Exactly, although they accidentally printed the longer-running time from the SLV on the box art, leading to confusion in reviews.
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Exactly, although they accidentally printed the longer-running time from the SLV on the box art, leading to confusion in reviews.
I have to ask; is this 'theatrical cut' of TUC you're all mentioning a true theatrical cut, including Kirk's line "I'm still the Captain" from when the Enterprise leaves spacedock, or not?
^ The only time I have seen the theatrical cut is during its original release in the theater. I have not seen the Blu-ray release to compare it, nor would I remember enough of the details of what I saw nearly 21 years ago to compare. However, I've never heard of the line you mention. My understanding was that the cuts that have been released since -- the original home video cut and the "special edition" cut -- only added things, not took them away.
Can you shed some light on the line you refer to?
Can you shed some light on the line you refer to?
I can't find any other reference to this, apart from another post by you in a different thread. No online ST VI scripts seem to contain the line, not my hardcopy one (which spells the rewriiten Saavik as "Val'eris").
This situation reminds me of a friend who saw a premiere of ST III while interstate on vacation, then returned bewildered that the Sydney print of ST III, which she saw with us several times over the next few weeks, did not contain the little Vulcan girl telling unconscious Spock to "Live long and prosper". That line was in the script - and the girl, Katherine Blum, even gets a credit - but I've never seen the scene in a print of the movie. Nor in bonus scenes on the DVD.
It seems that sometimes one print of a film will have a slightly different cut to others, but if that version is made after the reels are made, someone has to go through them all and cut the line out. Sometimes fans "remember" a particular line as being in a movie, when in fact it was something they once saw in a trailer, a novelization, a script or a comic adaptation.
Many people say they swore they saw a scene in ST II in cinemas, of Spock telling Kirk that Saavik was half-Romulan - but that was only in the novelization and the ShoWest advance "presentation trailer". Similarly, a frame of Saavik being excused from Kirk's trial for her "condition" (ie. pregnancy) was in the comic, but not in ST IV's final prints. Ditto Kirk's ex-wife in ST:TMP, but she's only identified as Vice Admiral Lori Ciana in the novelization.
There is an exchange in the script available online, just after the Enterprise leaves spacedock, that seems to have something close to it though (bold by me):
If this is what FormerLurker is referring to, surely the rest of the dialogue would had to have been there as well rather than just that one line from Kirk?
I saw the movie in theatres twice during its initial run, and I don't remember that line. I swear, I was sober both times!
Of course, my memory can be faulty (as you'd you if you're familiar w/ some of my other erroneous posts).
Doug ("Grain o' Salt")
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