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Post #203173

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Guy Caballero
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FAN EDIT REQUEST THREAD - Post your dream Fan Edits Here!
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Date created
21-Apr-2006, 4:33 AM
STAR TREK V. I remember seeing this in the theater, and the crowd reaction was much better than you might think. It wasn't a Trekkie audience either. Despite the various dorky moments and cruddy effects, the audience was basically with the movie UNTIL the very end. There's been a lot of complicated explaining of what was supposed to happen and why it didn't happen, but I think that might be over-thinking it. An 80s crowd expects a space battle and we didn't get it, and we were pissed. So how about an edit of Trek V with an Enterprise vs. Klingon battle intercut with shatner down on the planet. Enterprise blows up the klingons, and Kirk is beamed up in the nick of time. Maybe the battle could be mostly cobbled together from existing shots, (in itself a Trek tradition).The scene where the three main guys stand at the window and talk about Spock's brother could then be pared down to just the 3 of them, and altered to have them looking at the earth instead of the blue God planet, sequeing into the final campire. Just a theory on how to make the end more generally satisfying, and I know Trek fans have a whole laundry list of other beefs with the movie.