Your Ideas: Star Trek III but no Leonard Nimoy

[somebuddyX]

Hi, just looking for your ideas for if you wondered what a whole plot or just concepts for Star Trek III might have been like if Leonard Nimoy hadn't returned. Kinda a bit of both "what you think would happen" and "what you would like to have happened" in this particular scenario.

 

[Tosk]

You could basically do the exact same movie but with a real bummer of an ending.

 

[BillJ]

Spy thriller with Romulans over the Genesis Device. Kirk and company steal the Enterprise to save Carol and David Marcus.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

They could have gone with the younger actor they cast for Spock and have an adolescent version be the subject of the search.

The entire movie stays the same except that small casting change. It’d work just fine.

 

[BillJ]

The entire movie stays the same except that small casting change. It’d work just fine.

I mostly agree, but I just don’t think the tail end of the movie would’ve had the same emotional hook without Nimoy.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I mostly agree, but I just don’t think the tail end of the movie would’ve had the same emotional hook without Nimoy.

Agreed. The movie itself would be worse for a lack of Nimoy generally.

However, if Nimoy wasn’t going to be playing ball, they had options.

 

[XCV330]

they merge David Marcus with Spock via the Genesis Effect. Part of McCoy also transfers into this strange ghola during the katra router download ceremony thingy.

Merrit Butrick plays "Dock" for a couple of movies until Nimoy comes back. Everyone agrees not to talk about it.