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From: mmiller@harvard.ARPA (Martin Miller)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re:STAR TREK IV
Message-ID: <360@harvard.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 16:35:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  3 16:35:02 1985
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>   2 WEEKS AGO ABC NETWORK NEWS DID A SPOT ON LEONARD NIMOY RECEIVING
>   A STAR ON HOLLYWOOD BLVD. WHERE HIS CLOSING WORDS WERE....
>   "STAR TREK IV HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND WILL BE RELEASED THIS COMING SUMMER."
>   
>   PLEASE LET'S NOT DRAG OUT THE WAIT ANY LONGER THEN WE HAVE TO.
>    
>                               LIVE LONG AND PROSPER,
>                                
>                                   PETER NARANJO
>                                   DEC MAYNARD,MA.

Ah, if only it were true.  The most current information I have comes
from Issue 14 of DC's Star Trek comic, wherein the associate editor,
Bob Greenberger reports:

	...here's the current word on plans for the fourth STAR TREK
	feature film.  Despite all the reports in gossip columns and
	the changes in management at Paramount Pictures, we have been
	told by unimpeachable sources that enthusiasm runs high for
	STAR TREK IV.  Currently, a script is being polished up and
	shooting is expected for the summer of 1985 with a summer of
	1986 release date planned.

It further appears that the DC people have a pretty direct line to
Harve Bennett (comic author Mike W. Barr met with him recently in
Los Angeles, according to the same issue of the comic).

Anyhow, if I remember correctly, it takes somewhere from 6 months
to a year to insert the special effects into a ST picture, even 
after the shooting with the actors has been completed.

I'd love to see the picture out sooner; my personal preference would
be to restore the weekly TV series so that I'd have a constant supply
of new episodes rather than having to wait 2 years at a time for
another "fix."   Oh, well...

				Martin Miller
				mmiller@harvard