No, you remember correctly, and there was a fair bit of work on the new TV series. If you look through the advertising pages in comic books and movie magazines (including Starlog) in those years you can see a lot of little variant different versions of all the uniforms, the starship set, and so on.
This particular Star Trek game came out in April of 1979. The TV series (and network) finally killed for good in November 1977, and Paramount (publicly) committed to a movie in March 1978. I'm sure that the pinball makers figured that Ilia was going to survive the movie and become part of the series; in the newspaper comic strip that launched in 1979, and set after the movie, Ilia appeared in the first story or two before the writers found out exactly what they were writing a spinoff of.
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Date: 2020-06-06 09:13 pm (UTC)This particular Star Trek game came out in April of 1979. The TV series (and network) finally killed for good in November 1977, and Paramount (publicly) committed to a movie in March 1978. I'm sure that the pinball makers figured that Ilia was going to survive the movie and become part of the series; in the newspaper comic strip that launched in 1979, and set after the movie, Ilia appeared in the first story or two before the writers found out exactly what they were writing a spinoff of.