From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Nimoy on Night Gallery, Shatner at Wal Mart

Your Name  wrote in
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> In article , Bast 
> wrote:
>> Daniel wrote:
>> > On 12/07/14 10:04, Your Name wrote:
>> >> In article , D. Stussy
>> >>  wrote:
>> >>> "Will Dockery"  wrote in message
>> >>> news:e5851c23-5a65-4edd-8729-531126c361a6@googlegroups.com...
>> >>>> Leonard Nimoy's big Night Gallery turn, he sure was convincing
>> >>>> at playing smugly corrupt characters, it seems. This one is so
>> >>>> much like his role in a Columbo episode I recently caught.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Shatner's T.J. Hooker is at Wal Mart, several seasons at low
>> >>>> prices. 
>> >>>>
>> >>>> A shame all of the 1970s passed with these guys missing doing
>> >>>> Star Trek in their mid-prime of life.
>> >>>
>> >>> Not all.  Wasn't the first Star Trek movie filmed in 1979?  IMDB
>> >>> thinks so....
>> >>
>> >> Released in 1979, but probably filmed in 1978. Either way they
>> >> were trying to cash-in on Star Wars in 1977.  :-)
>> >>
>> > Either way, that means "A shame all of the 1970s passed" from above
>> > isn't exactly correct!! :-)
>> 
>> What the shame really was, was the script and storyline the actors
>> were forced to use.
>> I still love that movie, but only that it brought back Star Trek,
>> with the characters we all missed.
>> 
>> But as a movie alone,...it stunk. 
> 
> Likely because it was a rush job for the cash-in bandwagon-jumping. Of
> course it's not the worst one ... that goes to the pointlessly silly
> Save the Whales movie.   :-\
> 

Not at all. It took many years of evolution from a new TV series ("Phase 
2") to a movie. It wasn't a rush job. But still not a good movie.  
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