Overview

• Lost Voyages: Phase II and the Rebirth of Star Trek debuted on YouTube on August 7, 2025.
• Produced by OTOY and The Roddenberry Archive, the mini-documentary employs 3D visualizations of unfilmed 1970s concept art, including a revamped Enterprise bridge.
• Key participants Daren Dochterman, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Jon Povill offer archival commentary on Phase II’s creative journey.
• It asserts that Paramount’s scrapped television network plan and the success of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, rather than Star Wars, drove the project’s conversion into Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
• The film traces early unproduced scripts such as "The God Thing" and "Planet of the Titans" as foundational influences on the motion picture’s narrative and design.