Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!faigin From: faigin@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Star Trek IV Message-ID: <2737@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 17:04:11 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.2737 Posted: Wed Dec 12 17:04:11 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:14:59 EST Distribution: net Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 70 The following is excerpted from the December 12, 1984 edition of the "L.A. Life" section in the "Daily News", Los Angeles: WILL IT BE AN UPHILL 'TREK' TO SAVE THE CREW By Bruce Cook, Daily News Film Writer A mysterious press release materialized recently with news that will be startling to many and shocking to some. Under the headline, "The Enterprise Wasn't Enough," it declares that "if STAR TREK IV is scripted according to the present story line, her crew is next! EVERYONE, with the possible exception of SPOCK (a cruel joke at best), is scheduled to die in the upcoming film... A younger crew for new adventures is behind this sadistic turn of events." All of them? Can it be? What can a loyal Trekkie do to avert such a catastrophe? "WRITE LETTERS!" urges the release, and it specifies that they be sent to Frank Mancuso, chairman of the board and chief executive office of Paramount, and to Harve bennett, producer of all but the first "Star Trek" film. Mancuso wasn't available for comment, but bennett was. He has already heard about it, and his secretary had braced herself for the anticipated mountain of mail. "This just came to my attention today," says Bennett, "and I have to say it's the silliest thing I ever saw." Are Trekkies, shall we say, a bit more involved that other movie fans? "Yes, I've lived with that. There've been other write-in campaigns before. I'm afraid that there are a percentage of 'Star Trek' fans on the fring who like to stir things up. They haven't got much to do, so they begin ruminating on their worst fears -- what would happen if? It's sort of a latent paranoia with some of them. "But listen, the fact is that the only thing of paper right now is what Leonard (Nimoy) and I have worked out between us, and there is no massacre. Repeat, no massacre. "We're in negotiation with William Shatner right now. As of now, we have no writer on the project, but we have every expectation that production of 'Star Trek IV' will be under way not long into 1985." So breate easy, fans. Kirk, Bones, Scotty, Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura are safe for one more movie at least. No guarantees on "Star Trek V," however. -- | Daniel P. Faigin | (This space intentionally University of California at Los Angeles | left blank) | UUCP: {cepu|ihnp4|trwspp|ucbvax}!ucla-cs!faigin | ARPA: faigin@UCLA-CS.ARPA | USPS (Home): 11743 Darlington Avenue #9 | Los Angeles CA 90049 | (213) 826-3357 |