Oh god, look at this online petition

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-04-24 05:18am

http://www.petitiononline.com/TrekV/petition.html

Equinox2003 · Post by **Equinox2003** » 2003-04-24 05:38am

The petition is an effort by Trek fans to have Paramount make a DVD
director edition for Star Trek 5. It seems that Shatner has said they
are not planning to do so.

The word "set" comes to mind. As in after putting out a directors
edition for Trek movies 1-4........they are suddenly going
to stop?

What about all the fans that wanted to have a set of the Trek
director edition films? Guess they do not care.
As we all know, Trek 5 was far from the best of the Trek movies,
but that did not stop them from putting it into other sets of Trek
movies, such as the 6 TOS box set on VHS and the DVD editons,
as well as those sets with the first 3 movies are the director edition
and the rest (all the way to Insurrection) have little in the way of
bonus material. Guess Trek 5 was good enough for those sets, just
not good enough for a director edition.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2003-04-24 06:27am

Equinox2003 wrote:The petition is an effort by Trek fans to have Paramount make a DVD
director edition for Star Trek 5. It seems that Shatner has said they
are not planning to do so.

The word "set" comes to mind. As in after putting out a directors
edition for Trek movies 1-4........they are suddenly going
to stop?
What about all the fans that wanted to have a set of the Trek
director edition films? Guess they do not care.
As we all know, Trek 5 was far from the best of the Trek movies,
but that did not stop them from putting it into other sets of Trek
movies, such as the 6 TOS box set on VHS and the DVD editons,
as well as those sets with the first 3 movies are the director edition
and the rest (all the way to Insurrection) have little in the way of
bonus material. Guess Trek 5 was good enough for those sets, just
not good enough for a director edition.

Don't even try to make sense of the decisions Paramount makes........

Currald · Post by **Currald** » 2003-04-24 01:27pm

There were'nt Director's Editions of Trek 3 or 4, just "collector's editions."

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-04-24 01:37pm

If the ST5 directors edition were to have the script that Shatner originaly was going for, that would be good. (plenty of fighting both ground and space along with a better plot)

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-04-24 07:14pm

If you read Shatner's book, "Movie Memories" it become apparent that he didn't quite get what he wanted for that movie. The production budget shrunk, some creatures and villains were scrapped and his script was changed. Who knows, Shatner's original idea would have probably been much better.

Currald · Post by **Currald** » 2003-04-24 10:36pm

Well, I signed the petition. There's no way he could make it any WORSE. I read his book, too. I think that he could maybe save it from being the worst Trek movie ever. Unless one of the TNG films has that titles now. I have no idea about them.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2003-04-27 05:48pm

Packaging ST5 in with other Trek films is probably they only way they can really sell it these days... ; p

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2003-04-27 05:49pm

I keep trying to say that the movie is more of a comedy and satire than an actual ST movie.

Batman002 · Post by **Batman002** » 2003-04-30 08:55am

Equinox2003

The word "set" comes to mind. As in after putting out a directors
edition for Trek movies 1-4........they are suddenly going
to stop?

Only the first two were Directors edition the other two were Collectors editions.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-04-30 09:05am

Batman002 wrote:Equinox2003

The word "set" comes to mind. As in after putting out a directors
edition for Trek movies 1-4........they are suddenly going
to stop?

Only the first two were Directors edition the other two were Collectors editions.

Which was stated earlier in the thread fool! Now I have no choice but to

POKE!

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-04-30 01:37pm

Kurgan wrote:Packaging ST5 in with other Trek films is probably they only way they can really sell it these days... ; p

Actually, they could just label it "bland tape" and sell it that way.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-05-02 09:13pm

Admiral Johnason wrote:I keep trying to say that the movie is more of a comedy and satire than an actual ST movie.

You do realize the only reason the humor was in ST5 was because Paramount shoved it down Shatner's throat? They were so paranoid that a serious ST movie would be panned after ST4 that they insisted Shatner lighten it up.