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	Star Trek I was a movie with a new script, not borrowing
any specific plot ideas from any of the TV episodes.
	Star Trek II did take an idea from the TV series, with the
return of Kahn and his wrath at Kirk.
	Star Trek III is reportedly being scripted and is tentatively
titled "In Search of Spock." Apparently an all new script that doesn't
borrow from the series.
	I'm wandering if there is a pattern emerging in how they
write Star Trek movies... new, old, new, old, etc.
	
	If so, after "In Search of Spock", we're due for one which
borrows from the series again?

	In short, are we destined to see


		Star Trek IV 

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Tim
  There is a BIG difference between being similar (borrowing a idea or concept)
and being based on (such as a sequel).

                           William Vojak (WECo)
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	I'm all for it! (Getting rid of 500 Stellas, managing to
	convince the androids that he's no longer an irritant...)

	(I'd also like to see the Andrece sisters again!)

Larry Bickford, decvax!decwrl!qubix!lab (net.startrek regular)

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I beg to differ - the first star trek movie
(read star drek)
was indeed lifted from a tv episode. I don't
remember the name of the episode, but in it
v...ger was only three feet tall and called kirk 
*the creator*.
			Ron Flannery

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    Like Hell the first Star Trek movie didn't borrow from the series!
Didn't you ever see "The Changeling", where a strange space probe
wants to sterilize Earth, but it turns out that it is actually an
Earth-launched probe which has acquired sentience by colliding with an
alien ship and fusing with it?  No similarity there, huh?

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Yeah, the name of the probe was NOMAD.

		Not even a "Trekkie",

			-Mike

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Regarding Star Trek I, admittedly the movie origional but the idea of robots
reaching new fronteirs of cooperation and creativity is similar to the plight
of Nomad - a simple robot probe with delusions of grandeur.  Star Trek movies
have not yet in my view had a totally new plot.

DeForest Kelly once commented some years back (before Star Trek I) that they
couldn't make the movie because they couldn't find a big enough plot.  He then
joked about somebody suggesting Jesus Christ returning to end the universe
and being told that the idea wasn't big enough.

Richard Loken