I like the so-called Scooby-Doo ending of TUC, I think it makes more sense that a renegade Starfleet officer would try to kill the president while/and impersonating, trying to blame the Klingons then that a Klingon would come that close to succeeding with that, the Worf ancestor noting "This is not Klingon blood"/someone else discovering and oting It's Colonel West! was sure a bit cheesy but I think still nice to include that another officer had been part of the corrupt conspiracy and effective transition to the two sides getting along more, of course at the same time Chang being the big villain and attacking the Enterprise showed well it wasn't only Starfleet renegades who were/had been the obstacles.
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I liked that ending too.
There was also a lot more to the state dinner that was filmed that we wound up seeing in the Final Cut, or even the extended version or deleted scenes on the DVD/BRD. You can see some of it from a behind the scenes documentary they released around the same time.
The scene with Valeris sliding down the fireman’s pole (and bumping into the cardboard set wall) and Scotty’s “Klingon bitch” line was a bit much, and I was glad it was kept out.
There was also a lot more to the state dinner that was filmed that we wound up seeing in the Final Cut, or even the extended version or deleted scenes on the DVD/BRD. You can see some of it from a behind the scenes documentary they released around the same time.
The scene with Valeris sliding down the fireman’s pole (and bumping into the cardboard set wall) and Scotty’s “Klingon bitch” line was a bit much, and I was glad it was kept out.
Especially given Spock's line that Klingons don't have tear ducts, clearly contradicted by an earlier film (TSFS) in which the main Klingon villain gets teary-eyed over the death of his pet.
Yeah there were lots of things off about that scene. I get that they wanted to “visually inspect” the torpedo magazine and verify that all of them were accounted for, but the whole thing seemed really rushed and hackneyed together.
You sure you weren't watching SATC?
As a kid, I first saw TUC on the VHS release, so for me things like Colonel West briefing the President, as well as West being the actual assassin disguised as a Klingon are the version of the movie I'm most familiar with. I never even saw the theatrical cut of the movie until the Blu-ray release. As a result, that version just feels weird and wrong to me, even if it is the original version of the movie.
The no tear duct thing originated with John M. Ford's Trek novel The Final Reflection.
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