trevanian wrote:
They actually have fun with this, Kirk's "Oh please" could be any veteran audience member.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about here.
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They couldn't get Sean Connery, Max Von Sydow or Klaus Maria Brandauer.
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I know who the actors were that they wanted...that wasn't my point. My point was that they probably could have gotten a better, more well-known actor to play a part as "important" as Spock's half-brother.
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Nearing 60 might be painful but i don't know that it is old, so I don't know what the hell you're talking about here.
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It wasn't the actors' literal ages that made them seem so old...it was the way they acted out the scene. I had no idea how old they were until you posted that.
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It's fairly easy to infer (w/o much rationalization either) that Nimbus was set up to fail, just from Warner's dialog. Shatner's delivery of the words "planet of galactic ... " also has the tone of "oh THAT place" which reconfirms this for audience.
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So if this planet was simply a big joke, then why risk one of Starfleet's best captains and crew to save the ambassadors?
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TNG at height of its popularity? It wasn't even WRITTEN yet when TVH came out...
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I could be misremembering the exact dates here...now that you mention it, I believe TNG was at the height of it's popularity during STVI, not V. My bad.
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(and if TVH is your idea of going out on a high note, I gotta think you're high. It was a fine 'one viewing' pic that did a neat top itself/top itself again ending, but I'd hate the idea of remembering TOS films as ending in that appalling white N chrome mess -- sorry I mean redress -- of a bridge set, which looks like the template for The Abrams Thing's bridge AKA the cosmetic aisle in your friendly neighborhood Target store.
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Your are of course entitled to your own opinion, but you're confusing the literal ending of the movie (and I'm not sure why you're making such a deal out of a set that was seen for about five seconds) with the entire movie itself, which was the basis for my statement that TVH was a good finale for the TOS crew.