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Also, it's very interesting to learn from that piece that Wise was somewhat involved in the recutting of the 1983 television version of the movie, and approved many of the scene-restorations with the understanding that the ABC version was going to be strictly a one-time deal. Don't get me wrong...

^ Thanks for posting this, Nelson...and the fact that you managed to archive this interview is pretty damn awesome.

Surprisingly, he actually goes out of his way to compliment them, if you can believe it.

Well, to be sure, there's really no canonical evidence that the Yorktown got rechristened the Enterprise-A -- it was just a throwaway comment made one time by Roddenberry back in the '80s in the aftermath of Star Trek IV where he brought it up as one theoretical possibility. In fact, going by...

That said, it's weird to me how massively attached some genre fans get to the earliest version of a thing. After all, the earliest version they see is itself usually the end result of a behind-the-scenes process of trial, error, and development. First drafts are rarely ideal, though. As you try...