Right now, Star Trek is on everyone's mind what with the success of the new Trek film by director JJ Abrams. New fans are being won over to the long running Sci-fi franchise, and old fans are returning to the fold. It's not too suprising then that Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry is choosing now to release a ton of never before seen archival footage from Star Trek's history.
Roddenberry Productions—the company run by Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry—has signed a $2 million deal with Toolbox Productions to release more than 500 hours of previously unseen footage from Trek series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Toolbox library consists of interviews with cast and crew, as well as behind-the-scenes material shot over the past 20 years, starting with Star Trek: The Next Generation and progressing through the three other spinoff series that followed.
The footage will be assembled for a video-based encyclopedia that covers Star Trek's mythology and characters, the trade paper reported.
Rod Roddenberry will appear as host of the DVD set, which will showcase the archived material in high definition. Talks with distributors are under way. No release date has yet been set.
For long time Trek fans, this material could be a stunning look behind the scenes at some of the greatest sci-fi TV shows ever produced. If you're not too big into behind the scenes stuff though, then this probably won't interest you too much, but I had to share. It's rare whenever anything "new" comes out for shows that have been off the air for so long.
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