TMP continued…

[DonIago]

...film production "Price is Right"-style?

 

[Maurice]

^^ Paramount also inflated the budget by tacking on the costs for the failed Phase II series they aborted in favour of a feature film. TMP’s actual budget was substantially less

From a business and tax standpoint that's totally fair. All those costs were associated with trying to bring Trek back, even if they kept starting and stopping. The arches from the Star Trek II TV Klingon bridge ended up in the sickbay ward, and the arches from the TV briefing room ended up at the cargo deck docking port where Kirk enters, above the recycled walls of Nogura's scrapped office. It was all one big messy project that resulted in TMP.

 

[Firebird]

And with the Salkinds famous wheeling and dealing, and the fact that they shot Superman I and II simultaneously, it's difficult to know exactly what Superman did actually cost.

Ah yes, the Salkinds. The reason the Screen Actor's Guild has the "Salkind Clause," because of their production of The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, which were originally intended to be a single film. When they discovered there was enough footage for two films, they decided to release them separately... which was in violation of the contracts of each actor, who had only gotten paid for one movie.

 

[Procutus]

From a business and tax standpoint that's totally fair. All those costs were associated with trying to bring Trek back, even if they kept starting and stopping. The arches from the Star Trek II TV Klingon bridge ended up in the sickbay ward, and the arches from the TV briefing room ended up at the cargo deck docking port where Kirk enters, above the recycled walls of Nogura's scrapped office. It was all one big messy project the resulted in TMP.

Are there any images available online of the three items you mentioned from the aborted Phase II? I'd love to see what Nogura's office might've looked like.

 

[Maurice]

Are there any images available online of the three items you mentioned from the aborted Phase II? I'd love to see what Nogura's office might've looked like.

Per this old thread: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/donnys-refit-enterprise-interiors-version-2-0.297266/post-13408552

The whole set was a compromise, of course, since the pod holding walls of the set were reworked leftover walls built for Admiral Nogura's office set for "In Thy Image".

 

[Procutus]

Cool beans! Thank you.