Another Gene Rodenberry Show?

[Digger]

Just saw this on the SCIFI Newswire:

Questor Resurrected

Star Trek: The Next Generation writer Herbert Wright has secured the rights to Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's proposed Questor TV series, about an android living among humans as a guardian angel, the official Trek Web site reported. The project was turned into a 1974 TV movie, The Questor Tapes, but never developed as a series.

Wright obtained the rights from the Roddenberry family and is currently engaged in reconceptualizing and contemporizing the project, based on Roddenberry's original notes and the original pilot script written by him and Gene L. Coon, the site reported. Wright is eyeing a possible fall production start. No distributor has been signed yet.

In the meantime, Wright is seeking Questor-related materials that fans may have in their collections, including unproduced scripts or story outlines.

The Questor Tapes aired on NBC in 1974, starring Robert Foxworth as the android Questor and Mike Farrell as his human confidant, Jerry Robinson, the site reported.
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I saw The Questor Tapes when it came out and thought it was really cool. I had no idea that Gene Rodenberry had anything to do with it until just now. And now that I do I know where the idea for Data from TNG came from. IIRC, in the Questor Tapes the "quest" for the robot was to become more alive. Very much the modern Pinnichio story.

[BillFrugge]

Far out! It sounds like Gene has been far busier since he died than when he was awake!

If you look through all of his projects, you begin to see where he actually rehashed a lot of the old ideas...

Take, for example, Andromeda. Go check out the movies 'Planet Earth' and 'Genesis II.' Both of these movies bear a striking resemblance to the plot of Andromeda, and the lead character in both was named 'Dylan Hunt!'

In one of the two movies (It's been so long, I can't tell the difference between them) some of the 'bad guys' look like the Klingons do in the movies and TNG on.

I find it interesting that when these ideas were pitched, the networks weren't really interested. And now that Star Trek has become so successful, anything with his name on it is rubberstamped.