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Floppy disks of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry finally yield data

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Logically, many fans are hoping the recovered information found on Gene Roddenberry's computer disks will lead to new Star Trek stories to enjoy.

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Leave it to Gene Roddenberry to give us Star Trek fans hope for more sci-fi adventures long after he's left this galaxy.

DriveSavers announced Monday that it recovered documents from 200 floppy disks used by the Star Trek creator, though no details of the documents' contents have yet been revealed. Roddenberry created scripts for the futuristic '60s show on a typewriter, but it is interesting to note that the 200 5.25-inch floppy disks paired with a custom-built computer Roddenberry later used to write show ideas and notes.

After Roddenberry died in 1991, his estate discovered the disks. But because the floppy disks were uniquely created for his computer, they couldn't be easily read by ordinary tools. That's where data recovery company DriveSavers came in.

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The IT company retained by Roddenberry Entertainment, LunaTech, suggested sending the disks to DriveSavers.

"We've been working with DriveSavers for over five years," Bobby Pappas, president and founder of LunaTech, said in a statement. "We knew if anyone could get this unique data back, they could."

It took over three months for the DriveSavers team to develop software to read the customized disks, and it took over a year to then process all the information.

Of course, every fan (me included) wants to know what kind of data is on all those disks.

"2016 just happens to be the 50th anniversary of the original Star Trek," Mike Cobb, DriveSavers director of engineering, teased in a statement. "Anything could happen. The world will have to wait and see."


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