Rare STAR TREK Photos Released From Gene Roddenberry's Archive
With the 50th anniversary of Star Trek coming up next year, Roddenberry Entertainment has announced that next year they will be releasing a ton of rare photos, memos, script pages, documents from their archives. The call the initiative “The 366 Project,” and starting in 2016 they will release one piece of Star Trek history on their social media channel every day. Over the course of the year, they will have shown fans 366 pieces.
To kick off the event, they've given EW three rare photos from the vault that have never been released to the public. You can see each piece below, and they come with a little description and commentary
This is really cool, and it will be fun to see what they reveal over the next year.
The first is an original storyboard frame from 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which reteamed Shatner’s Kirk and his crew for a mission involving alien androids. The image shows an Enterprise docking sequence as the “sun breaks Earth’s rim.”
Also featured in the archives is a rare look at Leonard Nimoy sitting in the makeup chair as Spock for the film. The actor almost didn’t return. “Leonard had said, ‘I’m fed up, I’m not going to put those ears on again,’ ” director Robert Wise recalled, though he eventually persuaded Nimoy to re-Vulcanize himself 10 years after the original series went off the air.
“Where no man has gone before,” is perhaps even more iconic than Star Trek itself, and that’s where our last look into the archives takes us. The third image reveals a draft of the opening narration for the series.
It reads: “This is the story of the United Space Ship Enterprise. Assigned a five year patrol of our galaxy, the giant starship visits Earth colonies, regulates commerce, and explores strange new worlds and civilzations. These are its voyages … and its adventures.”