Didn't Shatner write the script for Star Trek V?

[Timby]

On a humorous side note, I remember when one of my best friends and I went on a trip to Six Flags that year with his parents. When we arrived, I got out of the car and yelled, "WE HAVE TRAVELED FAR!"

I got married last year, and my best friends from childhood all converged upon my location (Dubuque, Iowa) for the wedding, to be my groomsmen. Coming from myriad locations (Fort Smith, Arkansas; Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; San Francisco, California), they all flew into Chicago and then drove to Dubuque in a full-size conversion van. They arrived at my apartment the day before my wedding. I heard the van pull into my driveway, so I stepped outside and watched them all climb out.

My best man, driving the van at that point, was the last to exit, and as he stepped out to meet me, he raised his hands into the air, and did indeed shout, "WE HAVE TRAVELED FAR!"

"By Econoline van. "

 

[bigdaddy]

William Shatner wrote Star Trek 5? That's not possible because then he would have made Captain Kirk be God.

 

[trevanian]

Once you put magic in place of science in a science fiction story, I lose all respect for those responsible.

Depends on what you call magic, I guess. To me, the genesis project as depicted in TWOK is a travesty / magic wand depiction of terraforming, but I suspended disbelief and enjoyed the film immensely. Ditto for the idiotic closeup broadside space battles ... David Gerrold said TWOK was scientifically accurate if your idea of science was the 1803 Farmer's Almanac.

Except for TMP, I don't think any trek movie has got much in the way of decent science ... they all lack verisimilitude (geez, the 'science' of SFS ... get him off the planet, then he'll stop aging. Convenient.)


Belated congratulations, JKTIM.

 

[FredCFO]

I didn't think anyone took the writing credit after this bomb detonated in theaters back in 1989.

As Dennis Bailey once noted, the only mistake they made when this movie opened was that the seats in movie theaters were facing the screen.

A turkey of ginormous proportions...

The Enterprise flies through The Windex Maelstrom to find God or Vejur or something...

 

[cardinal biggles]

Woah, duuuuuuuuude... the colors, man...

 

[Amaris]

^ My dear Sir, I salute your use of Father Jack, and my all time favorite line in that series.


J.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Thanks. I just recently discovered Father Ted; in fact, I'm about to watch the final episode right now. Definitely a classic.

 

[Amaris]

^ Oh yes. I discovered the wonderment that is Father Ted several years ago. What a brilliant series.


J.

 

[Mysterion]

I would think the book would of been done by Shatner, as well...?

I'm not sure I've heard of any directors doing the novelization of their own movie.

Not ST, but Nicholas Meyer wrote the novel of the Sherlock Holmes movie "Seven Percent Solution", which he also directed. He also wrote another Holmes novel, "The West End horror".

 

[Sir Rhosis]

^^^In that case it was not a novelization, though. Meyer's novel came out a couple years before he made a film of it.

Sir Rhosis

 

[Mysterion]

^^^In that case it was not a novelization, though. Meyer's novel came out a couple years before he made a film of it.

Sir Rhosis

I stand corrected.

Thank you.

 

[Therin of Andor]

^^^In that case it was not a novelization, though. Meyer's novel came out a couple years before he made a film of it.
Sir Rhosis

That's what I thought, too. The film was one of the things that brought him to the attention of Harve Bennett and Paramount for ST II. But he didn't direct that film anyway. Herbert Ross did. Meyer did a novel, then the screenplay.

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-seven-percent-solution?cat=entertainment

 

[Therin of Andor]

"Seven Percent Solution", which he also directed.

Nope. Herbert Ross directed.

 

[Mysterion]

"Seven Percent Solution", which he also directed.

Nope. Herbert Ross directed.

Again, I stand corrected.

Thanks.

 

[EEE]

Supposedly Ellison was asked to write SFS and TFF as well as TVH, but I'd have a hard time believing Shatner would go to Ellison.

After reading the prologue to his City on the Edge of Forever book and seeing clips of his assorted rants over the decades, I still can't believe anybody went to him for anything. Ever!

 

[trevanian]

Supposedly Ellison was asked to write SFS and TFF as well as TVH, but I'd have a hard time believing Shatner would go to Ellison.

After reading the prologue to his City on the Edge of Forever book and seeing clips of his assorted rants over the decades, I still can't believe anybody went to him for anything. Ever!

Of course they go to him, he is sharp and he can write! (he's honest in that prologue as well, but I suppose that is irrelevant to most.)