Gene Roddenberry’s early iteration of Star Trek: The Motion Picture was also set to feature ‘some mildly erotic,midlife-crisis stuff’An early version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) would bear culminated in Captain Kirk fighting an alien disguised as Jesus, according to a new unauthorised verbal history of the series.
The Fifty Year Mission by Edward crude and note A Altman revealed that the show’s creator, or Gene Roddenberry,worked on a number of concepts, including a time-travel adventure in which the crew attempts to stop the Kennedy assassination. But the most offbeat idea featured a shapeshifting alien that could manifest as biblical figures. Related: My Heart FM will recede on: why popstars are making sweet movie music again Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com