So this movie had some major issues going against it. Shattner wrote and directed the film himself, and his original script had to be revised repeatedly to appease his cast mates and then the studio. Then they had a writers strike, which massively affected the films production. After that, they had to not use ILM for special effects due to cost, so they went cheaper, and then had to change the ending after the test audiences didn't like it.
Ok, I checked wiki and saw that Shatner's first idea was 'god' was going to turn into the devil and he would rescue the other from hell. Wow. I really wouldn't have wanted to watch it.
And Sybok was suppose to be played by Sean Connery? I thought I was going crazy but I totally picked up on the Sean Connery style of acting from the Sybok actor. Amazing.
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Anyway, I'm procrastinating so went and watched Undiscovered Country. I was pretty ok with it.
Sulu had his own ship! I thought the Kelvin Sulu commanding the Enterprise (and making threats) was a small thing but I didn't know he was an actual captain! Wow!
There was a mystery so when the murders happened, it got my attention. The CGI was very, very bad with the blood but, y'know, march of progress.
Soooo the trial had Worf actor in it. As a lawyer. I don't recall his name but was it Worf? First appearance ever? And that trial place was... same as the trial place in the Lower Decks ep Veritas when the lower Deckers were on trial and it was a party?
I thought Kim Catrall Sex and the City was the bad guy because when she fired the disintegrator to test the alarms, her cohort fired his own gun to destroy the evidence, masking the sounds.
Kirk and Bones on the ice planet was just an extra but the shapeshifter made me think anything could happen, if a shapeshifter was one of the assassins.
I'm assuming that the 'he's the real one!' Shoots the shapeshifter tropes started from this movie? Maybe?
Sulu to the rescue, woo!
Practically done. It was more political intrigue than Sci Fi but it was ok. Not really uplifting but didn't feel like an extended episode like how Final Frontier felt like.
Guess I'm done with TOS! Gosh dang! Next Gen movies next then... Discovery or Picard? After those two, I'd've watched every series, right? (I've seen Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds and Prodigy)