JR>> If you've ever seen the John Frankenheimer's earlier film "The
 JR>> Hindenburg," you'll see that the title airship is treated much in the
 JR>> same way as the Enterprise. So it seems to be a matter of the
 JR>> director. Nicholas Meyer made TWOK clip along.
 VM> Frankenheimer did not direct ST:TMP.  That was Robert Wise who also gae 
us
 VM> "The Andromeda Strain" and the classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
 VM> Frankenheimer did films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Seven Days 
in
 VM> May".  BTW, those are both fairly fast-paced movies.
I think TMP was simply the product of a lengthy series of compromises,
including the fact that the script was originally prepared for
television.  The production was switched to a theatrical movie fairly
late in the game.
Were TMP 15-20 minutes shorter, it would be a better story, although a
pretty short movie.  ;-)
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