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Written by Harold Livingston and directed by veteran Robert Wise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture opens nationally. Arriving a full ten years after the television series is cancelled, with creator Gene Roddenberry on board as producer, the film reunites the original cast – William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, James Doohan, George Takei ,Walter Koening and Nichelle Nichols – in a story that sets the newly refitted USS Enterprise on a collision course with a powerful alien cloud bent on destroying the Earth. The opening salvo of a hugely successful four decade franchise
