The novelization smoothed this over somewhat. The ship's library computer and universal translator were down, due to damage from the Klingons. Thus the books.
Who did Uhura piss off??
- Thread starter Dar70
- Start date
The novelization smoothed this over somewhat. The ship's library computer and universal translator were down, due to damage from the Klingons. Thus the books.
Writer. "WTF???? How can I make this make sense????"
Writer. "WTF???? How can I make this make sense????"
Especially because JM Dillard had given Uhura some strong stories in the past. An elegant solution.
To make matters worse she had a younger officer coaching her while she was speaking klingon badly. Even back then when the movie first came out I hated that scene. Other then that it was a great movie but that scene. Yuck.
Disney had no problem throwing their weight with JJ Abrams after Trevorrow for Star Wars 9 didn't work out.
In what way did Disney "throw their weight" with Abrams on Rise of Skywalker? They allowed him to postpone the movie's release date, allowed him to ignore the Lucas Story Group and decided any plot point in the movie that didn't make sense was the responsibility of the tie-ins like the novelization and reference books to explain. If anything, Disney cut Abrams a lot of slack on Rise of Skywalker, certainly a lot more than they gave the directors of the other movies.
Regardless, I'm not sure I follow your logic. Even if Disney had "thrown their weight" with Abrams, how does Paramount get to tell a guy they literally got on their knees and begged to direct a movie to "shove it" just because Disney will "throw their weight" with another director close to thirty years later?
There's enough smoke to the JJ/LFL disagreement news (to the point that some are asking for an "Abrams cut" although I personally don't believe such a thing exists) that I'll make a guess there's probably a hidden fire, although I concede there will probably never be an official confirmation either way.
We also know that Valeris was supposed to Saavik in Meyer's Trek 6. Someone was able to get that shut down. It's not unreasonable to think that the far less important Meyer's Klingon book scene could have been overruled as well. It might not even be a studio executive, but someone with enough clout like Nimoy backing up Nichelle.
So your claim is based only on rumors that have plenty of official evidence proving the opposite? Uh-huh.
It was Roddenberry himself who objected to Saavik being the traitor, on the grounds that since she's a "beloved character" it would upset the fans. Meyer probably could have successfully argued against that, but chose to relent on the matter because he didn't like the optics of disobeying the franchise's creator when he was on his deathbed.
As it was, Roddenberry's lawyer still tried to accuse Meyer of going against Roddenberry's wishes anyway, and it's only because of Meyer swapping Saavik out for Valeris out that those accusations were promptly ignored.
In 1991 they did.
True. But you rarely saw it on star trek. Except cogley...
And Nick Meyer put a book in Kirk’s hand in Star Trek II. It doesn’t seem out of left field that he would use physical books in his next Trek directorial outing.
Don't forget her relying on big books to speak Klingon in TUCShe had a lot to do in episode 2. Probably more than the whole of TOS.
I mean there were times they could have used those awesome language skills during Kirk's command. Especially deciphering alien artifacts...
But except for a couple episodes she was mostly on the bridge or jamming with Mr. Spock in the rec room. Lol
Her linguistic skills were probably destroyed by Nomad.
Same goes for Chekov who as Chief of Security didn't know that firing a phaser would trigger an alarm.
STVI fails on a lot of levels. How insulting is it to the Klingons not to have a Klingon speaker on a crucial diplomatic mission. This should have been Uhura's time to shine and it could still have been funny.
I don't particularly see why ENT's example would mean much these days. ENT was almost 21 years and three presidents ago. A child born the day ENT premiered is gonna be old enough to drink alcohol in September. It's a very old show and not relevant to modern practices.
That was an another instance of character assassination, this one unforgivable, by the implication that Uhura could have a brain wipe, be regressed to the level of a first grader, and then be back to her old self after only a week of retraining.
Spock: And now Cadet Uhura, I will take your katra and store it in this katric ark.
Uhura: Wait what? Why?
Spock: In case some alien probe mindwipes you in the future. It is illogical not to have a backup.
Similar threads
