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Subject: Re: Movie inspiring episodes question
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 09:44:06 EDT
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STAR TREK -- THE MOTION PICTURE was inspired by a TV episode in
two senses.  

First, it's clearly a literary descendant of the Star Trek TV
episode "The Changeling," which, like ST--TMP, deals with an
Earth space probe which intends to return to Earth because it
is confused about who its creator is.

Second, the story for ST--TMP is credited to that master of
novelizations, Alan Dean Foster.  The story was not written
specifically for Star Trek, but rather was submitted to Gene
Roddenberry under the title "Robots Return" as a proposed 
episode of Roddenberry's stillborn GENESIS TWO/PLANET EARTH
TV series of the early 70s.

Oh, excuse me -- I don't have a full-screen editor here.
The title should read ROBOT'S RETURN (apostrophe-S).

RJS


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