Starlog "The Questor Tapes" Article

From the pages of issue #30 of Starlog magazine (published January 1980) comes this in-depth article on the TV movie "The Questor Tapes," which was Gene Roddenberry's pilot for a proposed series that was never produced. I caught the premiere of the movie, and enjoyed it, even taping it on cassette tapes and listening back to it later. I also have the novelization of the script; I'll have to scan the cover and post it soon.

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In later years, Gene would recycle the character for his new Trek series 'The Next Generation," and giving Data many of the same characteristics, even down to the "I am fully functional" line as well as its meaning, which was sexual function (or at least the mechanics of it.) It would have been interesting to see what the series would have been like had Gene been able to retain control of it.

Project Questor: Discontinued

Since there has been some news lately about Gene Roddenberry's failed pilot "The Questor Tapes" being remade, I thought it was time to scan some of the articles about it in my collection. This one was found in the June 1977 issue of the magazine TV's Dynamic Heroes. More from different sources will be forthcoming in the future.

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I enjoyed the TV-movie when it came out, (the theme music was good also) and wished at the time that it had become a series. But in light of the fact that Roddenberry adapted the character to become Data in "ST:TNG," (even to the "I am fully functional" bit about being sexually capable) it seems a bit redundant now to revisit the concept. But, we'll see how it turns out.