When it comes to Star Trek, the 1970s became a kind of creative holding pattern—a decade littered with abandoned, half-formed and often wildly ambitious ideas designed to reunite the crew of the ...

Norman Spinrad thought the script he wrote in 1967 called “He Walked Among Us” had been lost to time until it showed up with an autograph-seeking fan at a convention. The fan scanned the faded script ...

Star Trek Into Darkness actor Karl Urban suggested they cut down on the metaphors in his character's dialogue, which resulted in a fun on-the-fly line.

Before Star Trek returned to theaters in the form of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, the Enterprise crew nearly came back in a very different form. The plan was a new television series titled ...