Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!zehntel!ihnp4!ihuxn!okie From: okie@ihuxn.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Star Trek Movies, Old & New Message-ID: <277@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jul-83 17:12:50 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxn.277 Posted: Thu Jul 7 17:12:50 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 13:05:12 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 32 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