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I was just looking for my copy of that last night - I think it’s been lost in a move unfortunately. I did find Chekov’s Enterprise, though.

If you’ve ever read Shatner’s “Star Trek Movie Memories” book, he goes into a lot of detail about the production shortcomings. It was death by a thousand cuts - the script wasn’t what it needed to be, and then the effects budget wasn’t there, and then the stuff they did spend their money on...

That’s what I was saying earlier, as well. The looming writer’s strike forced them into production with a script that needed another draft, and budgetary cutbacks further limited what they were able to film. The disc editions included deleted scenes that more or less represent the entirety of...

Scott mentioned in the other thread that this movie, V, felt to him like a third season episode. I had never had that thought before but watching the movie this week, I couldn’t get it out of my head. There’s an ambition to this film that some of the other ones don’t have, somewhat hamstrung...

I’m not really a big fan of any of the episodes where the Enterprise just so happens to discover a planet that has developed exactly as Earth did, down to the vernacular and the decor. (I’m not counting episodes like A Piece of the Action where cultural contamination by an earth ship led to the...

I sometimes will use my Plex server to make a playlist so that when I watch a movie, I begin it with some trailers that might have been seen around the same period. Star Trek V is great for that - so many good 1989 trailers to put on before it.

And the combination of a set-in-stone release date and a looming writer’s strike forced them into a scenario where they had to film the script pages they had instead of taking the time to refine some of the concepts.

I remember something similar happening to me with the Inquirer and Generations. They reported on the ending a few months before it came out and had it right, I think they got the goods from a crew member for the reshoots.

Man, I love this movie. There, I said it!