The Shape of the V'Ger Cloud

[RobertScorpio]

^Umm, there's a ton of stuff in the TMP novelization that's subsequently been contradicted, and Roddenberry himself is on record as saying that it isn't canonical. I doubt Roddenberry cared in the slightest how big the cloud was, since it's completely irrelevant to the story. And it's a silly thing to drag an entire thread off-topic to argue about.

^^ i agree..but isn't it fun watching them debate something that doesn't really matter. I made some popcorn, got a soda, and just sat back and read the entire thread....no laugh track needed...

Rob

 

[Amaris]

^Does it matter for the purposes of this discussion how big the cloud is?

Anyway, creators are entitled to change their minds. Lots of creators decide later on that their original decisions were flawed and wish they could change them, and sometimes they get the chance to do so. After all, presumably we get wiser as we get older. So it's hardly fair to insist that creators have to remain slavishly bound to decisions they made decades before when they were less wise.

Also, if either version of the film can be meaningfully called an "abortion," it would be the theatrical release. The word "abort" means to halt a process before it's completed, and that's exactly what happened with the theatrical release -- due to an inflexible deadline, post-production on the film had to be aborted before completion, and the film screened in theaters was therefore unfinished in its editing, effects, sound mix, etc. Regardless of whether you like the DE or not, it was a version of the film that was taken to completion as its makers intended, so it's simply factually incorrect to apply the word "abortion" to it.

I would be content if they would release The Motion Picture Director's Cut for Blu-ray.

 

[Genesis Does]

Extremely doubt it will ever happen. The effects were done in SD.

 

[Amaris]

Extremely doubt it will ever happen. The effects were done in SD.

What a rather shortsighted move.

 

[Maurice]

It was true last fall, and it remains true...

 

[Amaris]

It was true last fall, and it remains true...

It's here now and it hasn't caused any harm by it's resurrection. Posters seem not to mind so much. I didn't even notice that it was an old thread.