The special effects needed to go into production at the same time as Indiana Jones 3, and Ghost Busters 2. ILM was already contracted to do those movies during the time necessary, so Shatner/Bennett decided to use an independent effects “house” instead of getting the third best team at ILM.

The independent effects house turned in absolute crap.

Whoops.

You’re much nicer about the quality of this movie than I would have been.

I’ve found Uhura and Scotty have always had a strange relationship of sorts, even if Kirk IS nailing her. A cheek touch or a strange glance here, an informing of imminent critical failure of the ship’s core reactor there. It’s all incredibly sensual.

I always thought it was really funny how the controls, without fail, would always explode in their manipulator’s face if the ship suffers even minor damage. This shouldn’t happen on any but the most antiquated computers facing the most major of problems, and even then, the likelihood of the CONTROLS exploding is pretty damn slim. The whole damn point of controls like this is that they’re remote; you’re not supposed to be directly turning a crank. If your t. v. goes on the fritz, your remote control doesn’t blow off your hand like an M-80 next to Peter Criss’ trap set.

Listening to the commentary for “The Voyage Home” today, Shatner and Nimoy were saying how, because “The Voyage Home” closed out a trilogy of sorts, it wasn’t anticipated that there would be another film, and all the sets were torn down, so they had to be re-built from scratch for “The Final Frontier” (”We were always being cancelled,” quips Nimoy).

“I need your help, so I can be one tiny iota less pathetic than you.”
Worst Baseball Player of All-Time: “Oh, I can’t help you play better than Tiny Iota… That guy was great.”
- Futurama, “A Leela of Her Own”