okie@ihuxn.UUCP (07/08/83)
This is by way of a reply to Arnold Robbins (not a flame, my good man). Perhaps ST:TMP didn't borrow any specific plot ideas from the TV episodes, but they were there for a semi-devoted trekkie to see. Submitted for your approval (sorry, Rod): "The Changeling" (about Nomad and his human daddy, Kirk), "The Doomsday Machine" (giant anti-matter club tries to beat its way across the known galaxy), and "The Immunity Syndrome" (Enterprise-as-virus vs. the big, bad, giant one-celled thing that eats planets). All of these were brought to mind upon my first viewing of ST:TMP. I don't actually think that the elements from these episodes were brought specifically to the movie...but it does make you wonder. There were (and are) so many possibilities in the ST universe -- something the TV series tried to emphasize -- that it seems they could have broken some different ground. Maybe I'm just too critical. I didn't actually dislike ST:TMP, but I was disenchanted by it. Perhaps that made me look at it with more jaundice than it deserved. On future ST movies..."In Search Of Spock" is not the working title (or the planned title) of the new movie (this from an interview with Leonard Nimoy, director, in Starlog magazine a couple of months ago). It's a joke referring to Nimoy's present narratorial efforts on the "In Search Of" series. Take off the asbestos suit, Arnold, Bryan "Beam Me Up, Scotty" Cobb BTL, Naperville ihuxn!okie
mcdaniel@uiucdcs.UUCP (07/13/83)
#R:ihuxn:-27700:uiucdcs:12500036:000:455 uiucdcs!mcdaniel Jul 12 12:50:00 1983 In re a posting about the contents of a looseleaf book called "Star Trek III: Return to Genesis": Have you ever heard of the word "spoiler"?!?!? If this info is true, you've managed to ruin a great deal of the surprise. If it's false, then it's just another pseudo-Star Trek book (and I happen to think that they are almost worthless). Growl, snarl, howl . . . Tim McDaniel (UNIX mail: . . . pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcdaniel) (CSNET: mcdaniel.uiuc@RAND-RELAY)
CSvax:Pucc-H:Physics:crl@pur-ee.UUCP (07/20/83)
#R:ihuxn:-27700:pur-phy:11100001:000:568 pur-phy!crl Jul 11 22:47:00 1983 For whatever it's worth . . . At a comic book convention in Chicago, I saw for sale a couple of looseleaf bound books entitled--"Star Trek III: Return to Genesis." They were stamped "Confidential," but that could have been a marketing ploy. The teaser went basically like this: Romulans discover the Genesis planet and the fact that it is rich in dilithium. A landing party is sent down and discovers Spock's casket, and, lo and behold, it is empty. I didn't read any further, because I didn't want to know. Charles LaBrec pur-ee!Physics:crl purdue!Physics:crl