Honoring the man who killed then saved Star Trek

[goblinking]

Hello, I recently had the honor of attending a special screening of Star Trek IV and a Q & A with producer Harve Bennett. I
thought I'd share his insights with all...

Honoring the man who killed then saved Star Trek

 

[Therin of Andor]

Cool. But the consistent misspelling of "Nemoy" is a bit bizarre.

 

[LOKAI of CHERON]

Many thanks for that, goblinking; an interesting read. I didn't know Bennett and Roddenberry never got along.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

They certainly didn't.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Nice interview. Nothing groundbreaking there, but at least it didn't view everything with rose-colored sunglasses.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Even his criticisms he stated very fairly, I thought.

 

[Doug Otte]

Cool. But the consistent misspelling of "Nemoy" is a bit bizarre.

Indeed. The article is rife with misspellings. I guess this is some kind of local paper, but I don't even see that many errors in the Washington Post, and they've gotten pretty bad over the years!

Doug

 

[number6]

How did Bennett kill Star Trek and then save it?

 

[Ssosmcin]

Cool. But the consistent misspelling of "Nemoy" is a bit bizarre.

As are the couple of wrong spellings of the subject of the interview: "Bennet."

How did Bennett kill Star Trek and then save it?

Says in the article…

Bennett jokes that he is the "man that killed Star Trek" as his successful Mod Squad was competition for Star Trek's third season.

Then he saved it...

he was brought on to help reboot the Star Trek feature film franchise after the first film met with fan dissatisfaction and worry at Paramount Studios. Bennett conceived of a continuation of the original series episode“Space Seed”, an idea which became Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Following the success of that film…

 

[number6]

Got it.

 

[Shatnertage]

I guess he killed the paper's spell-checker, too.