From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
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Subject: Re: Nimoy on Night Gallery, Shatner at Wal Mart

In article , Bast 
wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> > On 12/07/14 10:04, Your Name wrote:
> >> In article , D. Stussy
> >>  wrote:
> >>> "Will Dockery"  wrote in message
> >>> news:e5851c23-5a65-4edd-8729-531126c361a6{at}googlegroups.com...
> >>>> Leonard Nimoy's big Night Gallery turn, he sure was
convincing at
> >>>> playing smugly corrupt characters, it seems. This one
is so much
> >>>> like his role in a Columbo episode I recently caught.
> >>>>
> >>>> Shatner's T.J. Hooker is at Wal Mart, several seasons
at low prices.
> >>>>
> >>>> A shame all of the 1970s passed with these guys
missing doing Star
> >>>> Trek in their mid-prime of life.
> >>>
> >>> Not all.  Wasn't the first Star Trek movie filmed in 1979?  IMDB
> >>> thinks so....
> >>
> >> Released in 1979, but probably filmed in 1978. Either way they were
> >> trying to cash-in on Star Wars in 1977.  :-)
> >>
> > Either way, that means "A shame all of the 1970s
passed" from above
> > isn't exactly correct!! :-)
> 
> What the shame really was, was the script and storyline the actors were 
> forced to use.
> I still love that movie, but only that it brought back Star Trek, with the 
> characters we all missed.
> 
> But as a movie alone,...it stunk. 

Likely because it was a rush job for the cash-in bandwagon-jumping. Of
course it's not the worst one ... that goes to the pointlessly silly
Save the Whales movie.   :-\
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