Let’s decompress from a busy week by enjoying bloopers and from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Come for the Leonard Nimoy, stay for the Nichelle Nichols. Watch and enjoy!
According to Wikipedia – Nimoy and Bennett selected a time travel story in which the Enterprise crew encounters a problem that could only be fixed by something only available in the present day (the Star Trek characters’ past). Paramount was dissatisfied with the script, so its head of production Dawn Steel asked Nicholas Meyer, the writer and director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, to help rewrite it. Nimoy said Meyer gave the script “the kind of humor and social comment, gadfly attitude I very much wanted”.[5] He added that his vision was for “no dying, no fighting, no shooting, no photon torpedoes, no phaser blasts, no stereotypical bad guy. I wanted people to really have a great time watching this film [and] if somewhere in the mix we lobbed a couple of big ideas at them, well, then that would be even better.”
Star Trek IV remains one of the most heartfelt movies in the franchise – if you haven’t seen it yet, you’re missing out! If you enjoyed this discussion, please feel welcomed to dive down the rabbit hole of every other Sci-Friday I’ve published in the past couple years. Have a great weekend! 🙂
