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Crossing the final frontier...

Immediately after Ralph finished work on Star Wars Episode IV he began designing 'Star Trek - Planet of the Titans'. This was Paramount's first attempt at taking Star Trek to the big screen .

The production design was handled by Ken Adam (of James Bond fame) and the director was Philip Kaufman.

The plot concerned a battle between Starfleet and the Klingon Empire over ownership of a world, a world that legend had it was once inhabited by an extinct, but technologically superior race known as the ‘Titans’.

The Federation fights with the ‘Cygans’ a race that were apparently to blame for the Titans disappearance. A black hole consumes the planet, followed by the Enterprise. The Enterprise is pushed thousands of years into the past, back to a time when primitive man still roamed the Earth.

Kirk and crew introduce the natives to fire and the story comes full circle as we discover that the crew of the Enterprise themselves were actually the Titans of legend.

Although the project was abandoned Paramount moved forward developing a new TV series ‘Star Trek: Phase Two’.

This also floundered after the success of Star Wars Episode IV - when the decision was made to adapt the pilot episode ‘In Thy Image’ into a movie instead. This would eventually become 'Star Trek the Motion Picture'.

 

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Star Trek: Planet of the Titans/Phase Two
However this wasn't the end of Ralph's involvement in Star Trek Ralph returned to work on  ‘Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'.

Over the years many of Ralph’s designs have resurfaced. One concept of the Enterprise that he and Ken Adam designed was a visible dry-dock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. It turns up later in the Next Generation episode 'Unification Part 1' ( the ‘B-24-CLN’) and once more as a wreck in the battle of Wolf 359.
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