CARROLL@USC-ISIB.ARPA (08/27/84)
Regarding Los Angeles TV station 13's "uncut" Star Trek episodes: In the special "Leonard Nimoy Remembers", a cut from 'Space Seed' was shown, as a lead-in to TWoK discussion. The scene was the dinner party in Khan's honor on the Enterprise. (Note: not verbatim, but close, as I checked my video tape.) ---------- Kirk: You fled when mankind needed you most. Why? Were you afraid? Khan: We offered the world ORDER! Kirk: We? Khan: (slowly) Excellent, excellent. Reaction shot of Kirk. Shot of Khan rising, and excusing himself due to "fatigue". ---------- Later that night, the full 'Space Seed' episode was shown. At the dinner party, Khan replies with only ONE "excellent", and the immediately following shot is of him excusing himself. A few, though not many, moments were cut. Another scene in that episode occurs in Khan's room, while he is under guard. ---------- Khan: Captain, I find myself under guard, my door locked. Kirk: Unusual treatment for Khan Noonian Sing (sp?). Khan: Excellent. Kirk: The purpose of your starflight? ---------- I distinctly recall from several years ago, maybe at a con, that Khan, after his "Excellent", says something like "You of course identified me with your computer system". Kirk responds with "Maybe now you'll answer some questions", and then asks the purpose of the flight. True, only brief moments were cut, but together they make enough for extra commercials. The print quality (color, lack of scratches) was very good, but they shouldn't advertise the episodes as completely uncut if this was a sample of what they're going to show. However, butchered Star Trek is probably (to an extent) better than none. Steve (carroll@isib) -------
jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) (08/31/84)
Khan: We offered the world ORDER!
Kirk: We?
Khan: (slowly) Excellent, excellent.
Reaction shot of Kirk.
Shot of Khan rising, and excusing himself due to "fatigue".
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Didn't Khan also give a line about "a good tactician letting his men
probe for weakness while he observes". Reflecting the fact that Kirk
said little while Spock and Mcoy asked questions leading to the
admissions that Kirk picked up on.
Jerry Aguirre
{hplabs|fortune|idi|ihnp4|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerryrachiele%NADC@sri-unix.UUCP (09/05/84)
Well cut Star Trek is better than what WPIX (11) New York has been showing
weeknights after midnight. I call it "Star Trek highlights".
Jim