chekov's first name

[Navigator_NCC2120]

To be fair, when Roddenberry says "the young director... was too far along to change his mind at that time," he doesn't say anything specifically about the film being shot at that point. It's possible that Meyer was too deep into pre-production to implement what could have been a major script change. Since the film was set to go before the cameras just five weeks after Roddenberry's initial script memo, I find this believable.

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. To change that would have meant changing the whole situation of Chekov being the one who serves on the Reliant, which means Saavik would have to be something other than the navigator, and they didn't want to put Sulu on Reliant because they still wanted to give him his own ship someday, ...

And Chekov was the natural choice for getting the critter in the ear, wasn't he? Look what they did to him in Mirror Mirror, Day of the Dove, The Deadly Years, even The Voyage Home.

BoredShipCapt'n,

You forgot one. Chekov was a screaming mad man in the Season 3 episode "The Tholian Web".


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[Greg Cox]

Hi Folks,

Thanks for the encouragement to start a new thread about the Star Trek TV Guide clips -- I'll do it! I need to grade some final exams first, so give me a week or so to start. In the meantime, I'll leave you with this one to ponder. I'm sure you can figure out the episode, but would you watch it based on the description?

More details about this later. Stay tuned!

You know, I'll bet the ratings would have been higher if TV Guide had just written that "Kirk and Spock cope with 'The Naked Time.'"

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

To be fair, when Roddenberry says "the young director... was too far along to change his mind at that time," he doesn't say anything specifically about the film being shot at that point. It's possible that Meyer was too deep into pre-production to implement what could have been a major script change. Since the film was set to go before the cameras just five weeks after Roddenberry's initial script memo, I find this believable.

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. To change that would have meant changing the whole situation of Chekov being the one who serves on the Reliant, which means Saavik would have to be something other than the navigator, and they didn't want to put Sulu on Reliant because they still wanted to give him his own ship someday, ...

And Chekov was the natural choice for getting the critter in the ear, wasn't he? Look what they did to him in Mirror Mirror, Day of the Dove, The Deadly Years, even The Voyage Home.

BoredShipCapt'n,

You forgot one. Chekov was a screaming mad man in the Season 3 episode "The Tholian Web".


Navigator NCC-2120 USS Entente
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Thanks. Knew I'd leave out something. This could be its own thread, actually. "Insane and In Pain: The Best of Chekov."

 

[scotpens]

. . . I'm sure you can figure out the episode, but would you watch it based on the description?

Johnny Carson got a big laugh reading that one to the audience.

 

[Tribble Herder]

Now, THAT'S a clip I'd like to see...

 

[tafkats]

To be fair, when Roddenberry says "the young director... was too far along to change his mind at that time," he doesn't say anything specifically about the film being shot at that point. It's possible that Meyer was too deep into pre-production to implement what could have been a major script change. Since the film was set to go before the cameras just five weeks after Roddenberry's initial script memo, I find this believable.

That doesn't account for Roddenberry not actually bringing up the issue in that memo, but, like I said, I've only skimmed the memo, not read it in detail.

Since GR had a way of rewriting history to make himself look good, I have trouble taking him too seriously on this.