![]() When the show first premiered back in 1987, Tom Sales of the Washington Post expressed that Stewart was a "grim bald crank who would make a better villain." Over time, however, and importantly even after Roddenberry's death, the sequel series proved to not only live up to the legacy of the original "Trek," but take on a confidently unique personality of its own, largely in part because of Stewart's magnetic performance. Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, left us a long time ago but his archive is slowly being digitized so it can live forever. Not everyone was on board with Captain Picard at the beginning of the show, either. ![]() Stewart's agent let him know that despite the curt conversation, Roddenberry and the other people in the room wanted to move forward. And I was back on the street, and I thought, 'Bloody hell, what the heck was that about?'" Today’s release allows fans to see the many dozens of evolutionary iterations of the famous Starship Enterprise bridge, across every epoch of Star Trek’s history.Each bridge is presented in the timeline as a 1:1 scale in-universe 360 recreation. ![]() We talked for about 10 minutes standing up, and then Gene said, 'Thanks for coming over,' and goodbye. Excerpts William Shatner’s hours-long testimonial for the Roddenberry Archive. ![]() ".I went to Gene Roddenberry's house and was greeted at the door by this man, Robert Justman, who had been at the university the previous night and had called Gene Roddenberry and said, 'I think we found an actor we've got to have in the show.' When I arrived, there were two other men there, besides Gene and Robert, and nobody asked me sit down. ![]()
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