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By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:54:52 on May 28, 2008 | (2)

Here are video clips of Shatner's 1992 MTV Movie Awards musical performances. Not too shabby for a guy with a concussion and horse manure in his ears...


"I Wanna Sex You Up"

"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"




MTV host Dennis Miller: "You know, balls-wise, Shatner has gone where no man has gone before."


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By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:49:17 on May 28, 2008

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Star Trek V needs a "remastered" directors edition DVD, like they did with The Motion Picture.

Shatner asked for that exact treatment for the ending when the 2-disc special edition DVD came out in 2004, but Paramount said "no". Star Trek V was just the victim of being scheduled at a bad time.. the summer of 1989 was crowded with special effects laden films and ILM had no teams left to tackle the fifth Star Trek feature.

After being sold on the mysterious cloud Shakari planet effect, Paramount packed up the ship models and had the special effects done by a small company out of New Jersey. The result? Less than inspiring effects, studio models that were overlit and a hastily thrown together "God with lighting bolts coming out of his eyes" effect that was done last minute, when the SINGLE rockman Shatner was given looked rediculous.

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By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:42:25 on May 28, 2008 | (1)

TFF is mentioned in a new Shatner article by The Jewish Week...


"When Shatner was given the chance to direct the fifth Star Trek movie, The Final Frontier, he wanted the film to reflect a spiritual quest, the search for God, but it proved too controversial for the studio and the series' creator, Gene Roddenberry. Shatner wanted Kirk and Spock literally to go to hell to save a trapped Dr. McCoy, building up to encounters with God and the devil. But the film that was produced had the crew face a deluded Vulcan who believed he knew the path to the creator, and culminated in another clichéd science-fiction face-off with a god-complex alien. The film made money, but was the most poorly received in the series.

"With the death of Kirk in the seventh film in 1994, Shatner may have found closure with the role. But he has continued to pen Star Trek novels that take place in a non-apocryphal universe, and he knows that in sci-fi, no character is truly dead. Spock died in the third movie and returned in the fourth. Kirk may yet have a similar resurrection, but it's on no one's immediate radar. "I've lost some influence in that area because of the change in management," says Shatner, referring to the recent handoff of the franchise from Rick Berman to J.J. Abrams, who produced the forthcoming Star Trek prequel. That film, for the first time, features another actor as Kirk. Although he'd reprise the role if the right script came along, his preference, of course, would be to see one of his Trek novels made into a film."


Shatner tells the Telegraph UK, "I look back upon [Star Trek] as the miracle that changed my life."


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By: Nowhere Man (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:33:23 on May 28, 2008

"..[was too many] compromises. The original compromise was: Let's make it an alien who thinks he's God. "

What other compromises that were made other than special effects and concept. I like the movie. But, if they decide to remaster this movie, the special effects need a complete overhaul.

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Star Trek V The Final Frontier | Report this post to moderator
By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 12:21:32 on May 28, 2008

Since next year is the 20th anniversary of Star Trek V, I think Paramount should produce a "remastered" special edition version of the movie on DVD, with upgrade CGI special effects with the army of rockmen and so forth, thus giving the movie the epic scope Mr Shatner wanted in the first place.

I think Star Trek V is a good movie with poor special effects and, like TMP, deserves a new chance.

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By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:44:55 on May 28, 2008

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I'm solidly behind being disappointed that I'm not in it ... It'll be interesting to see whether it is successful or not. If anyone can make Star Trek live, [Abrams] can do it. The question is: Is it still alive, or is it time for all of us to move on?

You know, in some earlier interviews it looked as though Shatner wasn't as bothered by all this as we felt he should -- but he really does seem irked that the franchise has moved on without him. I am sure it doesn't help that every time he is interviewed, he gets asked if he is pissed about not being in it. It is a tiresome subject, but until the movie is released or he dies of old age? We are going to hear about his disdain for a LONG time to come.

Out of fairness to him regarding Star Trek V? He did have to compromise far too much, and the movie that he wanted would have been better. B-level special effects house aside, the bulk of Star Trek V was good.. excellent soundtrack, neat ship sets, the shuttles and probably the best dialogue between Kirk, Spock and McCoy of all the films. It was just that darn ending that killed the film.. had Paramount opened up the purse strings for the rockmen Shatner wanted? Final Frontier could have been a solid entry in the film franchise.

-- Steve

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