#Star trek alan dean foster android#

Roddenberry and producer Harold Livingston see promise in Foster's treatment and think it can be fashioned into a pilot for Star Trek Phase II. Roddenberry thinks the 'Robot's Return' idea from Genesis II has some promise as a possible Star Trek story, so he asks Alan Dean Foster to flesh it out into a story treatment. The crew went their separate ways years ago, a new Enterprise has been built, an alien probe is on a direct course for Earth, and the crew reunites to meet the threat.Īround the same time, Roddenberry develops a television series, Genesis II, and one of the plot springboards for an episode is 'Robot's Return.' The network doesn't pick up the series, so 'Robot's Return' goes unused.Ī few years later, Paramount wants to launch a new television network, and they want it to be anchored with a Star Trek television series. In the early 70s, Roddenberry writes a script for a Star Trek film. Reading this discussion, I think i can see how Roddenberry's script for 'The God-Thing' played a role in the development of 'Robot's Return.' It sums up what went on to become the most controversial, yet highly essential, theme in ST-TMP-and one over which battle was waged with the Paramount Studio Executives, as we shall shortly see. One sentence in 'Robot's Return' is noteworthy here. The machine leaves for places unknown and Dylan's hometown of Pax becomes peaceful once more.

#Star trek alan dean foster android#

Android and girl finally swap places again, and the mechanical lady goes on to explain to the machine what happened to NASA during the last two centuries.

This story ends when the android, by now in love with Dylan (who wants the real thing, not a mechanical copy) tricks the intelligent machine-spaceship into releasing the hostages. They offer it some old 20th-century NASA film the lovely android responds by smashing the projector with her (its?) fist. The space ship now in Earth orbit has zapped one of Dylan's friends, a lady named Harper-Smythe, who suddenly vanished in a blinding flash-only to be returned a short while later-only this is not Harper-Smythe at all, its voice announces, but a perfect machine duplication! Soon the robot is behaving like the real live-girl, having received a 'personality imprint.' Perhaps Dylan will be able to save the two-hundred hostages the spaceship is holding in orbit by gaining the androids's trust, even affection. Dylan Hunt, Genesis II's 'Captain Kirk' type, learns that the last NASA space exploration team, to one of the moons of Neptune sent back a garbled final message about discovering an alien city whose inhabitants were long dead, but whose machinery was still in operation. It wishes to learn more about the holy home of its Creator, NASA it seeks its God. "e The wait is over.A twenty mile-in-diameter space vessel has arrived at 22nd-century Earth from its Neptune moon home. Kirk and Spock, two completely different and unyielding personalities, must find a way to lead the only crew, aboard the only ship, that canstop him. On a mission of retribution for the destruction of his planet, its half-mad captain seeks the death of every intelligent being, and the annihilation of every civilized world. In the far reaches of the galaxy, a machine of war bursts into existence in a place and time it was never meant to be.

the only question you face is, which path will you choose?"e The other grew up on the jagged cliffs of the harsh Vulcan desert, fighting for acceptance, for a way to reconcile the logic he was taught with the emotions he felt. "e You will forever be a child of two worlds, capable of choosing your own destiny.

"e Are you willing to settle for an ordinary life?or do you think you were meant for something better? something special?"e One grew up in the cornfields of Iowa, fighting for his independence,for a way out of a life that promised only indifference, aimlessness,and obscurity.