#peter krikes

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home premiered on November 26, 1986. It was the second Star Trek film directed by Leonard Nimoy. The film completed the story arc started with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The movie marked the 20th anniversary of Star Trek. The movie was the first of the Trek movies to take on a more humorous tone. The bridge crew (Captain Kirk - William Shatner, Bones McCoy - DeForest Kelley, Scotty - James Doohan, Sulu - George Takei, Chekov - Walter Koenig, and Uhura - Nichelle Nichols) of the destroyed Enterprise with the resurrected Spock (Nimoy) travelled from 2286 to 1986 in a stolen Klingon bird of prey. Their mission was to get two whales and bring them back to the future to prevent an apocalypse from a whale loving probe. It was the first version of Star Trek to present a female Star Fleet Captain (Madge Sinclair) and established there was no currency anymore in the Federation. The movie had cameos from Star Trek TOS characters Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett) and Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney). The movie was released around the time that Paramount announced they were branching the Star Trek franchise into Star Trek the Next Generation. ("Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", Movie, Event)

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Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes were responsible for the first draft of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the one that featured Eddie Murphy’s oddball scientist character. In 1991′s unauthorized The Making of the Trek Films, they spoke frankly about the frustrations they experienced, and mentioned a scene that many fans would have really enjoyed seeing:

“We were told to only worry about Kirk, Spock, and Bones, said Meerson. “In their minds, those are the only people that matter.”

Added Krikes, “They also took out a scene we wrote which deals with the people’s mortality and age.”

“My favorite scene we wrote was between Bones and Scotty, where they talk about the fact that they're getting too old to be doing this. I personally think they would have loved to play it. It was two guys sitting on a park bench in Union Square, completely out of time and space, saying, ‘We’re officially getting too old. If we ever do make it back, maybe we ought to give it all up and retire.’ Then, they both decide that they’ll never retire, because there’s more to life than sitting on your duff.”

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The bridge crew of the USS Enterprise in a stolen Klingon ship travelled back in time to 1986 Earth in order to capture some wales and bring them back to their present where whales were extinct and to prevent Earth’s destruction by a wale loving alien force. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Flm)

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