Who should have directed TMP if Robert Wise hadn't been available?

[CoveTom]

I'd rather know who people actually were than only be allowed to have idealized notions of them available to me.

I don't trust one sided accounts. Everyone waited until he was dead to shit on him. I know he was a flawed man, but I don't think everyone speaking ill of him is giving the full story either.

 

[Firebird]

I don't trust one sided accounts. Everyone waited until he was dead to shit on him. I know he was a flawed man, but I don't think everyone speaking ill of him is giving the full story either.

Victims are usually afraid of retribution while the perpetrator is still living, hence why many wait until they've died or are no longer in a position of power.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I'd rather know who people actually were than only be allowed to have idealized notions of them available to me.

I moved past that very idealized "Great Bird of the Galaxy" nonsense after seeing Roddenberry in person at conventions in the early to mid 1970s; even from the information about TOS' production available up to that time, it was clear he was a revisionist salesman trying to brand himself as the one and only mastermind behind TOS' successes, yet that "somehow" all vanished when he put his creative stamp on TMP, arguably the TOS film most removed from all that made TOS a cultural phenomenon.