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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Movie inspiring episodes question
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 01:46:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 01:46:14 1985
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In article <543@riccb.UUCP> rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) writes:
>  They investigated
>many possible story lines and Roddenberry seemed to feel that a powerful
>machine which had developed consciousness and was searching for its "god"
>which turns out to be humanity was a story that worked especially well.

You have this part of the story slightly wrong.  Roddenberry's original
idea for the plot of ST:TMP was that it would be about the Enterprise
crew encountering God.  I don't know whether this was scrapped because
they couldn't get a decent script with this plot, or because the studio
was worried about a controversy over such a plot.

Of course, everyone would have said that this plot was a ripoff of "Who
Mourns for Adonais"?
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    Barry Margolin
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