Weird Star Trek rumors

[Elder Knight]

Seems to me that "Starfleet Academy" as a concept for the next movie was something that the producers would pull out of their ... er, pockets, whenever the main actors were holding out for more money. You know, as a way to recast all the roles and start over. Then, they reached an accommodation, and the idea went away until the next time.

 

[T'Girl]

Ricardo Montalban was experiencing some kind of serious medical condition during the filming of his scenes in TWOK.

This is why Khan actually moves around very little during the movie, usually he's seated, leaning against something, or if standing then holding on to a stationary object.

He only walks around in a few scenes, and then not very far.

 

[Kor]

^ Interesting, considering Nimoy's accounts of Montalban constantly doing push-ups to pump up his chest.

Kor

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Khan doesn't walk around a lot because the movie doesn't need him to.

 

[eyeresist]

There've been some odd rumours in relation to the upcoming film, especially the insistence that it would be all about the Klingons, with Idris Elba playing a Klingon. All this in contradiction of everything coming out of the production camp, and, in light of the recent trailer, obviously not true.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I was always hoping that Elba would play Richard Daystrom. Sadly, that was not to be.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Ricardo Montalban was experiencing some kind of serious medical condition during the filming of his scenes in TWOK.

This is why Khan actually moves around very little during the movie, usually he's seated, leaning against something, or if standing then holding on to a stationary object.

He only walks around in a few scenes, and then not very far.

It sounds like whoever started that rumor wasn't watching Fantasy Island back in 1982. Montalban stood pretty much all the time on that show.

 

[FormerLurker]

Then again, he didn't do a lot of walking around. The back injury that eventually put him in a wheelchair may have begun aggravating him because of all the standing around. He could have spent much of the STII shoot sitting to attempt to mitigate it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It's seems to me unlikely, Cattrall was probably being mischievous in answering that question coyly. I'm not a fan of Cattrall's stuff generally but she is a pro. She wouldn't fool around on a set in that way...

At an Australian convention, we heard this rumour as fact, and from someone from the studio. I have no doubt that it happened, in at least some variation to the rumours that went public!

In other news...

From the old days of the Psi Phi bbs, a wonderful rumour took on a life of its own over several years. Someone suggested they had knowledge of an unaired, lost "episode" of TOS, called "Requiem for a Martian". Contributors started claiming to have researched script segments, found frame grabs (often of Nimoy from "Zombies of the Stratosphere"), discovered that the episode involved a Martian named Shazzerd and time travel into Mars history, or claimed to have viewed sequences with actor Richard Kiley, who had "played" Shazzerd, etc.

Just when we thought the rumour had died away, someone new would pop up and ask if the rumours were true. At one point, Pocket editor John Ordover even seemed to be canvassing for contributors to a project that may have formalized into a book(?). But then it all faded away...

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Martian

Memory Beta notes that "Requiem for a Martian" did eventually make cameo appearances in licensed Trek stories by Allyn Gibson, Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster, Terri Osborne and Keith RA DeCandido.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

The title "Requiem of the Martians" also shows up in the movie Free Enterprise, as one of Robert's girlfriends mangles the title to "Requiem for Methuselah."

 

[Therin of Andor]

The title "Requiem of the Martians" also shows up in the movie Free Enterprise, as one of Robert's girlfriends mangles the title to "Requiem for Methuselah."

And a mythical episode of "Galaxy Quest", the TV series upon which the "Galaxy Quest" movie was "based".
http://galaxyquest.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_22_-_Requiem_of_the_Martians

 

[borgboy]

I remember some months back hearing that McCoy's ex wife was going to be in the next movie and that McCoy would have a bigger role. I hope that's true, as the new McCoy has been really great but not given much to do. I'd love to see his ex wife finally get a story with McCoy on screen, but it sounds too good to be true.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I remember some months back hearing that McCoy's ex wife was going to be in the next movie and that McCoy would have a bigger role. I hope that's true, as the new McCoy has been really great but not given much to do. I'd love to see his ex wife finally get a story with McCoy on screen, but it sounds too good to be true.

That could be interesting. Despite appearances in the novels and comics, McCoy's backstory of an ex-wife and daughter has never really been dealt with in onscreen Trek.

 

[ChristopherPike]

I bet that was jettisoned along with the rest of Orci/Payne/McKay's pitch, rumoured to include various familiar Trek aliens competing against each other in an arms race to acquire a dangerous new technology - among them a faction of Vulcans led by Bryan Cranston, trying to restore their world using time-travel - and a role for William Shatner.

Damn that would've been sooooo my kind of Star Trek movie for the 50th.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Benicio Del Toro as Khan. I honestly couldn't have wished for a better actor to pull off that role. Weird he wouldn't do it, given he went onto do Guardians of the Galaxy and is now doing Star Wars Episode VIII. I guess he must've read the script and thought it was a piece of $#*!

 

[Horizons96]

I heard a rumor that during the time Enterprise was being cancelled, everyday people were sending donations and checks to the network, thinking it would help contribute to its survival. I can't remember where I heard this...

 

[woodstock]

Marina Sirtis and Gates McFadden were lovers... no wait, that was a dream I had last night.

I've been in this forum too much lately.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I heard a rumor that during the time Enterprise was being cancelled, everyday people were sending donations and checks to the network, thinking it would help contribute to its survival. I can't remember where I heard this...

That was no rumour.

http://www.trektoday.com/news/180405_04.shtml

 

[indycar]

This may not be extremely "weird", but I've read that the reason that Whoopi Goldberg went uncredited on Generations was that the she was entitled to top billing since she was an Academy Award winner, but she didn't want to take this away from Patrick Stewart so she went uncredited. Although, if this was the case, how come Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham get credited behind the TNG cast members in Insurrection.

 

[Anji]

Re: Wierd Star Trek rumors

Goldberg had her name pulled out of embarrassment.