{"id":40621,"date":"2015-05-05T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=40621"},"modified":"2015-05-05T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:00:06","slug":"star-trek-iv-what-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/05\/star-trek-iv-what-might-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek IV: What Might Have Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40622\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/STIV050515.gif\" alt=\"STIV050515\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As every fan knows, there are things that never make it into a movie, and that was the case when it came to <em>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/em> too.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the changes were minor, such as name changes, but a few scenes never made it into the final cut of the film.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The name changes include Admiral Lance Cartwright, who was originally the character of Admiral Harry Morrow (seen in <em>Star Trek III: The Search for Spock<\/em> &#8211; the meanie who forbad Kirk from going to the Genesis Planet to retrieve Spock&#8217;s body).<\/p>\n<p>Gillian Taylor would have been Shelley Clarke. Her precious whales would have been the less imaginative Adam and Evie instead of George and Gracie.<\/p>\n<p>Two scenes that didn&#8217;t make it into the movie included one in which Commander Christine Chapel, who greets Ambassador Sarek who is trying unsuccessfully to enter the Federation Council&#8217;s meeting where the fate of his son and his son&#8217;s crewmates will be decided. Chapel puts the guard who would deny Sarek entry &#8220;in his place,&#8221; telling him that &#8220;this man is Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, as any school child would know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And one scenario that was long rumored would have indeed taken place; in early drafts of the script, Saavik was pregnant with Spock&#8217;s child. In the original script, Amanda tried to tell her son during their conversation, but wasn&#8217;t able to do so. &#8220;Kirk and Saavik discuss the situation, with Saavik eventually not telling Spock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe the movie was released almost thirty years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As every fan knows, there are things that never make it into a movie, and&#8230;<\/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":[3543],"class_list":["post-40621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-movies","tag-star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-movies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Movies<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Movies","comment_count":"28","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621","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=40621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40623,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621\/revisions\/40623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}