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The TV Times for the week starting Saturday 6th January had Star Trek all over its front cover and several articles inside. The major one was an interview by David Frost with Gene Roddenberry. The version printed was fairly innocuous however rumours began to circulate that ITC had sought an injunction to prevent Frost from publishing anything else from that interview. This was denied by all parties at the time but after Roddenberry died, Frost did admit that Roddenberry had lamented that although he was proud of what had been produced and was very grateful to Lew Grade and ITC for having produced Star Trek when the American networks wouldn't, it wasn't what he had originally envisaged anymore. Frost also said that Roddenberry knew that this happened to all creators of programmes but that he had felt it especially because the programme had proved so difficult to sell to the US.