The final film featuring the original cast of Star Trek exists because of a fortunate coincidence. At the turn of the final decade of the 20th Century, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union came to an end. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was able to end the original cast’s era with one final allegory casting the Federation as America and the Klingons as the USSR. However, if director Nicholas Meyer had been able to get his first choice for the Starfleet villain, Saavik (with Kirstie Alley reprising her role), the film would’ve been heartbreaking.The story writer Denny Martin Flinn, Mark Rosenthal and Meyer came up with for The Undiscovered Country wasn’t always perfect. The original opening of Star Trek VI was truly terrible, and thankfully cut for budget considerations. The finished product however stands up even in 2023 as a lovely meditation on the struggle to accept and embrace big changes, especially in how one sees the world. As the US and USSR mended fences by tearing down walls, a space-disaster set up a scenario where the Federation would finally make peace with their hated enemies the Klingons. The inclusion of Saavik as an antagonist working with the Klingons to derail peace would’ve been an emotionally powerful addition.Nicholas Meyer first cast Kirstie Alley as Saavik, Spock’s Vulcan protégé, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Her first major acting role, the documentary The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek includes an in-depth interview in which she discusses her struggles making the film. Along with not being used to the rigors and demands of filmmaking, Alley says the cast wasn’t very welcoming. When the character of Saavik returned in the next two pictures, she was played instead by Robin Curtis. In her first, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Saavik gets intimate with a regenerating Spock, going through the deadly pon farr.Star Trek: Lower Decks Creator Wants to Create Animated, Live-Action Movies
The final film featuring the original cast of Star Trek exists because of a fortunate coincidence. At the turn of the final decade of the 20th Century, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union came to an end. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was able to end the original cast’s era with one final allegory casting the Federation as America and the Klingons as the USSR. However, if director Nicholas Meyer had been able to get his first choice for the Starfleet villain, Saavik (with Kirstie Alley reprising her role), the film would’ve been heartbreaking.
The story writer Denny Martin Flinn, Mark Rosenthal and Meyer came up with for The Undiscovered Country wasn’t always perfect. The original opening of Star Trek VI was truly terrible, and thankfully cut for budget considerations. The finished product however stands up even in 2023 as a lovely meditation on the struggle to accept and embrace big changes, especially in how one sees the world. As the US and USSR mended fences by tearing down walls, a space-disaster set up a scenario where the Federation would finally make peace with their hated enemies the Klingons. The inclusion of Saavik as an antagonist working with the Klingons to derail peace would’ve been an emotionally powerful addition.
Nicholas Meyer first cast Kirstie Alley as Saavik, Spock’s Vulcan protégé, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Her first major acting role, the documentary The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek includes an in-depth interview in which she discusses her struggles making the film. Along with not being used to the rigors and demands of filmmaking, Alley says the cast wasn’t very welcoming. When the character of Saavik returned in the next two pictures, she was played instead by Robin Curtis. In her first, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Saavik gets intimate with a regenerating Spock, going through the deadly pon farr.
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