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From: jimgysin@geemail.com.invalid
Jim G. sent the following on 06/30/2017 at 02:33 PM:
> Jerry Brown sent the following on 06/30/2017 at 12:18 PM:
>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:56:04 -0500, "Jim G."
>> wrote:
>>
>>> anim8rfsk sent the following on 06/28/2017 at 11:57 AM:
>>>> In article ,
>>>> Jerry Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Similarly STWoK removed references to Ensign Preston being Scotty's
>>>>> nephew, possibly for the same reason. IIRC these scenes are available
>>>>> as extras on recent releases.
>>>>
>>>> And that was just stupid. They saved about 10 seconds of screen time,
>>>> and made you wonder why the Hell Scotty was wandering around carrying
>>>> his body.
>>>
>>> EXACTLY! If you're gonna cut the family ties reference, then don't make
>>> Scotty look like an idiot. Well, frankly, he would have looked like an
>>> idiot either way, but it would have been somewhat understandable if we'd
>>> known about the family ties all along.
>>
>> The novelisation claimed that Scotty was trying to get Preston to
>> sickbay but the elevator screwed up due to damage during Khan's
>> attack.
>
> That would have been a nice thing to see, too. It just seems unfortunate
> that, like the transporter business, a minute or two of time spent on
> the pretty light shows couldn't have been used for this sort of
> explanation instead.
And yes, I'm sorta blurring my complaints about the first two movies,
but that's because there's a common theme to it: visuals are nice, but
not at the expense of head-scratching stuff that goes unexplained.
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