Wow! What a candid interview, I think the smoking helped loosen the guest up a lot! De Forest making that Christ comennt was very (and still is very) un PC, but I think that's why this interview is so great! Amazing, just an amazing series of post's. Your making my day here!
Very interesting to hear Walter's comments about his fears about the making of the feature film - making it monsters and space battles because you CAN..... and here were are, months away from a Star Trek reboot that looks to be exactly that. Very interesting.
The militant followers who tried to keep "Star Trek" on the air became the superfan as we know it. People like Bjo Trimble and Joan Winston(and organizers of the N.Y.C. conventions) were instrumental in making the show a cultural icon and evenually getting the cameras rolling again. (sigh) 3/4 of the guys on camera here are already gone. It's really over 40 years, huh?
And that, Kriver, is why I'm wondering if this interview was really done in 1976 or was it 1979. Word has it that, when Shatner pitched ST 5, Roddenbury was upset because it was the same basic storyline as his original version of ST:TMS. Snyder said "I don't think we're quite ready for that" and they all responded, almost in unison: "Apparantly not." I think De Kelley was feigning coming up with an idea but really taking a dig at the Producers of the first film.
funny how De Forest meantions christ and it turns out to be satan. shatner did it in st five when they meet god who tuns out to be satan. did shatner get the idea from him or even remember De Forest had brought it up as an idea?
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Wow! What a candid interview, I think the smoking helped loosen the guest up a lot! De Forest making that Christ comennt was very (and still is very) un PC, but I think that's why this interview is so great! Amazing, just an amazing series of post's. Your making my day here!
Very interesting to hear Walter's comments about his fears about the making of the feature film - making it monsters and space battles because you CAN..... and here were are, months away from a Star Trek reboot that looks to be exactly that. Very interesting.
De just basically predicted star trek V
The militant followers who tried to keep "Star Trek" on the air became the superfan as we know it. People like Bjo Trimble and Joan Winston(and organizers of the N.Y.C. conventions) were instrumental in making the show a cultural icon and evenually getting the cameras rolling again.
(sigh) 3/4 of the guys on camera here are already gone. It's really over 40 years, huh?
And that, Kriver, is why I'm wondering if this interview was really done in 1976 or was it 1979.
Word has it that, when Shatner pitched ST 5, Roddenbury was upset because it was the same basic storyline as his original version of ST:TMS.
Snyder said "I don't think we're quite ready for that" and they all responded, almost in unison: "Apparantly not."
I think De Kelley was feigning coming up with an idea but really taking a dig at the Producers of the first film.
I thought that too.
The best Star Trek movie made was Star Trek II "The Wrath of Kahn"...
funny how De Forest meantions christ and it turns out to be satan. shatner did it in st five when they meet god who tuns out to be satan. did shatner get the idea from him or even remember De Forest had brought it up as an idea?