From: joneil@heretix.East.Sun.COM (John O'Neil - SunExpress IR)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: SOUNDS GOOD TO ME--ST 7 idea
Date: 21 Jul 1992 07:22:22 GMT
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At first, this sounded like the real crappy idea, but after reading this post. I am 
starting to like it. what do you poeple think???? please post!! no email.

john oneil
sun express
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From zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo)


Yes.  I saw an interview with Nicholas Meyer and some Paramount guy and
they are definitely going ahead with the original idea for STVI.......
The Academy Days.  Casting has already begun and it looks like
Christian Slater may play Kirk, Robert Downey Jr. may play Mcy,
Crispin Glover will play Lt. Riley (who has a fairly substantial
role in the initial plot outline....remember Conscience of the King??).

Other possibilities are:  Alec Baldwin as Christopher Pike, and
Keifer Sutherland as Finnegan!!?? ("C'mon Jimmy boy").  The hardes
casting decision is in the character of Spock they say.

The movie will actually span past the days in the academy and the
name of the movie most likely will change to acount for this.
It will not be one specific 'adventure' but more a document of
the famous crews background with very close attention paid to detail
like getting the old viewing screens to shimmy just like they did
in The Cage and having gooseneck viewers like in both pilots.
The technology will definitely appear slicker than in the
original series (no plywood!!) but it will less sophisticated
in what it does.

For example, transporters will be relatively new technology and people
won't take them for granted and Mcoy will be totally against them in
a big way and vows never to use them.  

Kirk will be quite UNLUCKY with the ladies.  The character of Scotty
will have a really thick accent and people ask him to repeat himself
a lot. Flash forward a bit in time and Scotty's accent is less
pronounced and his father (may be played by Mike Myers) gives him
hell for startin' to talk like an idiot.

They also promise a really steamy Pon Far, something they couldn't
(and shouldn't) show us with Nimoy nowadays.

When asked about the casting decision for Kirk, they pointed out
that Micheal Keaton seamed a very unlikely choice for Batman but
he turned out pretty darn good.  They also noted that Slater is
a really good actor but he's been kinda typecast in that sort of
Jack Nicholson thing.  On the set of STVI, Slater entertained
Meyer and others with his impressions of Kirk.  "He went overboard
with great parody but I could see that he could definitely tone it
down and get the subtle mannerisms just right.  With the right hairdo
he will look a lot like a really young Shatner from the 50's" 

When the Academy Days idea first came up, it was for saving money
primarily by hiring unknowns to play the crew.  With the big
success of STVI, they can now afford to hire well known actors
and draw in a huge crowd of non-Star Trek fans too as well as
the die-hards who'll see anything with the name Star Trek 
attached to it.

When asked if there will be any Klingons in the new movie, Myer
replied that he didn't want to open that can of worms again about
the large differences between TOS Klingons and TNG/movie Klingons.
He says they've been done to death anyway in the movies and TNG 
and that their popularity is very low now anyway.  He hinted that
TNG will likely NOT bother with any Klingon based stories for
at least Season 6.

Huh????? Was there a poll taken that I missed??????!!!!!

"Lies give you power like a coffin filled with flowers
 gives life to the living, and not the dead"
                                   The Residents

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