These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 2 (1975-77)

These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 2 (1975-77) is an unlicensed reference book published by Jacobs Brown Press. The second of a three-volume series, it is written by Marc Cushman from a purely production point of view. As with the author's previous book project, Gerald Gurian served on this project as photo contributor.
This volume covers the attempts to get Star Trek back on the silver screen, either big or small, from The God Thing up until the moment of the executive decision to upgrade the already in production being Star Trek: Phase II television series to a full-blown theatrical motion picture.
== Summary ==
;From the publisher's web site
:Volume 2 (1976[sic.]-1977), with a foreword of Gene Roddenberry's personal assistent Susan Sackett covers Roddenberry's career after the end of and his struggles to become known for other achievements. He continued to develop properties for television (Spectre and "Battleground: Earth") and the big screen (The Nine). During this time – the mid-1970s – Paramount Studios continued to reap millions from Star Trek licensing while telling Roddenberry there were no Trek profits to share with him. By the middle of the decade, as a stunned media watched the fandom continued to grow, Paramount finally acknowledged the enduring impact of Star Trek. They turned to Roddenberry to write a script for a big-screen motion picture, "Star Trek II." The Paramount execs bristled at his story ideas (which we present fully for you). The studio solicited proposals from several other science fiction and Star Trek writers, before settling on a team of British writers with no experience in the genre. Two years passed while the studio dithered over finding a story "big enough," before choosing to aim for a small screen. In 1977 the studio asked Roddenberry to create a new version of Trek for television. The saga of Star Trek: Phase II is laid out for you in unprecedented detail, including the stories readied for the show, the drama behind its casting and its ultimate cut-off – to make way for . The script intended to launch the Phase II TV Series "In Thy Image," ended up as the story for the film which eventually was made.
==Background information==
* As also implied by the solicitation cover, the series was originally intended to become a two-tome publication. However, the amount of copy for the second volume became so voluminous that it was decided to split it into Volumes 2 and 3 at a relatively late point in time. This also explained the rapid succession in which the two volumes were released, 1 July and 22 September 2020, respectively.
File:These Are the Voyages Roddenberry 2 cover.jpg|Solicitatation cover
File:These Are the Voyages Roddenberry 2 final back cover.jpg|Back cover
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