TVH cut scenes excerpts....

[guardian]

The voyage Home has so little cut I can fit into one post.
In fact TVH has the fewest cuts lines of the 6 TOS movies.......


Chapel greets Sarek during the hearing in Fed chambers........

10 INT. CORRIDOR 10

As we PAN Sarek INTO SHOT with COMMANDER CHAPEL,
Starfleet Medical Officer whose history in Star Trek is
known to all.

CHAPEL
Thank you for coming. It's not
going well.

SAREK
Am I to late to testify?

CHAPEL
I don't know.

Sarek raises an eyebrow, as they start out.

11 INT. FEDERATION COUNCIL CHAMBER - ANGLE ON ENTRY 11

As Sarek and Chapel enter in semi-darkness, while
events are taking place O.S. They look in wonder at:

12 SPACE - THE ENTERPRISE 12

As it comes toward us, only to be wrecked and torn
apart by a series of explosions.

13 BACK TO SAREK, CHAPEL 13

Awed, seeing this for the first time. ]

14 ANGLE - (GIANT SCREEN) 14

As Enterprise streaks to its fiery death, watched in
LONG SHOT by Kirk and crew. Then as Kirk's face is
seen, CLOSE:

KLINGON VOICE
There! Hold the image, hold!


After the Klingon ambassador storms out..........



KLINGON AMBASSADOR
Starfleet regulations? Outrageous!
(then)
Remember this well: there will be
no peace as long as Kirk lives!

And with a flourish, he exits with his staff as the
assembly murmurs. Then:

[ COUNCIL PRESIDENT
Sarek of Vulcan, with all respect --
we ask you to return Kirk and his
crew to answer for their crimes.

SAREK
With respect to you, Mr. President,
there is only one crime: denying
Kirk and his crew the honors they so
richly deserve.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT
... You are welcome to remain and
testify. ]


The famous Saavik pregnancy scene.......




BONES
I just wish we could cloak the
stench.

[ And he starts off. WIDEN as Kirk turns to LT. SAAVIK,
dressed in Vulcan attire.

SAAVIK
Admiral, I'd like to continue my
work on the ship until you leave.

KIRK
Thank you, Lt. Saavik.

SAAVIK
(produces disc)
And... Here is a deposition I have
made. If it is not sufficient, I
will return to Earth to testify.

KIRK
Don't concern yourself, Saavik.
Your leave has been granted for good
and proper cause.
(a beat)
How are you feeling?

SAAVIK
I am well, Admiral.

KIRK
You will be in good hands here. ]

They exchange a look, and she starts in, leaving him
alone in thought. Then he slowly, almost secretly
looks upward: he stares uncertainly at the mountain
above.



A little bit with SCOTT

SCOTTY
(carefully)
Humpbacked - people.?

KIRK
Whales, Scotty. 45 to 50 feet long;
about 40 tons a piece.

SCOTTY
[ Admiral - how am I going to handle
all that weight?

KIRK
You'll work it out, Scotty. And
remember: two of them.

SCOTTY
Two?

KIRK
It takes two to tango, Mr. Scott.

And with a confident grin, Kirk exits, pursued by
Bones.

SCOTTY
The great flood and Noah's Ark.
what a way to finally go ]


The never filmed Sulu and his great-grandfather scene.........


[ 84A EXT. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET 84A

The rest of the crew having spread out per Kirk's
instructions, are waiting as A YOUNG JAPANESE BOY
passes Sulu, does a double take and comes up to him.
The scene will be played IN JAPANESE with English
sub-titles.

THE BOY
(in wonder)
Ojichan? Akira ojichaan dewa naino?
Koko de nani shiteru no?
(translation)
(Uncle Akira?! Is that you? What
are you doing here?)

SULU
(in classical Japanese)
Gomen nasarei. Hito chigai de
gozaranuka na.
(translation)
I'm sorry, my son. You have mis-
taken me for someone else.

THE BOY
Ah, chigaau hito da. Hanashi kata ga
okashii.
(translation)
Yes, this must be true. You talk
funny.

He starts to back away apologetically but Sulu stops him.

SULU
Chotto omachi nasarei. Namae
wa nanto moosareruka na.
(translation)
Wait my son. What is your name?

THE BOY
Sulu Hikaru.

SULU
(visibly moved)
Ah, sorenara mazu mazu nagaiki wo
sareru to mira.
(translation)
Ah... Then I am sure that you will
have a long and happy life.

THE BOY
Arigato. Sayonara.
(translation)
Thank you, honorable sir.

The boy departs and Bones steps to Sulu.

BONES
Who was that?

SULU
That, Doctor, was my great
great grandfather. ]

On McCoy's reaction we CUT TO:

85 INT. ANTIQUE STORE - DAY 85


Gillian's boss and a co-worker............




BOB
And finally, they're not human
beings, you know. Their
intelligence has in no way been
proven comparable to ours --

GILLIAN
I don't know about you, but my
compassion for someone is not
limited to my estimate of their
intelligence.
(beat)
[ I mean whales may not have painted
the Mona Lisa or invented the dirt
bike but they didn't ravish the land
either.

