• THE WRATH OF KHAN
  
• THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
  
• STAR TREK (2009)
  
• THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
  
• FIRST CONTACT
  
• THE VOYAGE HOME
  
• THE MOTION PICTURE
  
• NEMESIS
  
• INSURRECTION
  
• GENERATIONS
  
• THE FINAL FRONTIER

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ORIGINAL: Timon

Apparantly the Klingons WERE meant to be in the new film. For the 25 years, Nero was 'waiting', he was imprisioned on Rura Penthe... that's the Klingon Prison Planet mentioned in the film. Apparantly they filmed all this and it'll be on the DVD along with these other deleted scenes.

Some of the Kirk and Spock back-story
The new Star Trek is an 'origin story' with the primary focus on Kirk and Spock. Both have scenes from their childhoods which ended up in the final film, but some still ended up cut. However, even though they aren't in the film, some of this footage has been used in trailers and TV commercials, notably a scene at Spock's birth.

DELETED: Scene with Amanda (Winona Ryder) and Sarek (Been Cross) holding baby Spock

 

Also gone is a scene with Kirk's Uncle. If you remember back to last year, it was reported that Brad Henke had been cast as 'alcoholic abusive Uncle,' however Henke is nowhere to be seen in the final film. And although Jimmy Bennett still appears as a young James T. Kirk (the kid who steals the Corvette seen in the first trailer), Spencer Daniels (who plays George Kirk Jr.) didn't make the final cut either [correction] who was originally reported to playing George Kirk, Jr still appears in the film, however he is credited as "Johnny" and has no lines. 

 
 
Nero on Rura Penthe
Probably the biggest section of the film that has been cut is a whole sub-plot involving Nero on the Klingon prison planet Rura Penthe. Even though it isn't in the film, clips from this section of the film have worked there way into various trailers, including Nero's line "the wait is over."
 
 

DELETED: Nero fights off Klingons escaping from Rura Penthe

DELETED: Nero is going to have to wait for the DVDs to see this scene play out

 

This section of the film is actually not entirely gone. There is a reference in the film to a battle 'at a Klingon prison planet' and there is also a brief glimpse of Nero's past during a flashback sequence (which has also been seen in one of the TV commercials). However, neither of these things makes it clear that Nero was actually a prisoner on Rura Penthe.

 

Last November Star Trek director JJ Abrams actually talked to Empire about cutting the Klingon subplot (which we know to be Nero's time on Rura Penthe):

"There was a big Klingon subplot in this, and we actually ended up having to pull it out because it confused the story in a way that I thought was very cool but unnecessary. So we have these beautiful designs that we're going to have to wait and do elsewhere I guess."

• Audio commentary (JJ Abrams, Bryan Burke, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Roberto Orci)
  
• Featurettes:
  
  • Where no man has gone before:
    
    • The Shatner conundrum
      
    • The redshirt guy,
      
    • The green girl
      
    • Trekker alert!
    
    
  • Casting
    
  • A new vision ("Savage Pressure")
    
  • Starships:
    
    • Warp explained
      
    • Painting work
      
    • Accelerated bridge construction
      
    • The captain’s chair
      
    • Operating the buttons
      
    • Shuttle shuffle
      
    • Accelerated Narada construction
    
    
  • Aliens:
    
    • The alien paradox
      
    • The girl with the big eyes
      
    • Big pro Quinto
      
    • Klingons
      
    • Drakoulias anatomy 101
    
    
  • Planets:
    
    • Additional businesses
      
    • Confidentiality
    
    
  • Equipment and costumes: Klingon costumes
    
  • Sound
    
  • Music
    
  • Gene Roddenberry’s vision
  
  
• Deleted scenes:
  
  • Spock’s birth
    
  • Klingons capture Narada
    
  • Young Kirk, Johnny and Uncle Frank
    
  • Amanda and Sarek argue after Spock’s fight
    
  • Interrogation and escape from prison
    
  • Sarek and Amanda
    
  • Bedroom and Kobayashi Maru (original version)
    
  • Kirk apologizes to the green girl
    
  • Sarek sees Spock Prime
  
  
• Starfleet vessel simulator (probably BD only)
  
• Star Trek gag reel
  
• Trailers:
  
  • Teaser trailer
    
  • Theatrical trailer "The wait is over"
    
  • Theatrical trailer "Prepare for the beginning"
    
  • Theatrical trailer "Buckle up"
  
  
• Star Trek: D-A-C demo (trailer) for XBOX 360
  
• BD Live options

 

 

I can only assume most if not all of those Special Features will be on the Special Edition standard DVD as some of us have yet to go Blu-Ray. If they're not, then this could be the release to convince me to get a player....

