Star Trek Magazine – July 2019

The originalreasonforlosingall
thatwastheheadsofthedepartment
withmehireda guywhowas
incapableofdoingthespecialeffects,
andI didn’tknowthat– I justwent
byadvice.I mean,whoknowsabout
specialeffects?I saidfine,thatsounds
goodtome.The guy’swifemadea
reallygoodmealandI thinkthat
swayedeverybody,sowehireda guy
thatdidn’tliveuptothespecialeffects,
andthatwasa seriousproblem.

STARTREKVI:THE
UNDISCOVEREDCOUNTRY
Storyby:LeonardNimoyand
LawrenceKonner&MarkRosenthal
Screenplayby:NicholasMeyer&
DennyMartinFinn

08 Theend

isnigh,in

Generations.

09 Verbal

sparring

withGeneral

Chang,inThe

Undiscovered

Country.

Directedby:NicholasMeyer

Released:December6, 1991

“The battleforpeacehasbegun.”

STM: The finalfullcastfilmwas

StarTrekVI:The Undiscovered

Country, a beautifulwaytowrapup

yourcollectiveonscreenadventures.

Howdidyoufindthatmovie?

WS:It wasa verypleasantexperience

filledwithnostalgiaevenintheactof

makingit,realizingthatthiswasthe

lastandthatI wouldprobablynot

workwiththesepeopleagain,especially

LeonardNimoyandDeForestKelley.

STM: This wasNicholasMeyer’s

secondStarTrekfilmasdirector;

howdidyoufindworkingwithhim?

WS:Nickhasa verystrongpointof

view, and since he wrote the script, it

was as it should be. He was also very

kind and strong in his way. I like him

considerably. We had a very good

working relationship and a lot of fun.

STAR TREK GENERATIONS

Story by: Rick Berman & Ronald D.

Moore & Brannon Braga

Screenplay by: Ronald D. Moore &

Brannon Braga

Directed by: David Carson

Released: November 18, 1994

“Two captains. One destiny.”

STM: Generations was your fi nal

onscreen appearance as Captain Kirk

• to date, anyway – and famously
  features your character’s death. What
  are your thoughts on that movie?
  WS: Really good. I’ve seen this last
  cut of Kirk dying and if I had more
  time, if I had more insight, if I was
  more intelligent, I would have tried it a
  couple of diff erent ways, because I had
  something in mind on Kirk’s death. I’ve
  seen that cut several times, of Kirks death,
  and it doesn’t quite fulfi l what I had in
  mind. I would play it a little diff erently.

NB: William Shatner’s comments

regarding Th e Undiscovered Country

are taken from Dan Yakir’s interview

in Star Trek VI: Th e Undiscovered

Country: Th e Offi cial Movie Magazine.

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WILLIAM SHATNER