#ALAN DEAN FOSTER STAR TREK LOGS TV#

I suppose it's possible that Roddenberry was thinking in terms of getting to explore the religious angle he wasn't able to explore with 'The Changeling,' but conjecture isn't proof.

#ALAN DEAN FOSTER STAR TREK LOGS TV#

And while Nomad was looking for its creator, there was no 'God' angle to it, since 1960s TV censorship would've probably discouraged that. Nomad wasn't an evolved AI species, but a single individual created by an accident.

So the 'huge space vessel from another solar system' angle was added later for 'In Thy Image.'ДЄs for the 'Changeling' similarities, they're tenuous. They meet Dylan Hunt, formerly of NASA and consider him a messiah. The advanced computer and sophisticated machinery left on a moon of Jupiter by a 1992 NASA expedition have evolved into a new form of robot life and visit Earth in search of the 'GOD' which created their life. Here's the description of 'Robots Return' from an old Lincoln Enterprises catalog I still have (undated, but probably from 1983 or so, since it only covers material up to TWOK): So it's best not to read too much into similarity.Д¬lick to expand.That's inaccurate. The similarity was just a coincidence after all. And since Alan Dean Foster novelized TAS, I always figured he was influenced by OOOPIM when he wrote 'In Thy Image.' But when I actually read 'In Thy Image,' it turned out that it didn't have any of those similarities to the animated episode, that they were all added later in Harold Livingston's and others' drafts of TMP. Heck, if anything, those similarities are a lot stronger than the 'Changeling' ones everyone has incessantly harped on for 40 years. Heck, for a long time, I noticed that TMP had a lot of similarities to the TAS episode 'One of Our Planets is Missing' - the Enterprise faces a giant cloud entity approaching a populated planet, the ship travels through its innards to its brain, Kirk orders Scotty to prepare for self-destruct to kill it, but a Spock mind meld with the entity lets them communicate with it and send it on its way. Every story is going to be 'similar' to some other story. Back in the '90s when I tried doing spec scripts and pitches for the Trek shows, there were three or four instances where one of my proposals happened to be coincidentally similar to something they were already doing, even though I only pitched to them a few times. Click to expand.People always point that out, but 'similar' is not proof of deliberate imitation.

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