[Berman era] SLASHFILM: "The Canceled Star Trek IMAX Film Would Have Been Spectacular" | "There were once plans [in 1997] to make a 40-minute Star Trek IMAX movie featuring canonical appearances from several established Star Trek characters. (Colm Meaney, David Warner, and others)"

SLASHFILM:

"And then, just as soon as it was announced in Variety, "Star Trek: IMAX" seemed to vanish. According to an article in issue #50 of Star Trek Monthly Magazine (only available through the collector's market), though, the project sort of petered out quickly for unknown reasons.

It seems that "Star Trek: IMAX" was to cost a modest $10 to $12 million and, according to announcements at the time, involve characters from all four of the extant live-action "Star Trek" shows. The actual timeline of the IMAX film was not revealed, nor, sadly, was its story. All that was known was that the film would have been ambitious and looked amazing because it would've been filmed with IMAX cameras, naturally. It would have also been shot in 3-D and used state-of-the-art CGI (which, in 1997, was a bold new movie for the model-heavy "Star Trek"). No director had been selected, though.

Although a script was written and the project was being overseen by Rick Berman, the head honcho of all "Star Trek" at the time, it appeared to have stayed in its parking spot. Two years after the announcement, Berman was interviewed for Star Trek Monthly, and he only cited "business reasons" for its lack of movement.

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Berman remained fond of his script nonetheless, even calling it out years later in the oral history book "The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams." (He specifically used the word "wonderful.") It would have been spectacular to watch an original IMAX "Star Trek" feature during the franchise's 1990s heyday.

It will, sadly, remain forever hidden from us."

Witney Seibold (SlashFilm)

Link:

https://www.slashfilm.com/1843697/star-trek-imax-canceled-movie/