Nicholas MeyerIt Doesn't Take A TrekkieThey call him "the man who saved Star Trek," and it's a pretty accurate assessment. Nicholas Meyer was the right guy at the right time to give Star Trek its g...

Jack B. SowardsNicholas Meyer was an unofficial screenwriter, and we talk about him in the "Director" section. But officially, the screenwriter was Jack B. Sowards, a television writer best known f...

Paramount PicturesThese days, you often have separate companies producing the films and the big studios distributing them. But back in 1982, that just wasn't the case, and for a franchise at the ti...

35 mm FilmStar Trek II showed up well before the age of digital filmmaking, so it was old-fashioned film for Nicholas Meyer and his crew. There were other limitations too, most of which had nothing...

James HornerNot-So-Humble Beginnings"My job," James Horner once told an interviewer. "Is to make sure at every turn of the film it's something the audience can feel with their heart." (Source) That...

There are fans, there are super-fans…and then there are Star Trek fans. Their inexplicable rivalry with Star Wars fans notwithstanding, they kind of set the bar for enthusiastic fanbases. In fact...