Ronald D. Moore says this about how Star Trek helped save the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Recently, writers Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga discussed how their 1996 hit movie Star Trek: First Contact brought them to the attention of Cruise, who then asked them to rewrite the script for Mission: Impossible 2 after talks ended with the movie’s original writer David Marconi.
We had been approached by Don Granger [who was the feature exec on Star Trek at the time].
It’s difficult to imagine now, but there was a time when Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible was seen as a one-off movie instead of an entire franchise.