergalactic messiah , much to the repulsion of Paramount White House ( although William Shatner seemed to love it ) . If that sounds a little too " out there " for aTrekmovie , you ’re not alone .
Years after Paramount shelved the script due to fear over the disputation it would cause , writer Michael Jan Friedman was rent to turn the original treatment into a novel . However , Friedman did n’t just give the level a glowing endorsement after he really looked over the unedited drafts :
The version ofStar Trek : The Motion Picturethat actually did terra firma on screens had a screenplay by Harold Livingston and a taradiddle citation go to Alan Dean Foster . However , some of Roddenberry ’s reverent script ideas actually did exist on in bothThe Motion PictureandStar Trek V.
So if a space Jesus decide to show up inStar Trek Beyondwhen it attain theatre of operations on July 22,Trekfans will know who to pick .
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