Interesting TMP poster

[Ar-Pharazon]

The ads that ran in comic books in 1979 had the same font as the original movie credits:
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That's the Mike Minor artwork "version" of the Phase II model. I've always liked that design & wish they'd gone that way in the movie.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I don't recall whether any thread has gotten into how Roddenberry had received a credit, but then lost it and ended up doing the novel - does anyone here have knowledge?

On the strength of his work adapting TAS episodes for the "Star Trek Logs", Alan Dean Foster was invited to turn a Roddenberry script, "Robot's Return", written for the proposed "Genesis II" TV series, into a Trek story. Roddenberry promised to grant him full "story by..." credit (ie. not take it to arbitration), no matter how much of Roddenberry's original material ended up in the "In Thy Image" story, with Livingston doing the eventual screenplay.

Roddenberry was keen to break into novel writing at the time, hence the novelization. His "The God-Thing" novel suffered numerous false starts and was never completed.