Deleted Scene of Spock's Birth

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

(Has the DVD been released everywhere? I'm surprised there is so little discussion of the deleted scenes.)

Spock's Birth: anyone else wonder why Amanda gives birth outside?!?! With dust blowing in the background?!

Being Vulcan there must be some huge and interesting reason for this.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Have you seen this ?

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=106865

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Have you seen this ?

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=106865

::embarrassed::

Nope.

Still, no mention in that thread of Amanda giving birth outside!!

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Heh, thats funny. I watched the scene and it never dawned on me that it WAS very strange to be giving birth outside. Although, i suppose for all we know thats how ALL Vulcan births happen.

 

[Kirk Only]

I thought Rura Penthe was a planet covered in snow and very cold. Must have had a major climate shift from the first movie to Star Trek VI.

 

[Jeri]

In STV, there was a Vulcan birth in what looked like a cavern. Of course, some people are struck blind by STV, so perhaps it should not be included in the discussion...

 

[Mach5]

In STV, there was a Vulcan birth in what looked like a cavern. Of course, some people are struck blind by STV, so perhaps it should not be included in the discussion...

ST V too was an alternate reality movie, and it depicts a universe in which Federation ambassadors smoke cigarettes, Romulan women have human names and starships travel at super-transwarp 47.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

In STV, there was a Vulcan birth in what looked like a cavern. Of course, some people are struck blind by STV, so perhaps it should not be included in the discussion...

Hehe, thats priceless Jeri!!

 

[Jeri]

In STV, there was a Vulcan birth in what looked like a cavern. Of course, some people are struck blind by STV, so perhaps it should not be included in the discussion...

ST V too was an alternate reality movie, and it depicts a universe in which Federation ambassadors smoke cigarettes, Romulan women have human names and starships travel at super-transwarp 47.

Oh, I feel my eyesight going!

Hehe, thats priceless Jeri!!

He, he. Well, there is hardly another way to discuss that august institution we know as STV.

 

[JarodRussell]

I liked Spock's birth in TFF much better, had a much better atmosphere. And when you think this new birth scene was intended to be the very first scene of the movie... pretty lame actually. So they at least did a good thing by cutting it.

 

[A beaker full of death]

^ Frankly, everything in STV was better thought out.

 

[cooleddie74]

I suppose the memory seen in TFF could be partially inaccurate and based on what Spock was told later on as he grew older. Maybe he thought he was born inside a fire-lit cave and that's what stuck with him throughout his adult life.

 

[M'Sharak]

I thought Rura Penthe was a planet covered in snow and very cold. Must have had a major climate shift from the first movie to Star Trek VI.

Perhaps, but what has that got to do with a scene showing Spock's birth on Vulcan?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I agree it was not a great opening scene. I think the revealing of the little Vulcan baby ears was supposed to have emotional impact but of course we all knew they were going to be there. There wasn't a "OMG that is the infant Spock!" moment which I suspect they were looking for.

Still, nice to see in the dvd. Can't wrap my head around the logic of birthing outside but then their isn't much logic to Kal-if-fee either. No doubt something very deeply meaningful and Vulcanesque behind it.

 

[Devon]

^ Frankly, everything in STV was better thought out.

This has to be an epic fail along the lines of that now infamous post claiming that the film was going to be a "floppy woppy."

 

[RobertScorpio]

In STV, there was a Vulcan birth in what looked like a cavern. Of course, some people are struck blind by STV, so perhaps it should not be included in the discussion...

ST V too was an alternate reality movie, and it depicts a universe in which Federation ambassadors smoke cigarettes, Romulan women have human names and starships travel at super-transwarp 47.

Same universe as Nemesis I guess...where Data can have yet another spawn, Remans are vampires, and Picard drives dune-buggies..

Rob

 

[cooleddie74]

In STV, there was a Vulcan birth in what looked like a cavern. Of course, some people are struck blind by STV, so perhaps it should not be included in the discussion...

ST V too was an alternate reality movie, and it depicts a universe in which Federation ambassadors smoke cigarettes, Romulan women have human names and starships travel at super-transwarp 47.

Same universe as Nemesis I guess...where Data can have yet another spawn, Remans are vampires, and Picard drives dune-buggies..

Rob

The J.M. Dillard novelization of TFF from 1989 describes how Sybok and his people were able to modify the Enterprise-A's engines to be able to reach the center of the galaxy so quickly, but as with a lot of other things that Shatner and Bennett SHOULD have shown in the film it was left out. Had they possessed the balls to let the movie run a couple of minutes longer and explain one or two of the logical loopholes in the script it might have been a slightly better and more sensible movie.

 

[RoJoHen]

(Has the DVD been released everywhere? I'm surprised there is so little discussion of the deleted scenes.)

I keep seeing people around here who have bought the DVD, and I keep getting confused.

Everything I've seen says it's not being released until November 17th.

 

[M'Sharak]

(Has the DVD been released everywhere? I'm surprised there is so little discussion of the deleted scenes.)

I keep seeing people around here who have bought the DVD, and I keep getting confused.

Everything I've seen says it's not being released until November 17th.

That's the date for North America, but it has already been released in some places.

 

[RoJoHen]

(Has the DVD been released everywhere? I'm surprised there is so little discussion of the deleted scenes.)

I keep seeing people around here who have bought the DVD, and I keep getting confused.

Everything I've seen says it's not being released until November 17th.

That's the date for North America, but it has already been released in some places.

I guess I'm just used to getting things first.