Bingowings said:
It might be a good idea if when Voyager 6 is revealed a point was made of mentioning Nomad.
That is another good idea. If we can pull it off with style and taste, I say go for it. But, how can we work this in without the viewer needing to have seen that original episode? Including too much new story material about what Nomad was may be a problem pulling off. ST:TMP has so much story exposition as it is. But I think I get what you want to accomplish with this. An attempt at fixing these little nit pick moments for us hard core trek fans. Like how it bugged a lot of us when the crew never mentioned the Lore character when they found B-4 in "Nemesis"!
Last night, I was playing around with the rec deck scene, and seeing if I could make it look like it was taking place at star fleet HQ on Earth and not aboard the Enterprise. Kirk is the only Enterprise main crew member we see in this scene now, and he will witness the Klingons getting zapped by V'ger with a crowed at Star Fleet HQ. It will look like he is just another officer attending. No Kirk speech is included, and Kirk will go right to the orbital office complex directly after the new HQ scene. It moves along very well, and all the main plot points about V'ger are now more closely tied together time wise.
Story order as of today...
Prologue: T.V. Show footage edited to look like Enterprise returning from five year mission.
Main Titles: White on black main titles (from theatrical cut), inter-cut with shots of the Enterprise in space dockyard. No shots of Kirk or Scotty in travel pod included here.
V'ger Cloud: Heavy edit of Klingon attack. Attack now on only one Klingon ship, Epsilon-9 section is edited, no Spock on Vulcan scene follows.
San Francisco:Shot of Air Tram flying next to Golden Gate Bridge on way to Starfleet in San Francisco, Tram station scene is removed, shot of Star Fleet Hq lifted from ST:IV inserted here, Kirk and group (from rec deck scene) now view transmission from Epsilon-9 of Klingon being zapped. The attack on Epsilon-9 section is not shown here.
Space Dockyard: Kirk beams to orbital office complex, ride to Enterprise (heavy edit)
More to come...