Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!mmiller 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 Article-I.D.: harvard.360 Posted: Sun Feb 3 16:35:02 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:03:40 EST References: <438@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 41 > > > > 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