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Ok, to make this post relavent and not just a spam-fest (and I say that out of spite:)), I thought I would try to clear up or ask to have some things cleared up about this dvd.
1) The starships we see in it:
USS Saratoga (probe encounter)
USS Yorktown (Captain's SOS on screen)
When the probe interrupts power to Spacedock we briefly see:
USS Excelsior (clearly on the left)
Unnamed Miranda (in the shadows on the right)
later:
USS Shepard (confirm? - female SOS barely distinguishable on the right of the screen)
Following the 'trial' and back in spacedock we again see:
USS Copernicus (presumably - just a small portion of its saucer and primary hull on the left of the screen)
Unnamed Constitution (presumably - you can see its nacelles perpendicular to their shuttle as it flys toward the tv screen)
Unnamed Constitution (possibly a second of this class as we get our first shot for within the shuttle we see along the top of its "windshield" a pair of nacelles running now parrallel to the shuttle, just prior to the flyby of the Excelsior.
USS Enterprise-A
2) Also, I havent purchased the DVD yet (I only have the widescreen laserdisc of the movie - anyone wanna buy it, btw?? ), but there is no added footage to the new DVD is there? just the 6hrs of extra interviews and crap? Was there ever any extra footage to this movie?
3) On a related topic. ST6 - Is there not two slightly different versions of this movie currently available. One apparently having 2 minutes more footage than the other?
4) Lastly "Generations". The scene where Geordi was moreless being interrogated by Soran...I distinctly remember seeing that scene of the movie in the theatre...but I was reading that that scene was never available as part of any cut of the movie...was I smoking something that day or was that maybe part of some preview I may have seen for the movie somewhere? Whichever the case it was long before the scenes became available from MediaTrek or whichever site had those clips.
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Star Trek VI, in theaters, was without the Operation Retrieve scene, which was put back for the VHS release. So, there are two versions, but there's only one available to watch at home. (That is, assuming the currently available ST VI DVD has that scene, which I believe it does.)
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No, the Op. Retrieve scene WAS there - I distinctly remember laughing at the absurdity of it. What was cut out was the revelation that the "Klingon Assassin" wasn't Klingon.
In "Generations", only part of the Geordi interrogation scene was removed - specifically, the part where Soran puts a heart stopping doodad into our engineer. Later in the movie, Soarn goes to the bridge and tells the busty beauties that Geordi's "heart wasn't in it", causing most people to wonder what the heck he was talking about.
Mmm, now THERE's something that'd better be on the SP-ED DVD - all the missing pieces of "Generations"!
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As I recall, two scenes from Star Trek VI were re-inserted for the video release. I know the revelation of the assassin's true identity was one, and I believe that Sol is right -- "Op: Retrieve" was cut from the film version. I also remember Rene Auberjonis talking in an interview about filming his scenes for Star Trek VI, only to have all his on-screen time cut.
quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: ...and I believe that Sol is right -- "Op: Retrieve" was cut from the film version.
Correct. This scene was not present in the theatrical cut (at least, not at my local theater).
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i always thought i was missing something, hearing about extra scenes and then never realizing that i was seening more than was intended at initial release.
any comments on the ships seen?
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quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: ...and I believe that Sol is right -- "Op: Retrieve" was cut from the film version.
Correct. This scene was not present in the theatrical cut (at least, not at my local theater).
The Operation Retrieve was the worst part of the movie:Giant printed maps with huge arrows for the aparantly stupid President. Good thing Starfleet didint have any computer screens or anything... They really should have left both scenes out of the finished movie.
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Well, the only computer screen in the office was the big viewer, and that might not have been a computer interface, just a communications screen. Also, maybe this president liked that kind of thing. He wore glasses, after all.
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The female officer giving the SOS is Lieutenent Trylla (sp?) of the USS Shepard. The Mike Okuda text commentary mentions it.
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Also picked up ST3-SE since I missed that when it first came out.
Actually, I was really happy with the trailer for STIV. Very well done (STIII's gave away the biggest surprise of the film: destruction of Enterprise).
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), but there is no added footage to the new DVD is there? just the 6hrs of extra interviews and crap? Was there ever any extra footage to this movie? ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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