The film's plot about the NASA probe Voyager (V'Ger) returning to Earth to look for its creator was very similar to Star Trek: The Changeling (1967) in which a NASA space probe ("Nomad") was found in space by the Enterprise crew. The probe had been made vastly more powerful by an encounter with an alien probe and the two merged into one, enabling it to fire incredibly powerful energy bolts at targets in its path as it attempted to sterilize "imperfect biological infestations" (i.e. all living creatures, including people), but had difficulty accepting that humans were its "creator". The story was adapted again in the 1970s by Gene Roddenberry for an unproduced television series of his called Genesis II (1973), in an episode called "Robot's Return". This was then rewritten as a Star Trek script by Alan Dean Foster under the title "In Thy Image", and proposed as the two-hour premiere episode of "Star Trek: Phase II" (a planned Star Trek television series that actually started production in 1977). However, Paramount decided to abandon the idea for another television series and make a Star Trek film instead, and the story was adapted for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).

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