Yet the show that had battled for survival for each of its three years on air was about to sow the seeds that would allow it to, in the immortal words of Mr Spock, ‘live long and prosper’. The show’s fans were about to become Star Trek’s newest storytellers. After the cancellation of his TV show, Gene Roddenberry finally achieved what he’d hoped for all along: a transition into motion pictures. While Star Trek continued for its final year without his regular input, he’d been scripting a film version of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan. In keeping with the ethos of the 1960s (and his personal interests), Roddenberry had created a more sexualised Tarzan than had been seen before, while attempting to stay true to Burroughs’ original. However, the budget was slashed, the theatrical film downgraded to a TV movie, and Roddenberry’s script rejected, as its sexual content was now unsuitable for TV. Roddenberry’s first completed post-Star Trek project was the script for an adaptation of Francis Pollini’s novel Pretty Maids All in a Row, about the dalliances of a schoolteacher with his female students.
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