Star Trek VI C.E. New cut? (1 Viewer)

[Ric Easton]

But what would her motivation have been, after all they'd gone through together?

Saavik may hate the Klingons for what they did to David. She was fairly close to him. Also, if she was half Romulan, she would already hate the Klingons!

Ric

 

[Phil Florian]

My bigger concern with the galley...why so well armed in there and...mashed potatoes by hand?

Sign me up for ditching the Scooby ending... "we would have succeeded if it wasn't for those meddling senior citizens..."


Phil

 

[Osato]

I am really looking forward to the new version of Star Trek VI. Paramount did a great job with V's print. I was surprised at the effort after not deciding to do the new cut. The new V print was a nice surprise though.

Where is the info coming from that Meyer has revised 2 scenes? None of the Paramount announcements have said anything about this. I would think Paramount would mention this for marketing purposes.

I have the DVD preordered and am looking forward to it.

 

[Tony Whalen]

My bigger concern with the galley...why so well armed in there and...mashed potatoes by hand?

Isn't it obvious? Even in the 23rd century, they can't "set phasers to mash."

 

[DaveMK]

The info is coming from the StarTrek.com official announcement. It says disc 1: the disc contains two scene revisions by director Nicholas Meyer. Also the British film board which has rated it calls it a "re-edited version" as opposed to the same video version available in Britain since 1992.

 

[Jaxon's Dad]

If memory serves, all previous home video versions of Trek VI have been called "Special Home Video Version." I wouldn't be surprised if "re-edited version" is simply a more descriptive label for the same product. I could be wrong, but we won't know for sure until January.

 

[Philip Verdieck]

Exactly. During the long dull offduty times when the ship is traversing point A to point B (95% of the time), hobbies are encouraged, and cooking would be one of them. The ship undoubtedly has hydroponics areas where some area would be devoted to spices, vegetables, etc.

 

[Rolando]

So in all this still no confirmation of what cut we are getting? Theatrical? Video? or a (OH BOY) 3rd cut of the movie?

startrek.com gives some specs:

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/vie...icle/3635.html

but not what scenes they are talking about when they say 2 were revised by the director nor do they mention what aspect ratio. I am curious to know if we are getting the theater AR of 2.35 or 2.0 of the DVD release.

Anyone know which is the Director's preferred AR?

 

[Bill Williams]

I too am curious to see which version is being referred to here, if it is what we've seen previously on video or a new tweaked version.

When the extended cut came out on VHS and laserdisc back in '93, it had on the jacket the blurb, "This special home video version of the film has three minutes of never-before-seen footage." (Or something to that effect.) Yet this statement was deleted from the previous DVD jacket.

I'm thinking that if the running time is 113 minutes as listed in promo specs for the new DVD set, it'll probably be the previous extended cut with a new anamorphic widescreen transfer. If we were getting a newly tweaked version of the film, we'd have all heard about it long before now.

 

[Joel Fontenot]

When the extended cut came out on VHS and laserdisc back in '93, it had on the jacket the blurb, "This special home video version of the film has three minutes of never-before-seen footage." (Or something to that effect.) Yet this statement was deleted from the previous DVD jacket.

I think that's only because by the time the DVD came out, they could no longer say that it was "never-before-seen footage". It had, by that time, in fact been seen.

Joel

 

[Nelson Au]

There is region 2 info for Star Trek 6 here

I didn't see anything there about what, if any, new cuts there are or if it's the same cut from the home video versions. I do like the cover art.

Nelson

 

[Josh Steinberg]

That's some nice packaging on the R2. Too bad they're not using those over here in R1-land.

 

[Spero D]

I agree that is some nice artwork. But then R2 has always gotten better packaging like the TNG, DS9 sets.

Spero D.

 

[Dan Hinson]

And there's an outtake from II in which Spock comes right out and states that Saavik is indeed half-Romulan.

http://home.comcast.net/~commander-d...ik-Romulan.mp3

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Not according to Robin Curtis. She has previously stated that her agent inquired into the possibility of playing Saavik in Star Trek VI (when the script still called for Saavik), but that Meyer had specified that he was only interested in Alley for the role.

That's what I thought the story was, too.

With all due respect to Robin Curtis, who gave a wonderful performance in ST3, Saavik was Nick Meyer's character. (Gene Roddenberry at one point objected to Saavik being used in ST6, and Meyer was furious that Roddenberry was telling him what he could and couldn't do with a character that he invented.) I can understand Meyer either wanting to do it with the actress he cast, or not at all. And he did want Kim Cattral for ST2, so after Kirstie Alley passed on ST6, Cattral was probably the only actress in Meyer's mind for the part.

I believe the Saavik in ST2, as written by Meyer and portrayed by Alley, would have been capable of the treason that Valeris commits in ST6. After ST6 and Robin Curtis' performance, I don't believe that version of Saavik would commit treason - the way the character progresses in ST3, and ultimately, decides to stay on Vulcan at the beginning of ST4, makes it unlikely and probably unbelievable that she would commit treason, or even be in a position to do so.

 

[Jeff Jacobson]

The IMDB simply states that neither Kirstie Alley, nor Robin Curtis were available, so the character had to be rewritten, nothing juicy about salaries or such.

IMDB is wrong a lot.

 

[John Madia]

I just saw on trektoday a link to the front/back coverart at: http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=3002

It says on the back that the DVD contains two scene revions by Nicholas Meyer.

I'll be picking this up even though I still have yet to watch my copies of II-IV. I'll probably watch them once I get the season sets of TOS. I'll just pretend that Star Trek V never happened.

 

[nolesrule]

I'll be picking this up even though I still have yet to watch my copies of II-IV. I'll probably watch them once I get the season sets of TOS. I'll just pretend that Star Trek V never happened.

Is that 'V' for 'Voyager' or for 'Five'?

 

[Nelson Au]

John-Thanks for the update on the DVD Answers page. That DVD Answers page link you posted lists the release date for this movie as February 27, 2004. I have it in my notations as January 27. DVD Empire lists it as January 27th too. I hope it is a DVD Answers typo!

You might want to watch those Star Trek DVD's II to IV when you get VI in case there is any defects with those!

Nelson

 

[StevenFC]

I just hoped they fixed that stupid split screen effect with Kirk and the changeling chick right before Kirk and McCoy are beamed off the prison planet. Worst split screen effect I've ever seen. Surely they could do a digital blend on the line were the two frames meet--couldn't they? If they didn't fix that then I'm not going to be happy.

Anybody know what I'm talking about?