Thank you for the explanation Greg. Sucks that the project got shelved, and that there wasn't any way to do the show for Nichelle either.
Hey--I found this content online. It looks like this was simply a vignette that wasn't really a teaser/trailer for anything. It was fully realized as it was.
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In fact, this isn’t the only episode where Julienne gets to shine and stretch Uhura. She stars in an upcoming vignette for New Voyages, called “Pursuit.” It’s directed by none other than her New Voyages co-star, Andy Bray. And it has something we never got to see in the Sixties version of Star Trek, except in its ‘bad’ mirror universe. “Uhura kicks butt in this vignette. And anybody who wants to see her kick butt will love this vignette.”
Much of this vignette was filmed during the actors down time from actively filming “World Enough and Time” – whenever they weren’t needed to be in front of the cameras, you could find them off in the corner of the bullpen area where the Enterprise’s shuttlecraft was (yes, authentic replica of that as well), working on their vignette. Conditions were less than ideal, as they would have to stop every time quiet was called for on the set, but they persisted. Often you could see trusty friend and co-star John Lim working the lighting so his pal Andy could shoot, or filling in for whatever other crew person was needed and not available.
Hence, it’s no surprise that when Julienne was asked to talk about her favorite moments from the episode, she brought up the guerrilla filming of “Pursuit.” “That was my favorite part of the shoot, hands down. Just working with Andy, just seeing him get all frantic and stressed out, because we only had like two hours to shoot like eight pages.”
To make things even harder, Julienne had a scene near the end where she has to come out of her shuttle in tears. But the bullpen was the area where the crew hung out and passed the time talking and playing computer games when they weren’t needed to do their jobs on the set. Hence it was hard for her to get into the proper frame of mind for her emotional scene.
But like a beautiful princess, she had a knight come to her rescue – in the form of a guy named Pat Cleveland. “He was like, ‘you guys need me to do anything?’ And we told him we just needed people to be quiet. And he was like our dude, getting people to be quiet when we were shooting, saying, ‘okay guys, everybody shut up. Be quiet. They’re doing their thing.’ He was our guy. Protecting our little Pursuit world. Protecting our little vignette world. Helping us get our episode done. As soon as he told everybody to get quiet, I took five, ten minutes, got my tears up, and it was pretty good.”
Hence, it is easy to see why Julienne remembers this as her “favorite moment, hands down. Love that guy for telling everybody to shut up. Love Andy. Andy’s like a phenomenal director.” In fact, it was hard to stem Julienne’s enthusiasm for this vignette of Andy’s. “I can’t imagine if we had everything that we needed to shoot this project, which we didn’t, but if we did, if we had had all the manpower that we had needed to do this, Andy is such a great director, it would have been like a billion times better. It’s good, but we could have done so much more with it. But kudos to Andy for being so fabulous.”
