Preston Neal Jones is the author of the reference book Return to Tomorrow – The Filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture from Creature Features Publishing. The writing he has done for this book actually stemmed from the work he had actually already done thirty-five years earlier, when he was hired as a freelance writer by Cinefantastique magazine for an intended 1979/1980 themed double-issue on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Actually, in a move that was somewhat reminiscent to the one granted two decades earlier to his predecessor Stephen Whitfield for his The Making of Star Trek, thereby slated to become his successor, Jones was given full unrestricted access to the production of The Motion Picture, while that feature was still being produced. Yet, due to editorial problems, not in the least due to the volume of copy Jones himself produced, neither that issue, nor Jones’ potential stature, ever came to fruition, or as Jones himself had put it on the occasion of a subsequent possibility to have his copy yet published, as the eventually unrealized 1991 Image Publishing release,