Ridley Scott credits Star Trek for expanding the science fiction genre in film, thus allowing him to return to the Alien and Blade Runner franchises. In Hollywood’s early years, sci-fi movies were reserved to adaptations of famed novels from authors such as Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, and Robert Louis Stevenson. It wasn’t until the ’70s and early ’80s – with films such as The Terminator, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and of course, Star Trek: The Motion Picture – that original concepts started to take shape and become mainstream.
The surge in manned space exploration during that time period lent credence to futuristic sci-fi ...
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