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The first Star Trek motion picture was not well received, so Roddenberry was pushed aside and Harve Bennett hired instead.
He had a little issue, however: he had never watched a single episode of the original series.
He filled this knowledge gap in a hurry, watching all 79 episodes in search for an idea.
And he stumbled on that season 1 episode "space seed".