It's one of the biggest pop culture phenomenons in history and helped usher in the age of super fandom that is so pervasive today. With a series of movies, novels, comics, animation, video games, and of course the TV shows there's no end of Trek to get involved in if you're so inclined. So we got Wrath of Khan done, Nick Meyer was brilliant and the rest is history.Over 50 years after it first showed up on the scene and "Star Trek" is bigger than it ever was. And it was much better, because I think Wrath of Khan might have been a failure if Spock had died one third of the way through it. (Roddenberry expressed his disapproval as well.) "Hence a rewrite and when Nick Meyer, God bless him, came on board we found a way to extend Spock's role. It will be the end of your problems with Spock and we will go on to complete the story.'"īut once news leaked, the angry letters poured in. One third of the way into the picture, we're going to kill you. I said, 'Leonard, if you come back, I'm going to give you the greatest death scene since Janet Leigh in Psycho. I finally convinced him with a very simple, actor-proof argument. In a 2010 interview with Star Trek dot com, he explained, "One of the problems was that Leonard Nimoy had already written his book "I Am Not Spock." He had publicly put it out there that he'd never do Spock again.
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