Before Star Trek, Rick Berman was making television about the world outside the studio.
Trek World explores his documentary apprenticeship, The Big Blue Marble, an unusually revealing 1978 location shoot in Grand Cayman, HBO's What on Earth, and The Primal Mind. We also examine his move into Paramount's executive ranks—and why supervising Cheers, Family Ties and MacGyver is not the same as creating them.
Drawing on contemporary reporting, production biographies and participant recollections, this documentary follows the work behind the familiar name without turning the earlier career into a footnote.
00:00 More than a studio suit
01:01 Learning the documentary craft
02:14 The Big Blue Marble
05:01 Television becomes a letter
06:08 A working producer in Grand Cayman
07:29 Adventure serials and a growing audience
08:38 HBO and The Primal Mind
10:08 Inside the television studio
12:11 Returning to production
12:46 Life beyond the franchise
13:32 The people behind the pictures
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