I am wondering how well Martin will get on with the other writers on Star Trek: Phase II cos Roddenberry will have asked people like Gerrold, Fontana, Sturgeon, Koenig, Alan Dean Foster to come on-board and I can see their style being somewhat different to Martin's. Having said that this is early in Martin's career and it's possible that his style is somewhat more mutable at the moment.
With Trek lasting 5 seasons until 1971 with increased crew/cast tensions I wonder if Nimoy will return since he's had a breakout role in Fiddler and 'is not Spock'?
Is the Paramount Television Service still under consideration here or is Star Trek: Phase II earmarked for normal syndication @President_Lincoln? Also what replaced Star Trek: The Animated Series?
Hopefully Roddenberry will add the work of Franz Joseph to canon since some of his designs are inspired and OTL Roddenberry didn't keep them due to Joseph sidestepping round his own Lincoln Enterprises (they where taking too long) and going directly to Paramount for permission to print in time for a 1974 convention, thus denying Roddenberry any licensing monies. Killing the friendship and working arrangements the two men had had. In this timeline I could see Roddenberry bringing Franz Joseph on-board as a tech consultant alongside Matt Jefferies and using the Blueprints and Technical Manual as part of the media blitz around the launch of the new series.
I wonder how the novels will work now given the new series? In OTL there had only been largely adaptions of episodes to this point- does Paramount or Roddenberry keep them like that or allow an canon 'expanded universe' to develop as another revenue stream- doing what Lucasarts did OTL with their big property?
With Trek lasting 5 seasons until 1971 with increased crew/cast tensions I wonder if Nimoy will return since he's had a breakout role in Fiddler and 'is not Spock'?
Is the Paramount Television Service still under consideration here or is Star Trek: Phase II earmarked for normal syndication @President_Lincoln? Also what replaced Star Trek: The Animated Series?
Hopefully Roddenberry will add the work of Franz Joseph to canon since some of his designs are inspired and OTL Roddenberry didn't keep them due to Joseph sidestepping round his own Lincoln Enterprises (they where taking too long) and going directly to Paramount for permission to print in time for a 1974 convention, thus denying Roddenberry any licensing monies. Killing the friendship and working arrangements the two men had had. In this timeline I could see Roddenberry bringing Franz Joseph on-board as a tech consultant alongside Matt Jefferies and using the Blueprints and Technical Manual as part of the media blitz around the launch of the new series.
I wonder how the novels will work now given the new series? In OTL there had only been largely adaptions of episodes to this point- does Paramount or Roddenberry keep them like that or allow an canon 'expanded universe' to develop as another revenue stream- doing what Lucasarts did OTL with their big property?
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