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( Charting the Undiscovered Country: The Making of Trek VI) Winter believed that Starfleet Academy would have ushered in a new approach to the Star Trek franchise for the studio in which a coherent plan would be created for producing the Star Trek films on a semi-regular basis as opposed to the sporadic, fitful stop-and-go start-up on a new film every three years with the arduous contract negotiations that initiating each new chapter entailed.Īccording to Harve Bennett, the film, which could have been made for US$27 million, would also have avoided the hefty multi-million dollar salaries of its leads – William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy – as well as DeForest Kelley's take-home of nearly half a million dollars and the $125,000 paychecks the supporting players pocketed. What it was, was a real coming of age story.' Not from the point of view of recasting, but from the point of view of storytelling, because I worked so closely with these characters on Star Trek V, that the idea of doing an origin story – where you show them as young cadets and kids – was tremendously exciting. It would have been a gift for the fans on the 25th anniversary.'ĭavid Loughery noted, ' When I heard about the idea, I thought it was terrific. It's a great story finding out about this young cocky character on a farm who goes to flight school and meets up with the first alien that comes from Vulcan and how they meet the other characters. It is an excellent story, but it has been misperceived. When we were doing Star Trek V, we got the studio to approve work on the script. We could do a prequel and find out how Kirk and Spock met at the Starfleet Academy.

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I suggested we develop a series of films to be another franchise, another tent pole that we could open. ' We had already locked in the Star Trek IV storyline with the whales and I said, 'You know, I have a great idea, let's do a prequel' in the middle of this reception for his daughter. Star Trek producer Ralph Winter originally pitched the idea for the film to Harve Bennett at his daughter's Bat Mitzvah. Harve always had this ace up his sleeve, which was if we can't get everybody together for one of these Star Trek movies, we should do a prequel.' The reasons for that are money, power, creative differences, ego, health, unavailability.

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Star Trek: The First Adventure was intended to be a new vehicle to continue the Star Trek movie missions.Īccording to David Loughery, ' Every time they go to make one of these Star Trek movies, the producers and the studio always run into the same problem in getting the original cast together.

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