My 9th grade son told me that students at high school have been speaking of this. I have not found anything on the Star Trek movie web-site on this topic.

It was later revised by ADF, and then by Roddenberry, who renamed it “The God Thing.”

Roddenberry then rewrote it again into the TMP script.”

You have things reversed. Foster wrote the original story treatment (proposal) for “In Thy Image,” which would’ve been the 2-hour premiere episode of PHASE II. Livingston then wrote the teleplay version of “In Thy Image.” When the project became a feature film, both Roddenberry and Livingston worked on (competing) rewrites of the script, but it was Livingston who got sole, final screenplay credit, so presumably Robert Wise didn’t use much of Roddenberry’s material.

THE GOD THING was a separate, earlier project, the first of the multiple failed proposals for an ST movie script that were developed before TMP. Roddenberry wrote it in 1975, two years before the “In Thy Image” treatment was written, and it was rejected by Paramount executive Barry Diller. In later years, efforts were made to develop it into a novel, without success.

As for the myth that ADF ghostwrote the TMP novelization, this is, as stated, partly confusion with the STAR WARS novelization, but it’s also partly due to the French-language edition of the TMP novel, which incorrectly credited ADF as the author.

I believe the assertions above that ADF wrote the TMP photonovel are in error. The photonovel was compiled by Richard D. Anobile. It credits the script by Livingston and the story by Foster, but that’s just because those are the film’s credits. It doesn’t mean Foster actually “wrote” the photonovel, any more than Livingston did.

This guy is good. I HATED his “Phase II” work and wondered where it all went wrong as he came up with some of what led to Star Trek -TMP. But the Logs – this is a writer with balls. In one particular story telling the same story as the Brad Pitt film where the guy is born old and dies as a baby, ADF told “The Counterclock Incident” story, and then changed it all around in the novel, adding upon the original story and putting some logic in the plot as Spock discovers that the whole story has been illogical and so something else must be going on. If the film’s script is weak, I hope he does the same thing he’s done before and turn it into a good story. And he knows Star Trek well enough to probably pull it off. And on his deadline, no one will have time to check up on him or stop his “improvements.”

’seven dreamers….’