TSDTEST%VPIVAX3.BITNET%Berkeley@sri-unix.UUCP (03/28/84)
From: Ronald A. Jarrell <TSDTEST%VPIVAX3.BITNET@Berkeley>
>From Enterprise Incidents: April 1984
Used without permission.
Rumors have been circulating about the storyline of the most
eagerly awaited Star Trek film to date. A storyline for The Search for Spock
began circulating through fandom in May of '83. Although titled "Return to
Genesis", it was nonetheless Harve Bennetts proposed story for the third Trek
film. While several major elements remain the same, considerable rewriting
was done on the story when it bacame clear the plot had leaked out. The
Romulans of the old story are now Klingons, and the ending has been completely
revised to include Vulcans journeying to Genesis as well as a
bizarre secret ceremony which is performed. This scene was shot last
September at L.A.'s Occidental College, one of the only scenes which did not
take place on the man sound stages occupied by the film.
It has been confirmed by inside sources that the scene proposed in the
originial story showing the destruction of the Enterprise was one of those
cinsidered "too good" to drop. As with the death of Spock in the second film
(which was conceived as being more permanent as it turned out to be),
not everyone associated with the creation of Star Trek supports the idea.
Star Trek III will be release around the same time as another
summer blockbuster, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". But since both
are Paramount releases one can be certain they won't appear to blitz theatre
audiances on the same date.
["destruction of the Enterprise"!! I had a hard enough time coming to copes
the destruction of Spock!
Enterprise Incidents is published by New Media Publishing Inc at
monthly intervals.]