OTOY and The Gene Roddenberry Estate Release New State of the Art Interactive Expansions to The Archive
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Aug. 4, 2025 (3 weeks)
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OTOY and Roddenberry Entertainment unveil the largest update to The Archive to date: showcasing new Phase II ships, more explorable 3D environments, and in-depth documentary featurettes with such franchise luminaries as Walter Koenig, Nicholas Meyer, and more.
LOS ANGELES, CA – August 4th, 2025
Ahead of the 59th anniversary of Star Trek, OTOY and the Gene Roddenberry Estate are expanding The Archive with new groundbreaking immersive experiences and documentary testimony, bringing fans closer than ever to the iconic vessels, sets, and production knowledge that has defined the legendary franchise.
Today’s release features a meticulously crafted expansion of the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek: The Motion Picture that gives visitors even more rooms to explore and interact with. Viewers can now launch shuttles from the Shuttle Bay, utilize the ships transportation systems to navigate between floors, head over the the Med Lab for a scan or the mechanics room to explore tools. Inside these virtual environments, the Archive app presents contextual insights into how these iconic sets were brought to life on screen, visualizing the techniques that were used during production in an immersive new way.
The Render Network was used to create feature-film quality cinematics, infographics, immersive visualizations, and documentary graphics, leveraging near unlimited decentralized high performance GPU rendering to capture details with unparalleled realism and accuracy.
A remarkable component of this expansion to the Roddenberry Archive are four new documentary films giving fans an unprecedented look at the making of this beloved franchise.
‘Lost Voyages: Phase II and the Rebirth of Star Trek’ chronicles the behind-the-scenes series of events when Gene Roddenberry attempted to create a sequel series to Star Trek. Scripts were written, sets were built, actors were cast, but it was all set aside when a feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture was greenlit instead. This 30 minute documentary includes stunning CG recreations of sets and special effects models based on designs from the series concept artists and features interviews with crew from the show and esteemed Star Trek historians.
‘The Director’s Journey: Nicholas Meyer’ is a revealing 30 minute look back at Meyer’s work on Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn. The writer/director gives us a candid view of his working relationship with Gene Roddenberry, producer Harv Bennett, stars William Shatner and Ricardo Montalban, and the struggles to complete this classic film under extreme budget and schedule constraints.
In ‘Creating the Shatnerverse: The Further Adventures of James T. Kirk’, writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens discuss their 12-year collaboration with William Shatner on a series of novels exploring Jim Kirk’s life before entering Starfleet, and after the events of Star Trek: Generations. The co-authors reflect on how Shatner was drawing on his own personal experiences to drive the themes for each novel, and their part in almost bringing Shatner’s mirror universe character Tiberius Kirk to the screen in Star Trek: Enterprise.
‘In Conversation: Walter Koenig’ is an intimate look at life on the set of Star Trek. Koenig recounts his relationships with the rest of the cast of the show and the lifelong friendships that were forged there, the betrayal he felt when he wasn’t cast in the follow-up animated series, and his exhilaration, delight, and also frustration as his character returned in the feature films.
In addition to these four documentary films, the Roddenberry Archive has expanded the encyclopedic and educational content freely available on its website and Vision Pro app. Reproductions of seven new ships from the franchise have been added, lovingling rendered in exacting detail by world-class artists, including the U.S.S. Kelvin, a Cardassian Keldon-class cruiser, several spacecraft from the unproduced Star Trek: Phase II, and the Doomsday Machine. Additionally, a total of 17 spacecraft are now available to view as 3D models that the user can turn and manipulate to examine from any direction.
In this expansion, fans on the
New Ships:
- The Doomsday Machine
- Cardassian Keldon-Class Cruiser
- U.S.S. Kelvin
- The Whale Probe from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Phase II Drydock Facility
- Phase II Orbital Office Complex
- Phase II Shuttle
Ships newly revised with more detail:
- Klingon K’t’inga-class cruiser
- Phase II U.S.S. Enterprise
New explorable 3D environments:
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture refit Enterprise Cargo/Shuttle Bay, Engineering, Recreation Deck, Transporter Room, Sickbay
- DS9 Infirmary
- ST: Strange New Worlds Enterprise Engineering
- ST: The Wrath of Kahn refit Enterprise Engineering, Transporter Room, Sickbay
- U.S.S. Defiant Bridge (DS9 Season 3)
- U.S.S. Defiant Bridge, Transporter Room, Crew Quarters (DS9 Season 5)
- Starship Enterprise NX-01 Engineering (ST: Enterprise Season 1)
- Starship Enterprise NX-01 Engineering (ST: Enterprise Season 4)
- U.S.S. Kelvin Bridge
- U.S.S. Kelvin Bridge
- U.S.S. Cerritos Shuttlebay, Conference Room, Ready Room
- U.S.S. Stargazer Bridge
Newly Explorable 3D Ship Exteriors:
- Klingon K’t’inga-class cruiser
- Starship Enterprise NX-01
- U.S.S. Protostar
- U.S.S. Enterprise-E
- U.S.S. Enterprise-F
- U.S.S. Enterprise-G
- U.S.S. Discovery
- U.S.S. Cerritos
- Cardassian Keldon-class cruiser
- Cardassian Galor-class cruiser
Other new content:
- Cinematics for the Refit Enterprise, Orbital Office Complex, Enterprise-D, Phase II Enterprise, Phase II Drydock, Phase II Orbital Office Complex, Deep Space Station K-7, and the Doomsday Machine
- Twenty-two planets from Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2
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