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After the rather lackluster Star Trek: The Motion Pictur<\/em>e, bringing in Trek newcomer Nicholas Meyer<\/strong> put the Trek movies back on the right track.<\/p>\n Meyer\u00a0 didn’t hold a high opinion of Star Trek<\/em> at first. When told by a Paramount<\/em> executive that he should take the job of directing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/em>, he said, “Is that the one with the guy with pointy ears and they all wear pajamas?”<\/p>\n But Meyer decided to go for it after seeing the original movie and some of the television episodes. “…this reminded me of something that I really loved, and it may have taken me a while to put it together,” said Meyer. “But, what I realized was it reminded me of the books by C.S. Forester<\/strong> that I read when I was about thirteen or fourteen, the Captain Hornblower<\/em> books. And I thought, ‘Oh, this is Hornblower in outer space. That could be a lot of fun.’ I could make my own submarine movie. And that really appealed to me.”<\/p>\n Dealing with William Shatner<\/strong> wasn’t one of Meyer’s favorite memories. “I had a good time with the cast,” said Meyer. “They were very respectful. I know that, originally, Bill Shatner didn’t like the script at all, and I was very floored by this because everybody else did like it. And I sort of listened to his complaints with mounting alarm, and the form it took was that I just kept having to get up and go to the men’s room. Just kept peeing and peeing and peeing as though I was either very humiliated or very enraged or some combination of both. When he left, I was in a real depression.”<\/p>\n But Harve Bennett<\/strong> gave Meyer some useful advice on what to do about the problem. “Harve said, ‘Well, you know, just a minute. If you parse this into bite sizes, it basically boils down that he wants to be the first man through the door.’ So, I could understand that. I went back and twenty-four hours later I’d done a rewrite, and he was very pleased.”<\/p>\n Other than that, “…they were remarkably open to direction,” said Meyer. And the director was the one responsible for the more military look in The Wrath of Khan<\/em>. “I want it to look like a submarine. I want them to talk like they’re in the Navy.”<\/p>\n Fans attending Destination Star Trek<\/em> 3 in London next weekend will have the rare opportunity to see Meyer in person. Meyer almost never appears at conventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the rather lackluster Star Trek: The Motion Picture, bringing in Trek newcomer Nicholas Meyer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2972],"tags":[2691],"class_list":["post-36752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-movies","tag-meyer"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek Movies<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Movies","comment_count":"27","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36758,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36752\/revisions\/36758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}