Roddenberry Archive
(written from a production point of view with information from the Roddenberry Archive)
Summary[]
- Writer/producer Mike Sussman returns to The Trek Files with a personal favorite: the creative and very meta preface to Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In it, Gene (writing as himself and as Admiral Kirk) casts the original Star Trek series as a fictionalized dramatization of real events. Wait... what?
- Join Mike and Larry Nemecek as they unpack Roddenberry's playful (and possibly defensive) retcon of Trek canon, written at a time when Gene was emerging as a sci-fi thought leader in the post-Star Wars, post-lecture-circuit era. It's Roddenberry as revisionist historian, spinning group consciousness, mind control revolts, and alternate human evolution... all in the introduction to his own movie tie-in novel.
- You may never look at the "real" Kirk, or Trek canon, the same way again.
Related files[]
Admiral Kirk's preface to the Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization
Larry Nemecek and Mike Sussman
Additional reference[]
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization
External links[]
- "Exploring Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: The Motion Picture Novel Preface" at Spotify
- "Exploring Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: The Motion Picture Novel Preface" at Apple Podcasts
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