That was Steve Roby's Complete Starfleet Library, which is now lost to the sands of time, but thankfully the Internet Archive has you covered: https://web.archive.org/web/20120130060237/http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lostbooks.html
They'd have to do quite a bit of re-editing of the audio track, mainly due to the music cues. However, this would be more effort (and/or budget) than Paramount is willing to provide, given their history of releasing the Star Trek films on home video, so I'm thinking it's naught more than a pipe...
I like that the cover isn't yet another bad photoshop job. It's different, so I dig it. Kinda disappointed, but not surprised, that Paramount didn't attempt to do a transfer of the deleted scenes from the workprint held at UCLA. But, I'll still get this release.
Not to mention the stunning score from Jerry Goldsmith, and the incredibly well-done cinematography from Andrew Laszlo. Trek 5 has more positives going for it that's helped me enjoy it for many years. The opening credits scene of Kirk climbing El Capitan is a highlight of the entire film...
The release of Preston Neal Jones' magnificent book "Return to Tomorrow," all about the making of the film, as told by the people that made it, has generated a big resurgence of interest, it seems. Personally, TMP has always been my favorite of the Star Trek films, because it feels so different...
I'm hoping that Nick Meyer will be able to convince Paramount to crack open the vaults so we could finally see the additional deleted scenes covering Saavik's Romulan heritage, and Khan's toddler son. There is a workprint, housed at UCLA that contains basically everything covered in the...
I've long had a dream of a 3-disc set for The Motion Picture alone that would contain new transfers of the theatrical cut, director's edition, and the SLV (likely have to piece that together from the outtakes used to make the DE). Additionally, I'd want to put together featurettes on the...
Frankly, if they haven't bothered to do new transfers for a big anniversary for the franchise, don't hold out hope of ever seeing anything redone. Paramount will just keep tossing out the same old transfer, year after year, with slightly different packaging.
Some intrepid fan did do this a few years back, and it worked beautifully. I probably shouldn't go into too much more detail, as it's not a legitimate release.
What fireballs are you talking about? If you're referring to the plasma-energy weapons V'ger fires in synchronous orbit around Earth, the effects done by Daren Dochterman, et al, are exactly the same as the original theatrical version. The only other fireballs in the movie were the...
Isn't that retroactively applying continuity, though? At the time, drydock and spacedock could've been synonyms for the dock. Once we actually got spacedock in STIII, then they could make the distinction. Using spacedock wasn't "wrong" until then.
Into Darkness filmed on the Sony lot, to allow for more stage space for the Enterprise sets. So, Star Trek 3 is the second Trek film off the Paramount lot.