Who created Star Trek?
Gene Roddenberry
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However, the groundswell of vociferous fan support (6,000 attended the second New York Star Trek convention in 1973 and 15,000 attended in 1974, eclipsing the 4,500 attendees at the 32nd World Science Fiction Convention in 1974) led Paramount to hire Roddenberry to create and produce a feature film based on the franchise in May 1975.[110][111] The studio was unimpressed with the ideas being put forward; John D. F. Black's opinion was that their ideas were never "big enough" for the studio, even when one scenario involved the end of the universe.[112] At the time, several ideas were partly developed including Star Trek: The God Thing and Star Trek: Planet of the Titans.[113][114] Following the commercial reception of Star Wars, in June 1977, Paramount instead green-lit a new series set in the franchise titled Star Trek: Phase II,[115] with Roddenberry and most of the original cast, except Nimoy, set to reprise their respective roles.[116] It was to be the anchor show of a proposed Paramount-owned "fourth network",[115] but plans for the network were scrapped and the project was reworked into a feature film.[117] The result, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, troubled the studio because of budgetary concerns,[118] but was a box-office hit. Adjusted for inflation, it was the third-highest grossing Star Trek movie, with the 2009 film coming in first and the 2013 film second.[119]