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So We're Producing "The Omega Glory" ...

Nothing could really be left "as-is"... there's always room for improvement, even without pushing the budget. The question is, would there be anything compelling to be different.

I also find the "Yangs" and "Coms" reference too blatant. What would have appealed to me is that these people wouldn't be from Earth, but from some other more advanced civilization who escaped impending social collapse, tried to rebuild, but then chaos got the better of them. It would show that socialist and democratic type forms of government are universally conceived, not just on planet Earth.

I like the idea of Kirk expounding on the Constitution, but it would be unique to Earth while being comparative to their situation. He would start reading their document, find the parallels, then recite some of the US Constitution as a parallel example of what brought the Federation to what it is today.

In all other respects, I like it. Woodward's performance is great--a nice contrast to his crazed Dr. Van Gelder. His passion for finding the fountain of youth is understandable, but he just can't keep his head straight... Frankly, his pursuit to destroy Kirk was meaningless, as eventually the Enterprise crew would beam down and find out what happened. I would have liked to see more personal anguish on his part, struggling between the folly of his erroneous belief that he found the fountain of youth and how he might recover without losing his rank.
 
Shatmandu said:
... and it's time to tighten up the script before filming.

We know Roddenberry wrote the early drafts, so you found several young ladies who want to break into show business and aimed them at his office.

We'll be able to work unfettered for several hours. What do you want to change?

Me, I'd lose the "Yang and Cohm" stuff. Keep one group white and the other Asian, if we need to help the audience differentiate. Or maybe make one group black and the other Latino.

Lose the "E Pleb Neesta" and the flag crap. Keep the part where they muddle their founding father's words, but make the phrases non-specific and about freedom and liberty and justice instead, to make those ideals seem Universal.

Keep Cloud Festus and his surprisingly deep voice.

And the rest is okay with me as written. I like the crystals in the uniforms, and I love our choice of villain. That pitted bastard is great.

How about you?

Joe, co-producer
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Speaking of the crystals and the uniforms... My wife got caught in the rain walking one day. She draped her clothing over the edge of the bathtub to dry, and it was unintentionally layed out in wearing arrangement. I came home from work to find her empty clothes slumped over the edge of the tub. I honest to God had a moment of panic expecting to find those crystals. :alienblush:
 
ToddPence said:
Restore the missing scenes which were trimmed for running time.
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Can they do this? Ya'll know everything else about this damn show why has this question not been answered. There is no escape. The longer you don't answer my question.... the longer I'll just keep asking it.... so pick your poison.
 
I suspect much of the cut scenes were long since sliced to bits for sale by Lincoln Enterprises.
 
DS9Sega said:
I suspect much of the cut scenes were long since sliced to bits for sale by Lincoln Enterprises.
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DS9Sega's suspicions are correct. Once the studio "finished" with the production of the series, only the negatives (and/or internegatives) for the completed episodes were saved; the negatives for the deleted scenes and trims were discarded. Remember, Star Trek back then was niether a popular series nor a money-making one.

The good news is that, through Roddenberry and Lincoln Enterprises, the dailies were cut up and sold (or given away by the great bird) as "film clips," so these deleted scenes still exist as still images...somewhere. ;)
 
The crewman played by David Ross was originally called "Lt. Raintree" in the script. You can tell that "Galloway" is dubbed over Shatner's voice in the teaser when he says it.
 
This doesn't make any sense at all; and what's great is that it doesn't even try to make sense. A more cowardly television show--one of your Twilight Zones or Battlestar Galacticas--would've given us some third act twist to explain why an alien race that hasn't mastered space travel has managed to work up a Constitution that matches ours even down to the handwriting. But not our Trek! Never mind the creepy way the Yangs are all white to a man, or the fact that the Kohms, despite Kirk's admonitions to the contrary, seem to be basically the bad guys. Let's just relish the richness of the loogey Roddenberry has hawked into the face of reason and logic. This is sublime awfulness, gang. Dare I say it? This approaches the glory of "HOW'D IT GET BURNED?"
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Linkee
 
I'd save the explanations for the novelization. Combine the cut lines with the notion of a wormhole that sent the colony ship(s) back a few thousand years, and voila! You have the Earth parallels and the number of millennia accounted for.
 
Captain Robert April said:
I'd save the explanations for the novelization. Combine the cut lines with the notion of a wormhole that sent the colony ship(s) back a few thousand years, and voila! You have the Earth parallels and the number of millennia accounted for.
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I'm not so sure - the unexplained nature of the planet in the Omega Glory and the even more Earthlike planet in Miri have a sort of surreal wierdness that I think a rational explanation would spoil in a way.

The review that Dennis quotes is right methinks.
 
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