This special features the early days on "Encounter at Farpoint" as well as several behind the scenes interviews with Gene Roddenberry, Robert Justman, Patrick Stewart, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby, Herman Zimmerman, Rick Berman, John de Lancie, Marina Sirtis, Wil Wheaton, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, as well as ILM artists Pat Sweeney and David Carson. The ILM part originated from that company's own 1987 promotional short, ILM Special Visual Effects, Star Trek The Next Generation, and was not a studio production.