To be honest, I don't care what Nicholas Meyer prefers in this day and time ... no director should be given the chance to fiddle around with his movie some twenty years later, see Robert Wise and his so called DE of TMP. Nicholas Meyer had already ruined TUC with those flashbacks during the interrogation scene, that should have been reason enough to keep him as far away from TWOK as possible, except for the colour timing issue.
However, so long as all major versions are included, any given filmmaker can tinker and doodle as much as they want, as far as I'm concerned. And really, I hardly think the inclusion of those quick, 2-second shots truly "ruined"
The Undiscovered Country. We shouldn't overstate things, here.
I see no reason to cheer ... give any old grumpy director the chance to alter their movies to their liking, and almost all the classic movies we love would be changed beyond recognition.
Again, as long as all versions are made available to the consumer (although I admit that it's unlikely that the extended, pre-2004 Director's Cut of TUC will probably ever be made available again, without flashback-shots and alternate aspect-ratio), everybody wins, consumer and director alike.
The relevant phrase being "his movie". That gives the director the right to do whatever he wants with it.
This, basically. As the primary auteurist creative force behind the film, that pretty much gives Meyer the major moral authority to make whatever changes he sees fit, even years after the fact, if he chooses. Without him, there'd be no
Wrath of Khan as we know it (or, indeed, pretty much post-TMP
Star Trek as we know it) at all.
I'd settle for an edition that contains all three versions, als long as I can ignore the DE. The SLV is what I truly want!
Agreed -- I'd love it if all three versions were released, too, especially for historical comparison-purposes and such.
