I am going to see if I can use that footage from Wrath of Khan.
It's being ripped to my PC right now.Willing to test it out to see how it looks in that opening scene.
The outline so far......
1) Introduction of V'ger taking on one Klingon D-7. (a few brief Klingon ship shots and some computer screen graphics will be imported from Star trek VI) Epsilon 9 will witness this battle, and alert earth.
2) Main Titles (Enterprise in Drydock shots, sans Kirk and Sotty in pod)
3a) Possible inclusion of a new scene where V'ger meets up with a Reliant class ship and digitizes it. This I hope will Introduce more of a threat to Earth as well as explain why the re-fit Enterprise is now the only ship to be in Interception range. This attack scene needs to come second, as V'ger would not enter Federation space and then go into Klingon space, then return to Federation space. But I think the Klingons would cross the Neutral Zone to seek an attack on V'ger, as an act of Klingon vengeance. I will try to use shots of the USS Reliant from Star Trek II, and the disabled Reliant class ship from Trek IV. And, make it all from outside the ship perspective. I don't have any bridge shots I could use..
3b) Kirk beams onto drydock office complex, travel pod to Enterprise (heavy edit), Kirk goes to Bridge (all reference to meeting on rec deck is now cut)
4)Kirk meets with Decker in ER, Officers beam aboard (Ilia, McCoy). Decker protests about using warp drive, as Spock walks on Bridge. Spock goes to ER to work with Scotty, Ship leaves drydock, Warp drive works, Enterprise heads to Epsilon 9 (This is a new story twist)... The transporter accident is cut, as is the wormhole scene.
5)Spock, McCoy and Kirk talk in lounge. We have a flashback to Spock on Vulcan sensing V'ger and his failing the Kolinahr test. Shots of the Cloud and spock seeing Kirk on the Air-tram in San Francisco may be intertwined with this footage. That is how it plays out in the book. The Vulcan priest scans Spock's mind and sees visions of V'ger, and of Kirk, it's these visions in Spock's mind that makes her drop the costume jewelry on the ground. Then, we fade back into the scene with Spock talking to Kirk and McCoy in the lounge...
6) RED ALERT! The Enterprise on rout to Epsilon-9 gets a distress call from the station, and the Epsilon-9 vs. V'ger footage that was part of the rec deck scene, will now play out on the Enterprise bridge view screen. Epsilon-9 is digitized.
7) Enterprise arrives at V'ger. Seconds later 3 Klingon ships arrive. Klingons attack Enterprise and V'ger. Enterprise does not attack back at Klingons, but V'ger gets Klingons. Then, V'ger attacks enterprise.
More to come....
Question:
Should Ilia be on this ship already as a crew member (remove most of her introduction, but no all of it), and we cut all reference to her sex powers and oath of celibacy? This way, Ilia can meet up in the hallway with Decker just after the ER scene (in which he is demoted) and not after he gets chewed out about not following Kirk's phaser order, in the now deleted Whormhole scene. I'm not sure how this can work. Suggestions??