The Enemy Within Gene Roddenberry
Original Airdates: July 30-Aug. 1, 2021
TVC 548.1: A return visit by renowned author, director, and screenwriter Marc Cushman. Marc’s latest book, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, is a three-volume history of Star Trek/biography of Gene Roddenberry that chronicles the ten-year period spanning the cancellation of the original series in 1969 through the making and release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. This week, Mark and Ed specifically discuss Volume 3, which depicts the various battles for control that Roddenberry waged with Paramount Pictures throughout the production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. All three volumes of These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s are available through Jacobs Brown Media Group.
Gene Roddenberry and The “Quark Controversy”
Original Airdates: July 30-Aug. 1, 2021
TVC 548.2: Star Trek historian and Gene Roddenberry historian Marc Cushman discuss why production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture began before the script was even finished; why the expensive special effects nearly sank the film; and the brief yet strange furor involving Roddenberry, NBC, and the short-lived sci-fi parody Quark. All three volumes of These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s are available through Jacobs Brown Media Group.
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