A starship needs imagination. A television series also needs someone who can get it made.
Trek World explores the life and career of Robert H Justman, tracing his journey through early television, The Outer Limits, the original Star Trek and The Next Generation. Production correspondence, participant recollections and surviving archives reveal a producer whose practical judgment, creative instincts and dry humor helped turn ambitious ideas into working television.
This is the story behind the credit: the collaborations, compromises and everyday decisions that helped make an extraordinary future feel familiar.
Explore the historical record through [UCLA’s Justman collection guide](https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf038n99s7), [Larry Nemecek’s 1992 interview](https://larrynemecek.com/articles/Bob-justman-interview.pdf) and [the Television Academy’s oral-history collection](https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/robert-justman).
00:00 Making the future work
01:12 An apprenticeship in television
02:27 The Outer Limits and practical imagination
03:30 Two pilots and a weekly commitment
04:38 Memos, music and missing sounds
06:56 Humor and the decision to leave
08:40 A career beyond the Enterprise
09:42 Building The Next Generation
10:19 Recognizing a new captain
11:31 New ideas and new colleagues
12:47 Stepping back and preserving the story
13:58 The people and paperwork left behind
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