Generations deleted scene - bridge of Enterprise-B

[ChristopherPike]

EDIT: Found it http://movies.trekcore.com/generations/deletedscenes.html

Thanks for that pointer. Good old Trekcore!

At the very bottom of the page, check out "ALTERNATE ENDING II". Despite the low picture & sound quality, that is probably the best idea how the first cut finished. Much better editing than anything among Generations' DVD extras. As a fan, I'd love for someday them to put back footage, even as a supplementary Disc 2 version... The possiblities rival what was achieved with Alien 3 and Superman II The Donner Cut.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Braga talks about it on the commentary at the moment just before the transition to the 24th century. He says that they had a beat where they go to the bridge to think about what happened, and to confirm that he was gone, but, as he says, it was "as effective as this."

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I think Chekov emoting would've been good.

 

[cultcross]

Thanks for the info, but i don't even know what that is..

google VLC media player, and download it - you can play almost anything without worrying about codecs.

I wasn't all that keen on that scene, watching it - Checkov's reaction seems almost cheesy. I prefer the final edit, myself - more grandiose.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Now that I've watched the deleted scene, I can say that I'm glad I've seen it, but I'm also glad it wasn't in the film.

It wouldn't have "fit."

I think the scene, of Scotty, Chekov, and Harriman looking out the gash, as the Enterprise-B flies by the camera, is really all the ending the prologue needs. It makes a nice visual segue into the next portion of the film.

Kirk's line about "cheating death together," I remain convinced should have been in the film.

 

[ialfan]

Thanks for the info, but i don't even know what that is..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divx

 

[Geoff]

Here's an easy download, assuming you're running Windows:

http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/codec/

 

[Michael]

Now that I've seen it I can understand why they cut it. It really doesn't add anything to the movie. I don't need to see Chekov cry over the death of Kirk (he just can't be the whiner of TOS anymore). Somehow that just doesn't feel right. Of course I like every opportunity to see Doohan and Koenig act again. But not if it's such a feckless, ill-written scene ...

Also, I think the original segue from the 23rd century to the 24th is rather strong. This scene would disrupt the flow of it, IMHO.

Anyway, nice to finally have seen it.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

Koenig stated in a couple interviews at the time that his brother had died just a bit before the filming of GEN, and his crying in that scene was brought on by his thinking of him as he filmed it.

Sir Rhosis

 

[guardian]

Never knew that about his brother.
Any more opinions on the scene itself--not how it would have played in the larger movie?

 

[A beaker full of death]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA2ueLsTiPw

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Thank you...

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Visually and emotionally, I think it was a wise decision on the director and editor to end the Ent-B sequence where they did. It lingered on the situation and faded nicely into the 24th century. The bit on the bridge is superfluous.

 

[Sector 7]

Thanks for the info, but i don't even know what that is..

google VLC media player, and download it - you can play almost anything without worrying about codecs.

I wasn't all that keen on that scene, watching it - Checkov's reaction seems almost cheesy. I prefer the final edit, myself - more grandiose.

GOM Player is best. http://www.gomplayer.com
I don't really like the way VLC takes over all my previous settings.

 

[Lonestar]

Why do all these deleted scenes exist in such terrible quality anyway?

 

[cultcross]

Why do all these deleted scenes exist in such terrible quality anyway?

Because they've never been put through the fine tuning of post production, primarily; and the ones that make it to release (that weren't officially released) are probably a copy of a copy of a copy of a bit of film from a rough edit, changing formats each time. Officially released 'deleted scenes' usually are at least similar quality to the finished footage, albeit often with special effects missing.
A lot of it depends heavily on how late into production the scene was cut.

 

[Nebusj]

Why do all these deleted scenes exist in such terrible quality anyway?

Well, why do you think they deleted these scenes? We can't go from neat crisp Panavision to a choppily pixellated image and then back again in a movie; people will think the projector broke and complain to the theater owners. We're just lucky it's almost always useless scenes that suffer these visual quality problems.

 

[guardian]

^^ Please say that was a joke post!!!!

 

[Ward Fowler]

You may need a DivX plug-in.

Or some Retinax 5.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Aren't people allergic to that?