Comments on: Movie Review - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home http://afistfulofreviews.com/2009/04/30/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home/ We waste our money so you don't have to. Mon, 21 May 2012 15:24:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: hossrex http://afistfulofreviews.com/2009/04/30/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home/#comment-693 hossrex Fri, 01 May 2009 02:02:30 +0000 http://afistfulofreviews.com/2009/04/30/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home/#comment-693 I don't mean to excuse the movie on any level (because, again, I generally agreed 100%), but in case you weren't aware, this movie was basically written by two different men, Nick Meyer, and Have Bennet. Meyer wrote the bulk of the film, everything that takes place in 1986, while Harve Bennet (the producer) wrote the stuff that takes place in the 23rd century. If it feels slightly disjointed between temporal transitions, that's likely the reason. Oh... and it's Lieutenant Saavik... not Captain. She was only in charge of the "Enterprise" at the beginning of Khan because she was the ranking cadet on a simulator. In the original draft of the script Saavik was impregnated with Spock's potent seed during his Pon Farr experiment in the previous film. That's why Saavik inexplicably stays behind on Vulcan with Spock's mother. The line of dialog where it's explained that she's pregnant, and staying on Vulcan to raise the baby with his mothers assistance was cut because... and I shit you not... they weren't married, and the studio thought they'd get in trouble with conservative family activists for showing an unmarried mother. So... a line/scene was cut, and her staying behind makes no sense. Just be glad Eddie Murphy wasn't able to be in this film like originally planned. I don’t mean to excuse the movie on any level (because, again, I generally agreed 100%), but in case you weren’t aware, this movie was basically written by two different men, Nick Meyer, and Have Bennet. Meyer wrote the bulk of the film, everything that takes place in 1986, while Harve Bennet (the producer) wrote the stuff that takes place in the 23rd century. If it feels slightly disjointed between temporal transitions, that’s likely the reason.

Oh… and it’s Lieutenant Saavik… not Captain. She was only in charge of the “Enterprise” at the beginning of Khan because she was the ranking cadet on a simulator. In the original draft of the script Saavik was impregnated with Spock’s potent seed during his Pon Farr experiment in the previous film. That’s why Saavik inexplicably stays behind on Vulcan with Spock’s mother. The line of dialog where it’s explained that she’s pregnant, and staying on Vulcan to raise the baby with his mothers assistance was cut because… and I shit you not… they weren’t married, and the studio thought they’d get in trouble with conservative family activists for showing an unmarried mother. So… a line/scene was cut, and her staying behind makes no sense.

Just be glad Eddie Murphy wasn’t able to be in this film like originally planned.

]]> By: Ecks http://afistfulofreviews.com/2009/04/30/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home/#comment-716 Ecks Wed, 06 May 2009 22:38:42 +0000 http://afistfulofreviews.com/2009/04/30/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home/#comment-716 While I do enjoy it a great deal, to me, the big failing of "The Voyage Home" is the nature of the Big Bad. It shows up with little explanation, is never given any backstory, and it leaves just as abruptly, never being interacted with or explained for. That's the complete antithesis of what "Star Trek" is, in my mind; whenever there's this sort of alien force in the "Star Trek" stories, the big mystery is in what the hell it really is, not in how the hell to make it happy and go home. While I do enjoy it a great deal, to me, the big failing of “The Voyage Home” is the nature of the Big Bad. It shows up with little explanation, is never given any backstory, and it leaves just as abruptly, never being interacted with or explained for. That’s the complete antithesis of what “Star Trek” is, in my mind; whenever there’s this sort of alien force in the “Star Trek” stories, the big mystery is in what the hell it really is, not in how the hell to make it happy and go home.

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