You do realize though, that the films from 2 to 6, with 5's possible exception, didn't require much involvement from Roddenberry.
I don't understand the intent of this sentence. Gene Roddenberry was
removed from the executive producership of the film series after
TMP by the studio.
In fact, he gave ideas, but they rejected them, being the executive consultant.
Yes, which is why I ignore the Post-
TMP films. I wanted to see the work of Hollywood (and beyond) writers and artists focused through the lens of Gene Roddenberry's conceptual, literary and aesthetic sensibilities,
not Harve "The Powers of Matthew Star" Bennett's.
Also, he has said that elements in 5 and 6 are non-canonical.
Considering his "Executive Consultant" contract with Paramount obliged him to avoid officially trashing the Bennett/Nimoy films, I am surprised that he even went as far as "decanonizing" individual "elements" of those celluloid excretions.
TAS, also, was considered non-canonical to him, if I'm not mistaken.
...and yet GR expressed pride in what they were able to achieve within the budgetary and time constraints of a children's animated series in
The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry & Susan Sackett. I have absolutely no idea what caused him to change his mind a decade later, and considering that I have never seen or heard
anything attributed to GR concerning his decision to throw
TAS into limbo (all such reports came from second and third hand sources) I will give him the benefit of the doubt and instead blame the studio suits
du jour.
Also, TNG seasons 1-3 are very much Roddenberry's vision...
Hardly. GR was by that point a very sick old man physically and mentally damaged from decades of alcohol and drug abuse, to say nothing of his public humiliation at the hands of Charles Bluhdorn and Michael Eisner only a few years earlier. That the
ST:TNG bible was in actuality penned by David Gerrold and D.C. Fontana - two of
TOS'
lesser writers, AFAIAC - with the first seasons teleplays rewritten on GR's behalf by his slimeball attorney Leonard Maizlish, well, you can see why I hold the show in such low regard. That I included
TNG in my list was simply due to GR's name appearing under the "Executive Producer" credit.
....and movies 5 and 6 were made during seasons 1-2 and 4, in which he was very much alive.
See above.
That said, I understand your sentiment on the particular group of people that made it work. I just think that Star Trek survived Roddenberry - just not that long enough.
We'll just have to agree to disagree on that point.
TGT
