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From: scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: The next Star Trek Movie???
Message-ID: <187@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 19:18:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 19:18:03 1985
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Reply-To: scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Keywords: Star Trek, Movie, IV

In article <824@nmtvax.UUCP> wildstar@nmtvax.UUCP (Andrew Fine) writes:
>
>     Some ideas that Leonard Nimoy should take into account for the next movie:
>
>I) Kirk should assume a post worthy of his rank/experience/sacrifice.  This
>could be anything from resuming his duties as head of cadet training, becoming
>an Ambassador ( either at large or to some major planet, like Vulcan - 
>Captain Robert April, who was the first commander of the Enterprise, was made
>an Ambassador upon promotion to Commodore after his five year tour ), or
>becoming Star Fleet Commander In Chief.
>

I think you will find that Captain Pike was first Captain of the Enterprise...

>   It is my feeling that the destruction of the Enterprise was an indication 
>that Kirk has finally matured, that he does not need a Starship anymore to
>prove or otherwise express himself. He can use Pavel, Hikaru, Spock, Nyota,
>and Montgomery as his staff officers to help him do whatever Starfleet needs.
>But Kirk should never be allowed to command a Starship again! His talents are
>desperately needed elsewhere!! 

Good point.  Time to branch out.  But in reference to both paragraphs, why not
have him acting as an 'outlaw'?  It seems likely to me that starfleet is still
not going to be especially 'happy' with Kirk, so maybe he could operate on his
own (or perhaps with Spock or Sulu) undermining the forces of Evil everywhere.
Or, alternatively, he could be picked up by a highly secret branch of starfleet
to do covert work.

>II) James T. Kirk and Nyota Uhura should marry.

Are you crazy???  This has got to be the most unlikely pairing I have ever
heard of.  You have practically stated it yourself - there is no precedent
for a romance between them.  Now, Kirk and Yeoman Rand, perhaps...  Or, 
Uhura and Sulu or Chekov, maybe.  If you ask me, Kirk is too much of a loner
to be married for long.  His 'love' for the Enterprise has brought an end
to his first marriage, and he would probably be too shaken up over the death
of his son to consider another marriage and children.

>III) Bones should retire on Captain's pension and start a private practice
>in San Francisco. He may want to do research on Fabrini artifacts and methods
>with applications to Federation patients. He may want to patch up things
>with either the Fabrini Priestess or his former wife ( the one he who divorced
>him before he joined Starfleet ), or he may stay the same McCrotchety that
>he always has.

Undoubedly, he will stay 'McCrotchety'.  An interesting twist:  he could
go to Vulcan to study medecine, logic, and mind-melding techniques! ;-)

>IV) Hikaru and Pavel should serve together as Captain and First Officer of
>one of the newer starships. STIV may want to revolve around them as the 
>command crew. Montgomery may serve as Captain of Engineering, perhaps
>with Mira Romaine as his assistant.

AAah, now there's an idea.  The book version of Star Trek III indicated that
Sulu was going to be either first or second in line for one of the new 
'hyperwarp' starships (or perhaps the Galaxy ships, I forget), and it would
be nice to see these three get together.  However, James Doohan is really
showing his age these days.  I heard an un-substantiated rumor that the 
'shore leave' that he was suffering from in STII was actually a heart-attack
in real life.

>V) Now we get to Spock. It may be entirely possible that he is going to be
>the Prime Operator for some crisis or mission where he has to put the old
>crew together again.  

Spock is going to be the hardest to guess at.  He will have been the first
Vulcan in x million years to have been successfully resurected by the old
technique, and he will certianly be held in high regard by the Vulcans.  
Perhaps his transformation will instill some knowledge or wisdom in him
that will put him on a rank with the Organians.  Personally, I would like
to 'see' the Organians in another movie.
 
>Sincerely,
>Andrew Jonathan Fine
>(Wildstar)

Personally, I would like to see a movie version of John Ford's          
_The_Final_Reflection_.  This is one of the finest (I think) post-series
Star Trek novels to come out, because it hardly dealt with the main
characters at all, and also because it gave a close-in view of Klingon
life.  It portrayed them as 'human'...  BTW, does anyone know who was 
responsable for the travesty performed on the Klingons in the movies?
Those costumes are hidious!!!  The series depiction was much better..


-Sean Colbath

"Logic is like a bed of beautiful flowers - which smell bad!!!"
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