Something INCREDIBLY interesting to me was that Nick went to school in the one region of the planet where *first-run* Star Trek was on for 56 nights in a row. WOW.

https://twitter.com/knbc/statuses/3646069682

I haven’t found on online link to a video of the interview but I’m sure its in there somewhere – probably on Hulu.

“Only if you only like soap operatic garbage and all that Counsellor Troi emotional cripple nonsense. ‘No’ was all we needed from Kirk. It spoke far more volumes than seeing a seasoned starship commander lose his dignity in front of his officers and a bunch of cadets!”

Why is it bad to show emotion? Especially at such a strongly dramatic moment as the death of your best friend or as Kirk would put it later, brother. I did not want to use the word emotional cripple but if thats how you describe the normal grieving process when someone close dies, and if that is what you can relate to, then perhaps you describe yourself. Counselor Troi nonsense? I think it is enlightenment. Why bottle up such a moment and keep it inside? People who do bottle up emotions later end up exploding it out later.

Re: Sackett, there were other sources for the discussion of a sequel at the time the movie came out and after. Its obvious you weren’t alive at the time or are misinformed. So please do not perpetuate false information when you are not willing to acknowledge those who know a little more than you do, or are willing to admit. The notion that the first movie was a failure and the lack of sequel discussion is not true. It broke box office records for its time during its opening and accounting for inflation, was the highest grossing Trek movie of all time up until the new movie opened.

@61 “MMeyer saved trek. But where was he when needed in making TMP? And TNG? He would have ruled!”

Please do not bestow the Messiah mantle on Meyer that he does not deserve. He deserves credit for making a wonderful and entertaining movie and contributing to the success of Treks 4 and 6. This does not mean the entire franchise was “saved” by him. Sorry. *BUZZER* Wrong. Very wrong.

‘Are we not operating on all thrusters?’

Are we not operating on good manners?

‘Sorry, it was a bad choice to not have directed a good cry scene. Just having Kirk, utter no and look to the camera with that look of numbness just doesn’t cut it.’

Only if you only like soap operatic garbage and all that Counsellor Troi emotional cripple nonsense. ‘No’ was all we needed from Kirk. It spoke far more volumes than seeing a seasoned starship commander lose his dignity in front of his officers and a bunch of cadets!

‘Sackett was Roddenberry’s PA since TOS. Her TMP book was documentary and not a personal account of what happened. What bias?’

Read ‘Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry.’ Publicity-orientated books always talk about sequels.

His Hornblower in space angle is EXACTLY GR’s original, which shows how all this ’starfleet isn’t military’ is utter bullshit, spun up out of GR’s coke-addled state from the 70s onward.

Sacket was not hired until the 70s, so no, not ’since tos.’

Sackett’s account misrepresented ALL KINDS of things. She was in contact throughout with Brick Price, who did most of the props. Even so, in the book, she interviews Dick Rubin, the prop master, as if he has something to do with them besides take them out of a box and give them to the actors.

That book has got all sorts of spin on it, and plenty of questionable info as well.

She even makes the Grace lee Whitney dress as a secretary bit sound like everybody thought it was funny, when it was anything but.