1989 Star Trek Prequel Script Similar to STXI?

[gastrof]

OK, well I found this synopsis on Aintitcool.com:


STAR TREK: THE ACADEMY YEARS begins as TOS (movie) era McCoy addresses a Starfleet commencement. After his speech, several cadets corner the good doctor, who is standing alone, gazing into a reflecting pool. They nervously ask him about Kirk and Spock.

SECOND CADET: What were they like?

FIRST CADET: Were they friends?

McCOY: FRIENDS? I never met two less likely candidates for friendship in my entire life. That surprises you, doesn’t it? Well, it’s the gospel truth. They were as different as night and day. As Vulcan…and Iowa.

WOSH! We flashback

...Spock even finds himself abducted and brutally mutilated by HOODED CADETS. He is rescued by Kirk...

Sounds...lovely.

Spock, mutilated? In what way? His ears cut round? Maybe rounded ears cut to be pointed to match his Vulcan eyebrows, so everyone will know he's a Vulcan halfling for sure?

Yep.

Mutilated.

Sounds like a good film.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Now that the idea has surfaced once again, Bennett says the only way such a movie would happen is if it came through him.

Yes, but only if they were using that script. "Through" him can have many meanings. Bennett's contract with Paramount, and standard practice, would see him get royalties on elements created by him. And that would work as "through" him.

Harve Bennett has essentially retired anyway, AFAIK.

 

[Rarewolf]

It was planned for the 25th Anniversary wasn't it? as the 6th movie.

People like George Takei were saying fans would never accept it.

Funny how things change.

 

[Therin of Andor]

People like George Takei were saying fans would never accept it.
Funny how things change.

What's changed? (ST XI is not wholly accepted by all of fandom.)

The TOS "gang of four" jokingly/half-jokingly compared the idea, in their convention appearances of the day, as taking the comedic slant of ST IV and ST V and compared the film to "Police Academy", a string of rather apalling yet successful comedic movies.

They were against it because if the new young cast had "worked" with audiences, the new sequels might follow that new young cast and there'd be less chance of the old cast getting work.

IIRC, Harve Bennett was disappointed that his movie idea was compared, script unseen, to the "Police Academy" franchise.

 

[Kryton]

Maybe Spock was put through a mechanical rice picker? Just a thought.

 

[Nimravus]

Agh! No offense, but that script was terrible. Full of cliches, bad plot twists, and cringe inducing lines. I am very glad this movie never saw the light.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Agh! No offense, but that script was terrible. Full of cliches, bad plot twists, and cringe inducing lines. I am very glad this movie never saw the light.

If you read anything of it, then it was a very early draft. For example, Bennett's "Star Trek III: Return to Genesis" proposal, which was heavily bootlegged, only vaguely resembles the final shooting script for "The Search for Spock" and the completed movie.

 

[Rarewolf]

People like George Takei were saying fans would never accept it.
Funny how things change.

What's changed? (ST XI is not wholly accepted by all of fandom.)

I mean what changed is the actors were very vocal against the idea - even trying to rally the fans - whilst they still had a chance of more work out of it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I mean what changed is the actors were very vocal against the idea - even trying to rally the fans - whilst they still had a chance of more work out of it.

You expected them to stay bitter forever?

Actually, their public quasi-bitterness led to us getting "The Undiscovered Country" as ST VI and not "Starfleet Academy", so of course things changed. They got their "one more Trek film" after all, and Doohan, Takei and Whitney got another TV episode to do as well.

 

[MANT!]

Better that plot than the following..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnvzAyZIqRc&feature=related