Yet another layer to TWOK

[STEPhon IT]

I recently shared with my brother the fact that Wrath of Khan was at some point in the process titled The Undiscovered Country.
He said something noncommittal about how that would have been a good title too, and I said it would have been a terrible title since the quote is about the future and the movie isn't.
Then we both observed that for both Khan and Kirk it's really about the past.
And then I said, "One of them hasn't changed and the other one wishes he hadn't."
And it struck us both that Kirk and Khan are opposites on that. Khan is still the man he was fifteen years ago, filled with blinding anger at Kirk, while Kirk misses the person he was and struggles to figure out who to be now.

The hated the title as well, but the movie did project a potential future... without Spock. Students eventually taking over the Enterprise some day, Saavik being introduced as some sort of successor. Kirk's son and lady may have a future on the ship; by the end it present it. I didn't like the title for the sixth film either but oh well.

 

[gottacook]

Yep. TOS alone raided Shakespeare for at least four titles:

Dagger of the Mind (from MACBETH)
By Any Other Name (ROMEO AND JULIET)
Conscience of the King (HAMLET)
All Our Yesterdays (MACBETH again)

And TAS mined the Bard as well:

How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth (from KING LEAR)

Wait, isn't "Spock's brain" mentioned in the 113th Sonnet?​

 

[Lance]

Wait, isn't "Spock's brain" mentioned in the 113th Sonnet?​

Sonnet 47

Betwixt mine eye and heart, a brain is took

(With apologies to the Bard )

 

[mos6507]

I'm sure this is in a book somewhere about the making of Star Trek, but people have to remember that sci-fi on TV was not seen as a serious genre back then, suitable only for kids. Making references to classic literature could have been dog whistles to the snobs in the audience to tell them that the people making the show were not just doing Captain Video.

 

[Herbert]

Sometimes planets just blow up for no adequately explained reason. He should've thought about that before he decided to live on one, again.

I believe it's called Spontaneous Planet Explosion

 

[Herbert]

Sonnet 47

Betwixt mine eye and heart, a brain is took

(With apologies to the Bard )

Can you Shakepeare-ize "Brain and brain! What is brain?"

 

[mos6507]

Can you Shakepeare-ize "Brain and brain! What is brain?"

Somebody should rewrite Spock's brain in iambic pentameter and take it on the road.

 

[mb22]

I must be Frank & Ernest: I'm not entirely sure that it's "real." It's attributed to Bob Peak whose work is significantly better than that. If you look at his VOYAGE HOME poster where it's just the words and planet Earth, the poster is very dynamic and interesting. This looks like it may be a facsimile, sir ...

According to this site, it's authentic:
http://trekcore.com/blog/2015/09/early-star-trek-feature-film-artwork-that-didnt-make-it/

 

[2takesfrakes]

Oh, wow! Great site! How about that, then. Yeah, there you go. It's the real deal.