From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: anim8rfsk@cox.net
Subject: Re: Nimoy on Night Gallery, Shatner at Wal Mart

In article ,
 Wiseguy  wrote:

> Your Name  wrote in
> news:130720141004537613%YourName@YourISP.com: 
> 
> > 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.  

Actually it was a rush job.  Once Paramount finally got serious, they 
gave Trek a release date without worrying if it was realistic or not.  
The prints got to the theaters still 'wet' with no opening press parties 
or anything, for which they got crucified in the reviews.

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Wait - are you saying that ClodReamer was wrong, or lying?
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