Bob is rebuked. Gillian rises.

GILLIAN
(continuing)
Sorry if I spoke out of turn.

BOB
Not at all. You gave me things to
think about. You always do. You do
sound a little wrecked, why don't
you go home and stare at the
ceiling?

GILLIAN
(nods)
Why don't I?

Gillian goes off. Bob sits, then takes his feet out of
the tank. JOE, an assistant, comes over.

JOE
We all squared away?

BOB
Looks like it.

JOE
She's gonna go berserk.

BOB
It's for her own good, Joe; it's the
only way. She'll call me names for
a while, but then she'll calm down
and understand. ]

103 EXT. ALAMEDA NAVAL BASE - LONG SHOT - DAY -



A little bit cut from the surgery scene.........
KIRK
What did you say she was getting?

BONES
Cramps.

Gillian sits up, throws off the sheet as they see the
operating theatre. They leave the bed where it is and
proceed into the room, lifting their surgical masks.

DOCTOR (O.S.)
[ Lee, why hasn't this man been
prepped? ]

Kirk looks to Bones, who nods and they walk around the
curtain where Chekov, unconscious, lies on the table.
Two nurses arrange instruments in preparation for
surgery, while a YOUNG DOCTOR reads Chekov's chart.

DOCTOR
(looks up)
Who are you? [ Doctor Adams was
supposed to assist me.

BONES
We're just -- observing.

DOCTOR
I was not informed about observers.

Then, to the curious glances of the surgical team,
Bones takes out his Tricorder and passes it over to
Chekov --

DOCTOR
(continuing)
What the hell do you think you're
doing?

BONES
Reading the patient's vital signs.

KIRK
An experimental device, doctor. ]

BONES
Tearing of the middle meningeal
artery...

DOCTOR
What's your degree in, dentistry?




That's it except for a few line cuts from here and there around the script.

 

[guardian]

Some thoughts on the above.....


It would have been cool to see Chapel & sarek since one of her biggest TOS parts was Jouney to Babel. I seen a few stills of this scene.


I've also heard a lot about the Kirk/Saavik pregnancy scene and seen stills as well.


The 'Bob & Joe' was shot and Joe even gets a credit in the end credits even though his part was cut entirely. Ironic that Bob was afraid she'd 'go berserk' and then of course she storms out and is never see again !!!!
Wow he must have needed therapy with his guilt about wether she went missing because she didn't get to say goodbye or simply because they left at all.


Really wish they'd left in the line during the surgery where the Dr. says,

"Why hasn't he been prepped?"

I mean it looks like they're just about to drill his head right through his hair !! What'd that save them 1.6 seconds of run-time???

 

[Grant]

^That seems about a fifth of what was cut from WOK. Can that be all?

I agree about the Chapel scene.
The Savik scene in hindsight is pointless since they dumped her.
The bob & joe scene would have spoiled the fact that they were going to take the whales without telling her.
Agree about the drs. line about surgery prep---he's warming up the drill and they haven't even begun to shave his head!!
Maybe they have the same 'non-shaving the head' method used in Spock's brain??

Hope we see this stuff on Blu-ray.

 

[guardian]

Yes, that is all the major stuff cut and the Sulu scene wasn't shot at all.

Of the stuff that is presumed shot---only 110 lines of dialogue were cut!!!
That's like 5 minutes of screen time!! That's like nothing as far as most scripts go.

TWOK, TSFS and TUC each have over 300 lines cut.
TFF about a 120--proving that as far as dialogue goes not a whole lot was cut. Actually more action was cut from TFF than talk. The reverse from the other movies. Little 'fighting' was cut from the other movies as there wasn't much in the scripts. But TFF had much longer battles on Nimbus than we saw. They probably had blown the budget and didn't have money to finish & insert all the phaser shots in the second battle between the feds and Sybok's people.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It would have been cool to see Chapel & sarek since one of her biggest TOS parts was Jouney to Babel. I seen a few stills of this scene.

It also features in the comic adaptation.

 

[RoJoHen]

The Chapel/Sarek scene would have been okay, but I am glad the rest was cut.

 

[diankra]

"SULU
That, Doctor, was my great
great grandfather."

Only two greats? My one famous ancestor that I know of, my great-great-great grandfather, was roughly my age 200 years ago, whereas it's 300 years between the two halves of TVH. Unless the Sulus have a tradition of starting families very late in life, only two 'greats' seems a bit unlikely (maybe he was just being casual about the details).

 

[Grant]

I really must say, who gives a shit how many greats he said. We get the point. How many people offhand would know exactly how many greats wewre involved going back 270 years?

The Chapel scene is a must for the Blu-ray though. I'd really like to see the Saavik one too, because it was her swan-song movie......
Great to see a script where they found almost all the stuff worth including. I wonder how much grief they took from Paramount about leaving it 119 mintues long. (the longest besides TMP)

Really hope # 11 is 120 minutes or over so we can at least have the second longest movie. Not because time means quality, but for the same reason as TVH--because it means the script was felt to be good enought to support the time.