The Missing Line of Dialog that Destroyed Star Trek XI

[Samuel T. Cogley]

In another thread, Dennis made comments which reminded me about how the writers' strike had prevented Abrams from adding an impromptu line into the script.

All [Abrams] said during the strike, by way of commiseration with someone on the picket line, was that he'd thought of a great line that day while shooting "Star Trek" and couldn't add it because he was striking (as a writer, but not as a director).

So my question to you good people (and angry bastards) is:

"What was that line?"

There is no doubt in my mind (and all of yours, too) that Star Trek XI will suck to high heaven solely because of the exclusion of that very line.

"But maybe he added the line back in later, Cogley, after the strike was over."

No! He did not!

The way the Writer's Guild works is that the line of dialog is tied permanently back to the moment that the author of that line thought of it. So, even though the strike is over, any thoughts that were generated during that time period are forever forbidden, like the Lambada. In fact, if anyone accurately predicts what the missing line was and prints it here, there is the very real possibility that the entire site will be shut down forever by Guild lawyers. So be careful.

So what was that precious line that could have saved Star Trek? And for wont of the line, the franchise was lost.

I'm going to go with: "THE WOMEN!"

 

[trekkerguy]

"Teh cannnnnon!!1!11!!!"

 

[dougkeenan]

"What is your quest?"

 

[SalvorHardin]

It was a line Kirk was going to say to Nero the first time they meet.

Kirk would attack Nero while shouting : "Damn you for violating my childhood you Romulan scum"

 

[Swarles Barkley]

At the Starfleet Quartermaster's monthly departmental meeting:

"Hey, what do you think about adding sombreros to our uniforms?"

 

[FredH]

"Of course! We all create God in our own image."

 

[blaXXer]

"You shall not pass!"

 

[M'Sharak]

"General Ayel has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."

 

[Kryton]

"Inspector Clay is dead. Murdered. And SOMEONE is responsible!"

 

[FabiusMaximus]

“As the all-knowing, amalgam formed, Judo-Christian entity as my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!” – Ensign O’Hara

 

[Aragorn]

"Yes, it's true... this Romulan has no dick."

 

[SalvorHardin]

Kirk: Oh come on Uhura... Look, it is not only good for your skin but it is also very tasty and nutritional.
Now say aaaaah.

 

[beneldon]

"Dammit, Jim! It's a sequel not a reboot!"

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

"The clown can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to leave!"

 

[Nerys Myk]

"It was...fun."

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

"I'm a doctor, not a pimp."

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

GEEZIN' SPOCK: This bridge...is not as I remember it. Why are there barcode scanners everywhere?

 

[shapeshifter]

"Klingons are very merry men!"

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

"General Ayel has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."

Doesn't that line belong in the "we'll always have TOS" forum?

 

[M'Sharak]

"General Ayel has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."

Doesn't that line belong in the "we'll always have TOS" forum?

It belongs in both, simultaneously. Eddies in the space-time continuum, you see.