Star Trek

Star Trek: Phase II

Star Trek: Phase II, or Star Trek II was a planned television series based on the characters of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek. It was set to air in early 1978 on a proposed Paramount Television Service (a precursor of sorts to what would become UPN). The series was to describe the adventures of the Enterprise crew on a second five-year mission after the completion of the first series

Conception and abandonment
Several attempts at a Star Trek motion picture were made in the 1970s, including Gene Roddenberry's 1975 treatment The God Thing, and a later attempt called Planet of the Titans, which proceeded to script stage to be abandoned in 1977. It was decided instead to create a new Star Trek television series, for a new national television network to be owned by Paramount. This was announced on June 17, 1977 with a projected start date of February 1978.[2]

Pre-production work started, with sets built, several television grade models (including the Enterprise herself and many of the pilot episode's models) made, deals made to bring back most of the original series cast, and several actors cast. It was planned to use the original series uniforms. Principal photography had not started, but test footage had been shot. Story writing had proceeded to twelve scripts, enough for a half-season.

The proposed Paramount Television Service folded, and the planned pilot episode, "In Thy Image", following the success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, became instead a theatrical movie, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.