Harve Bennett...RIP

[MarsWeeps]

Another one lost...

http://www.treknews.net/2015/03/05/harve-bennett-dies-84/

Looks like he was also 84, same age as Nimoy.

 

[spockboy]

Harve Bennet dead at 84

The man who made The Wrath of Khan happen has joined our beloved Nimoy and passed on.

http://deadline.com/2015/03/harve-bennett-dies-star-trek-movie-producer-1201387026/

Spockboy

 

[spockboy]

Sorry I didn't see your thread and posted my own.
Sad news, but a lot easier to handle than Mr. Nimoy.

RIP Harve

 

[Dude111]

Very sad........... All these ppl from Star Trek passing

 

[Saul]

More sad news. It's been a bad week.

 

[M.A.C.O.]

Maurice Hurley, Leonard Nimoy and Harve Bennett all within weeks of one another. T_T

 

[EnriqueH]

Harve is one of the most important men in Star Trek lore. He did rescue the franchise and is directly responsible for a lot of the ideas that we now take for granted as being Trek lore.

It's easy to look back at Treks II-IV and say it was destiny, but a lot of it was Harve.

He took some risks: killing Spock, bringing him back, blowing up the Enterprise, doing a comedy. The series seemed alive, risky, dangerous, kept us wondering what would happen next.

And Trek was all the better for it.

These last couple of years, I was REALLY HOPING he would release his memoirs. I'm not sure how far along he was in the process, but I hope it does see the light of day someday soon.

 

[Trek Survivor]

Maurice Hurley, Leonard Nimoy and Harve Bennett all within weeks of one another. T_T

Just ONE week of each other!

RIP Mr Bennett. His contribution to Star Trek is very underestimated, a true legend.

 

[BillJ]

RIP Mr. Bennett. Thanks for your contributions to the Star Trek universe.

 

[The Wormhole]

Damn, this is the guy who brought us the golden era of Trek movies. RIP.

 

[bbailey861]

Much, much, much credit goes to Mr. Harve Bennett for bringing TOS back from the brink. You'll be remembered. RIP.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Jesus! First Hurley and Nimoy, now Bennett and almost lost Ford yesterday? A sad couple of weeks for the genre. Thoughts and prayers to the family.

 

[enterprisecvn65]

Damn it's been a bad week for ST fans. I guess in this case bad things do come in threes.

Thank you Harve for helping to save the franchise with TWOK and keep it going into what it's become.

 

[enterprisecvn65]

Jesus! First Hurley and Nimoy, now Bennett and almost lost Ford yesterday? A sad couple of weeks for the genre. Thoughts and prayers to the family.

Yeah Ford's been playing with fire for a while now though. I'm an aviation fan and I like classic planes. But the truth is that planes, like pretty much other complex mechanical device, do not tend to get better with age.

If your classic model car suffers a malfunction while you're driving it you usually just pull over and call a tow truck. Your classic plane suffers a problem.....the outcome is not so good usually. He was very lucky.

I rode in a B-17 a few years back and to keep the thing airworthy for it's 4 month air show season they literally almost take the whole plane apart, inspect it, replace whatever needs replacing and put it back together during the 8 months it doesn't fly.

It was awesome and I'm glad I did it.....but it's not something I would do year after year, especially as they age more and more, these aren't passenger jets where there's a whole crew dedicated to keeping them airworthy. There is a definite increased risk flying classic planes, especially if you don't do what they do the B-17 every year.

 

[Tim Walker]

We seem to be at the end of an era, on multiple levels:

1. The passing on of those who were involved in TOS' production.

2. The passing on of those who had adult memories of WWII-the most cataclysmic event of the 20th century.

3. The fading of the American Century.

 

[Ronald Held]

TOO many recent deaths! RIP.

 

[enterprisecvn65]

We seem to be at the end of an era, on multiple levels:

1. The passing on of those who were involved in TOS' production.

2. The passing on of those who had adult memories of WWII-the most cataclysmic event of the 20th century.

3. The fading of the American Century.

#2 scares the shit out of me. I think a big reason the cold war remained cold was because the people in charge knew how destructive WWII was and wanted to avoid it again at all costs.

As those people are going and the generation that has never known, with all due respect to Korea, Vietnam and all the Middle East conflicts, large scale all out no holds barred warfare, begin to call the shots I'm terrified that something worse than WWII may be in the future.

Hell it looks like it's starting already with Russia as Vladimir "Stalin Jr." Putin is showing like he wants to get the gang back together and put the good ol USSR back on the map.

Gee what a surprise a former KGB agent would be so deceptive as to his true intents.

 

[22 Stars]

Definitely underrated in his contributions to the longevity of Trek. One could argue without II, II, IV being what they were, the TOS movie franchise wouldn't have lasted, which gave birth to Trek becoming a TV franchise again which begat everything else.

 

[Galileo7]

RIP Mr. Bennett. Thanks for your contributions to the Star Trek universe.

Agree.

 

[Tim Walker]

We seem to be at the end of an era, on multiple levels:

1. The passing on of those who were involved in TOS' production.

2. The passing on of those who had adult memories of WWII-the most cataclysmic event of the 20th century.

3. The fading of the American Century.

#2 scares the shit out of me. I think a big reason the cold war remained cold was because the people in charge knew how destructive WWII was and wanted to avoid it again at all costs.

As those people are going and the generation that has never known, with all due respect to Korea, Vietnam and all the Middle East conflicts, large scale all out no holds barred warfare, begin to call the shots I'm terrified that something worse than WWII may be in the future.

Hell it looks like it's starting already with Russia as Vladimir "Stalin Jr." Putin is showing like he wants to get the gang back together and put the good ol USSR back on the map.

Gee what a surprise a former KGB agent would be so deceptive as to his true intents.

There has been quite a bit of discussion in The Fourth Turning forum. One theory is when those who remember a cataclysmic war pass, younger people with no such memories/restraints come to power.

Putin is recreating a Russian sphere of influence within the former Soviet space.

China is bullying its neighbors, and is preparing to sink the U.S. Navy. The neighbors are building up their own forces in response to China.

There is the potential for conflict between India and China. And, of course, between India and Pakistan.

(The Middle East is always a nasty mess).

For the United States, there may be one mitigating factor-a population that is sick of war.