cec35848@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chuck Carroll) (11/29/90)
I attended Starbase Indy: The Third Generation in Indianapolis this weekend. The Guests were Walter Koenig, Robin Curtis, Eric Menyuk, and Guy Vardamann. (Guy is an extra and a photo double, and until recently was Wil Wheaton's stand-in.) SPOILERS about STVI and upcoming TNG episodes follow: The information that follows about TNG is from Guy, and the info about STVI is from both Guy and Walter, with the exception of the info about Eric and Robin. You get one more chance to bail out now. OK, here it is. First the info on Star Trek VI. Right now it is subtitled "The Infinite Voyage." It's based on a story idea by Leonard Nimoy, with a lot of the polishing done by Nicholas Meyer. Nicholas Meyer will direct. It will definitely be the last movie, and it will be written as such, although probably none of the regulars will die. It will be the last because if it flops, Paramount DEFINITELY won't put up the money for STVII, and if it's good, they want to go out with a bang. Walter Koenig did submit a script for STVI which killed off "5 to 7" of the regulars, but it was rejected by Gene. The budget for STVI is $45 million. Filming is scheduled to start April 1, and it will probably be released around Christmas 1991, although possibly as early as Thanksgiving. The action will take place mainly on the Enterprise, and Klingons will be heavily featured. It's written pretty much as a self- contained story. Robin said she wouldn't put any money on her being in STVI, but if she was, she said, she'd be the last to know. She has auditioned for various parts in TNG, most notably K'Ehlyr (sp?), but of course did not get any, and she now refuses to audition for Star Trek parts; if they want her, they should offer her a part and not just an audition, she said. Upcoming TNG episodes: "The Loss," in which Troi loses her empathic abilities; "Data's Day:" Data records a day in his life for Bruce Maddox (the guy who wanted to research him in "The Measure of a Man;" this episode also apparently involves a female Vulcan ambassador, T'Pal (sp?), on a very secret mission to the Romulans, although I wasn't quite sure whether that was a separate episode; I think it was part of "Data's Day," though; "The Wounded," in which the Federation is carrying on negotiations with a new race, the Cardacians (sp?); Guy says that while this is the first time we've seen this race, it won't be the last... "Devil's Due," in which a creature comes on the Enterprise (in female form) claiming to be the devil; they apparently have Data set up as sort of a judge to determine whether she really is the devil or not. Those are the episodes which are finished filming so far. There are currently no plans to have Q on again. If they get a good script with Q, they'll use it, but they won't make a Q episode just for the sake of having Q on there. The same goes for the Traveler. _Moontrap II: The Pyramids of Mars_ begins filming in December. Walter said contract negotiations are still going on, but he's pretty sure he'll be in it. For those of you who don't know, _Moontrap_ was a science-fiction/thriller starring Koenig released ONLY ON VIDEOTAPE in 1988. It did pretty well for a video-only movie. Moontrap II, however, will be released in the theaters. -- Chuck Carroll |"The thought that life could be better is woven cec35848@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu|indelibly into our hearts and our brains."-Paul Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: "Don't blame me; *I* didn't do it!" -- Krusty the Clown -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith - the official scapegoat for r.a.s.i. Email submissions to trek-info@dweeb.fx.com, and questions to trek-info-request@dweeb.fx.com