Instead, the crew repair the timeline (mysteriously) that the Klingons disrupted and return to the 23rd century. However, Kirk is not forced to ask the President to sacrifice himself to correct the timeline.

Realizing that they were the ones who altered the timeline, Captain Kirk visits JFK in the Oval Office. This prevents JFK from being assassinated, thus altering the timeline. Kennedy to cancel his trip to Dallas in November 1963. A U-2 spy plane mistakes the crashed Enterprise for an alien spacecraft, which causes U.S. When a Klingon ship attempts to block a much larger Guardian portal, the Enterprise crashes through the Guardian and ends up crashing in Canada in the 1960s. The crew returns to the planet where the Guardian is located to go back in time and reverse the damage that the Klingons had done. In San Francisco near the site of what would have been Starfleet Headquarters, Amanda is brutally raped by the Klingons and Sarek sacrifices his life to save Kirk and Spock. When more Klingons arrive at Earth, the Enterprise hides behind the moon to evade detection. The crew learns that the Klingons used the Guardian of Forever to go back in time and change history. With the Federation never having existed, Earth is populated with a savage race of protohumans. As to why the Enterprise still exists when the Federation does not, well the answer is that anyone traveling at warp speed when the change in the timeline occurred is immune. They eventually discover that history has been changed by the Klingons and the Federation no longer exists. In the story, the Enterprise returns to Earth to find bodies floating in space. Roddenberry decided to write a sequel that got back to the elements that had made Star Trek so popular: the Klingons, time travel, the Guardian of Forever, and Sarek and Amanda. Despite TMP making $139 million worldwide, with $82.2 of its gross being made domestically, Roddenberry was stung by criticism of his first outing on the silver screen. Gene Roddenberry put together a sixty-page treatment for a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture in the Spring of 1980, according to The 50 Year Mission by Edward Gross and Mark A. Kirk meets JFK? Spock is the man on the grassy knoll?

However, we have details of his concept and it just may surprise you. Little did he know that Paramount was in the process of sidelining him into a consulting producer role and his story for Star Trek II would never be made. After the success of Star Trek: The Motion Picture at the box office, Gene Roddenberry immediately got to work on a sequel.

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