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ORIGINAL: 00Nothing

Fast paced, action packed, humourous, intelligent, wonderful characters and above all else, deeply, deeply emotional, Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan isn't just a great Star Trek film, it's a great Hollywood blockbuster full stop. It has everything you want from a great sci-fi spectacle and more and you know what the best thing is? William Shatner. The Shat is actually fantastic throughout the film, putting in a wonderfully poignant and restrained performance of a man who wants to hold on to his youth even as he admits that travelling through the cosmos is a young man's game. I challenge anyone not to be moved by his scenes in the last ten minutes.

"How do you feel Jim?"
"I feel young."

Just wonderful.

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ORIGINAL: Rgirvan44



Lets not get carried away. It is his best performance, but he does ham it up now and again - which is great. Give me someone a little larger than life in these films!

Agreed about your comments.

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ORIGINAL: 00Nothing

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ORIGINAL: Rgirvan44



Lets not get carried away. It is his best performance, but he does ham it up now and again - which is great. Give me someone a little larger than life in these films!

Agreed about your comments.

I know what you mean about him still hamming it up at times.

"KHAAAAANNNNN."

It's just, compared to other times, there is a little bit more restriant from him than usual, especially when (censored) dies. If you listen to the Nic Myer/Manny Coto commentary on the recent DVD release, Myer admits that he would have Shatner do multiple takes to exhaust some of his energy and that his performance was the better because of it and at times I can see what he means. There's not as much of...the...talking style.

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ORIGINAL: Rgirvan44

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ORIGINAL: 00Nothing

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ORIGINAL: Rgirvan44



Lets not get carried away. It is his best performance, but he does ham it up now and again - which is great. Give me someone a little larger than life in these films!

Agreed about your comments.

I know what you mean about him still hamming it up at times.

"KHAAAAANNNNN."

It's just, compared to other times, there is a little bit more restriant from him than usual, especially when (censored) dies. If you listen to the Nic Myer/Manny Coto commentary on the recent DVD release, Myer admits that he would have Shatner do multiple takes to exhaust some of his energy and that his performance was the better because of it and at times I can see what he means. There's not as much of...the...talking style.

It was my biggest fear that Pine wouldn't manage to get that sort of performance but he did. People say he only "did" Shatner during the test and at the end, but he sounded like Shatner a hell of a lot throughout - but it was more like his performance in Khan rather than the tv show.

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ORIGINAL: Fluke Skywalker

I've just recently rewatched Wrath of Khan and The Search For Spock again after recording them off Channel 4 and once again it strikes me how accomplished the acting is by the main characters.

The friendships are believeable as are the emotions, when Spock dies or when Kirk's son is killed by the Klingon they are undoubtedly fine pieces of acting by Shatner and co. In fact that's why they are so superior to the SNG movies - the characters are a cut above to Picard's bunch who seem like TV actors on the big screen, while the original crew look like movie actors.

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ORIGINAL: Rgirvan44

The Next Gen folk were hampered by characters not allowed to get into conflict with each other.

Yeah that's a good point, they all seemed to get on way too well. There's also a blandness about the SNG cast that I can't put my finger on.

Maybe it's just the comparison between them and the likes of Shatner, Kelly and Nimoy for example who are so good in their roles anyone would have paled in comparison.

Then again I thought the re-boot crew were also superior to SNG so maybe it was a problem with SNG casting/ acting.

Stewart was good, but the Movie Picard is a long way from TV Picard.

Why do you say that?

I just like TOS more. Although some of the crew are barely defined, they have an energy that sucks you in. And the top three always bring the goods.

Yeah they certainly do - I do prefer the movies to the series though. The big screen transition brought a gravity and epicness to the proceedings. You felt things were far more serious, darker and scarier at times and death had a greater impact on me than in TOS.

I have ordered Meyers autobiograghy, The View from the Bridge.

Not heard of that, I might see if I can get my library to order it

Love that RedLetterMedia review when he points out Picard selected the song from the database by pressing a screen twice. Like it would only take two buttons to get from the default screen to a specific song.

That's too deep for me!

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ORIGINAL: The Hooded Man

Galaxy Quest was the best Trek film from 1998 to 2009.