Editing Earth: Final Conflict (section)

==Development==

After the cancellation of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' in 1969, its creator Gene Roddenberry began working on other projects, producing scripts and pilot episodes that were shown to various networks, including ''[[Genesis II (film)|Genesis II]]'' and ''[[The Questor Tapes]]''. He began early planning for a project called ''Battleground: Earth'', a science fiction series set in the near future when a group of aliens land on Earth under a banner of peace.

[[20th Century Fox Television]] expressed interest in producing a pilot episode for the series, but Roddenberry's busy schedule prevented it. When the order for the pilot came in, he was in England filming a TV movie, which was followed by work on the ''[[Star Trek]]'' films and later the TV series ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. When he died in 1991, ''Battleground: Earth'' had yet to be produced.

In the mid-1990s, Roddenberry's widow, [[Majel Barrett-Roddenberry]], began to develop the project. It went into production with [[Tribune Entertainment]]. It was renamed ''Earth: Final Conflict'' to avoid confusion with the film ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'', which was released around the same time. The success of the show led to the development of one other posthumous Roddenberry project, ''[[Andromeda (TV series)|Andromeda]]''.