Of all the eras of Star Trek’s long history, the 1970s are filled with the most contradictions. After its cancellation by NBC in 1969, the original Star Trek series was almost instantly reborn as a syndicated TV hit, creating a fandom explosion the likes of which the world had never seen. Because so many shows and movies were later created in the 1980s and ‘90s, the 1970s, right up until the release of The Motion Picture in 1979, are sometimes viewed as a lost era. But the ‘70s gave us The Animated Series, and were when conventions helped turn the fandom into a truly massive phenomenon.
There were also repeated attempts to bring a live-action version of Star Trek back to screens. And in a new mini-documentary from OTOY and The Roddenberry Archive, the never-made 1970s reboot series, Star Trek: Phase II, is analyzed and explained with zeal.
