dwhitney@uok.UUCP (06/18/84)
#R:ritcv:-108800:uok:8400051:000:738 uok!dwhitney Jun 18 13:14:00 1984 Yes, although it was by accident....It is very similar to "The Changeling," I believe it was a second season episode in which a 20th century probe called Nomad, designed for agricultural research, collided with a meteoroid and in the process of repair became conscious. Its original mission, "sterilize " for biological contamination (or something like that) became perverted into "sterilize all imperfect life forms.." which meant all humans. A man named Jackson Roykirk was the man who designed the probe, and the probe confuses him as Capt Kirk...Eventually, Kirk confuses its brains out, and it self destructs after they beam it out of the ship.....(I may have missed base on one or two details, but that is the gist of the story)
disc@houxz.UUCP (CMDR. MONTGOMERY SCOTT) (06/21/84)
What makes you think the resemblence of STI to "Nomad" was an accident? Not that I'm sure it wasn't, but if YOU'RE sure of this, I'd like to know your source. SJBerry
dwhitney@uok.UUCP (07/05/84)
#R:ritcv:-108800:uok:8400071:000:1115 uok!dwhitney Jul 5 10:20:00 1984 My source is any one of several magazines which have gone into great detai about the beleaguered production of Star Trek:TMP. While Paramount was wishy-washing Star Trek into oblivion, Gene Roddenberry was busy with a new show, Genesis II, for which several scripts had already been prepared, among them Alan Dean Foster's story of a moon-based earth probe regaining consciousness and looking for its creator on earth. I believe the title was going to be "In Thy Image." When Paramount decided to make a megamovie and shelved the TV series (and destroying ALL the then-built sets which were to be used for this new series, including a new bridge, engineering, etc.) Paramount became frantic for a big-screen story for the return of Trek. The only script available which was ready for production (and readily adapt- able to movie) was Alan Dean Fosters aforementioned story. Foster took the story, rewrote it to accomodate the Trek format, and voila, you have the story of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which resembles "The Changeling". As I said, "quite by accident." David Whitney ctvax!uokvax!uok!dwhitney