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I know a way to resolve this the member with the most Star Trek groups is the biggest Star Trek fan ???

   William Shatner Chapter 8;  It was the conventions that kept the franchise alive. Finally, in 1975 Roddenberry wrote a full lengh movie script. He came up with an unexpected twist; the bad guy turned out to be God Paramount then brought in Harlan Ellison, who created a story about the Enterprise traveling back through time to the pre-historic era to save the future by fighting a race of giant reptiles. This was around the same time that "Chariots Of The Gods" came out. This was a book claiming that alien visitors had revealed their secrets to the ancient Mayans. During studio meetings, an executive suggested that Ellison add some Mayans to his concept. When Ellison explained that in prehistoric times there were no Mayans, the executive said, "Nobody'll know the difference!" When the 1st Star Trek movie was in development, Star Wars was released and became a worldwide sensation. Suddenly there was a clamor for science fiction. About a year later the studio announced the creation of Star Trek: Phase 2  The problem was Leonard didn't want to put the ears back on. His career was fine, he just wasn't interested. Additionally, he was involved in a very complicated lawsuit with the studio about merchandising revenue. His relationship with Roddenberry was non-existant. During an argument once Roddenberry said, "If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be who you are today"  to which Leonard replied, "Don't do me any more favors"  So when Leonard's agent called to tell him about the movie offer, he supposedly said, "If you ever call me again about Star Trek, YOUR FIRED!  The concept of making Star Trek without Spock was like making "My Fair Lady" without Eliza Doolittle. With the movie in pre-production stage, "Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind" was released and began breaking box office records. Finally, the studio brought in Robert Wise who directed the 1951 sci-fi classic, "The Day The Earth Stood Still"  The problem then was Wise had never seen an episode and didn't understand its appeal. Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg met with Leonard to iron out their differences, but Leonard wouldn't budge until his lawsuit was settled. The lawsuit was settled within 1 week. An hour after Leonard recieved his check, he got a copy of the script  The problem then was the studio didn't have a story to tell. It was all talk and very little action. The studio realized that in Wise's earlier science film, the earth had actually stood still--it didn't move at all  That was the problem with our script Leonard and I realized that if the script was going to be good, then we had better get involved. We came up with a wonderful idea for a big action event to set up the climax, and pitched it to Wise. He replied that he didn't have the authority to make expensive changes,--Roddenberry did. So we spent all day rehearsing our pitch. When we went into Gene's office, we were psyched. However, it didn't sound as good in Roddenberry's office as it had in Wise's office. It fell flat. Lost all its energy. When we were done, we sort of sulked out of his office.  Leonard and I laughed about that for the rest of our lives together.

  Chapter 9 had only one funny little antedote that involved the real Dr. Benjamin Spock. When Star Trek ended, Lenard Nimoy kept himself busy with "Mission Impossible", plays, Broadway, numourous other movies and interest. Dr Benjamin Spock--of baby fame-- was arrested a couple of times for protesting in the anti-war movement, and various other social causes, the early years of Earthday, and Greenpeace. The 60's was a tamultuous time. Everybody was protesting something, weather it was drugs, or whatever. Both Spocks met at a science convention. Leonard approched Benjamin and said; "Hello, my name is Leonard Nimoy. I play a character on TV called Spock". The Dr looked up and said, "I know, have you been indicted yet?"  

    In later years Leonard found an artistic outlet with photography. He would showcase his pictures at the R.Mickelson Galleries in Northampton Mass. (10 mins from me)   http://www.rmichelson.com/artists/leonard-nimoy/

       This raised my eyebrows--no pun intended--- For the 7th film, "Generations", Leonard was asked to direct it. He didn't think much of the script, so he passed. 

    One chapter talked about Leonard's son, Adam, who started out as an attorney but 20 yrs of drinking and marajuan destroyed that. So he became a television director. When "The Outer Limits" was revived in the 90's, he told Adam to meet with the producers and tell them that he would agree to star in a remake of an episode he'd done in 1962 if Adam directed it. The episode turned out fine. 

      When the initial S.T. series ended in 1969, Leonard simply crossed the street to another sound stage where they filmed "Mission Impossible". He was being paid $7,500. a week. His characters' name was Paris. All he had to do was show up, put on the disguise of the week, and convince the bad guys who he was. He found himself playing the same shallow roles more and more. He was a Latin American dictator, he was a very old man, he was blind, he was Japanese, he was an old blind Japanese dictator.  It was throw on the makeup and read the lines.

    Bill Shatner points this out. Leonard spent 20 yrs creating Spock and was incensed when the public only wanted to see Spock. So he wrote an autobiography entitled, "I Am Not Spock". Then for 20 more yrs he couldn't let the character go. His next autobiography was entitled, "I Am Spock".       He had come full circle!                                         Years ago at their 1st Trek Conventions, people would come up to them and say, "My kids are crazy about you". Yrs later, kids would come up to them and say, "I've got grandparents who are crazy about you".

      Well Riker, did we see Talledega?  I got in my car and my mirror said; "Objects on TRACK are FASTER than they appear"!  MAN, what a junkyard  43 cars started. 43 cars wrecked.  My guy, Jr was out early. Then I was rooting for Danica. She was 7th with 10 laps to go and BANG!  I think Ricky Bobby won.

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Wait. What we know as the Klingon Bird of Prey is the result of a technological exchange agreement between the Klingons and Romulans. That ship is a Romulan designed ship used by the Klingons.

- According to the script from Star trek III

    You know what the technology exchange agreement was ?   They had to provide a computer algorhythm so we could hack a phone.  

Actually, I do know what the tech exchange agreement was. The Klingons swapped a dozen D-7 cruisers for a couple of ships equiped with a cloak. And those cloaked-equiped ships were the scout class Bird of Prey.

This means that any TV episode or any movie that portrays the Klingons as having BoP type vessels or cloaking technology prior to the events during the 3rd season of the old series is completely inaccurate.

    Did you know that in "The Undiscovered Country" Gorkon was based on Gorbachev. It was not a stretch to believe that Klingon militants would assassinate him, as happened to Egypt's Sadat after he signed a peace treaty with Israel. From Shatner's book Leonard. 

      Let me apologize to all the readers of this thread for my post about the book. I tried to condense the parts of the book that I did not know about Star Trek. I also didn't know that Leonard Nimoy was a heavy smoker and died from that. That may be the one book that gets me to quit.