The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation To The Next
The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation To The Next was a two-hour special which aired on  in syndicated markets to fill in for two hours of 's second season which had been delayed by a writer's strike. In some markets, the airing of this special was delayed until .

The special was hosted by Patrick Stewart and traced the history of Star Trek from its inception with  through to  and the first season of TNG. The special also showed brief previews of  and TNG's second season.

The special was principally a container for the premiere of a full color print of  which had, according to the special, recently been recovered from Paramount's studio archives.

The program featured interviews with many performers and production team members both from the  and TNG. Leonard Nimoy was also featured in an archive interview shot during the making of Star Trek IV. For unknown reasons, it omitted DeForest Kelley without even mentioning him or his character, Leonard McCoy. Gates McFadden and Denise Crosby (who both had left TNG after its first season) were also omitted.

It was released on LaserDisc as part of the Japanese box set Star Trek - Log 1 and was included on the same disc as "The Cage".

Interviewees 
 Rick Berman
 LeVar Burton
 James Doohan
 Michael Dorn
 Jonathan Frakes
 Mel Harris
 Maurice Hurley
 Walter Koenig
 Diana Muldaur
 Nichelle Nichols
 Gene Roddenberry
 William Shatner
 Marina Sirtis
 George Takei
 Wil Wheaton

Archive footage 
 Kirstie Alley as Saavik
 Michael Ansara as Kang
 Neil Armstrong as Himself (Moon landing)
 Barbara Babcock as Philana
 Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as Herself / Number One
 Ron Brown as Hologram Drummer
 Merritt Butrick as David Marcus
 Joan Collins as Edith Keeler
 Denise Crosby as Natasha Yar
 Peter Duryea as José Tyler
 Abdul Salaam El Razzac as Hologram Bass Player
 Terri Garr as Roberta Lincoln
 Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan
 Frank Gorshin as Bele
 Laurel Goodwin as J.M. Colt
 Mariette Hartley as Zarabeth
 John Hoyt as Phil Boyce
 Jeffrey Hunter as Christopher Pike
 Sally Kellerman as Elizabeth Dehner
 Robert Lansing as Gary Seven
 Christopher Lloyd as Kruge
 Gary Lockwood as Gary Mitchell
 Jon Lormer as Theodore Haskins
 Martin Luther King Jr. as Himself ("I Have a Dream" speech)
 Carolyn McCormick as Minuet
 Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh
 Leonard Nimoy as Himself (director - ) / Spock
 Susan Oliver as Vina
 Julie Parrish as Miss Piper
 Serena Sande as Second Talosian
 Vincent Schiavelli as Minosian peddler
 Georgia Schmidt as First Talosian
 David Selburg as Whalen
 Jack Sheldon as Hologram Piano Player
 Brent Spiner as Data
 Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard
 Kirk Thatcher as Punk on the bus
 Paul Winfield as Clark Terrell
 Meg Wyllie as The Keeper

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